mulveling
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| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? I see. Are you also familiar with SME turntables ? @inna Nope. Their table are less common here in USA I guess, though the arms still get love. Think you'll be hard pressed to find 'philes who've had more than a few top tables, who are not a... | |
| Calculation verification please By normal convention "40/40" means 40 divided by 40, which is 1. Good point - division is not associative. Indeed I meant ((1 MEG / 40) / 40), same as applying the div operator strictly left-to-right without groupings. @sksos1 could you share... | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? I really haven’t had any issues with woofer flapping on my Innovation Wood with the Universal arms. I do have it sitting on a HRS R3X isolation platform, with the LF feet factory tuned specifically for the turntable. I have a pair of REL S/510 su... | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? I forgot to mention how the VPIs sound versus Clearaudio and SOTA. Aries 3, Avenger Ref. They’re darker sounding. Especially with the 3D and Fatboy arms (I honestly liked the late make metal unipivots). There is a bass-reinforcement effect that ca... | |
| Is there an 'Audiophile' Reel-to-Reel Machine for Under $1,000? Old tape decks in working condition are good fun, and whether or not they qualify as "audiophile" they can sound GREAT. Very warm, liquid sound quality. The antithesis of dry, analytical hifi sound. It’s a lot of fun. You may notice the rolloff in... | |
| Calculation verification please So yeah: For a typical fixed 47Kohm MM input, a 40x SUT gives your cart a 29 ohm load. You CAN’T raise that 29 by paralleling anything. If you try to add resistance in series, you will lose almost all of your actual signal before it hits the MM... | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? What did you think of the difference between the Wood and the Master? @dwette The the extra mass (especially in platter) definitely makes a positive difference - in both sonics, and the fact that I’ve experienced (sometimes) woofer flapping wit... | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? This is just about $50K. I put this here, because I have this, except mine is the regular Innovation turntable and I have the Statement record weight, at $30K for everything, but I am thinking about adding the field upgrade kit to the Master Inno... | |
| Is there usually a dramatic difference between $5k and $10k cartridges ? $30k table, $15k arm, $25k phono stage Agree with others - it’s a mistake to think like this. For example, the top-range Koetsu cartridges match brilliantly to Fidelity Research arms that can be found quite easily under $2K (used). There are ot... | |
| Is there any such thing as a bad sounding DAC these days? You might be surprised by hearing some very nice sounding DACs / players from long ago. They will absolutely measure like dog crap compared to modern. But our ear-brains do not process information via Fast Fourier Transform! I tried an RME ADI-2 ... | |
| Fine tuning the system. Where do you start and how do you proceed ? Leaving wall current alone - it’s a separate big problem. Leaving the room alone too. Do you begin by seeking out best LP pressings ? Or tube rolling ? Or cables and power cords comparisons ? Isolation devices perhaps ? Something else ? How do ... | |
| Looking for advise regarding Rogue M180’s @buellrider97 Awesome, glad they're gettng the care they deserve, though the extra delay for upgrade is annoying. So my initial "everything will probably be fine" advice was completely wrong. Sorry about that. The bridge rectifiers in tube amp... | |
| Koetsu Black and Rosewood loading There is no "right" loading for Koetsu. It totally depends on the phono stage you’re using, and your preferences. Since you’re using the same phono with 2 Koetsus, the difference there can be attributed to voicing differences across models. I use... | |
| Installed A Kiseki Black Heart Today. Lovely Cartridge What amazes me is how a cartridge of this vintage sounds so fine. The motor generator of most MC cartridges uses the same core classic design used by the first SPUs in the 1950s. There are some different motor designs out there (including by Or... | |
| $3500 floor standing speakers used. What would be your choice ? @mulveling - I am genuinely curious about your post concerning phase errors in multi-driver speakers. I was reading Floyd Toole's book on Sound reproduction and he makes a point in that book that phase errors in normal full range systems are not ... |