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[quote user="cbachalo"]And after "several years " they are still treating their customers like dirt![/quote]Just remember that old jokes are new jokes to people who never heard them before....
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FM is Analog Signal Processing vs DSP. The compression aspect is only really intrusive on orchestral works. Pop and jazz are already compressed and chamber music presents a more limited dynamic range if not limited contrast. But on the evidence most ...
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PS: The "best" DSP I have heard actually has a sort of smoothing/homogenizing effect, not entirely dissimilar to FM.Bingo. But I would quibble with the homogenizing aspects of FM through an excellent vintage tuner because many transients an...
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Missed the edit time limit above. I found another Minus K article by Philip Holmes at Dagogo May 2013. Also positive but notes that load weight is optimized at the upper limit for the platform and performs best with centering of weight....
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But didn't Romy say up above that he was running it out of the headphone output not the regular back panel outputs? Or did I misunderstand? He specifically complained about the headphones as lacking low end back in the day....
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I ran across this Negative stiffness isolation platform (the anti Viagra??) independently but I should have known the Cat had pounced years earlier. It is hard to tell how much the concept has advanced since 2007 as I only found one firm doing it (Mi...
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That's a lot of cable. Where do you hang it?? And doesn't that roll off the sound? Although maybe the Bose artificially inflates what is rolled off etc. Audio is one of the few places where two wrongs can make it right....
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A lot of assertions are made about this being better or that being the same. In the absence of assessment (and I don't even mean DBT tests, just pooling of expert judgments) this game never stops. There is not a standardized system that can be used t...
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Paul, I searched for the discussion on platter weight optimality but couldn't find it. Anyway I assume people know I was referring to a one person lift turntable on a stand, not a one finger lift. Assuming a platter weight in the 25 pound range and ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]David, I think you a bit overly glorify the notion of "precision instruments" that we all are a bit taken in high-end audio. If you go to a good hobby shop and by a microscope for 200 dollars, or lawn mower for $300, or a k...
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In the past people only occasionally heard music unless they were high enough nobility to have a stable of musicians at their beck and call or made music themselves. Let's be thankful that we have a simulacrum of music available that easily allows us...
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I certainly would not listen to much on the radio if I didn't have my Macintosh MR 67 tuner. I might listen to snippets just to see whether I might like a particular recording but extended listening through the computer etc would be very fatiguing. A...
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"There is a
difference between the player's ear and the listeners ear. Fiddlers
tend to be deaf to their own instrument, hearing fatigue on the side
where the instrument is held. A great instrument tone seems to more a mutual agreem...
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is that it is just Solti. As I stated I do not like Solti's Bruckner because it seems shallow and showy. I haven't heard his B7 but that sounds like him. You will only know by listening to the others....
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You raise an interesting question. Of course I don't know which performances you have heard other than the Solti. I think the 3 I mentioned give coherent performances. But there is something about the material in the B7 such that I think I know what ...
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I agree with most everything said except for the first paragraph. The reason that the Schalk revisions are discredited is because they were done to water down the original works. I don't say Schalk did it for bad reasons at the time but they are fals...
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I thought the issue with V Matacic and Bruckner was his devotion to the Schalk editions. I only have the B7 by him for that reason although it is possible that some of his Bruckner recordings used Bruckner's versions. I'll have to investigate furthe...
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PaulSince we all have different ears I can only give my preferences as anyone else would. Also I don't know your tastes well enough to be confident you would feel as I do. Caveats aside, I have the versions by Walter, Karajan, v.Matacic. Typically v ...
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And some posts reduce the history of reproduced sound to a footnote as well. Stereo Review lives on in Academia....
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zztop7 The vast
majority of time that I hear I violin, it is too harsh. I like a sweet
tone. The major problem is that a violin must Cut through a vast hall;
Stradivarius[?plural] are known for this.I have built instruments ...
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Misdirection or the art of distraction. The so called code of omerta is nothing compared to the fear of the (unnameable) I have of revealing too much....
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I understand the theory of how HD Tracks should operate and am not saying they are doing everything they could. However if you read the Fremer article with Bob Ludwig you can see where the problem lies. It's not as if Ludwig is confessing to deceit. ...
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It is best to think of these download sites as the 21st century version of the old news stand with its racks of magazines. If you caught a magazine plagiarizing something or making false claims would you rush down to the news stand vendor and have a ...
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I understand the point. Unfortunately the vast proportion of those firms have poor business practices of one kind or another and don't survive and their products go with them. But you took a weight off my mind that the checkbook is under lock and key...
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Romy, My apologies to the good doctor if he is not a troll. However, when he started with off-the-wall critiques of the PP units operation (as you noted) and then proceeded to talk about number of boxes and did not discuss sonic comparisons, it was n...
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the gooddoctor says "while I do not have enough familiarity to comment on the effect it has on the playback ...."
.....It won't stop me from recommending it above all others???? Such is the state of the review in the ...
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These fly by night audio companies go bye bye when you aren't looking leaving you with orphaned products. Most of my components through the years other than Sony ES SACD players were made by companies that disappeared suddenly. So it makes sense to c...
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]Next let's you acquire a few and tell us the results. ;-)[/quote]Ha Ha. Actually I was intending to do that. However, I was going to try things out at the lower end of the price range (under 1kW) on my computer based syste...
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I did some research about non audio marketed AC regenerators. The terminology used commercially is either "online" or "double conversion" UPS. They all have expandable battery packs. There is another topology called "line interactive" which is equiva...
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My comment about demags or Vibraplanes did not concern the sonic merits of these devices, merely that audio firms were charging 5 to 10 times the cost of a virtually identical generic device. The same point may well apply to ac/dc conversion devices ...
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