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| Schroder sq and the new talea What Palasr said.I sensed that most of the listeners came into the room with a bias, and since the test was hardly blinded, let alone double-blinded, most people I talked to "heard" differences that were ascribable to their own perceptions of how ... | |
| Does EAR324 phono stage sound like tubes ? Thanks, guys, for your thoughtful responses. I guess another one bites the dust, since I was interested in the 324 only for the purpose of running it with MM and MI cartridges and was salivating at all those front panel choice of capacitance and l... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, Given that DU is the owner of a very fine audio system, including a top quality subwoofer, don't you think it is a bit presumptuous for you to dismiss his opinion of the Technics in the particular way that you did? He could be hearing exactl... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? And since he has the Mk4 version, as he keeps reminding us, he can also lord it over anyone who owns the Mk3 and older versions. Shameless. Nice dig about the bass response, DU.(Just kidding, Dgob.) | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea And Copperhead is cheap? I guess it costs less than the Cobra, which would still put it at or above the cost of most of the other "best" tonearms, except perhaps the Grandezza. My mentioning the cost is not meant as criticism or sarcasm; I would l... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea Halcro, How ironic that the least expensive cartridges, as a class, sound best on the most expensive tonearm (the Cobra). But by some accounts, they should sound good on relatively inexpensive vintage tonearms, like the AT1100, the Black Widow, th... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea Jazdoc, Your first sentence almost made me laugh. I thought you were going to comment on the respective tonearms. Instead you commented on the cartridges. (Surprise is the core of humor.) I think Halcro was talking about tonearm/cartridge matching... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea So here's an interesting question, raised by Halcro's comment: The XV1-s and the ZYX Universe are very similar, in that they are both low compliance, low-ish output MCs. What property would cause one of them to sound very much better in the Grande... | |
| Does EAR324 phono stage sound like tubes ? I came across this thread because I have been interested in the EAR 324 for use with a myriad of vintage MM and MI cartridges that I want to audition. The front panel controls for capacitance and resistive loading would be very useful in that rega... | |
| Stand out phono stages The AMR was designed and in part executed by Thorsten Loesch, a guru of tube DIY people. It has many highly desirable build features not found in most commercial products, e.g., a choke-loaded power supply, true dual mono, etc. Also it has that am... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea Asa, Have you ever observed the course of a progressive dementia in a person you knew well at his or her intellectual baseline? If you had done so, or if you ever have to do so, you will see that yes, the physical brain, "your brain - the material... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea Here is what Wikipedia has to say about "billion". But I must say you caught me out on this one; I had never heard of the "long scale", perhaps because I was educated entirely in the US. In any case, Wikipedia (an American invention, I admit) clai... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea DT: 2000 Billion in the USA and anywhere else in the universe = 2 trillion, or 2 times ten to the 12th power. Do you really mean to say that the CERN accelerator cost $2 trillion? | |
| Stand out phono stages Thanks, guys. I am sure that both the ARC and the AMR are wonderful, based on a slew of favorable comments, but they are goddawful expensive, not within my budget for a secondary phono stage. I am trying to stay at or under $2500; way under that a... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea Before I studied electronics, I used to wonder why no one had adopted the strategy of building a perfect circuit using perfect parts, so there could be no doubt among end users that the product was "perfect". Now that I know something about electr... |