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People use to that I keep bitching about electricity. Practically anyone who developed playback to a more or less capable level and who has ears know that quality of electricity hugely affects sound. I personally do not fight with electricity - I def...
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Here is an article by Leonard Norwitz that I think some of you might find motivating. I do not know Mr. Norwitz but it sounds like dinked too mach Qvortrup’s coca-cola. Anyhow, although I do not agree with some (sometimes many) of the Mr. Norwitz’s c...
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ArmAlex the fun thing is that you read Romy posts here without understanding his ideas and copy paste Romy instructions in your Audio system and the result is lower than those audiogon guys (an example of your audio logic -> you buy gryphon spea...
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At the beginning, audio was a scientific event. People like Bell, Marconi, Edison all were interested in playback of audio outside of the original performance. One used a telephone, another radio and yet another a medium in between for storage. I thi...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Well, it happened with me, one of my HH of my DAW, or as they call it “music server”, went down. It does not recognize by BIOS anymore, suck, it would be costly to recover data from there. Partially the most important f...
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[quote user="joaco"]Hello all , i know this topic is almost about pp experience but since im experimenting with electricity i like to share some thoughts here . I builded a dac using very high quality components . As you know the power supply is crit...
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People who read me site know that I am a big admirer of older SME arms 3012/3009. Everything is great on them except they have no objective VTA scale. The new SME arm: M2-12/9 has a fixing bolt that allows dial-in and to maintaining VTA very accurate...
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[quote user="Stitch"]Sometimes we have luck when we listen to a System and we can have the illusion of - more or less - pure music realism, but the majority of Systems are sophisticated hi-fi.Well, but let's be honest, can it be so difficult to creat...
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Richard,
I have no experience on the subject. I heard many contradictory theories from various people about “how the plinth should be done” and “how the platter should be done”, including the materials, the mass ratio, that mass allocation and so on...
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I never was a huge fun of this work but today was a WGBH’s live-to-tape broadcast with BSO played under British Mark Wigglesworth with soprano Juliane Banse. The concert was a month ago and I missed it live. To my big surprise I truly did not re...
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This material is courtesy to Mr. Shibazaki, the owner of Sibatech Shop in Tokyo, that sell internationally Japanise Hi-Fi equipment.
http://www.sibatech.co.jp/
I hope that Sibatech people are more decent then our american distrib...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Well, you can count me among those who are perennially frustrated by all the unnessary stupidy that goes into most recordings, that's for sure, although I have several hundred records that I would like to keep for the p...
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In order to increase the rotating mass the platters have to be couple much harder then my lightly-applied reel-to-real tape. When you stress platters horizontally harder it creates own problems that do have sonic outcomes. In addition, the only way t...
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[quote user="N-set"] There is a certain analogy between THD number and Wow&Flutter number: bare THD tells you very little, if anything at all, about the amp, one has to dig into that number deeper and see a detailed spectrum behind it. [/quote]Ac...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Computer playback has no autobiographical value. CD, LP, tape etc have autobiographical value and sometime huge value. A location on HD has none of it.[/quote] Agreed.[quote user="Romy the Cat"]... there are zillion valuabl...
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[quote user="alexd"]To answer your question about DAW output vs tuner. Well Tuner is not highest quality source to start with. I do not think you will hear much difference between DAW analog output and tuner analog output.[/quote]
It is unquestionab...
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This week Romy was kind enough to invite me over for a few days for some Apprentice work and philosophizing. As I alluded above, my Apprenticeship contribution consisted principally of moving some audio gear, searching for some esoteric stuff hidden ...
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Well, it happened with me, one of my HH of my DAW, or as they call it “music server”, went down. It does not recognize by BIOS anymore, suck, it would be costly to recover data from there. Partially the most important files from there were backed...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The major minor thing remains to find different lower bass. I said “minor” thing as my lower bass is not bad, in fact I do insist that it is very proper lower bass as I did set it up lately properly…..Despite that I in...
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For whatever reason people expressed a lot of interest to Pacific vs. Lavry A/D and I recently got an relatively a large number of emails, including from the people I do not even know, asking me to compare identical analog tracjs and post the foundin...
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I never was a huge fun of it. It is an OK symphony and my Barbirolli’s play with London pretty much was all that was enough for me. Today my FM again broke my virginity…
Herbert Blomstedt took James Levine’s place to lead today BSO. The Egmont...
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I finally made a fairly accurate circular "dial" that I divided into 32 sections to use as scale to use with the arm adjustment knob I described earlier. I had been using a piece of tape I had marked and divided freehand, by eye. I had already ...
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The Adrian’s quote about being stunned and disappointed can’t better express my view on the subject. I admit that I am driven by disappointed and in a way anger for the horrendous sound I got from my Koetsu Onyx Platinum. However, it was not a an...
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An Audio Amplifier Design Philosophy
By David Berning ( Courtesy Meta-Gizmo.com )
I became interested in audio at a very young age because I liked music, but was too uncoordinated to be able to p...
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[quote user="rdrysdale"] We are using about an 18 foot path for the sub. What we need is for some smart electronics guy to design and build a processor just strictly for time correction, and nothing else, no EQ, or crossover built in. [/quote]
Hey, ...
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[quote user="Hyperborean"]I'm talking about fundamental differences between analog and digital recording here.[/quote]This is a very valid point. You are quite correct, but I think it is important to recognize the differences and evaluate these comp...
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[quote user="unicon"] Roman, It is interesting to see you using your pipe in room.You mentioned its wrong to use them as LF consumer. You got it somehow wrong1-sealed tube traps can absorb LF and yet again absorb all HF in the same time...2- the ...
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Prior to three days ago, i was almost ready to give up on the Dannoy's as I couldn't get close to the sound heard at Romy's with his setup of the same speakers. Then i was able to add my newly obtained Yamaha B2 amps, and was once m...
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Paul, it has nothing to do with noise reduction devices. It has also very little to do with the media on which the recording took place – would it be LF, tape or digital file. Audio it is about expression of musical spirituality through the semi-barb...
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[quote user="peter foster"] 3) A stereo recording of a beautiful piece of music that is well played but where the soundstage is imperfect.[/quote] Peter, we will do what we spoke in emails (there was nothing secretive in there folks), still ther...
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