mijostyn
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| End of a long quest to vanquish sibilance. @stuartk Many people habitually do not play their systems loud because they do not like it or they live in a situation where it would be unacceptable like an apartment complex. I promise you if it sounds balanced at low levels at some point when y... | |
| End of a long quest to vanquish sibilance. There are two sources of sibilance, recording generated and system generated. There are a few recordings that are sibiant no matter what you do other than generate a Grundy Notch Filter, will remain sibilant. System generated sibilance is virtual... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? Steve Gutenberg is a mid Fi guy which is a good thing. He reviews equipment that most of us can buy. He prefers a more romantic, bloomy sound. The Zesto phono stage is a great example using four 12AX7s. I understand the leaning towards SUTs and I ... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters @rauliruegas It did not make sense to him because back in the day many more records were run right up to the label. Now that is a very rare occurrence. Modern records space out the grooves a little more and resort to two discs instead of one. The ... | |
| MoFi or Harbeth (used) Harbeth by a country mile. @soix All point source speakers are relatively poor off axis as the volume the speaker produces drops off rapidly with distance including the Ohms. The best kind of speaker for off axis listening is a line source. Beca... | |
| Is this a bargain? @bill_k Very correct. It is also a very delicate setup that will not survive any misstep. My tendency would be to avoid it. | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters Actually @rauliruegas I prefer tangential tracking, or as close as you can reasonably get. The two arms that have my attention are the Reed 5T and the Schroder LT. I have specific requirements in a turntable that few tables meet in total. Sota is ... | |
| Subwoofer Follow-up At least now you do not have to be in a hurry and can wait till you can do subwoofers right. | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters @rauliruegas Absolutely, the difference is probably not easily audible. It is a technical superiority. These technical issues do add up over an entire system, looking at 100s of small issues like this.......in theory. I do have a rather fine sound... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters @lewm I should have been more specific. Twisting the cartridge just a few degrees in the headshell is enough to blur the image. There are always unequal forces on the cantilever. A few degrees one way or another is not going to matter. Shoot, ther... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters Right, @ Lewm is on it. All you care about is the cantilever being perfectly tangent to the groove at two points on the record as dictated by your preferred alignment. To get that tangency you have to juggle the variables of overhang, offset angle... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters I prefer Lofgren B. Lofgren B generates less distortion across the bulk of the record than any other alignment accepting at the very innermost area where distortion rises sharply. Modern records avoid the innermost area of the record. You might se... | |
| Biwiring make any sense? @secretguy 1+++ | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? @lalitk That is true. Now I am going to be politically incorrect. You have to look at the demographics. Many of us have tube preamps with an onboard MM phono stage. Most of us are price sensitive and we are going to take the least expensive path ... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? @rauliruegas don't forget Constellation! @dogberry I have several BluRay and DVD operas and my system doubles as a theater. Believe it or not, excepting rare theaters like Teatro alla Scala Milano, I actually prefer the sound at home. This is a ... |