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| Schroder sq and the new talea Dertonearm your comments appear to be trolls. I cant believe that youre actually serious. As you expound on your own philosophy however, you are taking crack shots at the work of some brilliant designers Ive had the opportunity to meet. Only b... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea Dertonearm,The principle of Occam's razor is a valid design approach - whether you like it or not.If I understand your post (not an easy thing for me) you appear to be in agreement with me on the point that something has the value that people put ... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea Read the second paragraph again, Bill. Much as you'll hate to admit it, you'll find yourself in complete agreement with me. Let me put this in simpler terms: hi-fi is NOT a life changing pursuit. We are talking about LUXURY items.The point is howe... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea If someone develops a cure for testicular cancer and the solution took 5 years of development, involving 50,000 person hours, millions of dollars, and it requires $2,000.00 in materials to implement per patient, what is its worth to the cancer pat... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea Thanks Brad,Yes, that was in my opening comments, and also, remember Frank's comments about 70% certainty in his introductory comments.Even with all of these preambles, you'd be amazed at the amount of criticism (most of it constructive), that I'v... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea With all of this talk of a "repeat" for 2011, I need to comment that the Tri-Planar has been wronglly perceived as the red-headed step-child in all of this discussion - much as I have tried through all of this to emphasize otherwise. The Tri-Plana... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea Hi Lew,As far as volume is concerned, I left it to Frank and Joel, who knew the musical selections. With the Atma-sphere's stepped attenuators, it was impossible to obtain an exact volume match.I'm still recovering from the show, and I'll revisit ... | |
| 2010 RMAF Analog Reports + Meet and Greet Hi Dev,I'm just beginning to recover from the sleep deprivation we call the Audiofest.I think it's more appropriate that others chime in on this topic, but my take is exactly what I expected to occur - no clear winner, and how could there really b... | |
| 2010 RMAF Analog Reports + Meet and Greet Lew,Sundays are indeed great, especially the morning. One other show hint (for all three days): work your way down from the top floor. Being in the top floor of the Tower, we're not all that busy for the first hour of the show. The majority of peo... | |
| Has anyone heard the new Pass Labs XP-15 phono? Hi all,I can't directly answer your question, but those of you attending the Audiofest will be able to hear a system with all Pass electronics (XP-25 phono) through a Galibier turntable, in the Lowther America room (suite 1007).I am not a Pass dea... | |
| 2010 RMAF Analog Reports + Meet and Greet Hi Paul,By all means, come one come all. It will be great to meet you after all these years' meetings in various parts of cyberspace. Cheers,Thom @ Galibier | |
| 2010 RMAF Analog Reports + Meet and Greet Saturday night Schroeder and Durand Tonearm festivities - the tonearm play session in suite 1130.It dawned on me that there will be some "down" time if Frank and Joel choose do do a cartridge swap.If this is the case, I'll fill the dead air with a... | |
| 2010 RMAF Analog Reports + Meet and Greet Hi Ecir38,At our Saturday night after hours tonearm play session with Frank Schroeder and Joel Durand (suite 1130), we'll have a few very nice phono stages, including my reference - the Atma-sphere MP-1 (whcih will also be one floor below, in the ... | |
| Good arms for catridge swappers Let me take this question up one cognitive level.In my experience, cartridge swappers are like gear swappers. They collect numerous pieces of gear - none of which they like, and they flitter back and forth between them.Now, I realize that all hi-f... | |
| Tonearms question - Please help There are two key things you're concerned about.One is the pivot to spindle distance - the distance from the center of the mounting hole to the record spindle. On the 250 style Jelco, it's 214 mm.The other issue is whether your Denon's platter hei... |