petg60
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| The Future of Hifi is just being Discovered Aerospace industry, military aviation are two examples using this technology on critical parts for enhanced wear resistance. Landing gears, turbines, engine parts, cabin parts, communication systems, guidance, cabling, etc. What about F1 cars. On... | |
| The Future of Hifi is just being Discovered Something different, I suspect that electronic engineers don’t get any courses in Materials Science, Engineering Science and Strength of Materials as do some others in the field. All materials would benefit from cryo treatment if done right. I ... | |
| Best Sound Track Ever Vote for One Just a few more, Blade Runner (original), Trainspotting, Shaft, Saturday night fever, Quadrophenia... | |
| Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article) Music is fine and more than enough, you choose the genre and era. Whatever pleases you. What changes is style, labels, musicians, production, media, management. Still love the music i grew up but anything new is refreshing. Music has not lost it... | |
| MM, MC, or MI cartridge Not an easy answer, the main thing is whether an arm can properly track a cartridge, this is the most important. Then you have loading, differernt for MC's and MM/MI. Any type should be loaded correctly. | |
| How did you get started in this hobby I will always remember setting up my first system, back in 1975, positioning the Wharfedales on crappy stands, connect them to the Trio amp (regret not getting the Sansui) with a questionable speaker cable, try to align a Shure cartridge on a Lenc... | |
| Mono block Preamp YBA signature preamp. As i can remember in 6 chassis, even had separate power supplies for phono stage. | |
| Anyone still use MiniDisc, DDC tape or DAT tapes? @stereo5 , that was unlucky. | |
| How Audiphiles are Different Nice one Eric, same reasons nearly all of us have different gear and approach this hobby with different angles. Same reasons we get emotionally involved by a different song or by a different part of same song. Same reasons we have different tastes... | |
| Isn't it really about quality of recording? Mediocre, bad, or not so ideal recordings, for various of reasons, can sound confused, lacking in life and in some cases are barely listenable in lesser systems. Still they will never sound ideal, but how many times have you heard the phrase from... | |
| Cartridge recommendations for Thorens BTD 12s arm??? I believe with a Naked SPU, but I suppose you would need the adaptor also. | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? Father of day, father of night-Manfred Mann’s Earth Band Port of Amsterdam-David Bowie Hush-Billy Joe Royal (Deep Purple’s version nice too). | |
| Analog vs. digital Mostly depends on your investment preference, all things equal tape and lp's would still have the edge. | |
| Anyone still use MiniDisc, DDC tape or DAT tapes? Sony never made a DCC machine, Philips and clones plus Matsushita yes. An era where Sony and Philips parted. Still using my MDS-JA333ES, MD was a nice format. | |
| Best Stereo Upgrade Value Component that stays the longest. |