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These thoughts come in the wake of Romy’s recent encounter with a certifiable fringe dweller who, IMO, is not just illustrative in the generic hi-fi nutbag sense, but also in the there’s-more-to-this-nutbag-than-his-worst-would-suggest sense. B...
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Recently an audio guy visited me. I played to him some music as, as I uselessly do - from all possible sources and we ended up to have a conservation which sources is able to produce more interesting result. The people who hear my playback know t...
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...is a pita, no, no, PITA! In my circumstances I've had so farreasonable results using foamed natural rubber to mechanicalydamp the chassis. Has anyone tried that ridiculously expensivesilicone gel tape/chips?As for the multiple shields on MC's. Hig...
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I do not think that I might use an equalizer in normal sense; I do not need the full flow EQ option. What I might find useful on some case is to have 4-5 fixed curves and it would be pretty much it. Hypothetically with Macondo and DSET I might write ...
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[quote user="Andy Simpson"]Having made my last comment based on what I 'heard' via my laptop speakers, I took the clip to the workshop monitors last night to have a further listen - not to examine the weird processing, but to come to a refreshed idea...
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Thank you for sharing these thoughts - it fills me with wonder. I too in the end do not regret the money I spent because sometimes you need to buy the "sounds better than anything ever" amplifier, cartridge or tonearm, and to hear for yourself that i...
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Beautiful note, thanks Romy. It opened a whole new world of appreciation. As to the recorded performances, I'm ashamed to say I've never heard any of those you mentioned. However, there are two *yet again* I return to every few years: Arthur Fiedler...
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This week WHRB broadcasted live-to-tape Britten Britten’s Violin Concerto from SF with Medori. I did not know the work well, I nearly is not a huge fun of Britten but this Violin concerto was interesting, what attracted me that it was not annoying, i...
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From were you set put a ladder tye a string to it were your head was 15 feet long, go to your horns that is 1000 hz and above put the string threw it go threw the back of it take your driver off measure to the back plate distance from mounting front ...
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"then I would suggest using a meaning of “tonal potential of playback”"Fine, just don't call anything from playback Absolute. The only absolute is live unamplified music, it must be so as it is the original event.Sorry Romy you lost me there in...
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from both digital and analog tape formats, but as time goes by it may be easier to get good digital source material.So far the best recorded sound I have heard was (years ago) via Mark Levinson's (justly celebrated, IMO) Studer/Revox rigs; however,&n...
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At first the high cost kept me away from HS tape; then, it was the poor selection of decent, well recorded material, which is still quite expensive. Like others, I have heard some rumors about "master tapes", but I have actually seen ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The main worsening of Sound by digital technology does not come from limitation of formats but from a corruption of recording culture. In past the tape or a disk was tangible analog evidence all manipulation that took place...
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On its great majority, I share your opinion about reviewers and the audio industry goals and means. That's why I don't give a damn about their articles, but it's just entertainment reading them. Have you tried teflon tape wraped around the tonearm's ...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]I didn't know rigid (hard) foam was available in a spray can. Be careful; if you're using proper rigid foam, it expands with great force and would likely push through any tape protecting the cone of the driver.However, the...
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If you are going to be sanding in your living quarters, I strongly recommend that you:1) cover the ENTIRE rug in the room; you will never get all of the dust out of the rug and will ruin most any home vacuum cleaner (alternatively you can just purcha...
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Some time ago I got uptight about the idea of long TT belts, and this is because I put a strobe on one, a long time ago, after I thought I "saw" it fluttering, out of the corner of my eye. Anyway, it did flutter, and a longer one we messed with had...
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Sorry for that, the first tapes were pretty good and I got excited, some of the latter ones, well.I do not consider it a live format, but I want to have a few good tapes mostly as reference of playback.About digital I am happy to say that direct co...
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Mani, Pacific is freaky and it detects HDCD code only at the resolution that it was encoded. If it was coded at 16 bit then it will not read the HDCD at 20 Bit. There is an option in there that set the HDCD detection death… I did not play a lot ...
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is what I assume that your CD's source is all about. So it could be in deed a problem having used the 'original' master tape (analogue) which might have had a slight problem, stretched, or issues with the equipment speed (slight speed wobble) when th...
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Well, it is not about ignoring your or my posts. There is an objective reality and if we are making any judgments then I think it would be worth to recognize some base of the realty. My point is that good quality of A/D and D/A conversion is sufficie...
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During the last few days I bought and tried the raw high-resolution files from most of the providers. I have to say that I have problems with most of them. In my judgments, the only Referent Recording files sound properly to me. I wish they record m...
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[quote user="Bud"]My first choice would be a Sony SACD recorder with storage in SACD format. Quite expensive, but I would not use an expensive Sony playback device. Their early models (still available new on ebay) were designed to show how much bette...
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Thanks for sharing. Getting the Badongo thing to work was a bit of a hassle for the file being split in two parts and needing the tool to merge them, but once installed and downloaded, it worked very well. Did you get Premier user? I would pay your s...
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Todd, What you descried does not sound to me as inner-groove distortion, even though I am not exactly sure what inner-groove distortions are. The very first questing that I would ask if you have the same character of sound when you play your CD, or t...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Here is my second attempt to make ad-hog analog transfers. The file is 280 Meg in 167kH and 24 bit. Do not download it if you can’t not play 167kH. The file is 0.5dB hotter then it shall be and has some clipping. I wonder i...
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Romy,i Would state that any digital vs analog discussion must take place only in context of recording of musical material, not within the world of music reproduction itself.
be it analog tape or computer media,raw recordings (let´s call it...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
OK, now I am happier as I did my duty and the back chambers are ready to be attached to the horns and to be lifted up. Yesterday I spent 5 hours trying to build the back chamber displacement that Jessie and my carpenter ...
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I do not know how my S2 driver will sound but I defiantly know that it will have the problem with temperature. Looking prematurely at the driver’s sound it looks like it produce the necessary magnetic force at 2A-2.3A, that heats a lot of this driver...
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[quote user="el`Ol"]Meanwhile I did the Steinberg Waveleb test myself and the difference between it and the most common players is immense.[/quote]
The pro editing software are lights miles ways in terms of sound quality from all any Foolbars that I...
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