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It is amazing how much lives in the FM broadcasts. Just now the WHRB transmitted in their “Tuesday-Thursday ’s Nights” the Radio Amsterdam’s broadcast of the Royal Concertgebouw with Bernard Natick played the Debussy’s “La Mer” and Shostakovich’s 8Th...
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It's quite a marvel from what I can tell now. The overall sound is somewhat on the darker side but the preamp is still breaking in (although I gave it 30h benchtop burn in with the frybaby track). I also suppose it reveals the Dannoy and the room int...
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I have never had before a decent tuner, so impulsed by your rave comments about FM and regarding the fact that we have here just two quite good FM stations broadcasting frequently live concerts from the National Auditorium and Teatro Real, ...
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which has no low frequencies to speak of, very small room, very insensitive speakers, SS amp... but is the only one that can play 24/88 files, DAC1 file sounds kind of "dated", as if it were recorded in a huge concert hall with tubed electronics and ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
doug s. wrote: i have never heard the rel. but, if you want to hear a tubed tuna at its best, pick up a sherwood s3000ll or later, get it serviced, and run it thru one of your mpx decoders. or get one w/a built-in sh...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Anyhow, the Melquiades does have some “tricks” in the realm of dynamic viscosity. It is what make it quite different in term of Reality Reconstruction as I feel that propagation of sound via air does not have linear “audio ...
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Sometimes ago I received an email from a NY guy that I know:
“I borrowed a friend's Sansui TU-X1 and just like I heard them at your place it sounds fantastic! What is it about this tuner? There is such an ease to the presentation and no distra...
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I’m involved now in a VERY interesting project that leads me to ask a strange question: did anyone ever research the subject of those Hi-Fi Mini Systems? What I need is a small source of FM and CD in a one small “comfy” box. I do not need that CD to ...
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Figuring out how to switch REL Precedent’s IM bandwidth to more suitable for Stereo operation I was wondering about something else. The 250kHz window though which the REL Precedent looks to the FM band is might be fine for DXing or having good select...
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hi romy,i like fm. and i like comparing different tunas. in the past ten years, i have bought and sold at least a hundred different tunas. i presently have more than thirty. easily 90% of my music listening is fm, even in the ...
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Good points. Romy, you can throw as much money at this problem as you like but you need to face the reality that some of your gear is going to get trashed in a move. If I were you, would make a quick list of the stuff that needs to be moved, noting t...
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hi all,an option for an antenna attenuator is the magnum-dynalab signal sleuth. this is something tha allows attenuation and amplification of fm signals +/-30db. it's also tunable. in most situations, its value is negligible, but in some situation...
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[quote user="cv"]I think for the UK it's 2012. Also, hHere in London the only classical station worth listening to if you ask me is BBC Radio 3. So a TU-X1 and Lavry would be something of an enormous investment all things considered. I'm fairly sure ...
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[quote user="Antonio J."] Anyway, going back to the subject of the thread, why would you implement the ambiance retrieval at speaker level and not at the "pre DAC" one? After all we'd like to have from CD's something closer to what TU-X1 does.[/quote...
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[quote user="rowuk"]How many sources do you currently have? If you are building a phono corrector, make it for 4 volts output. If you have a PC for digital playback, there are good DACs with more than 2V output. That would leave a tuner to pimp - cer...
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[quote user="peter foster"] The TU-X1 sounds to me as though there is a dolby processing happening even when the dolby feature is off. [/quote]You might check if your country decoding switch is not in a wrong setting. It located at the very top of th...
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Allo Antonio,
I think for the UK it's 2012. Also, hHere in London the only classical station worth listening to if you ask me is BBC Radio 3. So a TU-X1 and Lavry would be something of an enormous investment all things considered. I'm fairly sure we...
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I truly enjoy reading the different internet audio idiots expressing their “wisdom” about what I do. There is a site out there filed with typical audio white trash and they suddenly developed a desire to criticize my admiration of FM based upon ...
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The Adrian’s quote about being stunned and disappointed can’t better express my view on the subject. I admit that I am driven by disappointed and in a way anger for the horrendous sound I got from my Koetsu Onyx Platinum. However, it was not a an...
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I have directional rotatable antenna the runs ~150 feet of coax cable; I think it is 6dB lost in cable. Then I have 4-way splitter that eats another 12db. I deal primary with 3 stations.
The WGBH is right next to me, one mile away and at the locatio...
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[quote user="el`Ol"]Meanwhile I did the Steinberg Waveleb test myself and the difference between it and the most common players is immense.[/quote]
The pro editing software are lights miles ways in terms of sound quality from all any Foolbars that I...
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Hi Romy:
I am trying to build up a good audio system on a budget and have enjoyed reading about your philosophical approach to music and music reproduction.
I will not waste time with "what to buy" equipment recommendations in magazines or th...
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My mind turned back recently to the subject of tube tuners – there were some even that made it happen. I have to admit that I have general difficulties with tube tuners. My past experience with then was not so great.
When we are talking abou...
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[quote user="drdna"]After seeing the variation in the sound of the TU-X1 to the quality of electricity, and thinking about recent discussions about the Direct Heated Triode, I would like to start a compendium of anecdotal observations of the idiosync...
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The Boston FM radio and my Sansui TU-X1 tuner gave another magnificent treat - a whole weekend of Bruno Walter music. I always liked Bruno Walter, although he never was my “buy on spot” conductor. Performances of some conductor (for instance Sc...
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I finally got a PP unit. It is 1500W model as this is enough for now. It is the actual Golden version (Plus not available anymore) but the PP factory claims it's identical electrically just in a new aluminium case and some extras added. I managed...
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...in learning what is the reliability of the current production PurePower units. I'm considering investing in PP+1500 to power:
- A clone of Romy's phono (choke input filters)
- Headphone amp (180W...
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I posted this request at the Yahoo FM group, the place reportedly owned by the Reichsführer-SS Bob Fitzgerald, I have mention that Moron-wanna-be-in-charge before. Thankfully that cretin does not show up there and the air in that bulletin blog is fre...
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