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Well the idea doesn't actually come from Fremer. He credits Wally Malewicz for it. Not sure how you feel about him.In any case for me it was helpful because I just don't have the patience to play a track over and over trying to find the best se...
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Since (very unexpectedly!) my new hometown--Gdansk in the north of Poland, got mentioned in the Audio Forum,I'd like to do a bit of local patriotic promotion and share with you a seemingly interesting choir based in Gdansk:Polish Chamber Choir - Scho...
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I finally added a -15 dB voltage divider to my ML2s last week to fix the noise problem from my L1 preamp - Why did I wait so long?!!The result is absolute dead silence. Nothing. Nada. It is almost impossible to tell if the system is powered on, ev...
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Mark, you certainly have a point – if you used the techniques above did get sonic benefit then that all that shall count. Well, sort of. You see VTA is no more than the angle under which the needle hit the record and for all intended purpose it is no...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Amy clearly acknowledged the difference but when I asked her to describe to me the difference ... and she begun to explain to me the deference she heard it from a position of a sting player. It was fan to hear from her...
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Hmmm. It seems like many people have difficult-to-adjust tonearms, which does take the fun out of fine tuning. And overhang/tangency is always a PITA, in any case. But I always thought that the final tweaking is done by ear. I do start with the...
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Many years ago, Peter Moncrieff (of IAR fame) built some Bose-like, multi-driver speakers, and some of the drivers "pointed away". These were heard and hailed by no less than Numero Uno Audio Guru, JG Holt. I never heard these speakers, but I have ...
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Well, we all know how these Shows are. We have mainly- Horrible Sound- Painful Sound- A War declaration to any Ear- Who Cares SoundStart at the Hifi Deluxe in Marriott HotelI shot the Pics with a Pocket Camera, so please excuse the Qualitysome impres...
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This was a room called Auditorium, well, Analog CAN sound really bad ...I simply didn't get it but it will find other friends ... no soundstage, no body, no size, no dynamics, but nice looking, limited range, compressedNowFun countsHorns from 1930, f...
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Here are a couple of measurements of S2's (not taken at the show).Both are taken at the listening chair, ear position in my system.This one is on a 2nd order passive, spec'd to cross at 1.25KHz.(This was Coco's S2 with new surrounds on a Le Cleach 55...
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The fact is, typical "stereo" L and R separation is mostly an engineering hodge-podge to begin with, and any further messing with it will be very much settled by ear, whether at line or at speaker level. Yet James Bongiorno set out to "solve" the pr...
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Actually Paul, I firmly believe that close listening to the MUSIC keeps us from listening to the warts of playback. The more the musical message grabs us, the easier it is to let go. Some of that has to do with the fact that there is some pretty fine...
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Romy,I don't recall seeing a bypass switch per se, and don't know if the other control functions ofter something equivalent. I haven't really experimented with the 3000+ much, as my system is in a state of influx, with addition of items (entire cabl...
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[quote user="decoud"]Yes, it is built according to the schematic, but by someone else, from whom I have only just received it. The opt is custom-made nanocrystalline amorphous core, gapped at 300mA and running 200V/240mA. [/quote]Very good. The 200V/...
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[quote user="AlexBerger"]I think I should to give some break-in time to Sylvania 0a2.50 hours is enough? Previously I used in my EAR the next set of tubes ECC83: 1-Amperex (red print), 2-Amperex (red print), 3-Sylvania 7025 (yellow print).When I ...
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Yes indeed. The company was originally Nova Physics and appears to have been sold on to Sam Laufer, a lawyer by profession originally who brought in Mark Porzilli of Melos and Pipedreams fame. I do not know if this company actually manufactures or se...
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[quote user="AlexBerger"]I tried Amperex ECC83 "Bugle Boy". They sounded bad in the EAR RIAA. I like more modern Amperex ECC83, Holland made with orange-red prints.[/quote]Yes, the Amperex "Bugle Boy" are horrible tubes. They have huge publicity amon...
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... yes, Roman... I also love Tsabropoulos' renditions and THIS very music fucked my mind, about 15 years ago... Keith Jarrett played and recorded it always on ECM, piano solo... BUT, Roman... please, PLEASE, find the real thing - i.e. de Hartmann pl...
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Decoud, this is certainly the evolutionary idea, all right, that I have been turning over in my head for a while now. However, even to start with, if nothing else, there is with FC the opportunity to "dial in" flux by ear.I cannot remember when, but...
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After much listening and measuring I convinced myself that there is no way for me to escape the use of the 24dB per octave slope if I want to keep the sound of my midbass horn not violated. I also have to admit that I will not be able to render 4th ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
When people visit me I ritually ask them to offer critiques to Sound they hear in my room...[/quote]What do you expect? Most audiophiles have absolutely no idea from reproduction of the real thing. More or less they bl...
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[quote user="decoud"]For what it is worth, unless you are irradiating a concert hall, the SH50 is perfectly adequately driven by a 15W single 845-based SET, and I will shortly find out what it sounds like with a full range Melq. [/quote]Probably 15W ...
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A few years ago somebody, I think it was “drdna” from California, told that he has a habit to listen the mechanical noise of the tube hold the tube at his ear by hitting the balloon of the tube. I did not exactly acknowledge it at that time as it was...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"][/quote]This is a technical post.I've made some progress on my assault on the above version of EAR 834. After hard (mostly because of my idiocy) labouring through the soldering, I've creeped to the level where I can make so...
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In his latest YouTube,Romy mentioned using my prepro to time align my drivers.I use the Trinnov Altitude 16 prepro which has a total of 20 channels. 16 of the channels have balanced analog outputs and the othe four Channels use the rca and optical sp...
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Was invited over to Romy's today. Spent two hours going through recordings. First, I hear differently from him. At my age,76, I had a hearing test that showed oversensitivity in the 1000 to 6000 hZ range, and quick drop off above 10,000 Hz.Second, I ...
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No idea how one blends in a random passive radiator, and I gave up on it after a year or two, many years ago. But if you can put your ear to the passive radiator and hear it plays up into the midrange, then you will probably want to use something wit...
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Much clearer with the drawings; thanks again, Romy. So, if I listen to my old jazz LPs recorded live at The Village Gate with the DSP-Z9 on that setting I would be getting a double dose of ambience, along with the extra stuff the recording engineers ...
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[quote user="Amir"]This topic is my corner [/quote]You are completely wrong. When you publish something it becomes open to every critique. There is no safe corner sorry mate.[quote user="Amir"]There is No need to read my topic If you think my topic i...
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Hi Romy Im just trying to imagine that. If you got to keep the vertical offset small, between the ways, this would rip a hole in the middle, wouldnt it ? Also bit surprising as i thought you liked the injector on the ground initially. I hope I unde...
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