I digitize my turntable and use digital RIAA correction which is more accurate than any analog circuit.
I am curious about this. The RIAA pre-emphasis is of course done with analog components; as a result is not the ideal but instead a modified curvy slope. Does the digital version do the curvy thing?
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I first heard the Classic Audio Loudspeaker model T1 at the Triode Show in Philadelphia back in ’98. John Wolff also made a slightly smaller version called the T-3. It was the first speaker I’d heard that really did everything. I had John make me a set of T-3s with the same internal volume as the T-1 (the T-1s were too wide for my room) and I’ve had them ever since. They have been updated with a new crossover, field coils, a 2nd 15" woofer (downfiring) and a beryllium midrange diaphragm With a Kapton surround (which has its first breakup at 35KHz). Most of the updates were 15 years ago. I’ve yet to hear anything to convince me to move on; they do the best job I’ve heard with my reference recordings, which I recorded. 98dB, 16 Ohms, flat to 20Hz.
I think the Sound Labs would have been very satisfactory, but had no way of making them work in my room.