richardbrand
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| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @newton_john I also had a great uncle who’d been some sort of technician/instrument maker at Cambridge and had worked with some of the great men who’d done much of the Physics that I was learning about Those laboratory technicians were vastly... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @dover diamond hardening refers to a heating and cooling process used to harden the steel, it is not a coating. The Dohmann uses maraging steel - which is really an alloy, likely including elements of copper and nickel that results in a harder ... | |
| Removing stylus from Shure V15 Type III I just got back to Canberra and made straight for my old Shure V15 cartridge. The stylus slid out with a gentle pull just as you all said it would. I have no idea why it would not do that earlier, but it there has been very low relative humidity... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @daveyf Question is what price is it that elicits push back?? Answering that question is why marketing people get paid! Or to put it another way, is the Pro-Ject Signature too inexpensive to be taken seriously by audiophiles? I am sure it is... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade Since the focus of this thread seems to be the retail price of the new Linn plinth, I thought it might be worthwhile to post this extract from Pro-Ject's literature on their most expensive Signature turntable, which has a retail price of 12,000 Eu... | |
| Speakers sound too bright. @mvanwoert I have played with ML speakers for decades and a few things to keep in mind are: 1) They are line sources that radiate in both directions and 2) they are a capacitive load not a resistive load. When I looked up the OP's speakers, ... | |
| Stereo mode in phone stage going out @nicholsr usually about the 4th/5th song is when the (always) right channel goes about 98% out in stereo mode When you say 98% out, is that 98% of the time or 98% of the volume? I suspect a loose contact around the base of the tonearm cable.... | |
| Need to learn about Audio Research @whart Not to mention his "we don't actually listen to our amplifiers, we let our customers do that". He described his amplifiers in engineering terms "unconditionally stable into any load". I am a bit surprised that nobody has done a digital ... | |
| Need to learn about Audio Research @fsonicsmith I always thought the "straight wire with gain" is one of the most meaningless cliche's among the thousands in audio. Two preamps can be "straight wires with gain" and yet sound completely different, particularly if one if solid stat... | |
| Do I need upgraded power cables? @bzawa I don't understand not using a power conditioner with an amp. I would have guessed that conditioned power would be good for it. Do amps not need conditioning? All mains-driven amplifiers convert incoming Alternating Current (AC) to Dir... | |
| Do I need upgraded power cables? @wofford I will leave you with this, sea salt tastes different than mineral salt, and pink salt tastes different still! They are all salt! They are all mainly salt. None is 100% pure sodium chloride which is what we mainly think of as salt.... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? @billpete The latest Stuart and Sons 108-note concert grand piano also hits a very low 16-Hz - see Audiogon Discussion Forum on pianos! As far as I know, there is no technical reason why CDs should not go very subsonic - close to 0-Hz. | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? @billpete I took a vinyl copy of the Telarc 1812 when I auditioned the Holbo turntable! Almost all my vinyl pre-dates CDs, and I have a few dbx companded records which I can no longer play because my dbx capable player got stolen, together with... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? @billpete I'll have to look to see if I have any Hyperion. Sounds familiar but not sure. Are they D2D or just very well done? Who are the pianists? On the Shostakovich, the pianist is the brilliant Canadian Marc-Andre Hamelin. The newly relea... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? I am into classical, just getting back into vinyl, so the latest vinyl releases from Hyperion suit me, especially their new recording of Beethoven Triple Concerto and their recent vinyl release of the Shostakovich Piano Concertos. I have used the... |