terry9
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| Has anyone seen this? A really beautiful turntable Mijostyn, from your posting about computer files I infer that you have not experimented much with the sound of electronic components. It is highly rewarding, and the physics is pretty much understood.In general, lower dielectric absorption is bett... | |
| Has anyone seen this? A really beautiful turntable Mijostyn, you say, "... since when are air bearings not mechanical? There is a shaft in bushings just like any table except this one. "Not so. Not at all. In my first post I specifically mentioned an air cushion in three dimensions. That is achiev... | |
| Has anyone seen this? A really beautiful turntable @lewm Good question. Experiment was as follows.Began with a TT which is famous for the quality of its bearing: Nottingham Analogue, one of the last Mentors, with the Dais bearing (their $10,000 TT). I played this TT for years and years, before:Dec... | |
| Has anyone seen this? A really beautiful turntable Mijostyn, "The background noise on even the best pressing is a lot higher than any reasonable modern belt driven turntable so in reality a solution in search of a problem."Do you think that bearing noise is irrelevant? If so, I assure you that it ... | |
| How Science Got Sound Wrong Thank you, David. I've obviously got some reading to do - but after I get my newest amplifiers working! | |
| Turntable cost:benefit If you actually listen to 800 lp's, I say that you can justify any amount of money. The issues are what you can afford and what you want to spend (I think that these two are different).I have a few thousand lp's and I concentrate on bang for buck.... | |
| How Science Got Sound Wrong Thanks David. Will have to think some more. Haven't use Octave - Maple is my poison. | |
| How Science Got Sound Wrong Thank you David. I will have to think about that.As for the Nyquist-Shannon theorem, yes, I am familiar with it, and am not convinced that it says what some engineers think it does. For one thing, it involves a limit in terms of an infinite series... | |
| How Science Got Sound Wrong David, I don't quite follow your third last paragraph.Your "first statement" is indeed a statement, capable of being true or false, but is it true? It needs justification, it seems to me. It is not the same at all as the sentence following, "Let m... | |
| How Science Got Sound Wrong @erik_squires "Microtime, as the article envisions it, is not a thing."Don't agree. It seems to me that he defines it quite clearly in terms of microsecond (neural) phenomena. And also, it seems to me that someone with a Ph.D. in this area is like... | |
| How Science Got Sound Wrong I think we should be asking the question, "How many samples per waveform are required to reduce the RMS error to below, say, 5%, which is the sort of error achieved during the heyday of the vinyl years?" Some types of error may be more or less obj... | |
| Are most recordings so bad it's not worth spending large on speakers? If you haven't listened to big Magnepans or ESL's, do. Those who like them, such as myself, will never go back. | |
| Are most recordings so bad it's not worth spending large on speakers? Listen to @atmasphere !His electronics ain't bad either. | |
| Which vintage direct drive? Wolfie, I didn’t pay too much attention after I mounted the air bearing tonearm and listened for a minute - it was one of the second tier Technics, maybe an SL1500 mk2. Anyway, compared to the Nottingham Mentor (Dais bearing, modern motor controll... | |
| Which vintage direct drive? As for the SUT, I too would be cautious. There’s a lot of EMI happening just under the platter (hence just under the cartridge), and a low output MC might pick it up. Maybe just enough to degrade performance without obvious symptoms like hum - whi... |