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So the glossy magazines are pushing record treatment coatings-goop again?
More than 30 years ago a similar "LP preservative" called SoundGuard was billed in TAS as a "major breakthrough" in music playback technology. I bought into it (just like I...
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According to my London contact the British miniatures Fane Acoustic is gone to dark. The remaining inventory was scraped by Eminence and the Fane is no more.
Over the years Fane made some interning things: guitar cone drivers, compression drivers, r...
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Have you use GOTO dirver before? Have you try it with the "GOTO" recommendation? Have you listen to GOTO in your own system? If not, I suggest that you do it 1st and then draw your own opinons then. GOTO never said don't worry about alignment. T...
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I need to admit that after out UK trip last month I got more sensible what Amy is striving to make the Opera Room to feel and to look. She is British and Finish offspring with British root to be very strong in her, she actually a direct descendant of...
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An FM broadcast of church bells from the major cathedrals around Sweden welcomed 2014. Blessed with holidays in my family's home in Dalarna, the miracle of a truly great room was granted. Built with logs in 1947, spruce floor, ceiling, and since th...
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I have run each of these for long periods and can validly comment.My power amp circuitry is a 6N1 based Mu Follower driving a 2A3 in turn driving a 3K Tamura amorphous core OPT.The 6N1 tube is a special military type that is not freely available.Ther...
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Hi Dominic,
I have some Rola's. Although intended (in organs etc) for quite widerange use I'm not sure that for listening to music they should be allowed to go too high. The other thing I found was that what lower frequencies they produced were more...
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the less you know about...So, how do we go about screening tubes for audio, particularly audio signal tubes? The only person I can think of who claims to have found a specific testing paramerer for this is Roger Modjeski, of Music Reference and...
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The last two weeks I have no preamp in house. I have great vintage EVS attenuators but I can’t use them with Melquiades as they talk with Milq’s input filters absolutely killing sound. The only way I can play music those days is only from my DAW,...
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Thanks, Jim, and thanks to everyone who replied in direct emails. Summarizing what was advised to me it looks like as now the input impedance of the amp is around 4.5K. That was roughly what I would like to have, though I would like to go even furthe...
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[quote user="Paul S"]I am a little suspicious of the Allen Bradley Club mentality, including vintage (carbon comp) resistors, transformers, caps, etc. When I have bothered to listen, I have often chosen "selected", "non-inductive" wir...
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I was playing today my beloved Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Schubert 9 symphony under of Charles Mackerras. It is not absolutely “right” Schubert. It has good phasing attempt and it has very good verbalization of Schubert’s metaphors but it...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Not kidding?! :-)Yes, I always felt that Tannoy the vintage 10" sealed box were the best Tannoy out there. Still they were the best not because they were best but because the 10” had less bass extension and did not go into ...
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Well, whatever you do with your loudspeakers of with you whole playback system is kind of irrelevant if your drivers are not right. In my view the drivers are the very much heart of playback but in case of High-Efficiency and particularly horn-loaded...
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In the linked thread “Munich High End 2010..” while taking with Joe the Archeologist I was mentioning the fundamental flows of open baffles. Still, the presence of disadvantages circumstance is not a red flag for somebody actively or my interest....
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It is not my Audio “Bucket List” and not the audio things that I would like to experience before the 2012. These are just the regions of audio curiosity that I would be excited to sample and motivated to make efforts to pursue. The entries without an...
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As the writer of the above-referenced propaganda, I am pleased to once again tweak the whiskers of the cat.
First off, this is promotional material so what the heck do you expect? Every brochure offers a new benchmark in performance or it is not doi...
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dI, thanks for your post. It is an interesting post, might I
comment upon it? I do not share your experience with Melquides amplifier even those
I know exactly what your were taking about when you wrote about changing own expectations
by observing...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] I live where FM program quality justifies a good tuner. Despite getting what I consider to be really excellent sound from this modded TU9900, I will one day compare it to a TU-X1. I will post my findings here.[/quote]
Je...
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I spent most of the past year trying to get more/better Big Music from my system. I played with (speaker) drivers and crossovers, and I also spent some quality time on my LP playback, in order to make this happen. I have posted some results in the ...
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http://forum.dancehallreggae.com/archive/index.php?t-33718.html
Let's skip the reactions to the context and just deal with the numbers. Yes, they are trying to play them too loud. But -6 dB @ 43 Hz for twin McCauley 6174s shoul...
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Yep, that looks like very bad. I am sorry folks you get hurt. I still get my two PP2000 of vintage wherever I got them, they are spectacular and I love them greatly. Since I got them to work properly (after the shielding accident) I have no single ...
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Since I go the new version of PP2000 two weeks back I was operating under presumption that they will be sonically similar tothe PP2000 that I have had. I did not invest time or efforts to confirm this presumption partially because at that time I was ...
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[quote user="Stitch"]Silbatone made a Demo with those Horns (the big ones)They said, it is one of three existing WE Horns, made 1935/36 (only mod is the addition of the tweeter you can see there). One Horn is made for 3500 Visitors, so we got a 7000 ...
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[quote user="decoud"]I suppose at least you can give him credit for reversing the switch from electrocube 935s back to your favourite 950s....[/quote]Nope, I do not see any reason to extend any credit in there. I have no idea where those caps are ins...
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In case Andrew Rose from Pristine there is no borderline personality or fraudulent intend. I have been pitching it for years that ANY audio industry “professional” is disqualifies to be evaluated on human scale of psychological disorders. An audio in...
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[quote user="Gregm"] Just a thought: sound reproduction, which includes main & harmonics, is what... sound reproduction is all about. The idea of performing reproduction in a consistent or with "structural integrity" manner is welcome -- bu...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The contemporary productions DHT tubes (Russian of Chinese) are superbly firm and have no internal noise when they shacked or hit. The mintage 60 years old tubes what you make the “close to ears” test responses like as some...
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While it is rare that any component under "review" will be panned outright, it is not uncommon for the "reviewer" to refer obliquely to the component's flaws. In some cases, the flaws may even be presented or offered up as "features", or it may...
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Roger Skoff: “A cool half million dollars for a pair of speakers! Certainly impressive, but is it sustainable” Well, the question about sustainability and reference to the Death Spiral is a good one. However I have more interesting question to ask: w...
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