zaikesman
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| The Best Amp for the Price of Dirt I have no idea what Crem1 is talking about anymore (never been a member of a union?), but taking the totality of his comments into account -- including his repeated references to the Audio Critic, where they don't even believe in listening to amps... | |
| Review: Technics SL-1200Mk2 Turntable ...Continued (sorry, I hit the wrong button by mistake!)Also specified is that the tracking error will be "within" 2'32' at the outermost groove and "within" 0'32' at the innermost groove of a 12" record. According to the data on the calculated ta... | |
| Review: Technics SL-1200Mk2 Turntable Mr. Harrison: Since nobody that you called out -- or anyone who posted previously suggesting the Technics alignment jig may be off -- has responded, I will try.The 1200 manual specifies an effective arm length (distance from tonearm pivot point to... | |
| Has anyone heard of this? "Has anyone heard of this?" No, because I'm afraid that couldn't be expected to work, on many levels. I'd go back to the drawing board and start over again with a clean slate -- this time on the assumption that your professor wants you to come up ... | |
| Anyone else regenerating A/C? Ubglub: Neither the P3 nor the EP15A use iso-trannies for outlet/component isolation. The P3 has more (and, it would appear, more extensively) isolated outlets than does the 15A when used by itself, but both units use filters for that purpose, not... | |
| Thiel 3.7 Boy is that reviewer a lousy writer. I assume the photos showing the differentiated woofer and passive radiator diaphragms are out of date, as his description of the woofer diaphragm seems to conform with the more recent Thiel website photos showi... | |
| Anyone else regenerating A/C? SP units use balanced power transformers and are passive devices, intended mainly to follow the active EP. Companies including the aptly named BPT, API Power Wedge, Equi=Tech and others also offer component units based around balanced power transf... | |
| Anyone else regenerating A/C? The P3 would appear to offer some advantages over the EP in terms of including balanced AC and (so they claim) inter-component isolation without having to add a second unit like with the EP. (And then there's MultiWave.) This makes it cheaper, but... | |
| Stealth Metacarbon Cables: Anyone ever hear them. I hope people are aware that van den Hul makes a metal-free, coaxial single-ended interconnect called The First Ultimate Mk.II using their Linear Structured Carbon fibers, a metallically-shielded version of the same called The First Metal Shield, ... | |
| Review: Vestax Handy Trax Turntable BTW, the 'steet' price of the Numark is quite a bit less these days than when I bought the Vestax. I got my PT-1 from a pro-sound shop for about $80. | |
| C-J Pre/Amps Special Edition Enjoy the Music.com Agree 100% Unsound. Mr. Rochlin, you have a grand total of three contributions posted to Audiogon, and all three amount to nothing less -- and nothing more, I might add -- than apropos-of-nothing, substance-free solicitations to click on links to ... | |
| Review: Vestax Handy Trax Turntable Thanks for looking Trackingforce. My Vestax has since been replaced by the Numark PT-1 that's virtually identical inside, but has a smaller, squarer case and includes both sizes of headphone jacks, plus thankfully has a recessed power switch. I to... | |
| Beating the RVG Horse OK, I just went downstairs and grabbed a bunch of RVG CDs and sampled each for about a minute in succession. Sound quality is, as suspected, all over the map. I think this must have mostly to do with the original recordings as opposed to the remas... | |
| Beating the RVG Horse DM: When I say smooth, I'm talking specifically about texture. Most of the 80's BN CDs I've got sound more rough and brash compared with various later reissues, RVGs included. To me the older disks sound more 'digital' for lack of a better term. T... | |
| Where did tracking error go? I didn't say anything against linear arms, or in preference of pivoted ones. If we're talking about the theoretical ideal for how a cartridge ought to traverse a record, of course the answer is linearly. I just don't feel that skating forces in pa... |