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Agreed. I also had this issue with my Decca cartridge using the Pure Power and physical separation works well....
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Romy, I believe the cartridges are manufactured form Decca by JS Wright in London.The suspension is less of an issue since the Decca cartridges use a novel transducer. There is no cantilever. The stylus connects directly to a metal foil w...
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Adrian, I have not heard this specific cartridge, but the "alive" thing Levi went on and on about certainly rang a Decca bell for me; also the "tweak-y" parts. I do think Levi might have made more of the cable-as-load angle as opposed to painting th...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Even in stock version (but with OK tubes) I found it demonstrate some interesting qualities.[/quote]
So you do not recommend the stock tubes? Is it a specific change you recommend?
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I do not kn...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Much can be said about Decca....[/quote]Absolutely.For Speakers Corner reissues one word describes it best: Crap...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Yes, this is what I expected. That slightly fatty lower range is what I have and I do tend to like this type of response.[/quote]Thanks Romy.Yes, it seems intrinsic in the design. The above curve is simulation, but I get i...
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I'm very fond of Ernest Bloch's "Schelomo - (Hebraic Rhapsody for Violoncello Solo and Full Orchestra)", followed on the same DECCA SXL 6440 disc and always by Bloch, by "Voice in the Wilderness (Symphonic Poem for Orchestra with Violoncello Obbligat...
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Join us on Saturday, September 4, 2010, to celebrate Bruckner's 186th birthday in Carlsbad, California. This year marks our 12th annual Bruckner Marathon and we'd like to share some good music with Bruckner lovers. As in previous years, we'll pl...
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[quote user="drdna"] The Decca London Reference appears ideal. I am probably going to buy one of these. Romy, you are free to borrow it if you wish to listen to it; just do not break it. [/quote]
Possible it is a good cartridge, I do not...
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The Windfeld apparently suffers from production inconsistency. I'd avoid it. Ortofon have just released a new cartridge, the A90, which looks promising.I agree about the Decca Reference, I recently heard one in an SME 312 arm and it was very good, no...
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I thought of the AMR equalization curve options as I listened to a London FFRR LP (Kubelik/VPO/New World) today using my new technique to optimize stylus tracking.The FFRRs are well known to have some extra LF, all right, but with optimum VTA this re...
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Would suggest you violin fans attend a concert by this woman if you get a chance. http://www.janinejansen.com/Just released CD on Decca, Enjoy.R Weissman...
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The history of stereophonic sound
1881 - Clement Adler at the Paris Electrical Exhibition put "a series of 80 telephone transmitters across the stage at the Paris Opera and connected them by wires to telephone receivers in a suite of four rooms" in ...
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The GND noise enters somewhere past the input RCA's. And this GND noise is not the PP RFI/EMF.
RFI/EMF of PP looks like this:
This one is caught by my Decca cart (phono GND lift...
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Where those EdgarHorn Titans with the Edgar’s woofers? I ask because I am very concerned about the LF response. The Shelter 901 has phenomenal bass in my view, even now. In fact all my system/room in a way “calibrated” from the bass that Shelte...
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[quote user="drdna"]…Sorry for your disappointing experience. [/quote]
Why was it a disappointing experience? I was not. It might be disappointing for him – he did close the sale, but it was not disappointing for me.
I read his comments about his ...
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I think it is quite helpful to have some information about VTA in general.In the 50's there was no cutting standard, that means, every Label did cut their records the way they wanted ( the angle for Mercury, RCA LS, Decca etc. are all different). At ...
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NEW! CD-1180(4) Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Evelyne Crochet, pianoCD 1 : Book 1 - Preludes and Fugues I to XV (Total time: 65:45) CD 2: Book 1 - Preludes and Fugues XVI to XXIV Book 2 - Preludes and Fugues...
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Decca Gold label LP, DL 9401; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Jorg Demus, piano; recorded in Germany by Deutsche GrammophonThis is young Brahms, very much under the spell of Goethe, Herder and German Idealism. The theme for the song cycle is str...
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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...
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[quote user="op.9"]Well, I found Janacek strange and unfathomable. I was brought up on Haydn-Beethoven-Schubert-Brahms-(Mahler)-Schoenberg route... so I had no entering point for Janacek. I also loved Dvorák and Smetana... but this was no help ei...
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the way you want to hear it!Bruno Walter, was a close friend to Mahler and very much a Classic only preference conductor. He does "The Titan" without over-emphasising it's late romantic origin.It is available on Columbia "<-360 SOUND->" STE...
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You should be really inattentive... :-DI just heard her playing Paganini once, I do not remember where (but it was a recording, not live) and what specific piece, but I remember I also really liked it. However, I always forget about her because, for ...
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as it sounds now, and what seems to be the issue. Why not contact DG and find out what THEY have to say, that'd be educational, no?!There was this saying about DG: "Good news, DG stopped making vinyl!" The bad news is, -- now they make CDs!!I'd put m...
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[quote user="Thorsten"] Well, a range of mono EQ curves (and only Mono) had turnovers other than 500Hz (AES with 400Hz comes to mind, often used by Rudy van Gelder and then there was Decca with a different turnover each year in the 1950's!). AMR's P...
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Not to hijack the Dannoy (Dunnoy) thread...Yes, the It question is a Big One. I am now thinking of a sort of sonic Gestalt that I have experienced on several occasions, and that I currently ascribe to/associate with (perhaps mistakenly) specific equi...
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[quote user="Paul S"]N-set, you've certainly earned the right to enjoy your gear! Again, which SUT will you use? No practical way to measure ESR, etc. on this, I suppose...[/quote]Paul, the SUT's are Pieter's Tribute MkII. I could measure this or th...
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As for the EAR834 Air itself, while calibrating I've noticed I always get a a delicate MF recess, no matter what I do:(neverming the HF roll-off--it's my cheap card, I'll scan it with SG505-HP400FL when I mount them)Can it be that this slight recess ...
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I note English Mfgrs tried low power ribbon Midrange horns in the 50's (Decca, Kelly & Quad also made one!).These were probably inspired by the hi pwr prewar? Klangfilm ribbon horn (would like to hear one of those!) But, after Peter Walker moved ...
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Paul, what I mean by 'Drain GND' is your idea of a GND cable connected at one end only. I have no access to mother earth and cannot install a dedicated rod. To avoid confusion, below is my actual power line and GND scheme.
As for...
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