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The New Jersey Symphony purchased a number of high priced instruments - Strads, Guanaris, etc. in what they called "The Golden Collection". They paid way too much money for the collection, but thought that the better sound and the "Mystique" of...
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It seems that all my analog-missing-LF-paranoia can be blamed entirely on that original DG pressing.How could I know that I was using a superbly miserable pressing as my bass calibrator? It really made me give up on my turntables for a while there.&n...
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Romy, you have said you are impatient with VTA, so I wonder if you have wondered enough to try playing with this just a little, to hear for yourself if the added clarity of the corrector includes VTA differences and/or if VTA has anything to do ...
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Yes, it would be nice if audio publications/reviewers leveled with people and actually spoke about the personal aspect/responsibility of setting up and tuning a hi-fi, and TT/tonearm/cartridge in particular, especially considering the absurd prices t...
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The point of the field coil is to saturate the piss out of the magnetic circuit so that the coil flux does not modulate the motor. Romy, I suspect that your experience of them may be based on an older drivers where saturation was not the name of the ...
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In the case of the Audio Note field coil cartridge the field strength (and hence output) was significantly less than that from the permanent (AlNiCo) magnet equipped Io. Yet the performance of the field coil version (Io Ltd) was 100x better despite a...
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Thank for the link. I did not see it is it does look interesting. II like those crazy, unreasonably-obnoxious, no hold barred projects and they usually do push the envelope of what is possible. I did not have a chance to read the whole thread. We hav...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]So, my question to you guys: what techniques you use to filter out just wana-to-sound-intelligent audio people what you are engage in random let say phone conversation? Did you develop any practice to recognize that the per...
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The primary mode may not be the lowest present mode, but it will only be apparent if the pick-up's own curve is known over the desired frequency band.As for spikes, I see no reason to use them on a suspended wood floor, but in any case the idea i...
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What is the main difference in High End today and 10 years ago?Today it is possible to launch average products into the market via Internet Hype from DIY groups. No engineer would ever create such a Design which changes performance daily depending on...
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Try as I might, I can't get my sme3012/shelter 901 combo to do tubas . My ortofon309/vintage mono cartridge does it magnificently the tuba down low makes me goosevumps all over just likenthe cello. I think my stepup for shelter is incorrect choice, t...
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Rony, you do not specifically say that you use horns to reproduce violins, but if you do then you have your work cut out for you. Moving upstream, massed violins are T-O-U-G-H to get right, under any circumstances. Very few front ends make good on ...
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may be to hear them in this case. While there is actually some Tone, the whole does not seem to equal (let alone exceed) the sum of the parts. Or, perhaps it does! I would like to hear something more rigorous and complex than "the usual" music the...
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Hi Romy,How do I stuff the SME headshell (or other headshells) with silicon? I am tech idiot and can't imagine how to keep the silicon from just running out of the headshell, is there a type of silicon that dries after application I guess? By the way...
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Romy, by your own words you are concerned that the Jubilee is not a "hard tracer". Well, loosen up those purse strings and take a gander at the MC Windfeld, a "Super-Jubilee" with a super-polished iteration of the hard-tracing "Replicant" stylu...
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[quote user="Stitch"] But then it gets worse dramtically, the Speakers Corner Deccas are foggy and really bad compared to original Deccas. But their vinyl is silent. [/quote] Wll, I have my theory about the silent play of contemporary vinyl. Did anyh...
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I listened to really a lot of Koetsus (Black, various Urushi, Signature, Red Sig. Platnimum, Jade, Onyx....) and it was always the same result:No Bass , no high frequency area, no colour, no bite... and with different Arms of course (Graham 2.2, Phan...
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It turns out that I have up to now done a very poor job of guessing a record's thickness just from looking at it or assuming thickness based on the label, so measuring thickness and developing a corresponding arm height adjustment stra...
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I hope you do find some amplification that works, or new "way" of using the tannoy, as these driver still have several tricks up their sleeves, especially when compared to the hordes of mass crap that's for sale. What you refer to as the "deen ...
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In this cable thread there are some ideas about materials and construction of cables. My most recent attempt for good-sounding shielded phono cables are from Bud Purvine, using his specialty Litz wire construction, Vampire 800C connectors, and unblea...
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I have looked at the Feastrex website. The picture you show is of one of their permanent magnet drivers. This uses their Naturflux magnetic circuit. Mr Akiyama's quote also refers to one of these permanent magnet drivers so you shouldn't be atta...
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Here's a link to a copy cat alignment tool:https://www.audioadvice.com/pro-ject-align-it-cartridge-aligment-tool-black.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-ZSy3ZmE3AIVxF5-Ch3G2QttEAQYBSABEgLQ3vD_BwEDon't know if it's any good, but it appears to be the "correct ty...
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Who says that a myth told a thousand times becomes more real? Who has actually measured the wear on the stylus instead of just "trusting" the industry?Romy may not be infallible, but he does only post first hand and for sure backs up his posts with f...
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It is always difficult objectively deal with tonearms. The tonearms is very difficult subject, performance of which might be severally masked by thousands associative parameters. However, the biggest problem is that it is imposable to talk with peopl...
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I got email today with a link to a thread at A’gon: “Fremer's review of the Anna cartridge” and to an interesting post from Dougdeacon: http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1365811842&openflup&65&4#65The fan part in all of it...
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[quote user="mem916"]Actually this picture doesn't say much with the cantilever and stylus unloaded. Can you take another picture with it on a record surface, with the VTF set in the range Ortofon suggests. And take it edge on from the outside of ...
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In another thread here, I discussed how I developed an "empirical" VTA system for my very "sharp" stylus. With it I can adjust the tonearm height relative to measured record thickness, which I found varies close to 3X, from the thinnest to the th...
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How strange... I was thinking about this, and discussing it during lunch @ the lab a couple days ago... Got there from a totaly different direction though, was thinking about harmonic vibration dampers used on crankshafts, (usua...
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I got last week two emails and one this morning, from people who read this thread and ask me basically the same question: Romy, do you recommend the Ortofone Jubilee? The people who did it before and received from me no replies or the replies...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Otherwise I would buy Warren’s Ikonoklast speaker with Lowther DX-4 driver and will be discovering how to “proporly” appreciate the Decca cartridge[/quote]Ouch!Did you have to mention the Ikonoklast speakers? Of cours...
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