richardbrand
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| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL Oops, I forgot the revolutionary Australian Stuart and Sons 108-key piano which extends the 'normal' piano range by two octaves, all the way down to 16-Hz. Those low strings add sonority even when playing standard repertoire. The bridge design pr... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @dogberry @mijostyn I bought an 18" Velodyne servo-controlled subwoofer to replace my Duntech Thors, back when my main speakers were Quad ESL-63. One undoubted advantage is that, by relieving the Quads of low bass, they can play much louder be... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @mijostyn I did not mention dipole nor bipole! The Quad ESL-63 was called FRED as it is a Full Range Electrostatic Dipole - the rearward bass radiation is out of phase, since it comes from the same plane as the forward bass. FRED is logically a ... | |
| What exactly is PRaT??? @dogeardaudio As a teenager I was air-conducting (might even have been to Pierre Monteux’s Elgar) when I accidentally hooked a vase on the mantlepiece and hurled it across the room. Mind you, Georg Solti (the Screaming Skull) got so carried away,... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @mijostyn "Dipole subs do not work well, I have built and tested them. No matter how heavy you make them they shake and the cancellation effects along with room modes create wild frequency response aberrations." Plenty of speakers use dynamic d... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @lewm "Like I said, in my opinion Quad 57s are best if you remove the complex electronics that Walker implements in order to make the panel act like a point source. Then a stacked pair (or triplet) can act like a line source. Hearing is believin... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @stereo5 "I bought the Shure V15-4 body and a new Jico SAS with the boron cantilever. I love it! ... It is also better than my Audio Technica VM540 MM cartridge." I missed your post in the off-topic noise (I plead guilty). I have a Shure V1... | |
| What exactly is PRaT??? Ah, Chris Rea. First heard "The Road to Hell" in a clapped-out army truck descending into the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, with truck wrecks littering the landscape. Later I was MC for a conference and had a copy with me. Played it as attendees ... | |
| What exactly is PRaT??? I've posted that in my opinion PRaT relates to the time domain, not the frequency domain that we usually talk about. To the person that never listens to symphonic music, I would ask if that extends to films which use such music to underscore the ... | |
| Looking for a narrow baffle small footprint speaker @yyzsantabarbara "KEF Blade 2 Meta. Forget that BestBuy sells it too. This is one of the very best. The soundstage is the best I have ever heard, except live. The tech and research KEF put into the Blades is unlike most competitors." Absolutely ... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @lewm "With all due respect, you asked a very bad, very open-ended question with many ambiguous edges (the question pre-supposes that analog is in fact superior to digital and that there is or could ever be such a thing as a recording that could p... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL Wow, this is getting interesting! Hopefully this is my last quote from Peter Walker of Quad on the subject of speakers: "Anybody can build an electrostatic loudspeaker. The trick is to build one that lasts" or some such. In the 18 years betwe... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital Thanks to everybody who has responded so far. I would have liked to have had more space in the title to make it clear that I am not really looking for opinions on equipment, just for one or more jazz records capable of sounding excellent on vinyl... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @mijostyn "I specified the distance, 10th Row" True, and many people would roughly agree with you. But there is nothing mathematically special about the 10th row. Why not the 9th or the 12th? Or an equal distance behind the orchestra? I hea... | |
| Which power cord should you buy first Which of your components is going to inject the most electrical noise into your power supply? Most likely culprit is a class D amplifier, followed by a computer! Least likely might be a turntable, provided it does not have a switching power supply. |