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I see Tech Das launched a new baby TT at Munich. The Air Force 3 looks more like a Micro than the other two. While not built on quite the same scale it still features an air bearing and actually looks prettier, for what that's worth, than the other t...
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A site reader sent me email: “ …some guys in Germany & Japan have put it [Micro RX5000] up against the Continuum and other ultra expensive high end tables with older vintage arms similar to your SME 3012 and shamed the newer tables.... “I asked a...
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Markus46, you are not alone in getting the idea that much fun is made at others' expense around here. But try reading on for a while and see if some of it perhaps starts to make sense as you expand your context.So much of "Audio" is not only ma...
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The industry mechanism of making shekels on somebody stupidity works like clockwork.
When I last year I was writing my initial article of this thread about Mike Framer, kangaroo and the financial burden that all this industry cheerleading inflict I...
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It was 15 years ago. Michael Framer was sitting in his home, taping scotch over a small white box, crying and cursing God. “Oh, Gods who run Roma?!” – wept Framer – without knowing the true meaning of his question.
“Gods what did I do to upset you?...
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(Many) years ago (in a psychology class) I studied how baby ducklings were forced to follow a surrogate "mother" around a turntable, and an obstacle was placed in the duckling's path, so it had to jump over the obstacle to keep up with its "mother".&...
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We would, of course, love to have you post over there at any time. I had to add the registration requirement because we were getting around 10 spams per day on the blog - and, yeah, we know it is a pain in the butt compared to how easy it used t...
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Mr. Framer, the reviewer extraordinaire of Stereofiles magazines went to Australia for his vacations. “My God, those poor Australians live in a complete ignorance - Mr. Framer said, - and I’m confident that they desperately need a help form such an e...
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Michael Fremer keeps sending me emails, though I do not think I invited him. I suggested him at the very beginning that to contact me was a bad thing for him as I operate in the very different dimension that he, with his enslaved narcissistic complex...
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[quote user="tokyo john"]Audio Note has released a turntable called the Ginga which costs 60 thousand US dollars in Japan. (if you google Audio Note Ginga images you will find it very easily).My first reaction was pure cynicism, as Audio Note doe...
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Th Nov., 2015 Stereophile includes Michael Fremer's very positive thoughts about the TechDas AF2. It turns out I somehow missed MF's original introduction of the AF1, which oversight I recently corrected, when I stumbled across that tepid, side-step...
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Of course the idea of "minimal" needs context and a priori determinants, like any idea at all, and I don't see that the Regas belong in this particular discussion, at least at this particular point. OTOH, the Continuum is another good illustration o...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Markus46, you are not alone in getting the idea that much fun is made at others' expense around here. But try reading on for a while and see if some of it perhaps starts to make sense as you expand your context.[/quote]I do...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]David, that is funny that you are stressing my SX8000 or even mention it, if you ever invest the effort to read the site, or at least the thread then you would understand how out of context your manner. The AF1/Micro is kin...
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[quote user="mats"]Fremer reviewed the Monaco : http://stereophile.com/turntables/1107gp/[/quote]
Hm, I did not know it as I buy Stereophile very sporadically. I scanned at the Fremer’s thoughts about Monaco. I do not know…. I do not feel that...
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[quote user="Paul S"]No "cost assumption" was made or posited about bearings, rather the remark was framed as a question, just wondering, likewise the very general remarks about belts (along with the closing disclaimer). If the air system is cheap, ...
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[quote user="Stitch"] None of these owners bought it because they can hear a difference, they are absolutely not interested in that and they have absolutely no idea about it!! They bought it as a toy and to get a position in an audiophile community a...
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Stitch, the very same what TechDas did with AF-1 took place
with Continuum. As they first time show up out of woods, they target $25K retail
and 15K to distributes. Then as the company gains publicity, means the few ordinary
systems begin to spin ...
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You morons, can you not see that these speakers are designed by some of
the best aquanautical and aeronautical engineers around? As a
result they can play and continue playing music even in the loudest jet
fighters and submarines without any...
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The Federated Mike posted a set of the phonographs took at RMAF 2008 in Denver
http://www.audiofederation.com/hifiing/2008/RMAF2008/report/index.htm
I kid of do not like the pictures he did this year in past the images were much better. This year t...
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[QUOTE]Anyhow, a
properly implemented multi-channel installation has immense among of
advantages against single-channel including the geometry of imaging. [/QUOTE]Imaging...another hi-fi delusion. I used to record the Philadelphia Orchestra. The or...
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[QUOTE]So what is high end audio, then? I know for some it is the quest for
the perfect soundstage, but let us exclude them for the moment. Rather,
is it a way for us to become more connected to the Sound? In a sense,
like a crutch for an invalid ...
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Epigraph
"…just buy a used Micro Seiki and don’t worry about turntables anymore; built like a tank and sounds better than TTs costing over 30K USD.” Mr. Ikeda, of Ikeda / Fidelity Research
The Main bitching It amasses me how the preoccupation...
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I would agree that the Lowther is not hard to beat but the question is where and in whose mind does this competition exist? Is the Lowther, Manger, or other full range single driver in competition with different multi-driver approaches, other single ...
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Well, the Ultimate Turntable. I had the chance to listen to some personally. Most have one in common:Overrated and hyped from deaf "reviewers"And .... price tag has no direct comparison to sonic excellence ... or a lot of technical features which are...
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I is interesting that most of the “expensive” TTs, with a difference
to a degree of Continuum go for just one topology: mass loading. Yes back a Lechitsky
with a bunch of math and theory was postulating that belt drive is fundamentally
less advanc...
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Well, after all I was pointed out to the place where the annoyed wonna-be-Magico-owners came from:
http://forums.avguide.com/viewtopic.php?t=349&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=50
Nothing new, I well accustomed to the satiations when pro...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]It looks like you have difficulties to
read it but even your, through all your difficulties, understood that
that the initial post was the Framer mockery and use Continuum juts to
serve the exotic Australian framework.[/...
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I listened to exactly that combination for a longer time (Wilson Alexandria + ML3...) and the "review" (let's replace it with product placement) is the same joke than Harley with ML2.2 linked with the Magico Speakers (simply THE mismatch)....
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.... the usual marketing blubber. The more expensive a High end Product is, the more superlatives you need to make it superior to anything else. You want the big bucks? You need a big mouth first.but we all know how this business runs. What amazes me...
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