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Thank you for the kind intro to your technician.
Yes, replacing the TL-0 will probably be a heartbreaking exercise. Just like there are people who own a few vintage Jaguars to cannibalize parts from one to the other, it is crazy...
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Based on what the engineers tell me, the direct drive TTs and the belt-driven ones with very fancy motors (controlled by an IC chip) are guaranteed to become useless. I hope those 100k turntables (like Techdas) have been designed for eternal repairab...
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Romy, thank you for the very useful info. You have given me hope! When I contacted CEC in Japan a year or two ago asking to let me buy replacement lasers (as many as I could) they said no (they did say they will repair the unit if it ever fails - if ...
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As I contemplate the death of my TL-0 (which I found, a gently used one, 10 years ago), and people back in Japan tell me the replacement laser pick up parts no longer exist, I am curious as to the answer to the question you posed ("20 years after TL0...
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Thank you for sharing these thoughts - it fills me with wonder. I too in the end do not regret the money I spent because sometimes you need to buy the "sounds better than anything ever" amplifier, cartridge or tonearm, and to hear for yourself that i...
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Thanks for these amazing stories. My own "profound" experiences with audio playback (where I was moved by the sound) have always been related to acoustics/room. Sometimes it all comes together, and equipment that have no right to sound much better th...
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As I grow old and nurse a fragile back, I too have a fantasy of a good sounding, lightweight TT (and amp, speakers for the matter).Every lightweight TT on the market makes me interested for this reason
(Rega Planar 9, Well Tempered, Roksan, Amazon,...
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The fact that there are some awful PA systems out there and some magical ones, it might mean that it is really up to the "cook" (using Romy's recent analogy) to come up with the good sound. One does not always have to use Kobe beef to make a good bee...
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Your description of Meyer is right - I probably heard the very best Meyer installation in the world (based on that interview I pasted on my original post).Being a lazy person (or with four small kids maybe I should just say I just don't have time), a...
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Thanks for the info on the Danleys.My initial idea regarding PA sound was that factors other then quality of equipment were critical. Things like attention to sound balance and room acoustics.So I suspect that if you got good sound from the Danleys, ...
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Yes, the main music I hear on this type of system are broadway musicals and Disney orchestral soundtracks (which for some reason always remind me of Mahler). So perhaps on more serious music (real Mahler) there are fatal drawbacks. But boy those dymn...
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It could be my mistake or poor taste, but sometimes PA systems sound very good to me. There was one in a toilette of a restaurant playing some classical music that made me almost angry, like, how is it possible to have such a decent sound so simp...
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I just stumbled on this thread, and am thinking about being your first customer.I am planning to move to New York from Tokyo end of this year - not just escape the nuclear radiation but to let my kids experience a different culture.Depending on m...
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When I was a teenager in the 80's and The Absolute Sound was my favorite hifi magazine, I always thought the Japanese were crazy because they did not believe in an "absolute" sound but were trying to create their "own sound".They also seemed craz...
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You are right I think. He confuses his followers with this GIP review, his fans who sold their Tannoys and bought his recommendd Krell Lats and Magicos, but they will fall in love with him all over again when he tells them the latest Magicos got ...
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I go to the Amtrans store a lot but have never listened to the GIPs because they are just too expensive (60k, 180k USD etc). But I think I was informed that these were fanatically replicated Western Electric speaker system concept, but where possible...
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I came across a used TL-0 for sale yesterday (black version - looks nicer than current in my eyes). I listened to it through some 20k Accuphase amps and B&W 800D speakers, and the sound was very poor. Fortunately it sounded even worse when the TL...
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I agree Japanese food is sublime, and if you like spices, then very good Indian food can be fantastic (but I doubt you can eat that type of Indian food in the US). Even in India, it can only be had at select places (like the fish Tikka in Delhi Obero...
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Because no young person I know is interested in hi-end audio, so the industry may well be dead when baby boomers lose their hearing!?:-)In the meantime, if one is not gullible (moronic, Romy would say), it
is quite interesting how audio products d...
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That mercury-bath turntable is pretty crazy! I guess people always find a way to screw up any endevour that started out with a simple and promising idea. Take Buddhism; the original ideas were very reasonable and practical - be hygenic, be nice, try ...
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The best investors are usually small, obscure and unknown, whereas all the famous investors and fund managers are same as the worst audio crooks.Interestingly, there is no relationship between price and talent in this field - is almost random chance ...
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Wow, price inflation in TTs were a lot worse than I thought! (more than 400% in nominal prices in the example of Goldmund).
You are right, the prices in audio seem a riddle wrapped in a mystery within an enigma. As a manufacturer, it is almost...
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Audio Note has released a turntable called the Ginga which costs 60 thousand US dollars in Japan. (if you google Audio Note Ginga images you will find it very easily).My first reaction was pure cynicism, as Audio Note does traditionally price its pro...
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It is funny but for many years I had been intrigued by the different approach to audio by Japanese vs "the West"."The west" here refers to Absolute Sound type (not everyone in the West is this of course) criteria of live performance.
Confession time...
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Hi Romy,
I happened to visit your site and stumbled on the Sakuma discussions.Just in case anyone was wondering what was being said in the two videos:
1 despite looking like a vampire, there was no religious cult like talk. No mention of spirits or...
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sorry to pollute this thread, but I have to say...that is that is one reaally cute kitty kat you got there!!...
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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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Hi Guy,Thanks very much for providing me your insights on the SP10.I have to confess when I initially read your comments I could not help but be astounded that a person involved with a Brit belt driven, light weight, suspended turntable would be usin...
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Dear Romy,Thank you for the advice.Yes, I believe I can hard-attach another arm to my current TT if I sacrifice the dust cover. I am going to have to give it some serious consideration.I think many people end up with multi-TTs with a zillion arms bec...
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with his photo and comments on his Technics SP10.Inexperienced imbecile that I am in participating in thread discussions, my question went into limbo (and thank you for responding to it).And thanks to you, I bought the SPU Mono some time back and now...
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