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I am the person who visited last month, heard some Vivaldi and other things and "did not get" Bruckner. I am not the Clark's person.And no, you don't owe me anything, except to keep doing this site and allowing occasional visits. Well, if you REALL...
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Romy,I have thought about what you might do to create some audio cash flow and two things came to mind.1. Audio doctor house calls. This would not mainly be to "audio people," as their goals and frustrations would usually not be what you would be w...
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Paul,Rather than go SS, perhaps you should consider push-pull tube amps for each of your five 92-93 dB-efficient channels (I assume "channels" means frequency bands, not HT5.1 or similar.) Along with that, consider using a modest amount of global ne...
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140,000 yen is about $1800 at the present exchange rate. Still a lot of money for an unpredictable result. Also, it is not clear if they will have a model for 115V/60Hz in/out. I don't remember exactly, but I think part of Japan is 120V/50Hz, part...
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People who do odd things under the influence of a skilled hypnotist sometimes report that they felt no physical compulsion but "did not want" to go against the hypnotist's "suggestions," hence fully complied with them. I think the physicist R.P. Fey...
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Romy,Try running the left and right signals from the stereo arms, one at a time, into the known-good mono phonocorrector. If the problem is not present then you know the stereo corrector is to blame.Are both left and right channels in the stereo cor...
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To get 17W per KT88 in SE, I think it must be pentode or ultralinear operation. Triode-connected in A1, I think a KT88 can only make 10-11W max (plated dissipation limit is 44W.) So it probably uses feedback, but that is still not automatically a b...
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The ECL82 = 6BM8 was used a lot in low-end amps, both push-pull and single-ended. Actually, according to your radio's schematic to which you posted a link, they are not being used "one per channel," rather it is a mono radio (nothing wrong with that...
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And I too would love to have a good recording of one of those Gould performances.Incidentally I would agree that playing Baroque as if it were High Romantic is not the way to go. Even worse is to play it like some schmaltzy action-movie soundtrack. ...
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Romy,You refer to the D minor concerto as a "piano concerto," but wasn't it originally composed for harpsichord, like all his other keyboard works? (Except organ of course.) Anyway, I have a harpsichord recording of the D minor with Sylvia Marlowe, ...
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Romy,How about putting bass tower #2 directly behind#1, but facing the opposite direction from #1? This would keep #2 away from the turntable, yield a symmetrical setup and enable #2 to energize the hot spot around your chair.Note, I'm not sure whic...
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Romy,Choose an LP with considerable low bass information, and record it to digital the best way you know how, but with the Melqs not even turned on (or running at very low SPL.) Then compare play of the LP at high SPL with the digital playback at th...
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I used to follow Michael Green's previous forum at Tuneland, and have tried some of his products and techniques, though not his full "program" by a long shot. His stuff does affect sound, whether for better or worse depending on the user's efforts an...
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My main comment is the observation that moving company employees like to get tipped, the more extortionate the better. So, offer them outrageous tips, say 20% of the company's bill, but ONLY if everything is handled as you wish it. Of course you wi...
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I know it has very little to do with the Magico Ultimate, but Romy had one line in the AV thread that deserves to be preserved here, in case the moderators of that forum "vandalize" it:quote: "If we have a dinner and you eat a bowel movement as your ...
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I think the recorder has a split personality. At the lowest level it is one of the easiest instruments for kids to learn to play, often used in schools, usually with very cheap plastic instruments.At the opposite end it is one of the hardest instrum...
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Romy,I also liked these tubes even when new, and found that they improved a bit further with 100-200 hours burn-in (of course I did not oven-fry them.)If you still have those Herbie's Hal-O 60mm tube dampers that did nothing for your 6C33C, I suggest...
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The cat in this videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1iKaZ9KKds&NR=1looks nearly exactly like Callie when she was younger. (The actual picture I took was too large to upload, though I did email Romy a copy.)This is a way better use of all those ...
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Our younger cat, Callie the calico, likes to get on my turntable to get attention. I had a camera handy and caught her there recently. Note that the needle is actually playing.Our other cat Shadow (mostly black of course, we are not imaginative wit...
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I thought already the Shuguang was a good-sounding and apparently well-made tube, probably quite rugged electrically, but I never would have thought it could survive what you just described, much less sound better! It is a good thing the base is cer...
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Romy and drnda,
When you speak of the "Chinese 2A3" which one do you mean? Romy, if you have the Shuguang 2A3C then I understand why you find it better than the Sovtek, no argument there! drdna, the Shuguang is a little more extended on top than t...
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Romy, don't be so sure the amp is 2-stage. The ECC99 is a twin triode (mu=22, Rp around 2k) so the two sections could be cascaded, paralleled or the second section used as a CF or several other possible topologies.
Their 2A3 is rated up to 40W pl...
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Romy, I have had good experiences with the Shuguang 2A3C. There are plenty of comments in the Sewer about this tube. They cost about $80/pair and seem quite stable so they are a good choice if you leave your amps on a lot. superTnT.com is out of t...
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My favorite performance is in Tele's "Das Alte Werk" series, Nicholas Harnoncourt and Concentus Musikus Wien, on period instruments. Again though, not a live recording (you can even hear the "mix" shifting between some movements) but still very enjo...
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Romy,
If you do not want to throw your Shelter 901 in the dustbin, I suggest sending it to Peter Ledermann at Sound Smith. He does retipping (usually with ruby cantilevers and line-contact diamonds) but can also repair suspensions. There would be...
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So the glossy magazines are pushing record treatment coatings-goop again?
More than 30 years ago a similar "LP preservative" called SoundGuard was billed in TAS as a "major breakthrough" in music playback technology. I bought into it (just like I...
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Hi Jim,
Romy may not have noticed that the tubes are mounted to the circuit board below the top cover and not at the surface, so the driver in particular looks shorter than it really is.
Will the final appearance be similar to the prototype in th...
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Jim,
Do you plan to develop this amp to a commercial product? Is the IT up to the job, or if not, are better ones obtainable?
Paul,
The low distortion may be partly a cancellation effect in the even orders. Even so it looks very clean, almost ...
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There was a good article about this very subject in 2004. You have to pay to use the NYT's archives, but one of Michael Green's disciples quoted it on their website, and they didn't get sued for copyright, so I guess it is OK to post it here:
If ...
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Certainly the synergy users can only, at best, mask one coloration with another, but in the minds of their audience they encourage a belief that the errors somehow get cancelled; that is the "notion" I referred to.
These notions extend into the do...
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