Establishing a common analog listening bias

Dear friends: This Dertonarm " common ground " subject is really usefull not only for your own system set-up and for other system comparison ( including our each audio system items. ) but as heard again and again the " common ground " recordings we will learn more and more of those recordings till the time that when we hear the very first track on a different system that the one of us we know ( overall ) what is " happening " in that system. Of course that that " common ground " give us unique and universal audio language with no single frontier.

Using a " common ground " approach give us a constant parameter where we are really experienced and where the experiences can be repeat each time we try it. We have to hear those recordings ones and again many times in our system and in other systems before we obtain the faculty to discern in precise way what we are hearing through those recordings.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Hi: I forgot. the " common ground " recordings/tracks IMHO has to be that when these tracks are on target any other recording ( same VTA ) are at its best always.

Those reference tracks only could be taking like references when ( like Dertonarm says. )the tonearm/cartridge geometry is almost " perfect " on set-up where an out of target " parameter " can/could be hear/heard it.
Other important factor is that those precise details that we choose on each track must be of several kind: a hard to hear( distinguish. ) ones, natural sounding ones, precise and defined and with different " colors " trying to cope both frequency extremes.

There are other factors that could help but I think that those that I posted are good to start.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

So, is someone going to actually pull together a demo CD of the tracks and make it available?

(ha, ha ... that was supposed to be a joke for all you analogue nuts)

Bob

Great report Raul! Thank you very much.

Hi,
So, what then about "Tequila sunrise" and sibilance distortion?
Would that be part of the test scenario?
A.