mijostyn
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| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? Yes, studio recordings are frequently surreal either by intent (art) or bad engineering. What I mean by accuracy is the ability to reproduce live instruments, usually acoustic but not necessarily, in timbre, size and location. Concerts via PA sys... | |
| Question: What are some of your best pieces of advise to someone new to the hobby? Buy a Bose Table Radio and be happy. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm @lewm, Straight underhung arms still skate, one way or the other depending on where they are on the record. The only arms that do not skate are straight tangential trackers. The problem is there are currently no straight line trackers that do no... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" @wizzzard Grease will dampen the bearing. A hardened steel needle in a ruby cup is a very simple reliable design. Any 4 Point user will tell you that. As for the length of the wand, that is a long story, but it ends in straight line tracker. | |
| Graham Phantom Elite vs. AS Aquilar @rauliruegas Now that was below the belt. | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" @wizzzard Thanx Wiz, I would use needle bearings, no stiction. The only problem with aluminum is that it is boring. Audiophiles want something glamorous, something with a really high Young’s modulus like ……Diamond😎 Titanium nitride would work.... | |
| Graham Phantom Elite vs. AS Aquilar @rauliruegas , You forget I was in the business back then right during the EPA 100s lifetime. around 1980. We had one mounted on a Micro Seiki turntable. A customer traded it in for a Goldmund. He should have kept the Micro Seiki. We put a numbe... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" @wizzzard I am not far from Lowell at all. I can drive there or you can send me some. I am perfectly happy to pay for it. Did you get your Sonic Pro yet?? "Wizzzard Banter." Here is your first question. What do you think a tonearm wand shoul... | |
| Graham Phantom Elite vs. AS Aquilar @rauliruegas , Again, it is not theory. The EPA 100 is a beautifully made device like a Nikon Camera. It is just deficient in a few design issues that make it antiquated. There are better tonearms made today even if they do not have the jewel-lik... | |
| Graham Phantom Elite vs. AS Aquilar @wrm57 You forget I use to work in this business. I keep telling you it is not theory. It is basic physics. The problem with very simple devices like tonearms any bleeping idiot can design one. Give a bleeping idiot enough money and a good mar... | |
| Graham Phantom Elite vs. AS Aquilar @wrm57 These issues are not theory. They all contribute to the performance of the arm. Whether or not you can hear the difference, frankly, means nothing. With any one issue you may not be able to discern a difference, but put them all together ... | |
| Graham Phantom Elite vs. AS Aquilar @wrm57 , I tried to warn you about that. Read my first post. The Technics is a well made battle ship but it is defective in a number of respects. It's vertical bearing is above record level leading to increased warp wow, it is a stable balance ar... | |
| New AV preamp setup This kind of stuff happens all the time. Be confident in your system set up. If one speaker is out of phase you would notice it right away because your image would be all screwed up. The 1st law of modern living is, If it is not working reboot it.... | |
| TV audio It all depends on what you are used to. To me it would sound like s---. | |
| Too much processing? Not at all. The units talk to each other over HDMI. If one unit converts to 4K the other units recognize it as 4K and do nothing. |