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It looks like PS Audio release their new most powerful
regenerator P20. It is 2KW, $10K and they sell it honestly: free in-home trial.
As readers of my site know I am not a proponent of type regeneration that PS
Audio does. The Class AB regenerati...
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This product was discontinued but I still use several with my PP units. It was a balun to reduce common mode noise without limiting current. It does seem to help. One of the perplexing aspects of the double conversion devices is that they reduce ...
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The way I understand it, power line "regenerators"/noise scrubbers pretty much have to be optimized for a specific load/application, and "off-the-shelf" units are compromized, by comparison. Who actually "optimizes UPS/power scrubbers for audio"? Sur...
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Jarek,
Thank you for your input. This is nice to have a somehow a list of good connectors.
Today I found Wireworld Pro Audio[1] sell "Silver-clad OFC" connectors (they call plugs). I n...
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Actually I use Koussevitzky 1949 version of Tchaikovsky’s IV (first movement) to assess my mono analog. There is not doubts in my mind that any more or less serious records enthuses much have a dedicated mono cartridge, preferably permanently install...
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I wonder if you have tried different players to listen to mp3 streams. Maybe you're listening the wma stream.These pieces for violin and piano they're playing right now are wonderful (12:50 your time). I didn't know them. Thanks again...
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Ironically the more interesting from my point of view in Gieseking is not his music but the way how he approached musical pieces, the way how he practiced. If to look deeper then you will see some similarity between that Gieseking’s rehearsal ceremon...
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I truly fill sorry for those people. They endure a dally need to writhe some remarkable BS in order to make the stupid audio people to buy adios scrap. That it truly demanding task!
Myles B. Astor is a long time audio writer. He wrote a good s...
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This thread I would like dedicate to brilliant quotes, would they be brilliantly stupid, or "interesting", or brilliantly smart. Please keep all Quotes sound reproduction related. The first quote right from this site: "Wealth can afford the superfici...
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Indeed, this is a reference to how important electricity might be. After last night, I almost feel as though my equipment is a much less important factor and takes a backseat to everything else. At this stage, I am thinking it makes sense to park my ...
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this was back in april 2011, but what the heck, thought i'd post them, photos of the Salon son image in Montreal. for people in the southern ontario region, should get your mouth watering and prepared for the toronto show coming up soon:
http://www...
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After the tragically story that took place last week witch a local fool who fancy him a tuner master
(Here, and a couple of posts after this: http://www.RomyTheCat.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=11242 )
I brought the Schwarz home and learned tha...
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[quote user="mjloudspeaker"] Romy the Cat wrote:I have to admit that some of my opponents might consider my organizational views on high-end audio too socialistic and will recognize in my view some residues of me growing up in socialistic society. Le...
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Isn't Constellation Audio run by Peter Madnick, formerly with Audio Alchemy?His former colleague Mark Schifter has a very bad reputation I believe, don't know if I should extend it to Constellation Audio or not....
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
The only valuable foe myself history lesson I took after Jonathan Weiss visit was Jonathan’s quote. It was where we were sitting in his listening rooms and I was making one of few very fruitless attempts to explain to h...
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I do not know that they say about “size” and “ways to use it” but in audio “ways to use” unquestionably rules. It is funny how Audio people create cult of abstract “better” audio components of element but completely discard any sensibility to use tho...
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[quote user="Gregm"] {Most systems I've heard fall into one of two categories: good for girl with banjo or good for girl with cello -- ONE cello. Add a subwoof and you get two notes fm the double-bass}[/quote]This was very-very correct and very in-de...
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[quote user="Dominic"]… i think there's something to be said for the 'black box with demanded performance'. in fact i used to come at it from that very angle, somehow expecting i could try everything to see if it had the demanded performance. …[/quot...
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*** This ever-present surrogate high resolution become an identity of today audio, the unfortunate identify I have add…. Did you note that that all so-called high-end items while they try to send a message to users that they sounds “better” in ...
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This is the subject that keeps bothering me over the years and I have no idea why I never have written about it within my site. The subject of this article will be a completely irrational, located at the boundary of idiocy, behavioral pattern of the ...
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I initial thought to place this article into my Audio For Dummies™ section but then I decided to keep it in this pure audio section. What I would like to do is to point is to address one of the major foolishness that widely spread in High-End au...
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I understand what you are saying in conceptual level and I agree 99% of us are molded in the frame work of the industry, but in practice, don't we need "knowledge and experience" albeit from a different perspective (the listening awareness)? Th...
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[quote user="op.9"]…. I had to throw out all sorts of preconceived ideas about how music actually works. Since then I've gradually tried to re-rationalise some of it... not always very successfully. To me, Janacek is like a compilation of all those '...
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I would like to take my views about the subject of the thread:
Be careful: Imaging vs. Compression
… a little further into radicalism, or closer to the naked truth. It might be (and most likely) will not agreed or in some cases not understood, stil...
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Yesterday I was looking through “The Absolute Sound” off the stand. There was one moment in there that made me to pay attention and to comment about the read. In the very beginning of the magazine, in the reader letters section, there was someb...
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Yesterday I was looking through “The Absolute Sound” off the stand. There was one moment in there that made me to pay attention and to comment about the read. In the very beginning of the magazine, in the reader letters section, there was someb...
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[quote user="tuga"]Romy, Now I'm very curious. Could a mechanical prop be added to Macondo in order to stimulate a particular state of mind, like a certain spice would increase salivation? Could this be a universal spice or would it only work with a ...
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[quote user="Paul S"]I can say that I enjoy fine Burgundy very much, speculate and make money on wine and wine futures, and I also like spicy food; I love all the "realistic" tonal color and "natural" ambience I can get...[/quote]
Paul you br...
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Many years gone now, I have tried to keep in mind the sound of live acoustic instruments and voices as I tuned my hi-fi system, as it and I have evolved. So far it seems that there are an infinite number of ways to "move closer" to a constantly...
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