zaikesman
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? As one or two of you may have noticed (or not! :-), I've stopped posting to new threads for many months now. But Slipknot1's thread idea is something I had once thought of starting myself, right around the time I cut way back over here. So I feel ... | |
| Any takers on ST cable rave AR HT 130 Congrats JMF - you just did what Stereophile did not: actually review these cables.BTW, since you like the vdH product, you may be interested in trying if you get the chance their unique all-carbon The First Ultimate. It's single-ended only and su... | |
| What's your latest "Discovery" Siliab - I've loved the Daktaris disk ever since I stumbled across it a few years back, but I've never heard that backstory about who was responsible. In fact, not only does the jacket list all those African-sounding names of the players, but also... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long Umm...mebbe, but I dunno. I think this one resides in the thought experiment file (along with most of my others :-) For one thing, it violates the KISS principle. For another, a string attached to the tonearm and pulled taut will have a very defin... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long OK Tom, without going into every detail to the Nth degree, here's what's on my mind now:First of all, I'm not sure I fully understand why or if it's necessarily desirable to decouple the counterweight. Or to go for lowest mass in general.But if we... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long For anyone wondering, I just deleted the post I made here yesterday. I'm working on replacing it with something I hope is a little more sensibly thought-out... | |
| why does triod mode sound better than ultralinear? aright2 wrote: "The ultra-linear design is a Class A/B amplifier." Just to be clear - and I'm sure aright2 knows this and didn't mean to imply otherwise - the MV-60 would still run in Class A/B if rewired for triode.I see that I made a mistaken st... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long Doug: Sorry to go off-topic for a sec, but I noticed at soundfountain.com Audio & Music Bulletin that you were using the RSR outer record ring. Did you make yours, or buy it complete? If it was the latter, what do you think of the pricing for ... | |
| Theta Delta Basic II Transport Opinions. ...And less strong of a consideration for used gear, which is how I bought my Pearl. (Theta were very helpful no matter that I wasn't purchasing new - possibly in part because they don't make anything in this catagory anymore - but to me it's just... | |
| Theta Delta Basic II Transport Opinions. Redvolt: Just in case you were being discreet to spare my feelings, that 'other' Theta transport wouldn't have been a Pearl (or a Jade, their other Stable Platter-based design), would it? Nahhh...bet it had to be the one that played Laserdisks! ;^... | |
| "I am there" vs. "They are here" I agree that my system - which to my mind is good but by no means great judged by the standard of being able to transmit or recreate the 'absolute sound' of a live performance - could not fool one into thinking they were hearing a live trumpet, an... | |
| "I am there" vs. "They are here" Rwbadley: Not wacky. A couple of years ago we brought in a string trio to play for a function at our house, and they were seated in the area of the living room right in-between the system and where my listening chair normally resides. I was a litt... | |
| "I am there" vs. "They are here" Sorry Rnm4 and Aroc that I might not have made myself entirely clear about what the shorthand "They are there" catchphrase represents for me. The "there" in question is the space the original performance was recorded in, while "they" of course are... | |
| "I am there" vs. "They are here" Yes Calanctus, the 'window' onto the original performance analogy is conceptually closely related to my "They are there" formulation. The metaphor of the window has often been used to describe the system itself, i.e., how transparent the glass is,... | |
| Electro Harmonix valves vs... Update: Having very excellent results with Electro-Harmonix KT-88's vs. Svet (SED) 6550C's. And apparently this EH KT-88 is *not* the same tube as the Sovtek version. (I haven't tried either the Sovtek or the SED KT-88's ; nor did I try any 6550's... |