mikelavigne
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| The pivoted arm experiment is over Mepearson,i've been in Syracuse NY though the weekend for the NCAA BB tournament and missed this thread until just now.congrats on the great effort to figure out what sort of arm is right for you. and we all had fun along the way exchanging viewpo... | |
| Reel to Reel Jay,last fall Rich Brown had brought the Cello over, Ki wired the switch into the Studer, and we listened. this was with an RCA connection. all was good but the bass impact was missing thru the Cello compared to the stock circuit. also; i desired ... | |
| Best System for Pink Floyd i would agree that headphones are, by nature, immersive and 'other-worldly'. Pink Floyd music is most definitely not meant to be 'conventional....and does compliment the headphone perspective on music. some of the 'stuff' Pink Floyd puts into the ... | |
| Best System for Pink Floyd Tvad,yes; i've heard Pink Floyd thru headphones, although just lowly Sennheiser HD-580's. there are aspects of the sound which are unique to headphones, but a whole part of the experience is missing. on many Pink Floyd albums headphones do give yo... | |
| Reel to Reel Sam,i've spoken to Tim dPv regarding modding the Studer A-820. he was not too keen on it since he's never done one. it's quite a beast inside. we did speak about him doing my ATR-102 which he would be glad to to do as he's done quite a few of thos... | |
| Reel to Reel Sam and Miles,currently i have switch wired into the heads on my Studer A-820 (by Ki Choi) which allowed me to try Charlie King's Cello circuit a few weeks back. Rich Brown brought it over. it sounded wonderful thru RCA's.....and i'll likely purch... | |
| Best System for Pink Floyd I think Samuel and Sonicbeauty have pretty much nailed the answer with the reference SACD 5.1 surround system, and headphones answers.well; i'm a big SACD fan (i own about 1000 of them), a couple of years ago i did convert my 2-channel room to mul... | |
| Reel to Reel Dertonarm,i saw your response to my post over on the 'Absolute' best cartridge' thread regarding my reel to reel comments. i had asked....have you investigated newer RTR transports with improved ss output electronics?you responded....I am pretty a... | |
| Best System for Pink Floyd a few points;-the ideal Pink Floyd system must do scale and space very well. -you must have a great tt to be able to hear everything that Roger Waters 'Amused to Death' original pressing tells you. much of the out of phase 'Q' sound information in... | |
| Is There An "Absolute" Best Cartridge? Dertonarm,regarding RTR; there is nothing wrong with a Studer A-820 playing thru a custom Cello solid state output electronics as a reference. or an Ampex ATR-102 playing thru the same electronics. while i agree that 70's and 80's RTR decks had ma... | |
| Is There An "Absolute" Best Cartridge? i hope you guys are able to do this; for the fun of it at least. and i have a suggestion as to a way to have a proper reference. i would love to be there, but Munich in May is not an option for me.find some Lps with corresponding RTR 15ips master ... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? on a related subject to 'the Absolute Sound'; having high quality RTR 15ips 1/4" master dubs and good RTR decks does allow one to 'calibrate' other sources. it will not calibrate the down stream signal path, but it's easy to hear how close an Lp/t... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? i think every 'school of preference' within the hobby can claim some turf in the reality sweepstakes....depending on one's personal tastes and musical genre tendancies. gosh; you have the ultra low wattage/horn guys, the mid-power tube guys, the b... | |
| Ortofon MC A90 Cartridge VTF after reading the responses to jtinn and Raul from Ortofon, and then listening over many hours to my A90 tracking very happily at 1.56 grams, one is tempted to conclude that maybe the Reed 2P arm has advantages over the Ortofon arms used to form t... | |
| want new plinth ideas for direct-drive turntables Dertonarm, i'm not surprised with your experience with isolation such as the Vibraplane and Minus-K. i will be very interested in your audition of the Halcyonics. 4 years ago i had a Halcyonics in my room for an evening and it was very eye opennin... |