newton_john
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| Linn LP12 turntable @mylogic That’s how I got my LP12 last year. Considerably less expensive than buying new for full retail price, but still unlikely to ever be profitable. | |
| Linn LP12 turntable @signaforce Here are the before and after photos. https://i.postimg.cc/Bn9jHG7v/IMG-0249.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/43Xn2Qgk/IMG-4074.jpg On the subject of plinths, Linn have just launched the Bedrok from their LP12-50 for all LP12s. It’s now a... | |
| Linn LP12 turntable @signaforce I see you’re thinking about changing to a piano black plinth. My wife insisted I do that last year because she doesn’t like the retro look of the fluted rosewood. It didn’t make any difference to the sound, but it sure looks good. I... | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT @carlsbad2 I will explain as best I can. Even between the countries of the United Kingdom, there are differences. Here in England, students generally have to study around nine GCSE subjects up the age of sixteen. One of these subjects must be s... | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT @carlsbad2 It was a long time was ago, but my masters was in opto-electronics. | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT @carlsbad2 Just noticed your post. 🤣 I am a physicist. | |
| Would I be wasting my money to get a turntable? @fritzenheimer There is conversion of the analogue signal to digital in my system. I don’t find that to be a problem. In fact, it can be a big advantage due to a reduction in noise, distortion and interference. Only you can tell if vinyl is for... | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS If you’ll allow me another analogy, I think back to the seventies and eighties when I found myself in the world of business. Without any formal training and very little guidance, I had to invent my own way of doing things. I had studied physics at... | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS This subject has been rattling around my brain all day. It occurred to me that the preference of many for vinyl over streaming/CDs gives us a steer towards there being more to assessing sound quality than just measurements. By all objective met... | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS @acman3 @mclinnguy Thank you for your kind comments. Although she was quite ill last year, she’s now relatively well thanks to ongoing targeted therapy. On the bright side, she had 17 years in remission to do amazing things and see her boys grow u... | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS @mclinnguy 🤣 To my embarrassment, my wife has never been shy about sharing that statistic. Sadly, it’s breast cancer she has in common with ONJ not her name. I’m John from Newton. | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS @acman3 I meant identify her by the numbers alone - being interested in that way didn’t come into it. | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS At the risk of sounding sexist, I wonder if one of these measurement guys could pick my wife out of crowd using her vital statistics of 36-27–38* alone. *Those numbers there are a total guess on my part. I’ve no idea what her actual vital statist... | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT A couple of years ago, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to compare Linn’s Next Generation DSM/3 streamer (2020/21 variant) and Klimax Organik Exaktbox DACs (2021) with previous models, the Klimax DSM/1 (2014) and Klimax Katalyst Exaktbox (2... | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT @carlsbad2 You say that "a low to mid level streamer achieves a higher percentage of high level performance than a low to mid level DAC does." Good luck trying to apply a quantitative concept like percentage to the qualitative differences between... |