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| Thin Line Between Critique and Courtrooms: A Dialogue on the Recent Audiophile Drama @ezwind Again, I'm not an expert but I'm not sure a finding of malice would be necessary. As I understand from a bit of googling, malice is required for a defamation finding against a public figures or officials. Companies offering goods and ... | |
| Thin Line Between Critique and Courtrooms: A Dialogue on the Recent Audiophile Drama @atmasphere Generally speaking, a negative review (not one that is positive with a few minor beefs) should be looked upon as unethical. I must say, as someone who spent decades in the journalism business, for both big and small news organizat... | |
| Honesty of the Reviewers As a professional who has spent more than 20 years in the news business including more than a few of those at major national news organizations I have to tell you that all these conspiracy theories about what goes on in new orgs are complete bunk.... | |
| New Jazz Releases A couple of new releases I've really enjoyed so far this year are:Ben Goldberg - Orphic MachineJD Allen - GraffitiVijay Ayer - Break StuffMyra Melford - Snowy EgretSound Prints - Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival (though it doesn't do justice to ... | |
| Entry level turntable If the table you're buying uses an AC synchronous motor, I don't think one for use with a 60Hz power line will play at the proper speed with a 50Hz line.I have no experience with the current crop of budget tables, but the U-Turn Orbit seems to be ... | |
| Using a RS SPL meter I actually have found what Ethan Winer has reported here --http://realtraps.com/art_spl.htm -- to be largely true. The Radio Shack SPL meter is pretty accurate for the bass frequencies, not so accurate for anything above around 1kHz and no correct... | |
| Best Rock Album in 2012 It hasn't really been a stellar year for rock to date to my ears, I must say, but the rock album's I've really liked so far have beenJapanroids - Celebration RockBruce Springsteen - Wrecking BallDr. John - Locked DownDr Dog - Be the VoidI just lis... | |
| Disappointing Albums of 2012 I agree with those who say Wrecking Ball is excellent; I also loved Magic and thought Working on a Dream had it's moments. I actually thing Springsteen's been on a bit of a late career run a la Dylan post-Time out of Mind. Haven't heard all the ot... | |
| Tube Preamp Paired with Tube Phono Stage? Right, I get that, it's an RLC circuit and the capacitance is tuning the resonant frequency, and the lower the capacitance the higher the frequency (and the R is damping it).So what does it take in terms of good design for the phono stage to be st... | |
| Tube Preamp Paired with Tube Phono Stage? Thanks, yeah, that's what I'm trying to get a grip on, if we're talking about a resonant peak way up above the audio band....maybe 600 khz a the low end or even pushing 2 Mhz at the high end; where presumably it's far enough above the audio band a... | |
| Do I need to replace all my tubes at the same time It probably depends on which tube has failed in what type of amp. If the tube that's failed is an output tube in a push-pull amp where it's ideally part of a matched pair, then you might want to replace both output tubes with a matched pair for lo... | |
| Tube Preamp Paired with Tube Phono Stage? Al, thanks for the clarifications. I just installed an AT33EV at home and noted that the specs supplied in the manual were pretty thorough on those scores -- 10 ohms impedance at 1 khz; 22 uH inductance at 1khz -- but I gather that's not always th... | |
| Explain Class A amp to non audiophile friends Well the whole goal of running class AB instead of Class B is to pretty much eliminate crossover distortion by judicious biasing of the output devices and usually also the use of negative feedback. I'm not sure if it can be eliminated to the point... | |
| Phono Section, Preamp, gain matching for noise Maybe the RM has considerably more self-noise than the phono stage? | |
| Explain Class A amp to non audiophile friends First you have to think about the waveform of a sound, it has a peak and a trough and it cycles from peak to trough over and over at a certain frequency.With a Class A, the amplifing device is drawing more than enough current at all times througho... |