richardbrand
Responses from richardbrand
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @mijostyn "I cannot imagine owning a speaker that could be so easily blown. In my hands it would not last 5 minutes. There is no excuse for a speaker to be so fragile. The materials exist today that can be used to make a totally bullet proof ESL... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @lewm No, not if it emulates a point source! But it is a problem for pseudo line sources. I am not stupid enough to believe that any claimed line source really is one! | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @mijostyn "Do you realize that you have just noted that every great speaker designer is absurd, that the laws of acoustics are flawed. Don't listen to me. Get The Loudspeaker Handbook by John Eargle. It is written in terms most lay people can un... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @coltrane1 No worries, I never for a moment took it as an insult! As the great, and recently late, British actress Maggie Smith said, "I have never insulted anyone, I simply describe them accurately". | |
| Physical degradation of CD's Don’t forget that the easiest surface to damage is the label side. The pits are just under it! And most CDs are stamped, not laser burned! Hard to see how the tiny currents in a DAC will help it burn-in. Speakers, cartridges and amplifiers possib... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @coltrane1 "But saying you don’t like jazz, is akin to stating you don’t understand jazz" If that is directed at me, then I resemble the remark! I like some jazz, I don't like some. I know so little about jazz, I cannot name the sub-genres. ... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @lewm That's why I should open a new thread! There seem to be two broad approaches to 301 plinth design. One is an open-air skeleton to let the noise out, the other is to fill the voids as much as possible. I am experimenting with the second ap... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @herman Ok, time to confess. I am restoring / upgrading my dad's Garrard 301 grease bearing model. So far I have upgraded the main bearing, pulley, idler and its bearings, new springs, etc. It is in an SME plinth which is mainly hollow and has... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL Or, as Sir Thomas Beecham said "The British don't like music, they just like the sound it makes" | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @tomic601 "imo the 63, of which i’ve sold ( new ) and rebuilt 4 ( several times over… the troubleshooting flow diagram is necessary but not, NOT sufficient, certainly has virtues but is hardly full range for various musical tastes…" At least the ... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @mijostyn "you need to learn more about speaker design. The foot comes from the wavelength at the crossover point. ... What you are succumbing to is lay assumption and as we all know assumptions are the mother of all f-ups" So now I know that ... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @bdp24 A couple of obvious issues apart from those @mijostyn has pointed out. 1. They have two drivers offset spatially by a considerable horizontal distance, which will give rise to comb interference with frequencies in the crossover region ... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @dogberry "Not really a problem if you obey the instruction manual that says to use (an) amp(s) of 40-100W power and no more. As you may recall, I have replaced all the panels in my 2905s, and while the older panels were short on glue, it was th... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @kennyc - I confess that I don't understand what adding "drive" actually means. They do have a big motor and stylus drag may be less of an issue. Not having rubber bands pulling the platter may help. Tonearms - yes, an SME V costs more than the... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @mijostyn "Now, what you are talking about is a co-axial point source which has absolutely no advantage over non co-axial point source speakers that are spaced closely together until you are a foot from the loudspeaker." I beg to differ. Where ... |