terry9
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| Does Digital Try Too Hard? @cleeds First, I learned something useful from the presentation you referenced, that step functions are no longer used in DAC. Thanks for that. However, I still have concerns, which may arise from misunderstanding, which I submit for comment and c... | |
| Does Digital Try Too Hard? @cleeds Thank you for your friendly and helpful response. I'll take a look and we can discuss. | |
| Does Digital Try Too Hard? @asvjerry Don’t quite see how smoothing is going to help all that much with 2 samples per waveform. Or even 4 (for example when samples are taken at pi/4, 3pi/4, 5pi/4, and 7pi/4).And never mind phase distortion (by which I mean the distortion inh... | |
| Small room amp and speakers recommendation The most important thing, especially at your price point, is the room. And there you may be in luck.The ratio 1 : 1.56 : 1.87 simulates VERY well at 50 cubic meters. You don't have that - only about half. Still, it's a better bet than anyone has a... | |
| Does Digital Try Too Hard? All you have to do is draw a sine wave. Then make 250 equally spaced marks on the x axis, starting with 0 and ending at 2pi. Use each mark as the step boundary of a step function. Just like elementary calculus.Now calculate the mean square differe... | |
| Aric Audio? First Watt? PrimaLuna? Yes, Sixfellas. D-I-Y !!! D-I-Y !!! | |
| Advantages of owning equipment from major audio brands vs. boutique shops? Best of all is the ultimate boutique: DIY. No more trying to shoe-horn big caps into little boxes. Etc. | |
| Advantages of owning equipment from major audio brands vs. boutique shops? Tlong, it's more like LotsaBangs 22,317, the 22,317th ugly unoriginal formulaic Hollywood actioner, which seems all that they know how to make these days.Rwortman, I think it is absolutely wrong to say that, "fidelity is mostly about engineering."... | |
| Advantages of owning equipment from major audio brands vs. boutique shops? One advantage is innovation. The big boys are often stuck in a rut, like Hollywood studios: Lotsa Bangs 17.It took a boutique brand to bring us air bearing turntables. It took a boutique brand to bring us low torque turntable motors. The best buy ... | |
| Breakdown of Turntable Performance Briggs and Stratton - VERY good, Uberw. | |
| Breakdown of Turntable Performance @chayro said it well, but I would be more emphatic. I tried it like the OP said, and burned mucho $ before I realized that cartridges wear out. TT not so much.And how the **** is a $100 No-name Garbage tonearm going to hold a $5K Koetsu in precise... | |
| Measuring turntable speed An electronic frequency counter. Used doesn't cost much. I like old HP stuff like the 5314. Just plug into the output on your phono/pre.Lab accuracy, repeatability. Easy to get real 6 or 7 digit resolution. These days you can get used pro gear for... | |
| Can your system be optimized to sound better for classical or non-classical? @artemus_5 Technically, the term 'classical music' refers to a specific era. It specifically excludes Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, and other eras. Nevertheless, some wonderfully involving and interesting music was composed at these times, and ... | |
| At what price point do I run into diminishing returns on an MC Cartridge? As to stylus wear, 1000 hours may be an average, but it’s by no means necessary. That’s all the more reason to have a linear tracker.And an ultra-sonic record cleaner. In the old days I used a VPI 16.5 faithfully. When I read that record groove cr... | |
| Bang for the Buck Ah - Quads. Me too.With ESL’s one can hear subtle differences. I can hear bearing noise from the platter and the motor (yup, the motor), so I try to minimize both. Nottingham Analogue has done splendid work here - my Mentor with a Trans-Fi Termina... |