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Going in circles is bad for your health. Just like every other thread on expensive gear, the name calling starts where the good reason stops.Regardless of how we calculate, 100K is artificial because there are people willing to pay it. It has NOTHIN...
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If we look generally at stability from bridges to optical measurement benches, mass has one function - tune resonance or place it outside of the desired passband. Other methods are chosen when we want to convert energy to heat.Do we know what a "ligh...
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Don't we always go through this same discussion regardless if it is an amplifier, speaker, turntable, DAC (wine, cigars, frying pans)? Don't the arguments keep repeating themselves? Don't we all agree that IF a turntable NEEDS to cost 125K that somet...
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In the past, there was different types of music. The masses NEVER were without music. They had their invention instruments and folkmusic even when the upper class was into "other things". That basic honest folk music was even present in the US. U...
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I will disagree with the premise that the fiddler is deaf to their instrument. They have a direct link between the instrument and the soul with every sense and emotion that they were born with - taste, feeling, smell, look and hearing. This is true f...
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Perhaps the reason that the 4th movement of B7 is so often a postscript because the musicians bleed to death during the first 3 movements.The orchestra played B7 last year and I can testify the first trumpeter (regardless of "quality") cannot just pl...
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Perhaps a vintage tube radio with an auxiliary input or two? No DYI, a bit romantic, can have very good tone - especially if electrically cleaned up a bit.I have a pair of JBL LE8s that could very well be a solution for the bedroom....
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I have never experienced anything close to "excellent" sound in a car - even without the engine running.The reflections and resonances do not kill the music, but the presentation is really DEAD. The problem is how our hearing works. Reflections that ...
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I think that I understand how HDTracks works. Their customer base purchases on the assumption that they are getting better than normal resolution. Their customer base does not understand what resolution means for sound, but they believe that sound is...
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Well, for someone who is supposedly building a business on "better quality", things like this show the true character. Let's face it, if you pay for something, and don't get it, you get a refund. If HDTracks were interested in their customers, THEY w...
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I really don't get excited about the high priced stuff. They are building to a specific market and if that customer wants to spend 300K on cables, why not? I do not need to justify not being interested or even criticize the "business" plan. King Mida...
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In order for something to die, it must be alive! In the case of the spiral of death, those companies were dead at birth and only modern technology feigned life. There is no spiral - only a comedy of errors!What I am missing most of the time is a real...
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Hi Romy,I do believe that you can benefit from the study of making violins. It is one of the few instruments that are essentially "finished" in development. They have an essentially perfect string length for the played frequencies, the body size and ...
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Romy,I say "Go for it"! With your usual documentation, we can only profit from you getting the hernia first. I got mine operated on last week, so looking is all that I can do for the next 3 months.One thing that has always roused my curiosity: your ...
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I find the discussions about "mad" electricity interesting because:We don't know what is causing the problemWe don't know what is fixing the problem but that PP seems to have something that gives at least a predictable result.I mean, we are not talki...
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During the holiday season we had wonderful programming from Scandinavia thanks to Internet radio. The Scandinavians have a wonderful tradition with choral music and especially the tunes around christmastime are very enjoyable with some very excellent...
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Hi N,I just use my turntable, arm and cartridge to measure the effects of vibrations. Don't turn the platter on, drop the cartridge into a groove and your phono corrector output will tell you everything that you need to know - as it would happen duri...
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I will propose a heretical stand: The problem is a deficiency of the advanced playback. The magic only happens in one place and that can be severely comprimised by geometric objects that were not calculated into the listening environment. Maybe we ne...
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Lawrence,
Here is the Webster Online Dictionary (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moron) definition of the word Moron:Definition of MORON1usually offensive : a person affected with mild mental retardation2: a very stupid personIn this thre...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Rowuk, I think you were shooting to a wrong target. You are trying to refer to some kind of sense of reasons and rationale. Unfortunately the individual above looks like does not inherent to rezoning but rather willing to p...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The concept of self-testing boot cycle is nice one but it for sure could not be done during the amp booting. Some tubes do need to warm up and reach the cruse temperature in order to be tested, some do not. Some tunes (lik...
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Deciding for horns is actually very easy. Why:1) in the common sense range for each horn/driver they have far LESS distortion than any standard dynamic driver covering the same bandwidth. I define distortion as frequencies not originally in the recor...
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Romy, I think that the only real "solution" is to develop a boot cycle for your amps that consist of warmup, parameter test and after this is test is passed, change to operational mode. I am pretty sure that your tubes do not simply unexpectedly expl...
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Lawrence,I really thought your post deserved no answer based on the fact that anyone that lumps all instances (imagined and experienced) together simply does not have the ability to apply common sense. No discussion could ever end with acceptable res...
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I think that picking a DAC is like picking speakers - regardless of the price, we don't know what we have until we get there. I do not think that it is possible to compare digital and analog playback forms. With a turntable we have as many choices (g...
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de Charlus,I don't think that you are taking the posts the way that they were meant.Your initial post started with a collection of what you consider to be the finest drivers for specific tasks. That is just fine and you may well be correct.The real j...
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I think that I can relate to both sides.When we speak about recordings that come from "live" events, the musicians interact with the audience at hand. Generally that means a statistically significant mix of "music lovers", "music analysers", and disi...
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This project sounds like Rubriks cube. You have all of the ingredients and 43,252,003,274,489,855,999 chances to get it "wrong". None of those parts guarantees anything special and they all offer plenty of miserable possibilities......I personally ca...
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My personal take (also with my wife who I have been with for 33 years) is that they learn enough by exposure and are much more valuable when remaining simple "users". It is often not possible to be objective when you are enjoying a low noise floor or...
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I guess this is not really new. A well designed BMW V8 engine runs as smoothly and quietly as a V8, V10 or V12. Professional bike riders have a pace that gives them the optimum endurance and speed. Professional eaters pace their bites to get the "mos...
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