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| Must speakers have certain volume to sound convincing ? I particularly like horns because they can sound dynamic, lively, and satisfying at quite low volume levels. It is just a guess, but, I bet that is part of the reason they are so popular in Japan where everyone lives close together and no one want... | |
| A nice read on tubes! I frequently get on my soapbox about design sensibilities (irrespective of chosen architecture"), and the fact that we (as audiophiles) lose track of what I consider to be the takeaway from this article:"It doesn’t matter if it’s tubes, transistor... | |
| RMAF Etiquette The sad reality of every audio show I’ve exhibited at is that putting on a worthwhile demo is extremely challenging due to the noise bleeding through from the hallways.Exhibitors for the most part leave their doors open to welcome attendees (and t... | |
| When will we ever hear turntables demoed fairly? It's unlikely that you ever will hear an in-store demo that's completely "fair" and this isn't necessarily due to either incompetence or unscrupulous behavior on the dealer's part.Frequently, confirmation bias sets in, and the dealer doesn't pay a... | |
| What's the deal with idler turntables and do they have a place in modern HiFi? Hi Pani, I am not a TT designer but having heard many turntables (most of them are belt driven and many of them with heavy platters), less than 5% of them actually could hide their "high mass" artefacts. So, for me it is just statistics I’ve had ... | |
| What's the deal with idler turntables and do they have a place in modern HiFi? Hi ct1057, Re: lenco. Just an observation.From three decks l75 i found when used in the actual speed slot, the notch for say 33.33 they run fast. Is this by design to deal with stylus drag? Idk. The swiss engineers were very smart and the motor... | |
| What's the deal with idler turntables and do they have a place in modern HiFi? Hi Richard, ThomHave you considered introducing a little series R Into the power supply and scoping the motor current draw to vicariously look at stylus drag as a function of motor current draw? Yes. I've been wrestling with capturing the time... | |
| Why do so few low power amplifiers using 300B have balanced inputs? To audiobrian's original question ... I'd hazard a guess that in the population of SET owners, less than 1% have balanced preamps. I don't have industry numbers on this. Anecdotally, I know of only one SET owner who's running a balanced preamp.T... | |
| What's the deal with idler turntables and do they have a place in modern HiFi? Hi Pani, There is also a price to pay when the platter is massive. Light weight platters have been preferred by any "well-designed" TT designers for the same reason. I would state this differently: no single parameter can be optimized without ta... | |
| What's the deal with idler turntables and do they have a place in modern HiFi? Spot on - Lew & Al. One false link I alluded to above (my first rim drive experiment) relates to incorrectly ascribing massive torque as the reason for rim drive's attributes. Actually, it's the architecture itself (rim drive) that is respon... | |
| What's the deal with idler turntables and do they have a place in modern HiFi? I will say this, as far as measurements are concerned. At present, my best tools are the Feickert Pro software and a Timeline, and I’m not seeing any effect (can’t directly measure music with the Feickert, unfortunately). I’ll leave it open to the... | |
| What's the deal with idler turntables and do they have a place in modern HiFi? Hi Cleeds,I’ve seen this claim before, but never seen any proof of it. I’ve measured the speed of my turntable with it 22-pound platter as it plays an LP and never detected this sort of speed deviation. I stand (partially) corrected ... primarily... | |
| What's the deal with idler turntables and do they have a place in modern HiFi? Thanks for the kind words, Charles. We all continue to learn, and the untapped "goodness" in idlers certainly caught me by surprise. That Dagogo review is beginning to look dated, although I stand by my comments that rigid belt coupling gets you ... | |
| What's the deal with idler turntables and do they have a place in modern HiFi? Hi Gmjperry96,Given your propensity to play and learn, I say go for it. I think you'll learn as much about yourself as you will about idlers vs. belts.I've been working on a new turntable for about 18 months. It didn't start out as an idler, but... | |
| What is more accurate: magnetic anti-skating, or barrel weight attached a fishline? Indeed overhang/underhang, in conjunction with the frictional forces imparted by the record groove on the stylus are the key actors in this play.I haven’t thought about the underhang case you brought up in a while (for the pivoting, 6" arm in your... |