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On any USA electrical wiring system, ALL circuits are referenced to and mechanically connected directly to a common ground at all times via the "neutral" wire, which ultimately connects to the grounded bus in the service box. And all UL electronics a...
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What kind of di-el grease do you use? Silicone based? Could you give the name please.Also what was your procedure: steel brush -> grease -> reconnect? Yes, I use Vampire RCA for phono, unofortunately the golden layer is not very durable, on one...
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Hi Romy,
When we spoke at CES, you mentioned that your experience with field coil drivers only extended to cone types. So I assume that you have never heard any field coil compression drivers. That would include the WE 555, 594, RCA 1428, Lansing, e...
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Metal caps over phono stage unused RCA jacks can help with stray EMF/RFI. Cardas and others sell them.Not saying something is wrong with the PP, just saying it doesn't take much to get noise from a phono stage, including any change in ground potentia...
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Well, Heifetz could play quite well at times, by about any measure, I think. One does note some "cool pyrotechnics" in places where others might really try to pour it on/wring it out, and of course it is nice when we get "everything". But...
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but I didn't expect your favourite 5th was Carlos Kleiber's. I don't know it and should.Have you listened to a quite new Toscanini's set which has been sonically restored?http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000CNTLU.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpgIt's an RCA Red ...
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I wonder what this format does not get popularity. Pretend you get 88/44 of raw PCM WAW file on 2-6Gig Flash Card that was recorded for you by DG, RCA or EMI and would cost as a new CD? Would it be the perfect audio media? Thos solutions are show up ...
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Romy, I know this 1977 performance of Horowitz. It is part of a famous compilation “Horowitz Play Liszt” (RCA 09026-61415-2). This performance is fine but I have a lot of problem with Horowitz in 70s. The beautiful thing about Horowitz was that he re...
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[quote user="decoud"]N-set, if we are at the level of worrying about solder, does it not make sense to drop RCA connectors, and their inherently village design, and switch to something better specified like BNC? Is this not otherwise a little like ta...
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Recently, I made a movement toward to a project that I have been contemplating for 5 years – I would like convert my Expressive Technologys SU2 and 2x834PT tandem into a final packaging solution.
For the last 5 years I have learned following:
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Telstar wrote: I am convinced that the soundcard/interface is the main cause of the inferior performance of HDD vs. CD. I disagree. The main cause of the inferior performance of HDD vs. CD is not the soundcard/interfac...
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Years ago, the two different systems in which I heard RCA 1428s - in a fairly big warehouse and crammed into a basement listening room - used giant RCA multi-cell horns in combination with giant Ubangi bass bins, passive crossovers and vintage WE or ...
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Hi Romy, I keep a pair of old RCA 18-cell horns for my S2s in the garage that I hope someday to reintegrate into my system. I remember loving the violon tone I could get out those and the sound was coming from WAY back , a depth I have never been ...
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Romy, On a past thread you adviced the following regarding the connection of the PM2:"You will not have problems to drive with balanced Pacific your
single-ended amp. Juts buy a good quality XLR to RCA adapter or order
XLR to RCA cable and you wi...
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The AudioFederation guy posted pictures from RMAF show with Cogent room. (The images are courtesy to http://www.audiofederation.com)
I was wrong in my previous post, as Cogent did demonstrate their loudspeakers with Ionovac ion tweeter. Yester...
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This is not a klangfilm MF Driver, it is a RCA MF Alnico driver with phenolic diaghragm and bakelite rear cover. I have seen a few of these and they sound pretty good for a driver that is good from 300hz to 8000Hz. Sounds alot like a altec 290 driver...
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N-set, if we are at the level of worrying about solder, does it not make sense to drop RCA connectors, and their inherently village design, and switch to something better specified like BNC? Is this not otherwise a little like talking about having a ...
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Hi,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]So, I have no idea who was a target market for those TX-103 optimization kits [/quote]There is no "TX-103 optimisation kit". There is a commercial stepup product. It was designed to be sold through current, existing dela...
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it doesn't appear to me that Lowther's own designs hold any real potential.As some might figure, i'm partial to Voigt's original intentions, and i think those have been covered over.I post now because i had an idea.I see the lowther as a pseudo compr...
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[quote]There are some evidence that Germans tried ”something: in mid of the 1930. RCA, Western Electric, and many others also tried to do “better” audio during that time[/quote]Apparently Siemens was making stereo recordings in the early '40s already...
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I prefer the 2A3C. A single plate unit to the Bi-Plate ones.RCA NOS have a balanced sound too.Sofia are TJ...
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Jarek, my CDs (2 in the box) did not come from Japan, and no Japanese characters on the box, just the RCA "wax seal" in the upper left front corner and the bottom right rear corner of the case, also the BMG logo on the back. The sound is "different" ...
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Good to hear about your week with Moussorgsky Romy. I came upon a mono Leibowitz / RPO RCA the other day. It has its moments IMHO. There seems also to be a new HMV Richter Sofia recital cd from HMV: http://www.hmv.co.jp/produc...
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Sometimes cleaning the pin-and-socket connections will breathe new life into a "fading" tube. LIkewise, RCA jacks and un-soldered ground connections, not to mention cartridge pins. I keep saying I will make up and keep a log, but I haven't done it ...
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I have had a Placette Active for some 5 years now and it was quite a revelation when I put it in my system. According to Guy Hamel one of its most important features is its powerful op-amp output stage with an output impedance of 10 ohms. Since I hav...
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Following my yestoday’s post about the Cosi Fun Tutte I would like to pitch two of my absolutely favorite recordings of this work: 1962, Karl Böhm with Philharmonia Orchestra ( EMI SLS-5028 ) 1936, Fritz Busch with Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra&n...
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Thanks for your reply Romy,The Johnson/RCA sockets had crossed my mind.The reason I'm looking for that specific type is that the contact surface of the pins is so much larger (much like with the Yamamoto).I could buy yamamoto's and not worry at all, ...
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[quote user="audiofilofine"]to reel from 7 volts or 700 volts is equal to the reel. should rather ask why or why 7 or 700 volts. should be asked how you intend to use the horn driver, you should ask graphs of frequency response and power handlin...
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[quote user="peter foster"]Dear Romy, it is possible. I would need to obtain some cables to make the connection between my Sansui TU-X1 and Lavry Blue ADC. Also, I do not have access yet to broadband so till then recordings could be to CD...
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This weekend I made an interesting experiment. I had a visitor yesterday. The gay is not what I call overly critical and overly demanding listener but he is not a typical Audio Moron and has from my point of view a proper and sane react...
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