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[quote user="Paul S"]But I do appreciate your applied thoughts on the evils of feedback loops.[/quote]I don't think that feedback loops are evil. They solve some problems and create others. Your human body employs a virtually infinite number of suc...
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... to pass data unchanged.I've been ripping my CDs (using EAC and a Plextor CD-ROM drive) for about 4 years now. I use Foobar with ASIO (and now with WASAPI also) as the software player, loaded onto a Sony laptop. The soundcard is an RME FF800.Now t...
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Item, I agree that a digital transport only processes data (actually not processes but read would be more accurate definition but I do understand that reading implies a lot of processing) and delivers it to a converter but in real world in order ...
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I am sorry to say that I have sat through very few symphonic or opera performances in San Diego, even when the price of the seats made me feel bad about leaving, too.I did hear what seemed at the time to be a wonderfully-inspired ...
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I will certainly look for the Heifetz you mention, Romy. I gave away the later "vanity" issue!Digging through my still largely un-racked LPs I did find another Bach "Double Violin" with Perlman and Stern "under" Mehta, with the New York Philhar...
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[QUOTE]I do not know that HP use to tell in 80s[/QUOTE]I know you don't, that's why I seriously suggest you check it out.The logic "musical intention of composer/conductor"-->minute analysis of 3D representation of orchestra performance in view of...
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There has been a low-ish buzz in the hi-fi rags for a while now, to the effect that perhaps we should reconsider "neutrality" and return to the musical-instrument-type speakers of yore. Of course any sea change is good for the Hi-Fi Industry, just a...
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Romy, I recognize and appreciate the very specific points you make but I am instead referring only to your last observation about "the harmonic deficiency of playback in the melody range", and I was just trying to shoehorn this idea in...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I woke up and thinking about the horn problem with fresh head I am thinking what did wrong. I did not measure the frequency response of the horn – I did not see a need for it – the sound of the thing is way beyond where it ...
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Jessie, the "Horn Free Lunch" derives exactly and specifically from "efficiency" registered at frequencies much higher than those ultimately required from the driver in the horn speaker. The horn is there only to provide "gain" at lower frequencies...
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We don't know enough about the person X to assess the situation. I might say something similar if I went to a local semiprofessional orchestra, paid a few bucks and heard them play better than I expected. If I had paid $100 and spent an hour each way...
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I would think that one would opt at least for a cartridge able to distinguish between different violins (well) recorded in different spaces. Although aural memory itself remains suspect, still one does want to entertain an illusi...
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Stringreen, what an interesting series of posts. I generally enjoy musicians' takes on hi-fi, especially as these relate to sound (versus music). In all performances there are so many things to listen for and to. What I have mo...
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It is probably fodder for another thread, but I have also pondered the volume versus detail issue. I have in the past owned systems, and I have heard many systems, that rendered a lot of nuance and detail at low-ish volume settings.&n...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]any chance of a similar climb down on the 'adequate but not exceptional' 834P?[/quote]Not really. The 834PT still holds ground and the more I hear different phonostages the more firmly it does. I can’t tell you if it is due...
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Coops, do you have any personal observations or ideas about the ultimate TT, or are you already invested and just checking my credentials? I would like to know your thoughts, too, based on your own personal listening habits, preferences an...
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Well, as usual, we can read all over what one likes or dislikes....each his own of course. But, we can not read why someone did like or did not like something.Same for me of course, but it would be helpful to offer a kind of "priority" (or whatever o...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Also, I need to mention that a very small monitor
made with a full range driver that I heard once was the most interesting sound
the I even hear in audio. It was not the most interesting sound overall but
there was one s...
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Hi Dima,Thanks for your comments; please forgive the chaos of what follows as I have to rush!
Agreed on all counts - the dc bias point would need adjustment and monitoring; I supposse it depends on how stable the electricity is from the wall; anothe...
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This thread has been pretty interesting overall. I've read most of it and would at least like to provide some feedback on the technical side of designing with the 45 and 2A3 DHTs... at least from my personal experience. A few years back I decid...
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For several years I wrote a ongoing monthly editorial about poetry (The Art of Poetry). No nutshell version is available, but Romy''s post reminds me that much of it dealt with just the active aspect of Dialog that is discussed h...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Yesterday a nice fellow drove off with "my" Lamm ML2s. Now it is really sinking in: How will will I find anything else this good, along with more power?These amps were like a PhD in sound, what might be done with hi-fi. Yes, I ...
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I am looking into building a 45 tube SET amp and I keep reading about how important a good output transformer is. I read that cheaper output transformers like Hammond can be okay for mids and highs, but it will also reduce bass performance. If on...
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Bill, what I find interesting is not the fact that the units vary one from the other in terms of measured performance, or each in its (in)ability to charge its own battery, rather I notice that you seem "happy" with the performance of all the units i...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
If you visited this site before 2004, when I conversed it to audio site then you remember that it was performances-centric site. It was structured by composers, and each (let say some) composition had a list of reported...
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Sudwestfunkorchester, Baden-Baden/Jascha Horenstein; Vox, STPL 510-700 (stereo; recorded in Germany)I think that Beethoven's 3rd Symphony is another case of great music that is so universally appreciated that it becomes ubiquitous, and then we begin ...
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Hi Cat[quote user="Romy the Cat"] However, here is where the trick begins. Putting the headphones on, playing them along with the big loudspeakers system and adjusting the volume of the “big system” (primary the LF channel) it is possible to take the...
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While I am in UK, have UK’s IP as am trying to use your instruction to get the Bruckner 8 from Proms. We are somewhere at the Scotland border, it is 4AM in the morning and for the last 2 hours I was trying to follow your instructions but all my effor...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
If the S2 is completely decoupled (second order low-path at 1.5kz) then the rules of the game completely changed and the S2 behaved VERY different. I will wait until the dedicated channel of my Super Melquiades will be dr...
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I don't know this Steve Klein. I don't know what bullshit he uses to sell Audio Note's products in the US. If that is what you are attempting to satirise then fine.I am quite familiar with Audio Note Japan's (Kondo) products. I don't use any at the m...
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