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personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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Hi Romy,I have a friend who uses his audio system to listen to dramatic productions broadcast (sometimes live) on the radio. He also buys recordings of plays, and poetry readings. He is extremely fussy about how the sound of the venue is reproduced a...
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I agree. Objective evaluation of equipment does require a systematic approach. However it should be possible to keep the methodology and language used to describe these phenomena relatively simple.If we are to encourage others to share our inter...
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For a relatively small outlay I can go and listen to some chamber music, a jazz band, a choir or, for a little more, an orchestra. The quality of 'realness' I hear is consistent regardless of how good the performers are and how great the merit o...
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Hi Romy,When you visited our room, you played 3 pieces of music on our 1000 dollar speakers.All were nice recordings, one was Saint Saens 3, one was a very contemporary sounding piece of 17C Harpsichord? and I can't remember the third although I did ...
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any chance of a similar climb down on the 'adequate but not exceptional' 834P? have a good christmas! Guy...
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Hi Romy, I just received as a birthday gift the Barenboim set recorded with EMI in the late 60's. I don't have sufficient experience of the other performers/interpretations you mention to put this set into context. I listened to some Brendel sonatas ...
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Wow, how much better would the audio magazines be if we didn't have to tolerate the cliched and ill informed appraisals we are normally subjected to?! I completely understand how you perceived the sound of your Lamm experience from this image. I'd ge...
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Hi Romy, I don't doubt for a moment that there are plenty of people 'who know' who will wax lyrical about the benefits of open loop eq in feedback circuits. There are people 'who know' who will tell me that valve amplifiers cannot be as good as trans...
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Hi Romy, It certainly is a weird looking thing. I've never seen anything similar. It's hard, from the picture, to see which parts move and which stay still when the arm tube moves. How is the outer sphere attached to the 'gimbal'?. Could you post a s...
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It's polishing a turd though isn't it? I listened to the 834 quite a bit when it came out and thought it sounded poor, even for the price. imho, The circuit's just bad. If you do all that to it it isn't really an 834 anyway. I used to work for a valv...
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this is the first time I've seen the schematic of the 834p. Explains a lot. I always thought it sounded foggy and rose tinted with limited dynamic range. There seems to be alot of feedback in there. Having said that I've never found any of ...
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sounds like marketing bs to me! and I should know. I have to write that stuff sometimes! best regards, Guy...
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Yesterday I listened to a turntable that fulfills many of the criteria you deem to be important. this was the Kuzma XL. It does have the provision for using two arms. I listened to it with both Kuzma's own Airline and the SMEV. It sounds very stable,...
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Which room did you feel you could spend some time in exploring the music, but for the distributors attitude? Guy...
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I was involved many years ago (1985), in the design and manufacture of a 'low mass' turntable called the Voyd. This suspended design used 3 papst external rotor synchronous motors to drive a very light acrylic (and later polycarbonate) platter. The i...
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Can't say I share your abhorrence of all thing silver. My experiences have been somewhat different. I wouldn't however want to be accused of blinkered partisanship towards any particular brand though so I'll say no more about (some of ) the AN s...
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| agree with your feline wariness with regard to torch bearing disciples of any given faith, be they believers in Altec, Audio Note or even Vitavox. In the case of Audio Note the fervour has often been exacerbated by the activities, pricing and ...
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Romy,
I don't know if you have seen this effort by a gentleman in Greece. As I said, I'm not really a fan of the high mass approach. (I've listened to a few but generally find them tonally unbalanced) This design seems to take that approach qui...
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The Ultimate turntable only needs to provide for one arm. The ultimate arm. Why compromise its performance with various inferior arm designs.
I'm not sure that high mass is necessarily a good thing. Yes it stores a large amount of kinetic ener...
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Agree with most of these but I think your being a bit kind to B&W. Less of a cigarette paper more of a 13 Tog Duvet. Which Audio Note product did you hear that you thought so little of? The UK made stuff and the Japanese stuff are very different....
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