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CES 2013: Yes, there it is. THE Arm.The Manufacturer says (Roksan): Sorry guys, it can't be made cheaper, $35.000,-- is the price we need for that sonic revolutionHis Dealer said: Guys, when the Sound of a Graham Arm is worth $6000,-- then the sound ...
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[quote user="dkarmeli"]If the rest of the setup is up scratch then all you get is the recording and you'll forget about they system. Your body and mind will relax and allow you to have the same emotional connection with the music as you'd have in a l...
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This weekend I visited a friend of my in NY who played to me his playback. I need to say that I did not care too much about his playback and visited him as I like him not his audio adventure but the Sound of his playback did surprised me. It was not ...
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I was scanning around the net for interesting info and found this thread. Not only do I think this idea is viable, I own a version of this table. It is the J.A. Michell Hydraulic reference (also sold under the Transcriber brand name). It has been ...
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Apparently, TTs are so mysterious that anything goes, as long as it's long, convoluted, and circular. Multiple DC motors "make sense" if one starts by believing that an AC motor naturally slaves to its sine wave and polarity, and that this behavior ...
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I love the endless BS that is written about the "ideal" "rigid" connection between the stylus and the groove. Linn did a great version of selling this notion with their LOI spiel targeting the typical OCD hi-fi nerd. Not to say that a stable relati...
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At the risk of sounding like a yahoo, can i ask you romy if you have used your PC for internet radio playback. , as opposed to cd or other forms of digital playback ? My cd collection played out of iTunes to my DAC sounds lifeless, pointless. Howev...
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Thanks. Rony. I will certainly try the iTune, Linn channel and the rest of them. My opinion about them worth little as the “quietly” is always in context of… context. It is absolutely not arguable that 320kbps, or any other kbps steam for this ma...
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Hi Romy,I hope you're feeling better.This individual used to be a theatre actor (and sometime critic) and used to participate in and go to plays much of the time. Since an unfortunate accident he is now wheelchair bound and cannot get to theatre easi...
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Romy wrote:" N-set wrote: let me point out that the force injected by the needle moving through a groove can apparently be quite substantial (loud passages etc) dynamically slowing down the plate.
Only with flimsy platters perhaps. With heavy ...
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Romy, hi Firstly it's probably worth a few minutes about me and my preferences, this will probably add some context. I have 'preferences' and priorities that don't match everyones, but are somewhat consistent with my group of friends who have hifi s...
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In the last 10 years I had some chances to visit owners with very expensive Systems (>500.000,-- $) and all they had the same in common:
Absolutely no idea about real High End or Music reproduction and I mean non, nada, nothing, they went to a d...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
That is why what I refer to “transport” I refer to the very primary duty – to read an optical disk and the ability to create more advanced sound out of it. As a persons who am familiar with the best optical disk rea...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] dkarmeli wrote: What I called mental masturbation was the pretense to design of the ultimate turntable, not the musical experience or sound! Well, neither you, nor me, nor anybody else at this site, nor anybody else who de...
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[quote user="Kerry Brown"] Jorge, You're quite welcome to visit any time you are in the SF Bay Area. .... The little aluminum box on the upper shelf with the blue LED is a NuFrorce mono amp, one of two. The DEQX HDP3, one of two, is the black bo...
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The Thread was written from Romy 2006, I don't know when I read it the first time but it was an eye opener for me. In a way, one of the very best Analysis ever written.
6 years later (2012) every single sentence is still valid about morons, idiots,...
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If we look generally at stability from bridges to optical measurement benches, mass has one function - tune resonance or place it outside of the desired passband. Other methods are chosen when we want to convert energy to heat.Do we know what a "ligh...
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When you say it was not very high end...but that you found the sound very good....doesn't that mean you should redefine the term high end?
Also. Why can't the purchase of a $20k speaker in itself not be regarded as audio ambition?
Regards.
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Yep, Stefano, it looks like we do have similar views about the subjects we touched. Let go back to exploring one of the terra incognito of compression driver – the sound of Goto.
The reason I ask is because no one talk a...
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Oliver, I do not think you understand "faithfulness" in the same way as I do. Ironically out differences of views are not linguistics but rather in the realms of objectives and intentions.
You are right and there are a number of companies who hide t...
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Romy,It is indeed an interesting subject; I am instinctively drawn to it due to the fact that the majority of orchestral instruments - the majority of my listening is orchestral/chamber/classical soloists - produce their own sound through the resonan...
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Well, it is nothing about trashing. The problem that I see is that you, Joe, do not recognize the architecture solutions that those allegorical house builders implemented in order to satisfy the Cat and get attracted only with the easiness of tha...
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STYLUS CLEANING – LIKE MAGIC! I own a ZeroDust, an XtremePhono and some liquid stylus cleaners, but I don’t use them anymore. Why? Because none of them works as well as a product I bought at the supermarket for a few pennies. I've been using th...
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[quote user="Telstar"] If you are not using the Lynx DAC, how good it is really does not matter. Isolation from computer noise matters most IMO. While the Lynx is very good, I still believe you can get slightly better using a firewire interface as di...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
tuga wrote:
I am now more inclined to describe that sound as a portrait taken in broad daylight with some overpowering fill-in flash (I believe nowadays this technique is quite fashionable)... Bu...
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Oh I was thinking about FLAC, such as the ones from Linn Records, not raw WAVE files.
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Might be the new Berkley DAC would do it for you.http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=6382[/quote]Not really: it is ...
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Telstar wrote: Not really: it is not true 24 bit. But it should be quite good, exp for the HDCD decode. I have always had a like for hdcds, they sounded better in my old rotel and they sound better even without a hdcd-capable dac.
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[quote user="Telstar"] Oh I was thinking about FLAC, such as the ones from Linn Records, not raw WAVE files. [/quote]
I use only WAVE64 (.w64) files,
[quote user="Telstar"] Not really: it is not true 24 bit. But it should be quite good, exp for th...
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I was cleaning my old file server and found my old associations after auditioning some of High End gear... Atma-Sphere Lying in a bathroom with the bathtub filled with motor oil. Spectral Begging for any liqu...
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Today’s prices in Hi-Fi do not base upon any other principle then “whatever market bears”. The luck of objective evaluation methods and the completely un-liberated market of Hi-Fi consumers make the “market bearing” principles being completely not ap...
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