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Hi Romy,I think it is a 3000. The other platter/base seems (from the ebay advert) to be home-made with a 16" diameter.http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5860808877&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1I presume...
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Is this the kind of set up you're contemplating?Someone in Canada is selling this on ebay at the moment.best regards,Guy...
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The multiple motor approach is more applicable when the platter/subchassis/tonearm is suspended. It prevents the motor pulling the entire suspended mass towards itself when the stylus tries to slow the rotation of the record. It also allows alot of p...
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Hi Wojtek,
I've only seen/heard an SP25 once and I wasn't able to judge how good it was as the rest of the equipment was unfamiliar to me. There is some information about the various Technics DD turntables here.http://de.geocities.com/bc1a69...
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Hi Romy,What kind of bearings are going to be supporting 42 and 62 Kg quietly?I remember a Swedish friend making a 75Kg gunmetal platter some years ago. Sounded very nice as long as the bearing lasted (which wasn't long!)Would there not be a ben...
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Given that most commercially produced audio equipment is originally the work of engineers, and given that most of it doesn't perform as well as one would like then it is fair to say that engineers generally haven't succeeded in applying what they hav...
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I must have skipped the lecture on the emotions of materials when I did my engineering degree...seriously though,I can understand the concept of impedance matching materials, I can see that different materials would have different mechanical (resonan...
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"Cho-san, the chief-designer of Micro, told me that the art of turntables design is the art of recognizing and managing emotions in materials."What the hell does this nonsense mean?best regards,Guy...
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Beside the fact that Mr Fremer doesn't know or understand the difference between jealousy and envy I'm afraid he doesn't gather and express his thoughts terribly well either. Indeed he seems to be a "little dipshit who can't write and is barel...
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You do make me laugh sometimes! You really do seem to have problems in seeing the merits in anything if it doesn't fully satisfy the very particular performance criteria you set. As a species such inflexibility wouldn't allow you to evolve very much ...
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Hi Romy,B&W are the internationally acknowledged masters in using pseudo-science in their marketing and very effective it is too. If ever there was a quotient for the difference between claimed and actual performance theirs would be the largest. ...
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Hi Romy,I've seen and heard many products in which an aspect of the design is interesting, even thought provoking but where that idea's implementation is poorly achieved. It doesn't mean that one can't learn anything from the product even if it's onl...
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I have looked at the Feastrex website. The picture you show is of one of their permanent magnet drivers. This uses their Naturflux magnetic circuit. Mr Akiyama's quote also refers to one of these permanent magnet drivers so you shouldn't be atta...
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"Go ahead and mock me,
Mr. Pussywhipped, because I am me, and you are just some little twerp
trying to get attention by wanking your crap on this website!"If this is the level of analysis available at Stereophile nowadays I really must get a subscr...
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I agree entirely with your sentiments regarding marketing bs and its new found application in the promotion of field coils. I do have a problem however with the notion that the reproduction of 'western' music requires different attributes than ...
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given that you are only really interested in measuring the field strength in one particular size of magnet gap ie that of the S2, is it worth considering making your own as in this link. http://home5.inet.tele.dk/f-hammer/fildcoil/measure.htmOne coil...
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I understand that Mr Kondo, the founder of Audio Note and more recently Kondo Sound Labs died in his sleep while attending the recent show in Las Vegas.Kondo pioneered the use of silver cable in the late 70's, owned and operated YL acoustics making s...
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In the case of the Audio Note field coil cartridge the field strength (and hence output) was significantly less than that from the permanent (AlNiCo) magnet equipped Io. Yet the performance of the field coil version (Io Ltd) was 100x better despite a...
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Hi Romy,
Thanks for the tip. I'll look into it. The highly recommended one over here is the Graham Slee Jazz Club. http://www.gspaudio.co.uk/preamps/jazzclub.htmHowever I want to try to get the old LEAK tube preamp to work first....
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Hi Romy,Due in part to your enthusiasm for the older 78 rpm recordings and in part to my own curiosity I have decided to add the facility to play these to my system. It also helps that an old aunt has given me a large quantity of classical recordings...
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Forgive my ignorance...Is there any benefit to be had from making and playing back .wav files derived from normal audio cd's? Is the damage done in making them into 'red book' audio cd's in the first place irreversible? Guy...
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Hi Romy,Can you describe how your vinyl playback and conventional CD playback fall short of what you are getting from FM? Is the FM playback of 'non live' material still sounding better than your vinyl and cd? Have you tried recording vinyl wit...
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I don't know where you are Chris but get a decent aerial for it mounted on the roof if you can manage it. There was some great stuff on R3 today including a comparison of many of the best versions of the Brahms clarinet trio and some tremendous live ...
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"FM is a public domain"I'd imagine if some less than scrupulous individual took to recording live broadcasts and then produced extremely high quality audio CD's from them for general sale, the performers and the radio station might have something to ...
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Of course I haven't compared it with the Sansui, which appears to be a very serious machine but the Leak sounds more natural to me than the other highly regarded tuners available over here (in the UK) such as the various Naim models, the Audiola...
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Both of these short excerpts sound very natural from what I can hear on my PC's speakers. I'll have to burn them onto a cd and see if I can coax the sniffy Teac into playing it!What's the position with regard to this (or any other) material that...
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I have been listening to and greatly enjoying a rather tired and worn vinyl copy of this piece with Leonard Bernstein playing with and conducting the Columbia Symphony Orchestra on Philips. I'm unlikely to find another copy. Can anyone rec...
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If an exhibitor can repeatedly make a good sound at different exhibitions, if they can make a good sound in an identical room to those in which others are presenting a dirge then I'd beg to differ that you can't judge anything by 'show' conditions. I...
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Hi Romy,
I've met musicians who understand music to a far greater degree than (I suspect) you or I ever would. I wouldn't however necessarily trust their judgement on matters relating to good playback. Some of them use quite appalling systems and ye...
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Clark,
thanks for the tip on the Ciani set. I'll try to get it. Should be an education!
rgds,Guy...
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