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| Naim introduce a turntable - the Solstice Special Edition The TD124 drives the idler with a belt between the motor and idler, and (hence?) it also sounds a lot like a belt drive btw. | |
| Naim introduce a turntable - the Solstice Special Edition I die laughing when I hear these terms applied to turntables. Plodding? Does that mean slow as in 33 1/8th or, does that mean increased amounts of wow? No. If it was such a simple thing as slowing down of the platter speed, it wouldnt have made... | |
| Analog upgrade: Luxman EQ-500 Phono preamp + Hana Umami Red Cartridge + REED 2A Tonearm Reed tonearms are very natural sounding. Good choice. | |
| Rogue Audio Stereo 100, Atlas Magnum III anybody running them? Sound signatures? I also have the Stereo 100. It one of the very few amps which can disappear. Well balanced and clean stuff. | |
| Naim introduce a turntable - the Solstice Special Edition The plodding sound of high mass turntables (I have owned an AMG and a Kuzma) really seems contrary to the Naim philosophy.While I relate to this observation, I have had mixed experiences with high mass TTs.The lazy sounding ones1. Verdier2. AMG Vi... | |
| SET vs OTL Berning makes a ZOTL SET on request. I know Berning is not strictly OTL but from what I understand the transformer is only there to filter some very high frequency noise riding the signal. | |
| SET vs OTL How about an OTL SET ? | |
| SET vs OTL Again, I do not know how to measure this or if there is any way to measure this. SETs simply sound more direct. Instruments and voices sounds realistic, as in small, focused, dense and direct. Just the way they sound in real world. This doesn't ha... | |
| SET vs OTL There is another quality that I have clearly noticed in all SETs vs Push-pull. And this is even in systems which are super efficient and made for SETs (single drivers, Audio note speakers etc). SETs sound like "they are here" whereas push-pull sou... | |
| SET vs OTL You are correct @atmasphere that Tenor had the better PRAT. But it did not control my speakers as well as the 10 watt Wavac. That was wierd. It also did not sound as illuminated from within as the Wavac. I have again noted this difference between ... | |
| SET vs OTL I have the Tannoy Turnberry SE | |
| SET vs OTL My exposure to OTL was only with the Tenor OTL75 which I owned for about 6 months. Lovely amplifier but surprisingly even with 75 watts it could not control my Tannoys' bottom end like a 10 watt Wavac 300b (which I owned just prior to the Tenor). ... | |
| SET vs OTL @atmasphere I have not heard your amps yet and also my exposure to differentially balanced amps is very limited hence I would eagerly wait to hear them out. I would be very happy if I can find the cohesion of single ended design in a powerful bala... | |
| 2020 update : JC Verdier La Platine @ledoux, that youtube video was to tell you how far people have gone to tweak the Verdier. I did not get to that point because that would have meant usage of a tape drive (like in the video) with appropriate modification to the motor capstan and a... | |
| SET vs OTL As long as we are talking about bandwidth, power, detail, THD, we are not going to meet anywhere. If there is an instrument which can measure this effect (apart from our ears), I don't know it. But I am surprised it is not measured. |