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[quote user="jam"]I would agree that the RX-5000 has some advantage to the SX-8000 and I put the differences down to mainly the air bearing and construction of the platter which will cause softness and a lack of focus (some people may like this). T...
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Specs for TechDas AirForce One
Air bearing main platter 19 kg of non magnetic SUS316L stainless steel Upper Platter of choice A7075: super duraluminum 3.5 kg SUS316L: 10.0 kg Acrylic resin: black methalcryalate 1,5 kg All those upper pla...
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Yes, I saw that a week or two ago and was repulsed not so much by the price (which is extortionate) as the implication that recording in this fashion will give superior results to using the best digital techniques availabl...
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it seems even Thorsten do not believe computer source could be perfect and he just guide us to reach max from computer."
The computer is a great music server but also a source of jitter ...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"] The notion of meeting up for a penis swinging competition is a dreadful thought. My tool is happy where it is, safe and warm in my shorts. [/quote]
I kind of missed it in my initial reply but I think it is important. There...
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Lawrence,
Here is the Webster Online Dictionary (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moron) definition of the word Moron:Definition of MORON1usually offensive : a person affected with mild mental retardation2: a very stupid personIn this thre...
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That all interesting though but the problem is that they have no way to be absolute valid. Yes, we as a humans, have a lot of masking effect build in us that prevents up to get complexity and color of sound with dynamic range rises. Yes we do in many...
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The Rockports have a very light platter and a carbon Arm....the one I listened to was the latest, it had simply no Bass reproduction, nada, nothing and the Arm resonances are also inferior to any energy transfer from any cartridge. The lead wires are...
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The Targeted Audio Listening has nothing to do with general music listening and it is just an ingredient of a very narrow audio evolutions. It might be as stupid as just brainless acknowledgment of individual sound or as complex as assessment of...
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Found some interesting comments on an independent web site, Twogoodears.
I'll copy it, it is from 2009 with original lines from Arthur Salvatore and a comment from Stefano Bertocello - Twogoodears owner -, we will n...
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I am kind of semi-evaluating a power amplifier now and think about the following: there is a correct relation between harmonic content of amplifier and it’s dynamic aptitude.
I have heard many amplifiers that run across the dynamic range with a tre...
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[quote user="drdna"]Romy, I think you are asking if I have the Edgar subwoofers also. Yes, I do, like giant woodgrain refrigerator in the living room. So I do get some bass response. [/quote]
Yes, I was asking about the Edgar refrigerato...
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There is a new company out there that make some electronics. I do not know them, never heard anything that they do and do not know anyone who use their products. They have a phonostage that might be interesting.
http://www.constellationa...
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An Audio Amplifier Design Philosophy
By David Berning ( Courtesy Meta-Gizmo.com )
I became interested in audio at a very young age because I liked music, but was too uncoordinated to be able to p...
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There was a Reference Recordings company that did some nice
sound and sometimes, unfortunately much less frequently, some good music. The premises
behind the Reference Recordings that they were pure PCM recording, uselessly
done in 4x with Pacific...
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[quote user="Resorob"]I realise that this is a very old post, but you might want to take a look over here=>> http://www.valvediy.com/simplexpg1.htmlThe article can be downloaded as PDF, the writer Ari Polisois developped a new kind of transform...
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This there is the last in the “THE PROBLEMS WITH HORNS” cycle. The previous threads might be found at:
Problems with horns: tweeters.Problems with horns: mid-range horns.Problems with horns: mid-range drivers.
This would be probably the most contro...
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In reference to : https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/multi-way/333079-visit-romy-cats-macondo.html
I was pointed out to me that Josh posted his commentary
about me at diyaudio.com site. Since he was actively posted at this forum I was
presuming th...
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I was slowly looking for a compression driver that would go in my Fundamental Chanel down to 200Hz. The YL Acoustic 550N attracted my attention. Then I realized that it is the narrow throat type of the drivers, aka WE555, not exactly that I would...
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I initially meant to put this post into my midbass thread (linked above) but then I decided that the subjects is self-important and it worth to separate in standalone thread. In fact this idea was formulated to months ago but I was holding to po...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] If I get you correctly, the graph should display a range of around 12dB from top to bottom, in .5dB steps... Yes? [/quote]Yes, it would do, you might go for high or lower resolution, and there are no rules in it. You shel...
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In terms of the length of the horn, I'm allowing myself a total height of 7'6" (just below the average ceiling height of 8'). In regards to the mouth diameter, that's another matter. (It appears that I will have to build two [2] different...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Haralanov, good post, clearly indicative to a person who uses single-driver speakers. :-)[/quote]
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Leo Tolstoy use to say that all happy couples resemble one another but each unhappy couple is unhappy in its own way. I think in audio this witty Tolstoy’s idea could be very much applicable …reversed.
All playbacks are the same and only good playba...
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SOUND; Now Concert Halls Pay House Calls
By Hans Fantel
March 19, 1989
Playing symphonic music in the living room defies the natural order of things.
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After years of using the Expressive Technologies SU-1 and SU-2 step up transformers I come across to a fact this morning that the Expressive was reviewed by Robert Harley in June, 1992. I read the Expressive’s preamp review but I never seen this one....
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Tweeters Alignment - what is a bitchy subject! I was mildly complaining about it for years and during the last few weeks I complain about my own tweeters - primary because the very same issues of the imperfect alignment. This there is a derivation of...
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*** I've received and read most of February issue of Stereophile. They review the last M1.2 Reference amplifier and the comments from the reviewer are more about how the music can flow and show as a unique event, with the kind of interaction with the...
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“Do you hear the people singLost in the valley of the night?It is the music of a peopleWho are climbing to the light.”Les Miserables
PREFACE
I would like do not shape this article as a review: I do not write “reviews” religiously and I have many re...
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