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[quote user="Ciampa"]Good anoon everyone,I am currently running an RY-5500/RX-5000 trough aramid thread. Was wondering wht wd be the ideal thread tension for the system. Wd it be better being tight or loose ? Both cases I get constant platter speed, ...
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[quote user="Paul S"] God, this sounds like the very worst sort of DIY threads! FYI, I HATE DIY![/quote]It sounds but it does not necessarily mean that it is :) Let me try to deffend a bit my last postings:DIY is a self propelled random walk "let's ...
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Well, for someone who is supposedly building a business on "better quality", things like this show the true character. Let's face it, if you pay for something, and don't get it, you get a refund. If HDTracks were interested in their customers, THEY w...
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I had some experience with tape in a professional environment in the early 90s. What initially struck me was sound quality of a few newly made good recordings. However, a significant % of tapes IME over time suffered clear sound quality deterioration...
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[quote user="Paul S"]I don’t know what other people respond to as “music”, but I certainly regard sound itself as very important... I do not get an analogous art fix from looking at, say, prints of Pollocks’ paintings, compared to looking at the orig...
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Vinyl almost died after the launch of CDs, but today the popularity of vinyl playback is on the rise. Music stores are selling more music available on LPs, and many audiogon systems include turntables. So where are the full-function preamps? Before d...
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Quickly again, for the record, and The Google:The back wave of the Manger has a much less flat response than the front wave. There are peaks out the back. It is not a symmetrical dipole. This issue is only of interest if you are using the back ...
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[quote user="scooter"]If you are going to be sanding in your living quarters, I strongly recommend that you:1) cover the ENTIRE rug in the room; you will never get all of the dust out of the rug and will ruin most any home vacuum cleaner (alternative...
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I have used thick wool felt around the perimeter of my round horns at times. Having owned a pair of ROGERS LS3/5a's in my youth and being amazed at the huge sound those little speakers could effect one tries to re-use ideas. Diffraction control is ...
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Good advice, to be sure.I have chosen the most "neutral", "tape-like" MC I have found, but of course it remains a phono cartridge/transducer... Meanwhile, I just checked VTF on a hunch and was annoyed to find that at some point&n...
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[quote user="zako"]Yes i know the expierence,,,I too live in the wild,,As I open the sliding doors,,The Deer across the lake look up as Mahler symphony rolls across the water,, A startled redtailed hawk takes flight,,, Good to be alive and witness a...
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[quote user="Serge"]Looks like a good solution, this. To make the fabric-covered pipe more reflective you may spray-paint the fabric, I think. [/quote] I read last night the ACS papers, patent and learned how the tube traps work. To my surprise they ...
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No matter how often I go through it I still frequently get confused and disoriented when tubes go bad. In this case I have been integrating a new (passive) pre-amp and a new (tubed) phono stage into the system, including trying various tub...
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I think that any line level tube stage can be every much of an expressive tool as any other device in the chain. I am also not sure that the biggest difference between digital and analog is the sampling process.How "transparent" is a cutting lathe or...
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It seems like most of the effort these days goes into trying to make these things able to play and convert anything to everything, and scant consideration is given to the resultant sound. Does anyone else remember the little Sony "Pro" Walkman tape r...
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Looks like Wilson hit the ground running about 20 Dec. 2016, with a flurry of quickie "reviews". Here's a link to the Absolute Sound roll-out/"review":http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/first-listen-to-the-new-wilson-audio-modular-monitor-wamm...
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Amperidian,
Those “evens” that you experienced I your cars are well known to me - the auto sound is very different subject though and I would not mix in into FM thread... The phenomena of car sound has nothing to do with FM in particular, you might...
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[quote user="Hyperborean"]Am I going nuts or all these posts around digital recording just crazy? Digital is not even near that point to consider it as a recording medium, specially at home. There is only one way to do it right - analog! Seems like y...
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I remember the old Decca cartridges as quite maddening, a real love/hate connundrum. Unrivaled, totally addictive "immediacy", and dynamics that made anything else sound muffled and plain wrong, but also about as user-unfriendly and unrel...
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I did today my first recording with Model 2. The configuration-wise it was very cool. The Pacific now in single-wire mode while it does A/B to 88/24 and the clock also outputs 88K. The single-wire mode is the reason why I moved from the Model One...
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Sad to think of people mooning over TT porn, and reading all the "specs", imagining what this will [undoubtedly] do to finally send their systems into orbit. Sure, a good TT has good parts; but how the parts are used is at least as important as ...
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Although all of it has no relation to digital crossovers but still:
[quote user="cv"] On a vaguely related note: I dunno if you realise this, but conventional (ie excluding horn or large area ESL) speaker systems, even if measuring flat amplitude, i...
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I got last night an interesting collection of many dozens reel-to-reel tapes. They are recordings of 1975-79 seasons of Metropolitan Opera mostly with James Levine. All reels are in meant condition, in own plastic bags, scrupulously numbered, a...
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Good call, Wojtek.Depending on access, the cement boards could probably be 5/8" drywall, for savings on material and easier installation. Moisure resistant drywall can be used over a dirt crawl space. The cement board is a PITA to cut around ducts,...
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I admit that I am facinated with this cartridge, based on the undying hope that one day the unique and addictive (and ultimately, necessary...) "aliveness" might be had without the sort of mind-twisting torture that always prevailed. But this "revie...
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I built a prototype of a Avantgarde Trio in newspaper and tape, with the Beyma CP380/M, Community M200, and the Fane S 8M, and I also used a Behringer CX3400 and a 45 tube amp. CX3400 is soon replaced by digital active XO.Paper may have made the midb...
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Hi Guy,Thanks very much for providing me your insights on the SP10.I have to confess when I initially read your comments I could not help but be astounded that a person involved with a Brit belt driven, light weight, suspended turntable would be usin...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
el`Ol,
in your proposal of “arbitrary speed deviations” what would be a criterion for the “arbitration”. I wonder what algorithm your DSP would execute in order to detect that the “speed irregularities of tape recorders ...
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I have compaired the Ortofon Jubilee to the MC3000II. The former is more "unctuous", "viscous", "smooth", or "suave", and easier on recordings, per se. The latter, although very tape-like in balance, attack and transparency, is less ...
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Clark, I disagree that those days are “mostly gone”. Certainly I do not know what “used to be” but nowadays we Bostonians are blessed with very good programming. Each Tuesdays and Thursdays WHRB broadcasts “live to tape” performances from Cleveland, ...
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