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Romy the Cat's
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I keep bugging Yoshi, he is in Japan now, to bring me a set of 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 by Takashi Asahina with Tokyo SO from 90s it should be very interesting… The damn Japanese have quite a price tag on the Asahina’s Buckner…&...
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say how much the old man is involved in all this cult and noise around him? I've also read all the poetic stuff on the site and can't say that this mystical aproach is not appealing. I had the impression that Sakuma just entertains himself makin...
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Last month, for fun, I decided to subscribe the Stereophile magazine. Yesterday I got a July issue…I never thought that I might be a person who would have a reaction to the Stereophile's ordinary idiocy, the reaction that would force me to writ...
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What your little G.I.P Laboratry does is absolutely irrelevant. They feed already pre-buttered customers and their moves are not important. Shindo and Cogent do the electromagnets for years but they doe little events with no influence. In high-audio ...
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Hi Roman...Yes, I liked it, as I liked Audio Tekne's (always based on A.L.E. drivers, by chance...), but because I "felt" - more than hearing - the superb quality of emission, the smoothness and naturality of the music when passing through these dri...
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Nope, I am not a big friend of OTL amps generally… BTW, I have seen (did not heard) one Japanese amp that use 64 x 6C19P tubes. For whatever reasons Russians consider that 6C19P as very good sounding tube - the younger sister of 6C33C. It was not my ...
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I go to the Amtrans store a lot but have never listened to the GIPs because they are just too expensive (60k, 180k USD etc). But I think I was informed that these were fanatically replicated Western Electric speaker system concept, but where possible...
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The reviewer doesn't know. He only mentioned that both CD claim 'original-image bit-processing', but he doesn't know what that means. He cannot read the booklets of the SHM-CD's, as they are in Japanese! I agree that it could be a remastere...
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I think we are speaking about different things, you speak about real High End which should be best possible sound quality to serve a musical purpose, and I'm speaking about a High End industry which doesn't give a damn about musical performance, beca...
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[quote user="yoshi"]What was wrong was that I do not have a proper evaluation method/ability of Sound and piled up my system around the Reps driver with an intention to overcome the obvious shortcomings under the way I've been listening to jazz....
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Recently, since I‘m doing some remodeling of my turntable, there was some noise on my site about Micro Seiki turntables. I really do not want to push my site toward to becoming one of the typical audio fetish sites but in context of this thread I wou...
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No, I do not. It is not because there are not but because I do not know. There are not reasons to buy cartridges from dealers as there is no cartridges serves that might come from dealers. Have you seen any dealers who would lend you a cartridge to t...
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Romy Hi, firstly I have the greatest respect for you, and your beliefs,( vis a vis audio reproduction ) you are absolutely right about drivers Ralph and Thomas listened to every commercially driver , apparently some of the Japanese drivers sounded ok...
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Yes, I know now you feel. I visited Japans twice. Although audio was not my main objective but I spent some time for audio. Even I was at that time less critical and less demanding then I would be today still I was not pleased what I heard. Also...
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I came within an inch of mentioning Gould in the first post but decided to leave it to Fischer, whose performances earn a dedicated post, especially as noted.Yes, there's no way around Gould in his high manic perfection. But too much of Ba...
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I am in Tokyo now and there are some very large used bookstores. These stock lots of old copies of audio review magazines which have the merit of being in Japanese. The obvious benefit is that most people can easily ignore any reviews or editorials w...
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Oh, yes. there was a plenty of absolutely stupid ideas implemented and copied incessantly in turntable manufacturing.The gross one is of course the magnetic suspension to ease up the work of the platter bearing. Not mentioning that it is a very unlin...
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[quote user="Stitch"]The Designer of that Turntable is Mr. Hideaki Nishikawa who made the Seiki Turntables.The Turntable also shows former Seiki features like the heavy Platter and Vacuum System.[/quote] Hm, Stitch. I do not know the history of the c...
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The famed audio designer was working on new audio designs until the end, which continued to be published in MJ, the Japanese audio journal. I'm sad to hear of his passing. I feel fortunate to have been able to meet him and spend time listening to som...
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[quote user="twogoodears"]I personally NEVER heard unmusical/unbalanced gears, among "classic" transductors: YL-Yoshimura Labs, ALE, Goto, Kanno, Eltus, Coral... [/quote]... aehm: I meant "transducers"... BUT wrote again to add that among the scarce ...
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Allo Romy, I have no idea about the above - my gut feeling is that the required thickness of material would be too great, still, I bow to your experience in S2 mods. I just wanted to mention something that came to mind that might be of interest: I re...
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The throat diameter of 7" is what I first approximated as an acceptable size, with the 4" being an alternative (should some unwanted effects arise, I may then experiment with the 4" throat). I can't simply assume 7" will be correct (though that...
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Romy, may be the alnico jbl 2482 + aluminium diaphragm (plastic surround) would suit for your application here. I tested such driver on 200 hz tractrix horn and worked fine. Went down well under 200 hz and is 2" throat. It is heavy but I would be usi...
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"So many people today are interested in audio only to make money, or for show, or as one of their many passing hobbies"I occasionally go to the meetings of a recorded music society. A group of maybe 50 mainly older (50+) people gather in one of the l...
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Collin, there is one more tip for you how you might bult a very inexpensive but very good performing MF channel, thought it might be slightly time-consuming…
It is not well-know but some, primary Japanese companies like JVC, Yamaha, Hitachi, Denon ...
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Thank you, Maarten. Might I ask you a question? From what you understood from the article: the “same recording” that they compare they were the same mastering or they were different mastering? The reason why I ask because the regular CDs were release...
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I found many reports on SHM-CD sound on Japanese blog sites. Most of them comment very favorably on SHM-CD, clear, better resolution, livelier, etc. Some mentions different balance compared to the CD version, many comments SHM-CD sou...
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What was wrong was that I do not have a proper evaluation method/ability of Sound and piled up my system around the Reps driver with an intention to overcome the obvious shortcomings under the way I've been listening to jazz. The result wa...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]Which Audio Note product did you hear that you thought so little of? The UK made stuff and the Japanese stuff are very different.[/quote] Guy, I did not really was “thinking” about it. I just wrote down my very initial reac...
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My lovely Japanese girlfriend enjoys teasing me about my love of Tchaikowsky. She thinks his music is too "sweet" and "romantic". I do love listening to Tchaikowsky, even Nutcracker. Yes, it is sweet and catchy. Maybe it is making h...
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