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"Synergy" as a BS concept is not about technical compatibility, such as getting a tonearm resonance below 12 Hz or getting proper speaker sensitivity and impedance for a given amplifier. It is about the bogus notion of choosing colored components su...
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The demonstration of the WE equipment was impressive as was looking closely at how these horns were constructed. The arrangement (originally it would have been mono) was to provide the audience seated both in the stalls or circle with an evenly bala...
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Obviously, the header is just for Romy!Well, it took a while, but with development help and official intro by Michael Fremer, the new OMA DD TT is finally here!https://oswaldsmillaudio.com/k3Featuring the Best of Everything, including a bespoke Schro...
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The regular visitors of my site know about my recent frustrations with my new Ortofon SPU cartridge for my “mono tonearm”: Is it all that Ortofon SPU can do? Today I made some alternations that more or less cured the audio problem and I decided ...
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Hi Antonio, I just realized I glanced over that thread assuming its relationship to the 6 levels of benefits. Its quite interesting, but I do not know where I fall in that spectrum (no, it can't be discrete stages as its far to "big" to really ...
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No matter how often I go through it I still frequently get confused and disoriented when tubes go bad. In this case I have been integrating a new (passive) pre-amp and a new (tubed) phono stage into the system, including trying various tub...
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In impatient, ill-advised. manic efforts to "compensate" for the EFFECTS of bad power I have swapped ICs, used different output taps, re-configured grounds, swapped tubes, re-positioned speakers, adjusted VTA, messed with my BR ports. And ...
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NSET, Sorry for any confusion. It seems clear from Romy's experiences and others that the electrical line is a transportation system that lets everything ride for free to any station and back. Yes the SDS uses a quartz crystal oscillator and digital...
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I worked a little bit with those and I compared it to Vibraplane.The Minus-K are ok, they do a good job BUT they move very easily, they are very wobbly and based on that, you can only use them with center weight Turntables. And based on their size, w...
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Jarek, sorry to hear the job has been a PITA! When in doubt, I use magnifying glasses to do this sort of work. For (now) obvious reasons, I try to leave tonearm wires alone, as much as possible. Alhthough I don't like the idea of plug-in headshells...
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In regard to the noise issue I had with my Pure Power unit in the past, I never noticed it with my tuner or other components, but I mostly listen to the phonograph. In particular the Decca cartridges are incredible as antennas and seem to pick up all...
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2023 was pretty weird for me, continuing battles with health issues and enduring cures that have been worse in some ways than the ailments. Somehow, I managed to build and integrate The Loudspeakers during this time, resulting in what turned out to b...
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Dear Romy, thanks for your comment. I actually don't want the mat to do "something" for me sonically, but to teach me how far I'm I of my ideal. Knowing your goals and taking for granted that the 8000's platter must be rather dead sonically, I assume...
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For quite some time I've been haunted by compatibility between cartridges and tonearms. I've read pretty much everything available out there, but it looks like most of the rules are either silly, or plain incorrect. I had decent results with few cart...
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[quote user="RonyWeissman"]…Have you tried…. [/quote]
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]…. in the field of cartridges dissectomy….[/quote]
[quote user="Paul S"]..And I coulda sworn I'd just cleaned 'em...Paul S[/quote]
I spend so time figure out what is ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]1) High electrostatic or whatever other reason make the cartridge very prone to collect dust.
2) Exceedingly hard-reading with slightly overly prominent leading-edges of the phases. This demands VERY high quality...
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Ronny, I might not be necessarily silicon, volcanic stones or compressed particles from the Galileo comet. Any none-magnetic mass will do, I use any bronze bolt if I wish. My selection of silicone was just because it is damping and convenient. I use ...
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Actually, the M2-12 turned out to be a good arm. It really does Sound very good. I used it with Denon 103M and 103D. It has very “interesting” midrange in a way more interesting then SME3012 but not as dry as the SMEV. I detected just 3 limitations: ...
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I need to admit that I am partially a full of shit in this subject. For sure all the audio methods that I have mention are very beneficial to play Bruckner but the essence of the Bruckner music does not come from some kind of proper playback methods....
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I, after being sick and tired form the Denon 102 misery, got the Ortofon Mono needle. I was under impression that Ortofon Mono was true mono cartridge with one coil. However, when I opened it up to mount it’s insert on my “Chernobyl Spinnaker” tonear...
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I bought today a fresh copy of “The Absolute Sound” #151. Did not really meant o read but rather meant as usually to glide among the pictures and to learn which audio whore drool about a “new” bogus products. I seldom read the articles more the a few...
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i agree that there are more audiophile cartridges around than the dl103. but except maybe for the ortofon classic, they all have non-spherical stylii. i am sure that a lot of the "air", "space", "bloom" etc. of today's cartridges is actually distorti...
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Yesterday I listened for a few hours again, including Bruckner 7 and a new-to-me, (old) East German, "Chamber" rendition of Ein deutsches Requiem. It has been hot (for here) for several days and electricity was not so good. There were some nice mus...
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It's been some time since I've listened to my hi-fi. Today I started out with my DAC because I wanted to hear a new (to me) CD. After about 2 hours I switched to the K&K, listening first to Verde, then Brahms PCs 1 & 2. By the time I got to the 3r...
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what others say, I have used the following procedures to set my own "anti-skate" on my own pivoted tonearm: 1) level TT/platter 2) set-up arm/cartridge for minimal tracking error, including proper VTA/SRA and VTF 3) use ""blank" sections of (test) L...
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Since I painted myself into a corner with only one tonearm and one cartridge, and my one cartridge has gone to the Ortofon Spa in DK, I am sans phono until my cartridge returns. This means I have too much time to think about a phono stage, as oppose...
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One of the first hurdles is to reasonably target a TT by listening not only via but "through" a given system. I, for one, have NEVER set out to do this at a showroom where the putative target was not swamped by other "concerns". There may have been...
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Hi Romy,Yes I would love to hear the same segment from your analog setup for comparison. I think it would be very interesting even though there are so many variables that it probably doesn't tell me much in an absolute sense. I don't really disagre...
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[quote user="zako"]It is not unusual for famous people to use there name for ENDORSEMENT,,SPORTS MEN HAVE MADE MILLIONS that way.. AMPEX used Frank Senatra..JBL used Benny Goodman...Its easy mony standing next to a product for photo Op and getting p...
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Hm, I took the anti-RIAA signal converted and run CD player into the phonostage. The RIAA curve was fine and the effect of the HF volume and frequency-depended quantization did not expose itself. So, it looks like the phonostage is not a problem afte...
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