richardbrand
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| Does loudness play a part in your appreciation? I remember as a schoolboy going to an all-Bartok concert at the Festival Hall in London. The conductor was Antal Dorati and the performance of Bluebeard’s Castle was recorded, I think by Mercury Living Presence. Anyway, the singer taking Judith’... | |
| Does loudness play a part in your appreciation? Mahler's second symphony (Resurrection) was played in the first concert after $100-million was spent fixing the acoustics of the Sydney Opera House. Not my money, but well spent! This symphony would surely have some of the greatest dynamic and e... | |
| Fun with MM cartridge @elliottbnewcombjr Someone with a memory, please help I found and posted a chart of materials stiffness in a recent discussion, anyone know where? Yes, it is here (my memory did not help, fingers did the work): Audiogon Discussion Forum | |
| Does loudness play a part in your appreciation? @kokomo I have used Quad electrostatics for about 40 years, first the 63s then the bigger 2905s. They have a built-in volume limit, in that at signal voltages over about 40-Volts they deliberately compress the signal, ultimately presenting as a... | |
| Does loudness play a part in your appreciation? @komono Peter Walker, the brains behind Quad amplifiers and electrostatic speakers, said that the volume knob should be treated like the focus control on a camera. Use it to bring the music into focus, which I interpret to mean place yourself at... | |
| SACD Player/Transport Choices I have a very different perspective, not being based in North America! First, when I play SACD I use more than 2 channels. The European way of sending digital audio uses purpose designed HDMI technology which supports a huge array of formats and... | |
| Fiber Optic Cable How do you explain the improvement in perceived audio-only quality to the streaming fans who claim transmission over Internet Protocol is bit-perfect? | |
| Vinyl playback - lack of bass? There is one high-pass filter that I forgot about - the loudspeakers. I have a Velodyne 18" subwoofer with 1250-Watts RMS power. It only goes down to about 15-Hz +-3db. Although my CD player may go down to 2-Hz, even a big subwoofer cannot get ... | |
| Vinyl playback - lack of bass? @kennyc Interesting that Pro-Ject followed Rega down the lightweight turntable path, but Pro-Ject's Signature 12.2 table weighs in at 37-kgs, versus the Rega Planar 6's very lightweight 5-kgs! My reading is that, for ultimate performance, high ... | |
| Record Cleaning Using Vacuum Machine for Cleaning and Ultrasonic for Final Rinse @antinn Now that I am satisfied that ultrasonic cleaning leaves my records better than they were (except for one new one I managed to scratch) I am happy to try to make them even better. Will follow your suggestions more thoroughly! Will even ... | |
| Record Cleaning Using Vacuum Machine for Cleaning and Ultrasonic for Final Rinse @billstevenson OMG, I've just realised that US means Ultrasonic, not useless or United States. Also any concentration of ethyl alcohol above 5% should be hitting the back of one's throat! | |
| Removing stylus from Shure V15 Type III @elliottbnewcombjr Thanks for that! Yes, ruby is the same as sapphire except for the red colour which is caused by traces of chromium. Sapphires can be every other colour except red. Chemically they are aluminium oxide, a compound made from a... | |
| Record Cleaning Using Vacuum Machine for Cleaning and Ultrasonic for Final Rinse @lewm my RCM is a VPI HW17, not a US machine You might have picked up that I have a problem with TLAs! In this context, does US mean useless or United States? I thought the VPI was built in New Jersey? By the way, I now enjoy my meagre col... | |
| Record Cleaning Using Vacuum Machine for Cleaning and Ultrasonic for Final Rinse @antinn Otherwise, assuming you bought a 6L UT tank reducing the number of records to no more than three and space them out about 25-cm and slowing the rotation speed to about 1.5-2-rpm should provide you with a cleaner record Yes, the cheap ... | |
| Record Cleaning Using Vacuum Machine for Cleaning and Ultrasonic for Final Rinse @lewm I gather NIH is the National Institute of Health? I gathered you are a medical professional ... having an unlimited supply of pure water would certainly help with rinsing! |