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Recently an audio guy visited me. I played to him some music as, as I uselessly do - from all possible sources and we ended up to have a conservation which sources is able to produce more interesting result. The people who hear my playback know t...
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These thoughts come in the wake of Romy’s recent encounter with a certifiable fringe dweller who, IMO, is not just illustrative in the generic hi-fi nutbag sense, but also in the there’s-more-to-this-nutbag-than-his-worst-would-suggest sense. B...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]I didn't know rigid (hard) foam was available in a spray can. Be careful; if you're using proper rigid foam, it expands with great force and would likely push through any tape protecting the cone of the driver.However, the...
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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 (alternatively you can just purcha...
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Some time ago I got uptight about the idea of long TT belts, and this is because I put a strobe on one, a long time ago, after I thought I "saw" it fluttering, out of the corner of my eye. Anyway, it did flutter, and a longer one we messed with had...
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Sorry for that, the first tapes were pretty good and I got excited, some of the latter ones, well.I do not consider it a live format, but I want to have a few good tapes mostly as reference of playback.About digital I am happy to say that direct co...
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Well, it is not about ignoring your or my posts. There is an objective reality and if we are making any judgments then I think it would be worth to recognize some base of the realty. My point is that good quality of A/D and D/A conversion is sufficie...
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During the last few days I bought and tried the raw high-resolution files from most of the providers. I have to say that I have problems with most of them. In my judgments, the only Referent Recording files sound properly to me. I wish they record m...
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[quote user="Bud"]My first choice would be a Sony SACD recorder with storage in SACD format. Quite expensive, but I would not use an expensive Sony playback device. Their early models (still available new on ebay) were designed to show how much bette...
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Thanks for sharing. Getting the Badongo thing to work was a bit of a hassle for the file being split in two parts and needing the tool to merge them, but once installed and downloaded, it worked very well. Did you get Premier user? I would pay your s...
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Todd, What you descried does not sound to me as inner-groove distortion, even though I am not exactly sure what inner-groove distortions are. The very first questing that I would ask if you have the same character of sound when you play your CD, or t...
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is what I assume that your CD's source is all about. So it could be in deed a problem having used the 'original' master tape (analogue) which might have had a slight problem, stretched, or issues with the equipment speed (slight speed wobble) when th...
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Mani, Pacific is freaky and it detects HDCD code only at the resolution that it was encoded. If it was coded at 16 bit then it will not read the HDCD at 20 Bit. There is an option in there that set the HDCD detection death… I did not play a lot ...
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I do not think that I might use an equalizer in normal sense; I do not need the full flow EQ option. What I might find useful on some case is to have 4-5 fixed curves and it would be pretty much it. Hypothetically with Macondo and DSET I might write ...
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...is a pita, no, no, PITA! In my circumstances I've had so farreasonable results using foamed natural rubber to mechanicalydamp the chassis. Has anyone tried that ridiculously expensivesilicone gel tape/chips?As for the multiple shields on MC's. Hig...
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Beautiful note, thanks Romy. It opened a whole new world of appreciation. As to the recorded performances, I'm ashamed to say I've never heard any of those you mentioned. However, there are two *yet again* I return to every few years: Arthur Fiedler...
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This week WHRB broadcasted live-to-tape Britten Britten’s Violin Concerto from SF with Medori. I did not know the work well, I nearly is not a huge fun of Britten but this Violin concerto was interesting, what attracted me that it was not annoying, i...
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[quote user="Andy Simpson"]Having made my last comment based on what I 'heard' via my laptop speakers, I took the clip to the workshop monitors last night to have a further listen - not to examine the weird processing, but to come to a refreshed idea...
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Thank you for sharing these thoughts - it fills me with wonder. I too in the end do not regret the money I spent because sometimes you need to buy the "sounds better than anything ever" amplifier, cartridge or tonearm, and to hear for yourself that i...
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"then I would suggest using a meaning of “tonal potential of playback”"Fine, just don't call anything from playback Absolute. The only absolute is live unamplified music, it must be so as it is the original event.Sorry Romy you lost me there in...
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From were you set put a ladder tye a string to it were your head was 15 feet long, go to your horns that is 1000 hz and above put the string threw it go threw the back of it take your driver off measure to the back plate distance from mounting front ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The main worsening of Sound by digital technology does not come from limitation of formats but from a corruption of recording culture. In past the tape or a disk was tangible analog evidence all manipulation that took place...
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On its great majority, I share your opinion about reviewers and the audio industry goals and means. That's why I don't give a damn about their articles, but it's just entertainment reading them. Have you tried teflon tape wraped around the tonearm's ...
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from both digital and analog tape formats, but as time goes by it may be easier to get good digital source material.So far the best recorded sound I have heard was (years ago) via Mark Levinson's (justly celebrated, IMO) Studer/Revox rigs; however,&n...
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At first the high cost kept me away from HS tape; then, it was the poor selection of decent, well recorded material, which is still quite expensive. Like others, I have heard some rumors about "master tapes", but I have actually seen ...
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Thanks, Chris, it is interesting but juts for sake of self-education. I think the key is to have a unit that would have humanly-proper among of distortions or the distortions that in regard to the “Beach Effect” would mimic acoustic distortions to wh...
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I'm wondering if anyone used the industrial standard 2RM-type of connectors for a DIY Lo MC phono connection?http://www.trimmer.ru/?target=61&nom=20251The smallest is 2RM14 with 4 pins, 1mm dia so pretty low mass--no big diameter jump along the p...
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The oil I use has a viscosity of about 30-31 and I have used it for years with no problems. I have tried about six different viscosity oils and grease and the best results were with in the range I specified for (sound as well as mechanically), please...
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So I decided to try some of the mods mentioned to my semi-recent 834p w/ MC step-ups. It all started with C1 and C7...but then i got into RIAA, upgraded diodes and filter caps. Well, everything should be just stellar on paper but...now I have a hum t...
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All the fighting with all the equipment and all the formatting...Is 7 1/2 ips tape totally out of the question these days? It's been a long time since we did it this way, but I do not remember it being all that difficult, or that bad. It'...
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