tonywinsc
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| Power Filtering vs Power Regeneration? Have you noticed if the degradation occurs during wet or dry spells in the weather? | |
| Is high-end audio dying, if not dead already??? +1 what Onhwy61 said. See, I can't imagine someone buying a $24k turntable; but wearing a $20 timex digital watch or driving a 20 year old Jeep. Show me someone that hard core into audio that every dime they have goes into way out there equipment.... | |
| Is high-end audio dying, if not dead already??? Hi ZD, it's true; I really do liken fine watches to high end audio :). You make generalizations and say a watch's only function is to tell time. By that same logic, a CD player's only function is to play music and most people would argue that they... | |
| Is high-end audio dying, if not dead already??? I liken high end audio to fine swiss watches. The technology has existed across many decades. The updates are mainly in style and materials with some breakthroughs in design here and there. The focus in high end audio is on workmanship and style, ... | |
| Help picking a tube preamp, please So you want a vacuum tube preamp. A quaint little box filled with 19th century technology, the warm orange glow of hot little glass bottles void of atmosphere but full of metals banned in most countries these days. Who can't be pulled back to yest... | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth Hi Halcro, I gave one example from a personal experience. The tonearm/stylus was cycling at 16 Hz while playing a record. It was interesting to see. Long term it would have worn out the stylus for sure.The other thing that I have seen happen befor... | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth Harold, there is no single equation that I am aware of for determining the effective mass of the tonearm in grams. It is an involved calculation based on the mass of the tonearm and the moment of inertia of the tonearm assembly which, as you said ... | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth The point that I was trying to make is that when an input frequency dwells on the resonance point of a mechanical system, the output amplitude tries to go to infinity. Of course, there are limitations but usually the limitation is failure of the s... | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth I hope that I can clarify a few things for everyone. Resonance is a phenomena where a small amount of energy in results in near infinite energy out. It can occur in either mechanical or electrical systems. Static forces and dynamic frequency respo... | |
| Diminishing Interest in POP. I hate earworms TwoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepicklesoniononasesemeseedbunBadupbadum | |
| Diminishing Interest in POP. I hate earworms I have been eating Big Macs all week now. Thanks for nuttin' Rodman. | |
| What makes Telefunken tubes sound better? I'm a US born and raised engineer that worked many years for a German company both in the US and in Germany. We lived just shy of 3 years in Germany. I've read this thread and wanted to weigh in with my experiences. We had two boys, 9 and 4 at the... | |
| Dan D 'Agostino, Mark Levinson, Jim Thiel, I saw and heard the Carver Amazings in 1988. I was smitten by them. I had heard the Magnepans back then, DCM Time Windows and other cone speakers. They didn't impress me. The Carver speakers were not cheap but I gave up the cash for them gladly. I... | |
| Led Zep Reissue on vinyl Wow! We're just having some fun. Way to spoil the party. | |
| Led Zep Reissue on vinyl Imagine how good those 4 systems would have sounded with vinyl front ends.I have heard HD Audio files. Those have the potential to beat vinyl. If that format survives, I could go there one day. HD Audio, what I heard had the full dimensionality of... |