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Yes, I know now you feel. I visited Japans twice. Although audio was not my main objective but I spent some time for audio. Even I was at that time less critical and less demanding then I would be today still I was not pleased what I heard. Also...
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[quote user="twogoodears"]I personally NEVER heard unmusical/unbalanced gears, among "classic" transductors: YL-Yoshimura Labs, ALE, Goto, Kanno, Eltus, Coral... [/quote]... aehm: I meant "transducers"... BUT wrote again to add that among the scarce ...
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There was a cool Russian-made tube GU-48. It is high-gain, high power pure direct heated triode with 300W on plate and 10A on carbonized tungsten cathode. I did not hear but it looks like something in the class of RCA 833 tubes. I think Japanese sel...
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The throat diameter of 7" is what I first approximated as an acceptable size, with the 4" being an alternative (should some unwanted effects arise, I may then experiment with the 4" throat). I can't simply assume 7" will be correct (though that...
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Romy Hi, firstly I have the greatest respect for you, and your beliefs,( vis a vis audio reproduction ) you are absolutely right about drivers Ralph and Thomas listened to every commercially driver , apparently some of the Japanese drivers sounded ok...
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Maybe no other hi-fi group has thought more about the cabinet's contribution to sound than the single-driver crowd. Many of them like the "immediacy", "integrity" and "purity" of the single driver sound so much that they endlessly hu...
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What was wrong was that I do not have a proper evaluation method/ability of Sound and piled up my system around the Reps driver with an intention to overcome the obvious shortcomings under the way I've been listening to jazz. The result wa...
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[quote user="yoshi"]What was wrong was that I do not have a proper evaluation method/ability of Sound and piled up my system around the Reps driver with an intention to overcome the obvious shortcomings under the way I've been listening to jazz....
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I keep bugging Yoshi, he is in Japan now, to bring me a set of 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 by Takashi Asahina with Tokyo SO from 90s it should be very interesting… The damn Japanese have quite a price tag on the Asahina’s Buckner…&...
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say how much the old man is involved in all this cult and noise around him? I've also read all the poetic stuff on the site and can't say that this mystical aproach is not appealing. I had the impression that Sakuma just entertains himself makin...
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What your little G.I.P Laboratry does is absolutely irrelevant. They feed already pre-buttered customers and their moves are not important. Shindo and Cogent do the electromagnets for years but they doe little events with no influence. In high-audio ...
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I came within an inch of mentioning Gould in the first post but decided to leave it to Fischer, whose performances earn a dedicated post, especially as noted.Yes, there's no way around Gould in his high manic perfection. But too much of Ba...
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I’m very little true familiar with Asahina. I have few of his recording, Japan-pressed but the all from 90s and end of 80s. I generally do not like those performances and I do not like the orchestra. I read a few months ago in the Takashi’s forum tha...
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Nope, I am not a big friend of OTL amps generally… BTW, I have seen (did not heard) one Japanese amp that use 64 x 6C19P tubes. For whatever reasons Russians consider that 6C19P as very good sounding tube - the younger sister of 6C33C. It was not my ...
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Thank you, Maarten. Might I ask you a question? From what you understood from the article: the “same recording” that they compare they were the same mastering or they were different mastering? The reason why I ask because the regular CDs were release...
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The reviewer doesn't know. He only mentioned that both CD claim 'original-image bit-processing', but he doesn't know what that means. He cannot read the booklets of the SHM-CD's, as they are in Japanese! I agree that it could be a remastere...
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I found many reports on SHM-CD sound on Japanese blog sites. Most of them comment very favorably on SHM-CD, clear, better resolution, livelier, etc. Some mentions different balance compared to the CD version, many comments SHM-CD sou...
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Recently, since I‘m doing some remodeling of my turntable, there was some noise on my site about Micro Seiki turntables. I really do not want to push my site toward to becoming one of the typical audio fetish sites but in context of this thread I wou...
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Collin, there is one more tip for you how you might bult a very inexpensive but very good performing MF channel, thought it might be slightly time-consuming…
It is not well-know but some, primary Japanese companies like JVC, Yamaha, Hitachi, Denon ...
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I think we are speaking about different things, you speak about real High End which should be best possible sound quality to serve a musical purpose, and I'm speaking about a High End industry which doesn't give a damn about musical performance, beca...
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No, I do not. It is not because there are not but because I do not know. There are not reasons to buy cartridges from dealers as there is no cartridges serves that might come from dealers. Have you seen any dealers who would lend you a cartridge to t...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]Which Audio Note product did you hear that you thought so little of? The UK made stuff and the Japanese stuff are very different.[/quote] Guy, I did not really was “thinking” about it. I just wrote down my very initial reac...
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Last month, for fun, I decided to subscribe the Stereophile magazine. Yesterday I got a July issue…I never thought that I might be a person who would have a reaction to the Stereophile's ordinary idiocy, the reaction that would force me to writ...
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My lovely Japanese girlfriend enjoys teasing me about my love of Tchaikowsky. She thinks his music is too "sweet" and "romantic". I do love listening to Tchaikowsky, even Nutcracker. Yes, it is sweet and catchy. Maybe it is making h...
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Allo Romy, I have no idea about the above - my gut feeling is that the required thickness of material would be too great, still, I bow to your experience in S2 mods. I just wanted to mention something that came to mind that might be of interest: I re...
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"So many people today are interested in audio only to make money, or for show, or as one of their many passing hobbies"I occasionally go to the meetings of a recorded music society. A group of maybe 50 mainly older (50+) people gather in one of the l...
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Scot, I disagree with your comment about TH have “relatively small mouth compared with a traditional horn”. It is not about the mouth size – you can’t compare two very different topologies directly only on the merit of mouth. I very much like you ske...
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They weren't 'selling' anything. You could ask about the Japanese GIP reproduction drivers or pick up a leaflet but no one actually mentioned them. The owner of Silbatone has another business making & selling cars. I don't think he's under any pr...
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The famed audio designer was working on new audio designs until the end, which continued to be published in MJ, the Japanese audio journal. I'm sad to hear of his passing. I feel fortunate to have been able to meet him and spend time listening to som...
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I suppose I have "learned a lot about drivers" and speakers over the years, but age has overtaken my production capabilities, and I am selling my stash of drivers. Included for sale is the Holy Grail of lower mid-range drivers, a particular variant o...
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