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I was asked a few days ago what I think about Zandèn new CD player and I replied that I do not think about it.
Truly, those companies produce new models each 18 month to initiate new rounds of cash extraction from clueless, deaf and blind audi...
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A site reader sent me email: “ …some guys in Germany & Japan have put it [Micro RX5000] up against the Continuum and other ultra expensive high end tables with older vintage arms similar to your SME 3012 and shamed the newer tables.... “I asked a...
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Do I recall that the REL had a fairly "unusual" tuning section - among its many features that were (and still are) novel for a "civilian" tuner - , and that many of those old parts were not only top, SOTA mil-spec back then but most of them were also...
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Note that I am responding late to the post about the "closed-down/dormant" '89 Bordeaux. For those who do not know, some great wines can be brought (back) to life by beating the hell out of them. I use a large Burgundy glass for about everything, an...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The real wet dream of mine, something that I would like to have but never went for is to have in the axis of the air caps a high precision step motor and a remote control that would allow me to modify the phono equalization...
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I hear you, Romy, too many other things going on to do this full time, like "the old days". To save time and effort, you could try to "repeat" the original Dannoy configuration (same gear and location) and hear if it is "repeatable". If not, you're d...
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Yes, I'm new to horns...I have only my ears...with other needed skills I have people around who help me and thank you for your help also.If you read SoundEx, then I don't need to post here.I'll be happy for any comments on my pages.Thank you,Mura...
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[quote user="yoshi"]
beside the title, "Apeal to the Great Spirit", the stature itself reminds me of Sibelius 5th.[/quote]Yoshi, is any specific performance or specific vintage of the Sibelius 5th brought you to this realization?...
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Actually it was sad to hear potentially nice horn system wasted on mediocre music (at least that's what I heard at three different times I visited the room so it must have been a norm ) and grey sounding D-amps with "pumping " bass tubas. At least th...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]It is unquestionably an ambiguous project. The topmost question that I would ask myself after this project would be the following: can Milq-biased 6E5P to be as good (sound-wise) DC driver as some vintage direct heated tube...
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My son and I refer to the over-engineered winebots generically as (UC) Davis wines, because it was not only the new vines but also the "technology" and the method(ology) that crossed the ocean from California.It has been a few years since my last run...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Last night Levine and BSO played a phenomenal Mahler 5, truly great play. I had some issues with BSO sound and I probably will bring it up to them. Tonight I decided to listen the M5 broadcast for the first time and I ...
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For the first time My friend attended munich show 2023 and he listened to all of those systems.He did not like the sound of those systems and even super expensive systems like wilson Benesch Ypsilon were awful .He told me what is happening in this in...
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I am out the door, just wanted to mention, it is my understanding that only one of these was meant for a horn; the other is a direct driver, like the original 515.I assume the celebrated "slotted" Vitavox horn is not the same as the one and only Vita...
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Romy wrote: "...Well, I do not want to pass judgment about Mike as well as as I was able to observe his operation he has been doing the same “expecting an announcement” mode since 2002..."Yes this has become something of a "vintage wait"! In my limit...
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Yes, the subject of the post is very accurate description of the sound that we have in that video. It is not surprise to me as know many of those fools spreading vintage paranoia and this is very frequently the sound they end up with. There are reaso...
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Boston had a cold winter this year. Well, you have a cold winter every year!I could see that an alnico magnet in an attic, which I assume is not heated, could be affected by the cold.Have you ever monitored the temperature in the attic?For that matt...
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GOTO make me feel it renders the musicians like they are ghosts. They are all in there but floating and slightly transparent.I think the reason for that is GOTO does very interesting things at highs and mid-highs but while it goes down at the frequen...
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Practically, a modern orchestra plays more "safely" for a recording. This most certainly limits the tonal palette from any or all of the instruments. There is less for audio to reconstruct.If we are talking about more "vintage" recordings with a gain...
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Well, leaving aside my "grinding axes", namely my habitual love to remind people and myself that there are plenty Morons in audio I do think that Berkeley's parley to Reference DAC is interesting. It is interesting not by the DAC as a unit but rather...
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Yes, you are right, I forgot that it is mono PP radio. I such case one ECL82 triode is driver stage and one is phase splitter. Here is a full cur cut of the radio. There is nothing special in it – a very typical circuit. http://www.goodsoundclub.com...
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Romy, crazy musicians try all sorts of things out. In my case, I can even quote some firsthand experience. My antics with the trumpet and tuba simply add to my experiences.I have the huge luxury of having played Bruckner on vintage low "F trumpets", ...
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Paul, yes behind one of the walls is a large volume cabinet, and one of my thoughts was to put a full range driver there, controlling the enclosure as necessary, and taking into account that I am not after amazing LF here. In space that small it woul...
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Thanks, unicon, I know nothing about the Wharfedale and I do not really looking for monitors anymore. In fact my monitor quest ended up to be catastrophe and if I know then what I know now I would not do it and would just buy off a pair of vintage ac...
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A few months ago, I played the last movement of Shostakovich's Fifth symphony and went to cast my vote against our current dirt in White House. Nowdays, a celebrated cellist Matt Haimovitz released his new album. In there, he introduces his cello ver...
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Looking at this set there is no date anywhere on the box, in the booklet or on any of the red labelled gold writing discs. Also I've always found with records of approximately this vintage, if they are in stereo, they tell you about the wonders of it...
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I absolutely remember posting about A vey special "vintage" EQ a while back, perhaps in the context of LF; but I can't remember more than that.IMO, the 1st order of business is to avoid the effing "DSP". Let someone else get it right ONCE, then ...
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Yep, indeed, it looks very nice. The 8 sections of bass line
array look visually slightly overweening but I think when you put the upper
bass horns in place it will visually balance the things out. I feel some sort
of envy to the way how you plan ...
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A few days back I got rid of the 60-year old Germanium glass diodes in the REL detector and put in there the regular 1N4148 4pF low-signal diodes/ it was quite positive improvement. I need to be said that detector diodes are not the regulars diodes b...
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Wow, where did you see a 1kW
amplifier that is able to produce bass that does not make you vomit? Also, why
would you need power like this. If you go with 15” high sensitivity driver,
then you would need 20-30W max. Do not forget that your objecti...
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