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Thank you Brian - you confirmed what I feared. Caveat emptor. The seller is the former Van denHul repair guy in Germany - Detlev Brod. He offered a new SPU mono, at a price too good to be true. I specified the GM25,...
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I pulled a mono set of these exact looking horns out of a movie theater they were installed in 1946 :)the system consisted of 2 of these bass cabs and one gigantic dual compression driver horn on top for the entire theaterI am no horn guy and looking...
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Spinning tonight the record of Dvorak’s Moravian Duets, Monteverdi and Carissimi with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Irmgard Seefried, Gerald Moore plays piano. It is EMI 1956 recording, I guess mono. A wonderful singing, particularly Dvorak. Insanely bea...
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Sakuma San is some sort of cult figure among the tube-o-philes. I wonder why he is implementing so many transformers in his amplifiers. Using transformers can be a good thing but in my experience too many transformers give a somewhat compressed sound...
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I can only drool at the thought of hearing these originals, I'm afraid.All the money I've spent on "hi-fi" over the years and I no longer even have dedicated mono for old 33 1/3 or 78s, let alone the alternate/adjustable recording curves...I feel sli...
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Leo Delibes' opera, Lakme' is not often heard entire, although the duet I will cite pops up every so often. It is the achingly beautiful, sous le dome epais ou le blanc jasmin, sung by Lakme' and Mallika as they float off in search of flowers, m...
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We might well have settled with Mono.If we lived in octagonal rooms we might have settled on 3 channels.Maybe it is about the rectangular rooms we live in that we choose stereo? What if we lived in round rooms? Something to think about ;-)Steve...
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Thanks, Jessie. I will try something like what you describe if I fail to find another 8M. I suppose since I have one, I can make some kind of comparison, although mono is clearly not ideal. Hopefully Romy is right about the availability of 8M and I w...
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… and of cause I do not listen FM in mono. I drive REL into Rohde & Schwarz external decoder. The Schwarz has to inputs for composite signal and UFH routers that allow driving the decoder from multiple tuners – very very convenient. The Cat ...
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The history of stereophonic sound
1881 - Clement Adler at the Paris Electrical Exhibition put "a series of 80 telephone transmitters across the stage at the Paris Opera and connected them by wires to telephone receivers in a suite of four rooms" in ...
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romy, there is a tuna freak in los angeles who insists that the only way to get the best sound from the l-02t is to use kenwood's proprietary cabling. i dunno, i have never tried one. i have tried two earlier analog kenwoods; my experienc...
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...but whether it would be a better match to your speakers than the SPU who's to say.
I am planning an SPU Mono vs CG 25 comparison in my system in the fairly new future. Unlike your speakers mine could do with a little help in that area.
Maybe...
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I actually woke up today at 6AM, check all settings on my arms (after a few month of not working), demagnetized the needles and was spinning records all mooring. One of the benefits that I got with new phonostage is that the grounding patters for all...
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[quote user="thrang"] the capability of a PurePower 2000 for the components I have? I'm thinking of purchasing one...
Given the peak output performance of the 2000, I'm thinking I can connected all of the following
2 - JL Audio F113 sub...
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[quote user="Brian Clark"]Perhaps Zyx will come out with a mono cart one day soon since they are now fashionable.
Brian. [/quote]
Sorry to be responding to an old post but ZYX has just released a mono cart which costs less than 400 dollars in Japa...
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Looking at my current 834PT phonocorrector I decide do not convert it into the “End of Life" Phonostage as it is good as it and I would like do not ruin it – I will always take advantages of a good MM phonostage. I took the Expressive Technologies ET...
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[quote user="Kerry Brown"] Jorge, You're quite welcome to visit any time you are in the SF Bay Area. .... The little aluminum box on the upper shelf with the blue LED is a NuFrorce mono amp, one of two. The DEQX HDP3, one of two, is the black bo...
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Sorry for this long rant but I feel a rebuttal is necessary.1. Back in the 90's you had 480 I video and 16/44 or dolby 2.1 analog audio. Then the sound was crap as was the video so you could get away with a crappy setup. Now we have 1080P video and 2...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]On the Ortofon website those models of the SPU which don't come with inbuilt transformers, have a recommended load of >100 ohm. Using the cartridge into too low an impedance load definitely does lift the lower frequencie...
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[quote user="Brian Clark"] My stereo corrector (834P with air-vane caps) has a shorting switch across the two channels at the input. I suggest you incorporate the same.With it out of circuit I did indeed get that hum you refer to with the SPU Mono. S...
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[quote user="op.9"] I've no idea if the LP will be better. In my experience Mike Dutton really makes excellent transfers. I'd be fascinated though if you could do better... [/quote]
I do not a lot about Dutton label but when what I was searching for...
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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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Yes, you are right, I forgot that it is mono PP radio. I such case one ECL82 triode is driver stage and one is phase splitter. Here is a full cur cut of the radio. There is nothing special in it – a very typical circuit. http://www.goodsoundclub.com...
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I have hundreds of photos taken at recording sessions,,,(thats another hobby of mine,,), The so called sound field is a real joke,,,In perticular one photo of the Berliner Symphony orchestra,,, The mics and mic stands are high up 15 ft or more,,Mics ...
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Yes, Zako, the recording processes are often beyond rational comprehension, and the playback is also "inherently flawed". Also, there certainly are recordings that offer nothing I can recognize or accept as sound field or ambience. None the less, t...
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[quote user="Bill"]Sorry for this long rant but I feel a rebuttal is necessary.1. Back in the 90's you had 480 I video and 16/44 or dolby 2.1 analog audio. Then the sound was crap as was the video so you could get away with a crappy setup. Now we hav...
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It is a dome tweeter, so I can see how proximity to the floor might have some impact in that at least you have HF hitting the floor. How ti regulates brightness is mysterious to me as well.My personal hamster speakers (for NPR vocals) simple mono Tiv...
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Hi Romy Reading your brief audio history really does not sound to different than the rest of us.So my next question is (how are you...
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Etudes D'un Cahier d'Esquisse; Angel 35250 (mono)G changes up here from the mostly-chromatic approach he used in the Images, mentioned above. In this case, he also manages incredibly organic timing and dynamics to play these "exercises" as...
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I love much of the classic La Scala performance archive, and some of it is well recorded, too; just not as well as the Mercury Rigoletto. Interestingly, it seems like if performers are not simply scared shitless at La Scala, then they may well ...
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