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I went to THE Show again this year, along with a couple of audio friends. This year I was better prepared, with preconceived notions about what I wanted to see/hear, and where to find that gear. I did not try to “cover” the show, at all. I just wa...
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I have a preference for making the power supply a certain way and using certain types of components. If I do that and am consistent about it, I can get better results from some of those old tubes than I can from the more recent types. But hearing one...
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I think they're different things. I have a tubed phono preamp which I've slightly tweaked until it delivers the results I needed. If I had found a SS unit doing the same things for me, I had got it. It's not a matter of tubes being better or wor...
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Well, this sounds pretty much like consumer society as a whole, where the consumer is fed only what he pays for many times over, and marketers chase their own tails looking for the next hot item, or at least the next popular catch phrase with wh...
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Hi Romy, Here is my dilemma. I like the SU1tremendously. Don't laugh....I had it hooked up to aRotel Michi RHQ-10 and the combo is sounds amazingwith my cartridges. I recently was feeling itchy and bought a Pass XONO.The Pass XONO cannot touch the so...
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It turned out that Rowen has the US rep - Steven Swabacker from Hi Sierra Hi-Fi. The Sierra Hi-Fi has web site:
http://hisierrahifi.com/index.html
The site has not a lot of information about the Rowen RIAA corrector b...
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"ASR do not use the regular ICs but the ICs that they removed form the demilitarized Russian nuclear missiles console and fallen Chinese satellites" :) ...which means that they use cheap, used ICs. So, the dealer has a better margin & can di...
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Roman,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Tm I ma glad that your “Manhattan project” is over as I was a little scared….[/quote]
As you well know, it ain't over till the Fat Lady sings.The "Manhatten Project" will be back.[quote user="Romy the Cat"]This phono...
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Hi Romy,Interesting test you have conducted. Were the responses mostly unflat near the frequency extremes or was there variations even in the midrange? The reason I ask is because if you look at most of the published curve responses it is...
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[quote user="Axel"]In my case I got more resolution with primary loading, BUT it gets very quickly too bright with even small changes, sounding all wrong. The 18k on *secondary* sounded fine, but was missing some more detail that I know from connecti...
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[quote user="Paul S"]I thought of the AMR equalization curve options as I listened to a London FFRR LP (Kubelik/VPO/New World) today using my new technique to optimize stylus tracking.The FFRRs are well known to have some extra LF, all right, but wit...
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Needless to say, my arm (the Well Tempered Reference) is all about silicone. And indeed, damping does change - somewhat - with the temperature. However, it takes extreme temperature changes to make me feel the need to adjust damping (whic...
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Romy,
New member around here great website! I have what is probably a silly question about the above EAR schematic. I've been in the planning stages of scratch building a phono stage and have been looking at a few designs and ju...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]I used to work for a valve amp making company and we had a little 2 stage phono amp that sounded far better than the 834 with passive eq, no feedback etc. It also cost less than the EAR.I can send you the schematic if you w...
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I've had rx5000 (with the ry5500 motor) for maybe 10-years now. Romy beat me to the comment that the person on audiogon that refers to these tables as tweeky and/or constantly in need of repair/missing parts has a clear agenda to sell something else!...
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then the idea of amp bypassing is relevant to the "clean signal" discussion. But regardless of the measured voltage out vs. driver sensitivity I suspect that there is too little of something in the way of drive and control between a&n...
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Hello Coops,
Can you explain more why the Allnic 1500 is the best phono you have heard, and why was it superior to the Cole LCR ?
What is the superiority of LCR-RIAA phonostages , besides having excellent RIAA correction curves ? What about the...
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44 dB "net" gain seems only a little odd for a MM phono amp, and it may be that "net gain" is even less in this particular circuit. In any case, I'm guessing it still accommodates their own SUT; why not?
2kVA is indeed one hell of a power supply ...
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Romy's virtual example is a wonderful example of "context", perhaps the only error up to now in this thread.The description of Walters VirtualPhonoStage would be a great article for the website: http://www.I_am_a_deaf_musician_but_so_what.org, but ha...
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N-set, you will never know how your phono stage sounds with the "silver path" until you try it. FYI, the WBT Next-Gen M/F work well --- with each other, but less well, mechanically, with the Vampire sockets; I don't know why yet. The Vampire seem t...
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The ideal "star" grounding plan is seldom realized in practice, for lots of reasons. For one thing, it takes serious concentration to really think it through. As I have said many times, it is often useful to have a "bleeder" on the chassis, and this ...
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Take the best components, the best listening environment and will you have the perfect system, maybe for a few fleeting moments.Everything can be improved, speaker positions adjusted, components upgraded. Take the perfect phono stage, we can ...
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Hi,I'm new to "Romy the Cat's Home Page," was impressed when I read a thread comparison of the Lamm L1/L2 linestage, which prompted me to post here. While I'm not an electronic's wizard (gift is mechanical), audio has been part of my life, dating bac...
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I think that any line level tube stage can be every much of an expressive tool as any other device in the chain. I am also not sure that the biggest difference between digital and analog is the sampling process.How "transparent" is a cutting lathe or...
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So, it has been a while. I have DSET/Macondo in stereo now although there is still some work to do to finish it and tune it to the room. As discussed earlier in this thread I need a preamp with gain and the Placette is just not cutting it for me (n...
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Thank you for some great ideas! I was actually reluctant to admit that I made several changes at once, with changed-twice arm wire terminations, new IC link, new "dedicated" grounding scheme, and (most embarassing of all) new tubes in the phono...
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Amir, I have shared that I quite liked the (original) Audiopax amps I have heard. Whatever they claim, they do sound right to me. Although I have never played much with a de Lima amp I have played quite a bit with most of my own phono stages, pre-amp...
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Hi Romy ,well I appreciate the reply anyway! I have been reading your many threads and yes some on the Lowther designs but as you know your writings are a large large volume also and I havent made my way thru them all yet. As far as my room I could b...
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Most will recognize the Roman gladiator's salute. Caveat...Based on what I've seen at AA, this is as likely a place as any (and more likely than most) to go down in flames.My own motive for starting this up is recent experiments with super-pure...
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The 112's on my amplifier were made in 1926. I think they sound good but I actually chose them because I wanted low gain. Regardless of that there is a certain different pleasure to be gained from playing modern recordings using tubes made over 80 y...
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