zazouswing
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| What exactly is PRaT??? I would avoid the boogie factor because, being a drummer, you probably have a name for that - triplet feel or whatever. I think the cleanest example would be to take two examples of the same song. One was mastered in the 80s as a bargain basement ... | |
| The Rapid Rise (& Fall) of the CD Every shift in nee technology brings a renewed interest in old content. When CDs hit in the 80s there was a ton of material getting released that was 20+ years old and you would need to skip a car payment to afford. Same with the vinyl resurgence ... | |
| Amp for Vintage Heresy I run Heresy’s with a Tektron - using a pair of 45’s with a whopping 2wpc. Great pairing. Robin Wyatt is the local distributor and he swears by the Hereseys. | |
| Is there a clear definition of what "Integrated" means? Haven’t seen the word resistance yet. Cleaning up the signal so a constant load is presented to the power amp section - allowing it to run in optimal parameters - I thought was the point of a preamp. The input can have varying voltage and resistan... | |
| Why did this just happen ? I think it’s the sampling rate, dropped bits, or elimination of noise on the USB. PCM uses packets to wrap up and send information. If it runs out of time, it drops bits. The cost is resolution. Computers are getting better and better at this. It’... | |
| Technics SL 1200 GR As far as a weight gauge, it’s used to set the tracking force. With the Techniques, they will tell you to mount the cart and zero out the counter weight when the arm floats above that table. Then, based on what the cart manufacturer recommended fo... | |
| Technics SL 1200 GR I’ve never heard the AT so unfortunately I can’t give a good comparison. I know there are reviewers out there who swear by the Denon 103 and review carts costing 4K+. I looked up your amp. It appears to have a MM and MC setting only. There doe... | |
| Technics SL 1200 GR I have a 1200G and several of the carts being discussed. Generally, I have found MC carts to be more resolving than MM carts. The problem is with the phono pre-amp. Any preamp being asked to produce 65db of gain runs the risk of adding noise. The ... | |
| Sometimes you just get lucky Luckily - I was too lazy to try. Held onto all of them. Original Soft Machine 1 with the pinwheel cover and non-banned nudity, Hendrix, 13th Floor Elevators, bootleg Pink Floyds, Funkadelic, etc. I still enjoy them today - 35 years later. I don’t ... | |
| Mood Yes. This recently happened to me, but the other way around. Sounded great one day, lackluster the next. I’m not certain if it was mood. At the time, I thought it was the affect of a random playlist. On the good day, a well recorded first song mad... | |
| I don't get it...Exile on main Street-Blue Agree on both counts. Very few 'seminal' recordings have impressed me on their own. I generally believe it is because of my age (50). Many of these records were out and established by the time I ran into them. The techniques and aesthetics had alr... | |
| Are You A Disciplined Audiophile? Wow - another perfectly innocuous topic pulled totally stage left because people didn't bother to read the question and instead twist it to suit their soapbox. I do think 2 months is a reasonable time. I have way too many sources and different ty... | |
| Weirdest record defect? Weirdest record defect - the word sheep in Ella Fitzgerald’s Goody Goody - every version. Or - the sibilance in Slim Gaillards Jump Session - 3 78’s from different times and all have the same. | |
| Weirdest record defect? I have several modern Merge Records with a variety of problems - distortion, volume drop, unbearable background noise. Honestly, while I like their lineup, I’m at the point now where I will get any pressing that’s not Merge for their artists. I ha... | |
| The real truth about recordings Understood and agreed - but maybe it goes without saying. You can compare two television sets - one being better looking than the other - without getting into a discussion about editing. It is a necessary evil. The problem pops up when you try and... |