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| Grand Prix Monaco review in new Stereophile- OUCH Raul, I am now forgetting what Mike Fremer actually did, but did he not test both tables with the same tonearm and cartridge? If so, then the only variable was the use of two different stands (assuming also that he took the elementary precaution o... | |
| Grand Prix Monaco review in new Stereophile- OUCH Dear Raul, Please do not take offense, because I think you are a very courteous and very knowledgable person, and I greatly respect your insights. But if you think carefully about what you say, perhaps you can see that you do have a preconceived b... | |
| Grand Prix Monaco review in new Stereophile- OUCH A "digital release" is likely to be produced according to Redbook specifications. Then you are back to the same old hash. There are people in this universe (if you can imagine it) who prefer RBCD to LP, because they are obsessed with surface noise... | |
| Grand Prix Monaco review in new Stereophile- OUCH Lets be fair to Mr. Fremer. He did NOT at any time suggest that reviewing of the GPM or any other product can or should be done by listening to a CD-R copy. What he did say (better you should read what he said above) is that he made such recording... | |
| Grand Prix Monaco review in new Stereophile- OUCH Grooves, Are you an acquaintance of Jonathan Valin's? As you know he claims the Continuum is nothing special. (I am not sure, but that may be an exact quote.) But it does not seem as though he's heard one in a well set up home system and certainly... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Chris, Since you have already stimulated responses from some Lenco-lytes, let me add another possible bone of contention: "We" tend to think that the Lenco drive system, where the underside of the platter is in contact with the idler drive system,... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Chris, How do you envision your replacement Lenco motor? Would it drive the underside of the platter directly with a vertically oriented "rim"-drive wheel, or would it drive the platter via the Lenco idler mechanism or some facsimile thereof? Anyw... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Jean, Now that I think of it, I do recall a good feeling about the Sony TAE products. It's the earlier and maybe the later ones up to the SE line that I did not like at all.Wouldn't you consider the Loricraft tables to just be latter day copies of... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Teres is not quite there yet. They make a true direct-drive, the Certus, and have recently been marketing their accessory motor, the Verus, which can turn certain belt drives, including their own tts, into rim drive. But so far no one has come to ... | |
| budget Cables / Interconnects recommendations? Speltz Anti-Cables, or make your own, or buy used cables off this site. | |
| Reversing absolute phase Tbg, If you do agree with my statement above, then there is no way that recording engineers could "agree to one polarity and stick to it". I'm not absolutely certain that my assumption is correct (regarding the fact that on the recording side, sel... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II With all due respect, Jean, the Sony ES stuff of recent years is pretty good for solid state, but those earlier efforts to me always sounded artificial, closed in, "gray", and the epitome of what one means when one refers to "transistor sound". Pe... | |
| Reversing absolute phase IMO, there may be no such thing as "correct" polarity on the recording end. There may only be such a thing as one polarity sounding better than the opposite one to a given listener at the other end of the electronic reproduction chain. | |
| Reversing absolute phase As one might guess, I agree completely with Eldartford and others who expressed similar sentiments. But it goes back to what I stated above: if you DO care a lot and if you CAN hear the "difference" consistently, get yourself a preamp with a phase... | |
| Reversing absolute phase This comes up about once a month. Since there is not and never was an industry "standard" for absolute phase, LPs and even CDs are not consistently created equal with respect to phase. In fact, on an LP, one track can be out of phase (or phase inv... |