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markus46 wrote:Assuming you're in the market for a new component, then perhaps the middle ground is to read the whitepapers, reviews, web sites with an open mind. Then listen yourself (preferably in your own home with your own gear) and m...
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[quote user="markus46"]I don't believe that making fun at other people's expense adds value to a point of view. Certainly not the foul language and vicious name-calling employed by Romy.[/quote]Well, I think it is just his style. He calls...
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Hi Antonio,This was a very interesting test; thanks for the key. My n=2 self-test concurs with your results. I scored as a pure overtone listener, and I listen to primarily classical and jazz music.However, is it possible that you are con...
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To take this test, do we score based on the number of instances we hear ascending tone? Or is there a solutions key of some sort?...
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Simply put, this concept has more to do with tangible results than most other things we talk about. At least, potentially. In the same way that a person might go to the ophthalmologist and get a pair of prescription eyeglasses to see clea...
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The idea that Romy brings up is a very interesting way of looking at the audio reproduction of music, by raising questions about human response to situations in which we are compelled to actively participate in the audio process. Old live recor...
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This is a question that can perhaps be approached. There are two ways in which I approach the music I use to tune my system. First, there are recordings of which I know firsthand the original event. For example, as a friend to musicians, ...
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I thought of replying to this post with an answer, but the topic is ultimately too vast to really approach with a single short answer. I think it would be best to review certain parts of this website, as Romy has written an encyclopedic amount ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Gregm wrote: Why on earth would anyone want to attempt that? First of all, the only sensorial connection between reproduction & actual event is auditory. Not one of the other senses participate in the reproduction...
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Well,I also did this comparison a long while back and found the same result. The thinner the wire, the better for the preservation of the sound. But it is important to recognize that the sound we hear from a something even perfectly repro...
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I had tried this before, a few years back, using parallel runs for interconnect and speaker cable of uninsulated and insulated wire of different metals. The end result was that the tonal result was very similar and basically the tone seemed to ...
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Thanks Bud!We often underestimate the fundamentally very physical way that sound is produced in our stereo circuits in complex electromechanical ways. I agree with Peter Belt that circuits are affected in ways that can be more adequately explai...
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Yes, I agree, eliminate all connectors. They are made of terrible metal and it is like seasoning your food with a tiny bit of poison.On the subject of mixing silver and copper, I did find that multiple strands of different metals seemed to yiel...
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It is undeniable that different metal sounds different, and the reasons for this are complex. I bet we could have a good old time discussing cable geometry, conductance, impedance, capacitance, inductance, reactance, corrosion, and maybe even s...
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I think that the perception of the Onyx depends on the rest of one's stereo system and the other components one compares it to.When I say the Koetsu is one of the top cartridges in the world, I would say this about most modern audiophile cartridges, ...
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It is not exactly a non sequitor to say today's Koetsu is a myth. Say a restaurant's owner changed from Italian to Seafood. Maybe you expected fettucine carbonara, but instead you got fish and chips. However, maybe you are in the mo...
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I have lived with the Koetsu Onyx Platinum also and I agree. I did not really enjoy it very much in my system no matter what I did. However, honestly, when I first heard Koetsu many years ago (it was a Rosewood Pro IV), I was really drawn...
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I also use the Well Tempered Arm, but do not have the patience nor the urge to constantly fuss with the VTA setting. I set it for an average record and leave it alone. For me any degradation of sound quality is not so great and I just try...
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Well, I do not see anything wrong with what anyone has said so far and I do not see the cause of disagreement or the angry "dog-barking" for this forum. I hope that we can compose ourselves and retain some decorum, not stooping to AA levels her...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I propose that soundstage is a derivative property of compression. Stripping compression destroys soundstage, increasing of compression makes soundstage more tangible. [/quote] Yes, I have no argument with anything you have...
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Well, correct me if I am wrong, but I would say that imaging relaies heavily on the differences in timing and amplitude between the two sides and with secondary reflections. This leads to a perception of sound wherein we are able to localize in...
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Finalyy Romy you can make your own horn subwoofer:http://stlouis.craigslist.org/bfs/506047980.htmlAdrian...
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I am surprised not to hear mention some of my favorites: Karol Syzmanowski, Leos Janacek, Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy, Jean Sibelius, Charles Ives, Arnold Schoenberg, Edgard Varese, Anton Webern, Kurt Weill, George Gershwin, Alfred Schnit...
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Although not usually a forum for jazz music, I take this occasion for an exception, the passing of one of the world's great pianists, brilliant composer and technical musician, Oscar Peterson, protege of Art Tatum, who dies this Christmas Eve at the ...
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[quote user="Paul S"]I wanted to add that I have found that the effects I just mentioned occur even when the sound is EQ'd to "compensate". Setting aside the other issues raised by EQ, the notes in the EQ'd spectrum still "develop" with the upw...
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After thinking about this for a while, I have had a thought that should be relatively easy for anyone motivated to explore and I would be interested to see what others on this forum observe from such experiments.Fundamentally I think the injection ch...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Romy, of course I have a dedicated "ground" line, but I have never used nothing but that ground for a system's "neutral" leg, as well.[/quote]It seems to me that the thrid prong ground/neutral is primarily there as a way of reduc...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Winnie wrote:
In talking with Shelly Katz a few days ago ... he said [that] with Layered Sound there is no need to time align drivers, the 'signals' being delivered from the panels are not comp...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Adrian, I agree that SETs generally have issues such as you describe, and moreso the small ones, especially at the frequency extremes, and at saturation, which tends to occur all too soon, IMO. But I have not sourced t...
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[quote user="Paul S"]So what's wrong with the 6SN7, apart from the high prices fetched by good ones? If building a 2A3 amp for personal use, it seems a likely choice. I do not know the 6E5P, but I do love the tone of the 6SN7, and I espec...
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