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This is always good advice, to get to know the character of the phono stage. Because my favorite cartridges are not low voltage (I use Decca London Jubilee and Reference) I have never had a need for the ET SU-1 step up unit. In fact, I had this in my...
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Marc Mickelson always was one of the heroes of audio propaganda – he always was able to load a maximum cargo of “strategic information” to the readers without being insulting to anyone and without too obvious demonstration of his real intentions. I r...
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Hello all (from Thailand)!I found this very intersting horn society here by accident and would like to show and share my first experience with horn speakers system.It's consist of 4 way system .[IMG]http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg69/krairerk/hi...
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Hi, Touch.
I see what you are trying to do. However, I think that you have reached a point in your craziness when you need to stop using off the shelf accidental horn solutions. I feel you need to recompile your system as a custom installation that ...
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When I think back to some of the products made over the years I realize that neither we nor the manufacturers really know what makes something sound good. Some of the early pieces made by (and I hope Roman forgives me here) Pass, Van den Hul, C...
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Talking in my previous posts about the major inversion in high-end audio:
http://www.romythecat.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=2920#2920
http://www.romythecat.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=6917#6917
… and observing that lately small high-end (a...
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Hi Romy,Entertaining post, but certainly nothing new to someone who is familliar with your commentary. My personal preference is (ego + intellect and honesty) > (friendliness + naivity), so even though like you mentioned "it's all about me,"...
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I just ran across this quote from Mr. Fremer, circa 1999, and I doubt much has changed on this front:"Sitting in my listening room auditioning this $3995 Premier 15 phono section from Conrad-Johnson—a process that I made sure went on for months!...
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Hi,[quote user="morricab"]You may be right. It would perhaps be worthwhile to look into "better" transformers but I am not sure that an advantage can be found over just going RCA to XLR adaptor into the balanced inputs and thereby bypassing the...
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[quote user="Antonio J."] … looking like the Kemp's unit. But that's provided the input electricity is still under 5% of distortion. They also state that that performance is under linear load, so it might be possible that using chokes or trannies loa...
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Today’s prices in Hi-Fi do not base upon any other principle then “whatever market bears”. The luck of objective evaluation methods and the completely un-liberated market of Hi-Fi consumers make the “market bearing” principles being completely not ap...
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Preamplifiers: keys to mystery – or…. how a preamp might be not only a load-driving gadget.
Years after years the preamplifiers are being a “terra incognito” of audio people. I admit that preamps are a subject of my persistent curiosity. I was alway...
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