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I just ran across this quote from Mr. Fremer, circa 1999, and I doubt much has changed on this front:"Sitting in my listening room auditioning this $3995 Premier 15 phono section from Conrad-Johnson—a process that I made sure went on for months!...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I do not know what Vitus phonostages are but a few years ago I made a rule – any product that that Mr. Framer took under his wing is garbage that need to be discarded. It they were a serious company and they had serious pro...
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No one else posted this, so I'll take one for the Team by mentioning Fremer's May 2012 Analog Corner article in Stereophile. Apparently, Fremer has gotten at least two high-dollar Lyra cartridges with indifferent stylus-to-cantilever mounting. I co...
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It's hard to know where to start...
I'd read a fascinating (and widely recommended) article about the importance of absolute speed stability in turntables. http://www.iar-80.com/page12.html
I'd also read Grand Prix Audio's white paper on their turn...
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It was 15 years ago. Michael Framer was sitting in his home, taping scotch over a small white box, crying and cursing God. “Oh, Gods who run Roma?!” – wept Framer – without knowing the true meaning of his question.
“Gods what did I do to upset you?...
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I do not know, Paul. I have some feedback from people who
has it and I have my reasons do not share what they say. In reality they are
two different subjects. The TechDas Air
Force Zero and Michael Fremer. The TechDas is what it is and Michael Fre...
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With great plessure and a deserved sense of appreciation I opened today the Stereophile and learned Continuum turntable was pushed by Michael Fremer to the “Product of the year”. I would leave aside even theoretical bogusness of the “Product of the Y...
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I understand the theory of how HD Tracks should operate and am not saying they are doing everything they could. However if you read the Fremer article with Bob Ludwig you can see where the problem lies. It's not as if Ludwig is confessing to deceit. ...
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[quote user="Stitch"] The Fremer "recommendation" is totally useless when a cartridge designer uses a diamond which is perfect with 90.6°, what is "his" recommendation worth then? Not much.[/quote]The unfortunate irony is that “cartridge designer” is...
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When I wrote my article: “Disregard the industry participants”
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=930
my primary objectives were exactly the subject of irreversible and unavoidable feedback-damage that the participants of the i...
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Michael Fremer keeps sending me emails, though I do not think I invited him. I suggested him at the very beginning that to contact me was a bad thing for him as I operate in the very different dimension that he, with his enslaved narcissistic complex...
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I receive an email form a visitor of my site with a “news” and was really laughing! Yes! I hate to know everything but proposed by me “The Rules of the Audio Morality Propagation” do work like a Swish watch!
It was enough of one audio cretin (...
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...to Mr. Fremer for Review...(I guess it will become his new Reference, it is expensive enough, Continuum is more or less down, and he has a long time relationship with Bob Graham, the Importer)But maybe it is all rumor :-)Here is the table with...
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Fremer finally reviews one (May Stereophile), but first he tries 2 that don't work well enough to review. 8.5k USD...Paul S...
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Fremer reviewed the Monaco : http://stereophile.com/turntables/1107gp/FWIW I have greatly enjoyed the abilities of my direct drive turntable to negotiate complex passages of symphonic music. I assume it is because it is less sensitive to ...
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Romy,It's ok, I was just being a smart-ass about Fremer. Yes I understand that VTA is the angle that the needle hits the record and that the elevation of the tonearm base is how it is adjusted.Here is a picture of my turntable and arm:https://docs.g...
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I shot a Pic from a Turntable, the owner bought a brand-new Ortofon cartridge this week. When I looked at the pic I saw that the angle is not the angle Framer recommends. It is not a super sharp picture, because the focus adjustments were on a differ...
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Well, Paul, a majority of audio Morons is that in their infinite chase for a “better” turntables approach the subject of turntables’ assessment using fundamentally faulty techniques. Let pretend, juts for sake of illustration, that a pric...
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Michael Fremer has been called a very unpleasant personality. Seeing this post of his, I can see why. Of course he is playing a con game, just like all of Stereophile is. There is no doubt about that. Anyone who embraces analog over digital has got b...
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Accommodations were apparently made with Stereophile, and Michael Fremer finally filed his official "review" of the TechDas Air Force Zero via Stereophile, Vol. 44, No. 9. I skimmed through it, and this sounds like a more "buttoned down" version of t...
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If Romy told me to buy a turntable I would buy it.To think someone would take the advice of Michael Fremer over Mr. Besnow boggles my mind.The above turntable has to be the most vulgar absurdity I have ever seen....
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Fremer has just pitched these in the new Stereophile, and the online buzz is building. Isn't D'Agostino the Krell guy? If these are different than the Krell amps, then how and why? Disclosure: I quickly dismissed the Krell offerings during my ...
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Looking at the drivers, and the range of adjustments, it appears that Wilson have done some things that make more sense than usual, at least to me. The MTM drivers can easily be set for "time alignment", which should help to cope with Wilson's "noto...
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[quote user="mats"]Fremer reviewed the Monaco : http://stereophile.com/turntables/1107gp/[/quote]
Hm, I did not know it as I buy Stereophile very sporadically. I scanned at the Fremer’s thoughts about Monaco. I do not know…. I do not feel that...
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[quote user="drdna"] Well, I think it is just his style. He calls 'em as he sees them. Romy, you don't actually hate Michael Fremer do you, more just despise what he does, right? [/quote]
This is an interesting question. I think th...
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I think it is quite helpful to have some information about VTA in general.In the 50's there was no cutting standard, that means, every Label did cut their records the way they wanted ( the angle for Mercury, RCA LS, Decca etc. are all different). At ...
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I always feel that whatever I say isn’t personal enough.
[quote user="markus46"] This is in no way a criticism, but English is obviously not your first language. Your posts are littered with spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors which m...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]This perception I linked, even the understanding of this perception is a truly truly evolved moment of audio thinking and very much not for everyone, certainly not for a majority of audio simpletons.[/quote]I had no idea it...
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Well, de Charlus, it's one thing to pay the going rate for excellence if one can afford it. It is another thing entirely to simply jump on a bandwagon (or corner the bandwagon market) because one can afford it. Wine or audio (or bespoke shoes, for t...
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In this month's Stereophile (February, 2015; Vol. 38, #2), M. Fremer expresses his appreciation for the PHTs. Add to this the fact that they are sold with a money-back guarantee and there is no reason to put off this purchase any longer!
Paul S...
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