mikelavigne
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| AMR / EMM / PLAYBACK Designs hi Sam,you are always welcome and it would fun for you to make another visit.yes; it was a treat and learning experience spending time with Andreas.the King/Cello is sitting on the right side of the room with the Studer and Ampex. it's setup with ... | |
| Music Room vs. Home Theater Design Question? i have a separate 2-channel listening room. it has hardwood floors in the front third (1st 9.75 feet of a 29 foot length) of the room, thick carpet is on the rear 2/3rd's of the room. all the wall surfaces are diffusive, which eliminates beaming b... | |
| AMR / EMM / PLAYBACK Designs as far the Playback Designs viewpoint on the sound, whether it has too much weight, is too forgiving, or 'adds' something.....i can only say that whatever it's doing along those lines, my 3 tt's do and where i have a 15ips 1/4" master dub playing ... | |
| Azimuth and the Fozgometer regarding the Fieckert software; Michael Fremer has done a seminar with Dr. Feickert at RMAF the last 2 years that i have attended. he showed graphs of how this software shows how the best crosstalk position compares with the best phase angle posi... | |
| Azimuth and the Fozgometer Lew,Joel Durand, of Talea Tonearms, set up my Talea in my room. he used an Ella Fitzgerald mono Lp to make the dynamic adjustments to the azimuth. i can tell you that it took our 'eyeball' azimuth set-up to another level. | |
| Azimuth and the Fozgometer the only problem with the whole 'minimal crosstalk' approach (which i have used) is that it's only close to optimal. i have found that i can eyeball azimuth typically as close as when i measure minimal crosstalk.dead on azimuth is where the phase ... | |
| Need Reel to Reel Tape Primer Sources Jwong,3 years ago i looked for a place to get my Reel to Reel questions answered, and there was not a place like that.now there is a place where there is both very good information and lots of real knowledgable people to answer questions;The Tape ... | |
| Well Tempered Classic or Technics SP10Mk2 Lew,my mind is open. until i actually have a high quality vintage arm side by side in my system along with some of these 'giant killer' cartridges i won't know.regarding the arms specifically; my preliminary view is that the technology and build q... | |
| Well Tempered Classic or Technics SP10Mk2 Macrojack said above;The EPA-100 is a genuine contender for best arm ever made.not that i, in any way, agree with MacroJack's statement.i've not done the comparative listening to the better vintage arms in direct comparision to the best of today's... | |
| Reel to Reel decks assuming the same speed....7 and 1/2ips, the difference between 2 and 4 track is mainly that 2 track is double the width; which yields a wider bandwidth, greater dynamic range, and correspondingly lower noise floor.what that does in reality is tha... | |
| Reel to Reel decks Orpheus, the Technics RS-1500 is a 4-track/2-track machine.it does 3 3/4ips, 7 1/2ips and 15ips. i have about 20 7 1/2 2-track tapes and maybe 100 7 1/2ips 4-track tapes.i'm not sure what you are referring to regarding applying the term 'direct dr... | |
| Reel to Reel decks currently i have 3, the Studer A-820, the Ampex ATR-102 and Technics RS-1500. | |
| Reel to Reel decks as big a tape fan as i am, i'm with T-Bone on this one. you can take any output signal, record it, and change it, or add something to it, but.....you cannot improve it in terms of information. the additions and changes may or may not make it more ... | |
| Reel to Reel decks Buconero;respectfully i want to echo Kipdent's comments and strongly disagree with your perspective on Blue-ray disc music performance compared to 1/4" 15ips master tape dubs.you wrote;Given a listen to the latter blu ray and I think you will forg... | |
| Reel to Reel decks about 3 years ago something called 'The Tape Project' was started and it caused a real RTR tape resurgence to occur.i'd recommend going to The Tape Project Forum here.there are also tape boards on many audiophile websites. do a search here on Audi... |