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| What is the finest SACD's you ever heard? Weather Report - Heavy WeatherSantana - Abraxas (Black Magic Woman sounds great)Bangles - Only one song is really well done, but that 1 is very good.Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells | |
| Sonic Relativism? I appreciate the humor. :^) And I agree, that the high-end audio industry does have its problems of late. | |
| Have You Ever Put Your Golden Ears to the Test?? How could anyone clinging to an argument which is easily overturned by simple auditioning, be considered "scientific objectivist"? I would offer "dogmatic pragmatist" as a more accurate description. The term subjective relativist does apply to the... | |
| Have You Ever Put Your Golden Ears to the Test?? Hi, Dan. I'm glad that someone else is thinking about this. First, I have done blind listening tests on many occasions, particularly at the audio store I used to work at. When business was slow, we would do that for fun, just to see if we could te... | |
| Swan label and the Beatles The black and silver Swan lables are not rare, but the white and red could be. All have some decent value. I have a black/silver "She Loves You/I'll Get You". It has some small value. Not sure about the VeeJays or the 4x4. | |
| How hot is hot enough? Generally speaking, if the solder joint remains shiny and smooth after it cools, you have gotten it hot enough. If it is rough and dull, it may be a "cold" joint. | |
| Are you going to buy the Rolling Stones SACDs? I would buy them if I was more of a Stones fan, but they never really got me going. I like some of their songs, so maybe a "Best Of" SACD might interest me. | |
| Difference between SME 3009 VS. RB 300? Dekay, I am working on a design for an "on-the-fly" VTA adjuster for the Rega/OL arms. Should have a prototype up and running soon. | |
| Cartridge frequency response specs Sean, buddy, that was super excellent info! Thanks! I will play around with that because I am getting a tinge of what sounds like distortion at really tough dynamic high-freq passages. It may be that distortion that you mentioned that could be tam... | |
| CD volume levels While I am no expert on this subject, I read an article that said that the earlier CDs were recorded "soft", and did not make use of the full dynamic range that CD offered. Later,I think in the '90s, they discovered that they could get better dyna... | |
| Antiskate couter weight for Ariston rd 11 E I am not sure what tonearm, you have, but there are 2 main types of anti-skate weight systems. One that hangs on a thread, and one that slides on a thin shaft. Whichever type you have, you can make one that will work. Just take a small piece of le... | |
| Has The Maker ever seen yours? Brad, no I don't sell any of my stuff. I just make it because I like to do things like that, and I like to save money. But if it doesn't come out well, I try again. The things that I cannot yet make myself, I buy.If someone made an item of my desi... | |
| Stereophile "confirms" Moncrieff's SACD comments ? Perhaps that is why they put those ultrasonic filters into the early players, if they are actually getting amplitude rises like that. I don't notice any "headache" reaction to SACD with my Sony player. But I definitely will say that it is not the ... | |
| Cartridge frequency response specs That is a very good point, Sean. Just out of curiosity, in low ouptut MC carts, did the high end roll off with higher ohm loads than specified, or lower ohm loads? I was thinking about experimenting with different loadings for my DL103, and would ... | |
| Which components produce a convincing 3-D image? I feel that excellent imaging is a combination of things, but is primarily dependent on maintaining phase coherence throughout the chain. Without good phase coherence, the result is a discombobulation that cannot give you a good image. The speaker... |