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| Soundsmith notes the passing of Doug Cassara Our Heroes are now gangsters, villains, criminals and sports figures. What did anyone expect would happen ? (sigh)...... peter | |
| Soundsmith notes the passing of Doug Cassara The Parting there is no place where leaves can fall where the Earth will not love to embrace as no color deep could hope to enthrall my heart more than the gift of your grace for the seasons' not a time for change but a change for time to draw... | |
| Cartridge incompatibility, Soundsmith and Luxman Please note CHANGING the internal resistors does NOT inhibit you in the least from other cartridges in future; it is totally the way to go (assuming the simple change works for this circuit). If you go to 470, or 1000 Ohms, you can ALWAYS use an... | |
| Soundsmith Strain Gauge I have not tried the Hyperion in a Triplanar. In my VPI arms I get a boost. In the Schroder Ref SQ, FLAT. My experience is that there are few arms on the market that disperse / damp or dont reflect low frequency energy dumped into the arm. It is... | |
| Soundsmith Strain Gauge I do need to mention some additional things regarding power supplies for the Strain Gauge systems. Companies like mine are regulated to ship ONLY CE and RHOS approved supplies into the EU and other countries. The ANALOG DC "wall warts" we supply c... | |
| Soundsmith Strain Gauge Thank you for the comments; very little time these days to respond. The low end of the SG is very different from ALL other cartridges. This is not unusual - I have been involved with products my entire life that do not "sound" like others. The SG ... | |
| Soundsmith - Thank you to everyone. It is a sad story about the Boheme. That cartridge punched so far above its weight class for performance that it confused the entire lineup of models we make. So under great duress (from my marketing manager at the time) we discontinued it. That w... | |
| Soundsmith - Thank you to everyone. Dear John; It has long been part of my audio faith tradition to never tell anyone what they are going to, or are capable of hearing. That is in part why my responses are sometimes possibly not understood or appreciated if one does not consider the... | |
| Soundsmith - Thank you to everyone. Above someone asked my about my family. My father and family was from Breslau, my mother from Frankfurt-am -Main. My father and his sister fled in 39; their parents escaped in 42 - a miracle. My paternal Grandfather - Georg Ledermann, was major in... | |
| Soundsmith - Thank you to everyone. So many questions......so little time or room. First; my preamps. They are very high end designs, but we don’t make much $$ on them. Why, you may ask, do we make them. For the same reason that I do many things that don’t translate into money. It i... | |
| Soundsmith - Thank you to everyone. Suspensions tended to fail with long term age. They WERE great carts. My favorite comment was from Walter Stanton, who during a large meeting with sales reps, was asked "Why do the diamond styli cost so much?"Walter responded properly. "DO YOU KNO... | |
| Soundsmith - Thank you to everyone. Obviously Strain Gauge designs, although none have survived well, which is why I don’t work on them. Early Fairchild Stereo units. Some still are fantastic. Stax, for its cleverness, Dynavector 23 and similar, due to low mass (but terribly fragile... | |
| Soundsmith - Thank you to everyone. I love it. Yours?? Beautiful. I get it. https://www.sound-smith.com/memoriam Mine for Sprout. She stuck around after my wife died to take carer of me. Now I have Azul - a mystical Blue Merle Aussie who got loose at 12 weeks old and trekked more th... | |
| Soundsmith - Thank you to everyone. Thanks for your post. The problem with vintage cartridges is that unless they have been traveling at a substantial fraction of the speed of light, they have aged - and part of that depends on the environments they are/were in, and also on the spec... | |
| Soundsmith - Thank you to everyone. There is a love that is not love It is not the kind that makes you weak It makes you rise so far above It takes your breath, it makes you weep There is a love that runs so deep Makes all you do seem merciless It implores your soul rise f... |