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personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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Today I was trying to make some experiments. I made some recodings to my reel-to-reel machine from LP. I did not go crazy and ran fairly poor cables just off my preamps. It was BASF 486 at 15ips ½ track. It was not bad, in fact quite good....
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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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We know the Tape Albums are less than 100 titles and we can not use this format for music listening but sometimes we prefer to have a Tape Machine in home.
Tape Machine Summury :
what make Tape Machines worse :- replacing ori...
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I have only heard GOTO drivers one time, and in that system they were time-aligned:http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=7467#7467 The closest I could come to describing the SOUND, when the source was right; (Ch...
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Romy, are these drivers going to wind up in the ceiling horns? I currently use 15" Audax PR380M2 paper drivers in conservatively-tuned BR bins, X/O'd 3rd order at ~ 125 Hz. I do this because I need the gain with my current amp set-up. These drivers ...
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[quote user="serenechaos"] The closest I could come to describing the SOUND, when the source was right; (Charles King's Stellavox) & good electricity (JJ filter) was …. being exceptionally smooth [/quote]
Yep, the strange smoothnes was something...
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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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The issues with tape speed are complicated. I have no recordable NAB equalized headblock for my Stellavox SU8 and I can only play NAB tapes: 2 and 4 track. My recording headblock is IEC equalized 2 track only. As I said I n...
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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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To facts:
1) A few weeks back Robert Witrak. The owner of http://www.highdeftapetransfers.com/
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=2692
sent me example of the original 24/96 files that he is greeting after his AD processor. The resul...
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I was listening light night the Charles Ives’ Fourth Symphony by the kids of American Symphony Orchestra and Members of Schola Cantorum under the baton of probably 180 years old Leopold Stokowski. Ives music is not exactly my cap of tea but I hardly ...
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An email that I got from Kostas Metaxas, (posted with Kostas’ permission):
//****************************** BEGIN *******************************I wanted to share some of my preliminary findings using my newly developed A-D [Wolfson chip] to bypass...
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A couple months back I sent to Dima a link with a wonderful collection of audio articles from first part of the 20s century:
http://www.one-electron.com/Misc_Docs.html
In next couple days, talking with Dima he asked me: “Roma, what is REL Company a...
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ANALOGUE TO DIGITAL CONVERTER COMPARISON by Kostas Metaxas
Procedure:
In all cases except for the KORG MR-1000, SOUND DEVICES SD744T and METRIC HALO[used with an Apple Laptop], I fed the outputs of the Stellavox SM8 to the A-D converter inputs [...
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It was an audio eventful year and I have experimented and discovered many fascinating things. Here is a brief summary of the 2007 audio-events and a short look what my audio happening will might take please in 2008.
1) In the very ...
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These are New Tape Machine Manufactures:
https://www.ballfinger.de
https://www.thorens.com/
New Reference
https://www.horch...
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It is with great sadness that Stella Inc. and Zephyrn inc. announce our
mentor, colleague and former-CEO Hideaki Nishikawa passed away on the
morning of 28th June, 2023 surrounded by his loving family. Hideaki was
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