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[quote user="Amir"]I listened one time (just one time) to master tape (revox reel).micro harmonic was so better than dCS Elgar (digital source) and it was better in micro dynamic. i did not tested good DSD in a good DAC vs good analog but in micro li...
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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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The oil I use has a viscosity of about 30-31 and I have used it for years with no problems. I have tried about six different viscosity oils and grease and the best results were with in the range I specified for (sound as well as mechanically), please...
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Thanks, Romy.Nice that the PF reviewer is so happy with his battery powered iDAT 44+. While I agree that it is a good DAC option, I have to add that we are still talking "digital". With all problems of LPs and LP playback, IMO this is still the way ...
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Paul - I agree with your comments overall. Indeed Sony had a couple of Walkman tape players with surprisingly good sound quality. At the time I thought they were expensive and delicate. Today I appreciate the amount of engineering and care that Sony ...
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How does the SPL/dynamic range correlate to frequency? Most of the old 10" drivers can play louder if not pushed down too far. I think as the years passed, the Tannoy had like most similar drivers a sort of "sliding scale" dynamics, and they would pl...
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How can we compare anything if we know from the very first note what media is being used? The noise floor and sonic artifacts are unique to each media, so are we talking about confirmation bias? Let us assume that we have a first generation analog ma...
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So I decided to try some of the mods mentioned to my semi-recent 834p w/ MC step-ups. It all started with C1 and C7...but then i got into RIAA, upgraded diodes and filter caps. Well, everything should be just stellar on paper but...now I have a hum t...
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I do not mean to be negative and criticize Romy, but he is wrong on surround sound. It is the implementation and not the concept which should cause vomiting, like with the vast majority of two track recording which are unlistenable. With the rig...
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These are New Tape Machine Manufactures:
https://www.ballfinger.de
https://www.thorens.com/
New Reference
https://www.horch...
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[quote user="op.9"] Amir wrote:I listened one time (just one time) to master tape (revox reel).micro harmonic was so better than dCS Elgar (digital source) and it was better in micro dynamic. i did not tested good DSD in a good DAC vs good analog but...
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I was wondering how different would be my audio habits if I “discover” the FM in Boston earlier. I lived in Boston for a few years and did not acknowledge the highly available wonderful word of FM broadcast. I think that if I “FM-wake up” early in th...
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[quote user="Michaelz"]Make sure that the painist does not think that you are a stalker of hers!![/quote]
Well, I did not mean to sound like this but can not resist replying: I said I was a lucky Pussy, not the pianist was.
Anyhow it was truly plea...
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It is interesting to recall how audio started in my life. Somebody asked and I was puling out from my memories some unconnected fragments was really enjoying to recall those times…
I do not relay remember how old I was. I was then probably 10, as a...
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Yestoday I visited the NY show and I did something that did not do for 3 years: I bought a few CDs at thier audiophile’s fleamarket. I did not really need them but lately I heard a lot of positive comments about the superior quality of new SACD-relea...
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[quote user="TonyB"]I disagree. I think it depends on the turntable. If I did not try it on MY turntable, I would not believe. My Verdier uses a DC motor "sloppy" mounted on grommets. The drive is linen thread. I have tried silk, different threads, 1...
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[quote user="Hyperborean"] Well, I'm not convinced. [/quote]
Well, I do not think that you would see anywhere at my site trying to convince anybody. The only person I do try to convince is myself, and I might assure you that so far it was quit...
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Well, Doug
My attraction to HD Radio statred from the moment when I learned that my WGBH does one less step of analog compression for DH1 compare to FM and do not use limiting-out at HD2 for live-to-tape recordings. Very promising, isn’t it?&n...
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I believe a year or so was announced that Riccardo Muti will lead the CSO. I have no specific love of hate to Riccardo Muti but as long he is not Daniel Barenboim who in my view destroyed CSO I very enthusiastic about Riccardo Muti. Today WGBH broadc...
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Quickly again, for the record, and The Google:The back wave of the Manger has a much less flat response than the front wave. There are peaks out the back. It is not a symmetrical dipole. This issue is only of interest if you are using the back ...
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What a great question, Adrian.To answer within the context of the thread, I think I try to "split the difference", beginning with as "neutral" a cartridge as I could find,at least as compared to The Grail, Master Tape. And I still cling to...
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I remember the old Decca cartridges as quite maddening, a real love/hate connundrum. Unrivaled, totally addictive "immediacy", and dynamics that made anything else sound muffled and plain wrong, but also about as user-unfriendly and unrel...
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I have compaired the Ortofon Jubilee to the MC3000II. The former is more "unctuous", "viscous", "smooth", or "suave", and easier on recordings, per se. The latter, although very tape-like in balance, attack and transparency, is less ...
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Well, you can count me among those who are perennially frustrated by all the unnessary stupidy that goes into most recordings, that's for sure, although I have several hundred records that I would like to keep for the perfromances that some...
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[quote user="Hyperborean"]Am I going nuts or all these posts around digital recording just crazy? Digital is not even near that point to consider it as a recording medium, specially at home. There is only one way to do it right - analog! Seems like y...
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Listing here and there more Bruckner Fifth I have to tell you something. This Bruckner Fifth by Zander and his semi-armature Boston Philharmonic is amusingly good. I just wish they release it committal that the people would know how to play Bruckner ...
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What a beautiful liberating alternative – to practice audio living with LIVE FM. There are no barbarian cretins who “master” Sound of performances, no editors, no worsening sound by stupid media formats. Just good people play good music and LIVE broa...
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I did today my first recording with Model 2. The configuration-wise it was very cool. The Pacific now in single-wire mode while it does A/B to 88/24 and the clock also outputs 88K. The single-wire mode is the reason why I moved from the Model One...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Amir, I agree with you wholeheartedly, on a philosophical level, and this in turn underpins my overview of life, art, etc.But, in practical terms, the fractioning off of any "event" is certain, once we try to "reconstruct" that e...
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[quote user="Serge"]Looks like a good solution, this. To make the fabric-covered pipe more reflective you may spray-paint the fabric, I think. [/quote] I read last night the ACS papers, patent and learned how the tube traps work. To my surprise they ...
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