lewm
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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I agree in principle that a top quality pair of two-way monitors plus a pair of subwoofers of similar high quality can compete with any other way of obtaining one's own absolute sound. Each way of getting there has it's own set of problems. With t... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Obviously, it's a different ball game if you add subs to the Raidho's. Don't dismiss the Volti speakers just because they are, in part, horn-loaded. I don't much care for horns, either, but the Vittorias are special and don't need subwoofers to be... | |
| To ring or not to ring? Richard, IMO the ring combined with the center wt just take too much "life" out of the music. I freely admit that the quality of "liveliness" or "life" must in some part be due to resonances. I don't believe in stamping out each and every last bit... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? The Raidho's are a viable alternative for a wealthy audiophile who lives in an apartment with limited listening space. They do compete on some level with any other fine speaker, but for me, given a large listening room, there are at least a few ot... | |
| VPI 3D tonearm Wc65mustang, Perhaps you should reveal what it is you have against Harry Weisfeld and VPI. (Kidding, but could not resist.) | |
| Acrylic platter Nandric, I may be wrong, but I think Richard is saying that different operators produce different quality results, even though the machine itself is computer-controlled, and presumably even though the program being used to control the computer may... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Chopin is very insecure, else he would not be compelled to comment. Next thing you know he will be haunting eBay in search of a Shure V15 to replace his own mediocre Shure. Anyway, what Chuck Berry once sang still holds true: "Roll over Beethoven,... | |
| Acrylic platter Dear Nandric, I have no feel for the politics of Eastern Europe, now that the war is over (thankfully), and all the countries involved have new names and different borders. I don't really know who hates whom these days.The Lenco L75 platters were ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, I spent a lot of time listening to a Raidho speaker, too, at the recent Capital Audio Fest here in the DC area. I think the ones I heard are called "D1", not C1.1, yet these too were stand-mounted two-way monitors. The base price was $22,000... | |
| Acrylic platter I think acrylic in combination with other materials might work fine. It is only those solid blocks of pure acrylic platters to which I object. I hold the Kuzma Reference in high esteem. I did not know that it uses a composite acrylic platter. In p... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul,I just read your response to my post wherein I dismissed the Alchemist and the Talisman and those who loved them in days of yore. Your points in response have some merit, at least as regards the notion that I should have no opinion, beca... | |
| Can't get answer from Soundsmith on retipping ques I may be wrong, but I think that the SS fees do include rebuilding suspension, as much as needed, and I don't see why you need an "evaluation". You know darn well your cantilever is snapped off. I believe you can choose the stylus and cantilever y... | |
| Acrylic platter Dear Nandric, I don't quite understand. You wrote, "I was stunned by the fact that this, say, 40 euro mat sounds better as the 'metal one'." What mat are you referring to? It seemed you were really saying that the acrylic Lurne' naked platter surf... | |
| Can't get answer from Soundsmith on retipping ques Sometimes dealing with Soundsmith (the business, not Ledermann, the man, who is a consummate gentleman) can be a bit like dealing with the Soup Nazi in Seinfeld. Just send them your cartridge, let them know which soup you want, stand back and wait... | |
| New Schroeder linear tonearm, any thoughts? Stringreen, An experienced listener does not need "bat ears" or even "normal" hearing to detect subtle differences among audio components. Will said experienced listener always know why one thing sounds better than another? Will he or she always b... |