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Are any of the Euro or Australian Forum members familiar with the Power Inspired AC Regenerators. Formerly they only had a small 500 W double conversion unit but now they added a 1500W unit. They seem to be targeting it for audio installations at lea...
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Old Steverino only said the GoodSound Club Forum had provided a nice sounding scientific reason to offer to people upset at his general dislike of piano and orchestra works and preference for solo piano. No longer would he be viewed as a backward an...
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Thanks for a scientific reason explaining why I prefer solo piano to piano concertos and piano quartets. The other instruments make them ring like a bell. Why didn't I think of it?How about putting the piano on brass points etc?...
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I am hesitant to reply in this thread since I do not play piano but your struggles with mid/treble balance and lid position triggered a memory of an article I read years ago. I think it concerned Arthur Noxon but it wasn't a tube trap. I believe he a...
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I have not found the PPs to completely isolate under many situations although they even out sonics across the day fairly well. The PP is far more steady when hooked into my small tubed bedroom system than the main system, the small TV HT system or th...
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I don't even accept the caveat really. People have special (neurological) processing of voice and speech compared with non vocal sounds. Thus even aurally compromised voice communicates more than musical instruments would under like circumstances. Th...
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Digital may be here to stay. I won't argue that nor do I care. But does that mean MP3 down to MP0.3 is here to stay?? I say it's just spinach and I won't eat it. So there....
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Sometimes a profession becomes so mechanical and by the numbers that the amateurs become the scene. That is because they never learn the rote or spend time doing the organizational minuet. This happened with Chinese painting in the 1300s and the onl...
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Since audio purchases are not yet subsidized by governments AFAIK the prices in the audio biz are being supported at the current level. Now the list price is only relevant if people pay it so I would assume that for the most part the actual price is ...
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i believe Reina has a completely different rather normal day job and does audio writing for a hobby. I agree that Reina does not do the intentional BS kind of review. He does tend to favor less costly gear (or did years ago when I still glanced at S...
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The Sussurro has an unusually wide loading range listed by Soundsmith, ranging from 470 ohms to 5k ohms. It is possible that more recent models have a somewhat tighter range between 470 and 2k ohms but I am not positive. The capacitance of Soundsmith...
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Perhaps one reason why the Sussurro does not sound like other MC cartridges of Armen's experience is that it is NOT a MC. In fact it is a Moving Iron cartridge with fixed coils and fixed magnet albeit with low output.NB Capacitance is an issue I beli...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Here is what I think. If Marc Lavry would like to fill his father shoes, of even become better than his dad (that would be ultimate benefit for us the consumers and for legacy of his family) then Marc need to open his mout...
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Perhaps people should look up the definition of Quintessence. That might answer their questions....
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I agree that the published curves don't look bizarre for a box speaker. Is it the case that these speakers don't permit nearfield listening? That would be a way of reducing the volume and minimizing room effects. I assume that his wife locks the door...
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Well it has never been a secret that musicians and conductors play more cautiously when the recording team is there. Dynamics are a major issue for the engineers; not that they will avoid compressing the music to death afterwards.The urge and pressur...
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Yes it would be good if our terms weren't colored by specific circumstances. Physics had to move beyond weight and define it as mass. But if we step back for a moment, we have to acknowledge that much in audio is based on fooling the ears rather than...
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Someone would have to be at least 80 years old to have heard Gieseking in concert at an age when they could assess such things. I think he was always known for his delicacy and softer playing. The recording sonics of live concerts in those times were...
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Debussy or any good composer not using loud dynamic shifts to generate tension has to compose so that the music works without it. Also they have to score it differently. But Debussy is not notating microdynamics just to be clear. And Gieseking's mic...
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I never equated transient information with microdynamics nor did I say it was articulation. Microdynamics is not simply piano and macrodynamics is not forte. Transient (onset) noises are what give different instruments their timbral character. Of cou...
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We do distinguish between micro and macrodynamics because they rarely cohabit the same musical environment, except possibly for the performing musicians. If I am close enough to be continually aware of microdynamics I don't want to hear a sforzando ...
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We are so overly familiar with the music of the Romantic era (and to a lesser extent with some 20th century orchestral music) that we tend to overestimate the importance of dynamics overall in music and in listening. Obviously, abrupt and frequent dy...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I think the subject shift that took place is wrong. The initial sentient was not about women in audio but about incompetence and how the incompetence could not become more attractive if it dress in skirt. [/quote]Oh I th...
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OK I misunderstood. I do wonder if it is a bit of an artifact of the old Soviet policy in education of "inducing" students to go into certain fields. In other words, I wonder if the current generation of acoustic scientists in Russia and East Europe ...
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That is interesting that East European women are more likely to be audiophiles. Do any of them post here because I haven't seen that in the threads I frequented. In the absence of their direct opinions I can only go by what I have heard women say or...
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As high end speakers go these aren't that atrocious looking. Let's face it: speaker design is frozen from WW2. We have horns, panels and box speakers as we have had for a couple of generations. Even the driver elements are variations on a theme. I th...
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At no time have I ever stated that you got a gold plated unit. I trust your statements 100% unlike many others. My only point is that PP for marketing reasons would at least make a real attempt to fix a unit you sent back. If I had a problem not reso...
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I think any blanket statement that all the fault lies with PP or end users is going to be proved wrong. My Bayesian estimate based on prior experience outside of audio is that 80% is some fault of manufacture and 20% improper use or faulty troubles...
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No Adrian my only goal has been repeated attempts here to shame PP into sending you your unit back repaired or replaced. Sadly I have been unsuccessful. If you think PP is cataloging each change they make I have a bridge I can sell you....
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Thanks Adrian and Romy for your replies. I can see a reason why PP is not servicing the original versions if there is such unit to unit variability. It would basically require discarding the original unit and sending out a PP plus in return in many c...
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