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| ARC Reference 110 vs older ARC amps eg VT150 First of all, the VT150/150se (monoblocks) or the VT130/130se (stereo) are in a class by themselves. Both sonically, and among ARC's designs. They have fully balanced circuits, balanced inputs (only,) and tube regulated power supplies. If you can ... | |
| Ultimate Demo Disc for Audio Geeks I'll leave the compilation choices to others. The reason (some say) that burned discs sound better is because they're (literally) burned and not stamped/punched. Supposedly, the 'pits' of (stamped) commercial discs have rough edges that scatter th... | |
| To all SME V or IV tonearm owners I agree with John about the Venustas. As for internal wiring, I sent my SME V to England* to be fitted with the MCS 150, and it sounds terrific. AFAIK, SME still uses a ribbon in the SME IV, which they claim is best for MC cartridges. Originally t... | |
| I have just purchased the latest Sound Lab M1 Although I'm a perennial advocate of tube amps with electrostats (and have sufficient experience with SS amps and stats -- not all bad BTW) there is one SS amp I would like to audition if I had the opportunity -- i.e. if a friend had one, or somet... | |
| Smallest room dimensions for good bass to 20hz "Is using a headphone the same as listening to speakers in an anechoic chamber?"Similar, but the headphones are more efficient. Try listening to speakers outside sometime. You practically have to 'wear' them (like headphones) to get any volume ;-) | |
| Smallest room dimensions for good bass to 20hz Kanuk, the space between the headphone driver and your eardrum is not the same as the space in a room between the speaker and your ear.To vibrate your eardrum, the air in a whole room must already be vibrating at (whatever) frequency.A headphone d... | |
| RoHS legislation impact on the high end industry The legislation applies to all the electronic parts, not just the solder.The 4 main negative issues with the lead-free solder are:1. Precisly controlled (and higher) temperatures must be maintained for good joints.2. It's brittle and joints can de... | |
| Smallest room dimensions for good bass to 20hz Upper corner front left to lower corner rear right need to be 1/2 of 56.6 ft. That length works out to be the SQUARE ROOT of:[(square root of: L squared + W squared) SQUARED + H squared]Of course if your listening room has at least one wall which ... | |
| Microsoft and HDCD ?? Psacanli -- how insightful! OK, here's the deal: I do use Wadia equipment, which does not decode HDCD's per se, however, because Wadia uses proprietary software to do D/A conversion (rather than an IC chip) their DAC's don't throw away (filter out... | |
| Tri-Planar with no anti-skate? Your cartridge has a (semi) line-contact stylus. Generally, these require just a fraction of the AS used for elliptcal styli. I don't know how the the TriPlanar is calibrated for AS, but most tonearms still match the AS to the VTF, an old holdover... | |
| Microsoft and HDCD ?? This is the best HDCD database (make sure to click on the 'English' button!)http://www.hifimusic.se/hdcd/index.php?p=homealong with Keith Johnson's Reference Recordingshttp://www.referencerecordings.comI don't know if MS continues to license HDCD ... | |
| Cable Loop. You can always give a cable (ic or spkr) a loop. That's "a" as in "one", and the bigger the better! More than one loop becomes a "coil" and that's when bad things can start to happen . . . . oops, Porziob beat me to it ;-). | |
| Better than a CAT? Pubul57, for all our sakes, will you please go for an audition and report back? I thought CAT was one of the top 3 or 4 tube equipment manufacturers. Not to diss Ming Da -- they get great reviews, but I never imagined they were in CAT's league.. | |
| Better than a CAT? I just read a message somewhere from a guy who got rid of his CAT Ultimate and JL2 in favor of Ming Da pre and amp. Not something I think I'd ever do -- but I suppose anything's possible ;-). | |
| Radiohead's new business model: What I found extremly interesting (and encouraging) was the number of bloggers on the NY Times page that noted the superior audio quality of vinyl, in their comments. Surely they can't all be audiophiles?. |