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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #264: Silver swamp by N-set on 2013-03-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Meanwhile: If you are going to use a SUT, this actually is a Big Deal that will profoundly affect the Sound you get from your system, regardless of which connectors or solder you use.  I recommend you integrate the SUT (with its ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Walker sound by RonyWeissman on 2012-12-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Holly Proscenium idiocy! in Analog Playback  23 Replies 
I heard this TT, it was magnificent, almost no coloration to speak of, dead dead quiet. Of course it wasn't plugged in and there was no tonearm or cartridge yet but man I loved the sound! Really whatnthe hell is everyone screaming about ? Romy mentio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: It's Business by Stitch on 2014-05-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2014 impressions .... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
These Hifi Shows remind me always to that one: That's an old cartoon. Today we can replace the first price "....excellent cartridge for $10389" ---->  It's also available ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: SME arms: opposite side of medal. by Romy the Cat on 2005-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Which SME 3009? in Analog Playback  10 Replies 
Well, like in anything else there are two sides of the medal. I did not deal a lot with 3009. It is a fine arm. The very short time when I had the arm it impressed me as an arm identical to 3012 but with less developed bass.  I did not get any s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #214: The Usual by Paul S on 2012-07-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
N-set, the usual way of dialing in RIAA is the anti-RIAA curve, trying for null.  This might be from any source with appropriate output voltage/impedance fed to the corrector input.  The obvious problem with the LP is that it depends on the arm and c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Re: Truth stretch out via Feastrex prism. by guy sergeant on 2006-01-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Truth stretched out via Feastrex prism. in Audio Discussions  26 Replies 
I have looked at the Feastrex website. The picture you show is of one of their permanent magnet drivers. This uses their Naturflux magnetic circuit. Mr Akiyama's quote also refers to one of these permanent magnet drivers so you shouldn't be atta...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: But they are still very nice, which is annoying by RonyWeissman on 2007-02-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tannoy Red 1960s: some sober reality in Audio Discussions  10 Replies 
I hope you do find some amplification that works, or new "way" of using the tannoy, as these driver still have several tricks up their sleeves, especially when compared to the hordes of mass crap that's for sale.  What you refer to as the "deen ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Fremer vs. Einstein vs. Ockham by Paul S on 2021-08-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: "New" TechDas Air Force Zero in Audio News  5 Replies 
I have a lot of respect for several TT designs, including the Micro 8000, for example; but I am very suspicious of this particular TT. The reason is that this TT appears to be more of an intellectual exercise than a "best solution" for the greater pr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: How to levitate the platter? by enjoy_the_music on 2008-02-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
How would you go about this?If the platter was massive you would need some very strong magnets?Therefore the platter would have to be quite deep so the magnets fields did not interfere with the cartridge. Would you manufacture the platter out of non-...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Re: Denon 103M by Antonio J. on 2004-10-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Denon 103: myths and the reality in Analog Playback  29 Replies 
I have recently received two CDs from a friend who owns a SME turntable, has been using a Van den Hul Colibrí cartridge, and for fun purposes, set up a DL-103 on it (which I own but still have to set up). I have been listening to both recordings, pla...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: I call it: “The Reviewers Yellow Submarine” by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Shelter 90X: mystery or mastery in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
[quote user="starboy"]I guess the infamous JerryS didn't like the 90x that much... Hope the rave review he gave up helps to get his asking price. [/quote]The more fascinating observation you would be able to make if you pay attention t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Re: Carts... mass, mass, mass.... by Romy the Cat on 2005-07-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Which SME 3009? in Analog Playback  10 Replies 
And do not forget to load the shell of the Series 2 with a LOT of mass. The idiots-reviewers were writing in thier articles that the Grado Statement needs, as any other MI cartridge, a low to medium affective mass tonearms. In reality the whore-revie...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Eq for 78's by guy sergeant on 2005-12-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eq for 78's in Analog Playback  5 Replies 
Hi Romy,Due in part to your enthusiasm for the older 78 rpm recordings and in part to my own curiosity I have decided to add the facility to play these to my system. It also helps that an old aunt has given me a large quantity of classical recordings...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #206: Machining is no big deal anymore by rowuk on 2019-05-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
Actually, if we use a stethoscope and our ears, we buy standard precision bearings, motors and control electronics. All quite affordable. There is no need to reinvent the wheel. If we look at an old Thorens TD160, how much more engineering does the a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Moving Iron design by drdna on 2014-07-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Soundsmith’s analog ideas. in Analog Playback  11 Replies 
This is an excellent point, in theory. Armen's description of the differences he heard are reminiscent of the general differences between Moving Coil and Moving Magnet designs, so this would not be too much of a surprise if the major differences in s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Micro Seiki RX-5000 Recommended Belt by rom661 on 2022-11-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Micro Seiki RX-5000 Recommended Belt in Analog Playback  3 Replies 
Hi.  I acquired and spent a lot of time on this guy over the last few months. I've installed a Dynavector 507 MK II tonearm and a Dyhavector XVS-1 cartridge.  I read Romy's comments that in his experience with the 8000 the belt doesn't affect the sou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Good question by RonyWeissman on 2013-07-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where high-end audio starts? in Playback Listening  6 Replies 
 I would suggest that high-end audio starts with a real love of music and good listening skills. Tolstoy, dickens and swift had an enormous range in their writing skills, each one able to describe their entire country and the people living there. It ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Interesting in 2-D by Paul S on 2010-03-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An interesting Russian pnonocorrector. in Analog Playback  9 Replies 
This appears to put the internal values of its gain stages into play, which in turn appears to cut the signal path parts count, all right.  Since we are not given the (presumed "dedicated") cartridge H, did anyone run reverse numbers to see if this p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Pressing plants should pay us... by Nilau on 2011-03-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Commercial Air Blower Ionizer in Analog Playback  17 Replies 
[quote user="Mabutu"]youd be amazed at the garbage that can make it into modern vinyl, especially recycled Vinyl. Disc flatteners can work , Furutech has one at nose bleed prices as does Air Tight http://www.axissaudio.com/special/DFO1U.htm  . The fu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: This is not an interesting thread anymore. by drdna on 2009-06-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The mystery of Koetsu Onyx Cartridges. in Analog Playback  52 Replies 
I will say again it is important to speak from experience, not conjecture.  The cartridges hand made by Yoshi Sugano were exquisite and the Rosewood Pro 4 accomplishes things that no other cartridge I have heard could do. It had shortcomings admitted...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Hard trace by drdna on 2009-05-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Softer Side of a Hard-Tracing Cartridge in Analog Playback  12 Replies 
Paul,As you know I am also a believer in the hard tracing, and have likewise consistently rejected all MC cartridges due to the lack of realism and their inability to penetrate beyond the most superficial layers of audio splendor, though these they d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: EAR 834P mods by Freddy the orange tabby on 2008-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About EAR 834P Modifications in Analog Playback  45 Replies 
Recently, I have become aware of a strange phenomenon after lifting the tonearm at the end of the run-out groooves. The record surface noise keeps going when the stylus is no longer in contact with the record. I am using a Garrard 301 with SME 3...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #213: Fighting with RIAA by N-set on 2012-07-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
I'm precisely fighting with dialing-in the RIAA....I tried to follow (parts of) Romy's description earlier in the thread, but the anti-RIAA method and test LP give me a huge difference, much bigger than 0.2dB (rather 10dB or so):what was +/- flat usi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Cartridge equalizarion by RonyWeissman on 2012-05-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tubas and Mc-step in Analog Playback  5 Replies 
Ok Romy thanks for advice.  I will see about the loading for my shelter, and my cable to the step-up is nothing special. I am going to listen to mono only for next few weeks and see if i find the "same character of sound everywhere" syndrome!  I do h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Blueberry Hill Audio Company by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to run MM-type cartridge into MC phonostage? in Analog Playback  6 Replies 
Thanks, Paul. I never saw this company. I did call today to the guy who run it and had longer conversation with him then I intended. Size and shape wise it was exactly what I was looking for. Unfortunately he does not do matching transformer b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1139: The Occasional Gift, and New/Old Possibilities by Paul S on 2013-06-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Go figure, but today I got to enjoy my rebuilt phono cartridge for several hours, once the system got up to cruise temperature.  The sound's been better, but not for a L-O-N-G time, and I have no idea what "worked" this time, what might be different ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Greased Lightning by Paul S on 2009-03-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Relief from micro-arcing tube pins? in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
Today I OCD'd my way through every freaking connection in my system, cleaning all connectors, daubing them with dielectric grease and re-connecting them.  Included were electrical plugs, RCA jacks and plugs, tube pins and sockets, cartridge pins...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #792: Another example of… by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Lx_"] Another example of cannot-measure-it-but-can-hear-it?  [/quote]Oh, yes, there is plenty of it in the audio electricity world. It is not that “cannot-measure”, everything might be measured the problem is that we have no idea wha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: . by alex on 2015-10-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Copper Mat on a Micro Seiki Gun Metal Platter in Analog Playback  122 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] be wrote:Your circumference force is right, but when viewed from above it work clocwise around the lateral bearing of the arm, therefore the arm wil tend to move inwards :-)Soory, Be, no matter how I look into it I can’...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: High End by Stitch on 2013-07-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where high-end audio starts? in Playback Listening  6 Replies 
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