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[quote user="mjloudspeaker"] Romy the Cat wrote:I have to admit that some of my opponents might consider my organizational views on high-end audio too socialistic and will recognize in my view some residues of me growing up in socialistic society. Le...
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It has been changed. Looking at the extend of my record collection, the efforts I went with my TT setup and my “End of the Life Phonostage” it would be hardly expected from me to be somebody else a die-hard vinyl dude but it is what it is. Those feel...
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Since my “End of Life" Phonostage have materialized I got exposed to a temptation of finding a “right” cable between my tonearm to the phonostage. The most critical cable between the step-up transformer and phonostage does not exist in my system anym...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I play a lot of LP recently and last night I noted that sound was quite bad. It was like a bad electricity day only atop of it sound has some kind of odd digitalization atop of everything. Of course I was blaming the PurePo...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]David, you are thinking like a basement TT maker, which is all todays TT makers in one way or another. The reality is that no one need TTs and the makers happy to make and to sell 5 turntables a year. For sure it is expensi...
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On the face of it, the AF1 represents a "finished high-end product". Clearly, it is well thought out and presented in this way, and this closing/finishing effort was not cheap. And the reasons for this are well understood, because only in this way ca...
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Many years back, before Bent Audio that repackaged the original Stevens and Billington transformers even existed, and when S&B step up transformers was hard to get the person who designed S&B transformers sent me a pair of his transformer...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
I think it is wider then just Schroeder arms. Did you see ANY discussions about the Sonic Quality of hyped products? [/quote]No. the typical audiophile has the following tatoo onto his forehead "I-buy-I-Am"[quote user="R...
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Nope, it does not miss anything. They offset the 75msec in input using the inductance of cartage’s coil (I quess they do not use MC). Below is the original thread. You need to buy a chocolate cake and to do a foot massage to your Russian mistres...
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The life with FM is great – did not play record for a month or so… I was playing with some other tuners that came across Kenwood L-02T and Mono Scott 310. Both were no good.
Anyhow, the experimental Sansui was running all that time. The “tone” at HF...
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Hm,… yes and no. Inductance is not necessary an evil. Well, it is an evil for open-top-end drivers but you need to look at the life of compression driver all around and then you understand that inductance is not limiting evil. Sure with grow of diame...
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I realize this is off topic, but I would like to address the issue:Rackish wrote: "...Recently I asked someone who contributes regularly on your forum and has a system 'similar' to yours to come and listen to his system. He did not answer. I feel e...
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Enduring a quite aggressive schedule to the end of the month to finish the horns, I realize how much work is still ahead. As now both of the horns are built. They are no prepared to be painted yet and second skin is not built. This notion that ¾ laye...
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[quote user="de charlus"]Ok, understood, at least somewhat. Are you suggesting that the S2 operates at the frequencies between 1000hz and 3.6khz? I am not insisting upon using the driver at the frequencies that I was initially suggesting; far fro...
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Sometimes we have luck when we listen to a System and we can have the illusion of - more or less - pure music realism, but the majority of Systems are sophisticated hi-fi.Not enough, the more expensive the components are, the better dressed the sales...
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I did one such newsletter many years ago at university; one description I recall was "have you ever - inadvertently or otherwise - tasted your own earwax? Well, embrace and amplify that thought, add tannins that could strip paint at five paces and ga...
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Generally it is very uncharacteristic subject in audio: the destiny of audio reproduction. Destiny might be only with something that has its own lifespan. Audio reproduction is in a way an imitation and therefore should hot have own destiny because i...
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[quote user="anthony"]Exactly that, my sources do
not play loud enough through the Melquiades or DSET. Like your OPPO, they
only put out about 2V RMS which seems to be the modern standard and I need
more. Can you remember what input voltage ...
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Roman
I agree that from absolute point of view "yellow driver with wings" is not a great solution. But, there is many types of yellow drivers with quite different specs and a few types of "wings" also exist. I'm not going to deffend this kind of imp...
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I understand that this is just an excercise, but one thing I keep coming back to as I experiment with hi-fi is to try to minimize the number of changes I make at once so I can - hopefully - keep track of and sort out what each change brings to m...
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Thanks guys for all the suggestions.Klaus wrote :"...there are a lot of questions, but if one thinks to much, then he will end up like this lynn olson, pages and pages of endless talk and no horns..."Very true, I need to get cracking, but I'm&nb...
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Romy:This is your lucky day! The owner of Silbatone Acoustics wants to invite you to Korea as his personal guest. Pick a date in March. You pay the plane ticket and he will pick up all accommodations and entertainment.You can hear the Aporia versus t...
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Not that I want to divert my attention from my horn project, I'll admit I am curious. The horns are going to take some time, so I might be able to squeeze this in if it proves feasible.While some might scoff at such a thought, for many of us, digital...
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My Cat truly lives on her own. She never comes to me when I call her. She always does whatever she wants. She always wants something different from what I want. I am with her since she was 6 days old She teaches me to live soon to be 21 years and I a...
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[quote user="Stitch"]One of my audiophile Friends did it the only way a real man has to do (he had a HUGE stereo System with 2 big monos and fat cables everywhere in his living room)He showed that his girlfriend (they married btw.) and said to her:"Y...
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Thank you all for your ideas and suggestions on RTA.Romy -- you are correct, measurements always need to be made in context of sonic experience and more importantly musical intention. For me, though, to begin the process, I need to unlearn much of wh...
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I recently dealt with two manufactures that produce music . I noted that both of them stated with good result but nowadays, years in operation, they produce despicable crap. This correlates with a famous amplifier manufacturer, very much not stup...
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The basically the same tubes. The 6E5P has own unit pins layout with heaters connected across the tube – very moronic in my view and it does not allow twisting the AC filament wires to the very end. The 6E6P has a common pins layout that most of west...
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[quote user="AudioArchitect"]You should find a life somewhere!You have really big issues with self image, big fragile ego, Dunning Kruger mental illness, and manybof my friends who are medical clinicians read many of your articles here, and they told...
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Romy wrote: "...The “competition for the best” syndrome is something that retarded reviewers brought into audio. This “frustration for the best” is the only crap they are able to sell and the only think how they meant understand audio. Unfortunately...
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