richardbrand
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| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @herman In my reply to you I clarified that "Ultimately, I want to be able to judge whether it is worth spending any more on my vinyl hardware, or stick with digital". Unfortunately my original title for this thread had to be truncated, and did n... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @wanders Thanks! I am glad to report that I can hear the difference between DSD64 and CD. I bought a Reavon universal player and could immediately tell, using the SACD I mention above, that its analogue output fell way short of my previous Marantz... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @herman How do I know if I have "vinyl hardware properly set up and optimized" without something worthwhile to play on it? Yes, there are a lot of variables but I want to eliminate poor recordings (your variable 1,000,001) as a source. Maybe my ... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @lewm Yes, the Quad 57 (your nomenclature) is indeed curved in the vertical dimension, which effectively focusses the sound on a horizontal line behind the speaker. Most other speakers claiming 'line source' have a virtual line which is vertical!... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL Ah, so much to take in. Yes, my Velodyne has stereo high pass digital filters which is how I relieve my Krell / Quad ESL-63 / ESL-2905 of having to play low bass. It is also old enough to have a pulp/paper cone but if the servo mechanism is good... | |
| Does anyone on AG truly care anymore about objectivity & sincerity of Magazine reviews? As a kid, the two magazines always available in the house were Gramophone and Autocar. Gramophone concentrates on reviewing classical recordings, with some equipment reviews. When new recordings are compared with the finest prior recordings, you... | |
| Does anyone on AG truly care anymore about objectivity & sincerity of Magazine reviews? @moonwatcher "The United States could disappear from the face of the Earth and the temperature of the Earth wouldn't change by any scientifically significant amount". Now that would be some experiment! | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @kennyc Thanks for the link to TAS' list. I am glad the recording I always use for speaker assessment is on it, albeit using its highbrow title! Decca’s 1969 recording of Benjamin Britten conducting his “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra”. a... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @mijostyn My Velodyne 18" subwoofer is digitally controlled, with digital crossover and servo control of the cone for under 0.5% harmonic distortion. It has 8-band parametric equalisation and 1250-Watts RMS power. If I am not careful, it rattles... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL Oops, I forgot the revolutionary Australian Stuart and Sons 108-key piano which extends the 'normal' piano range by two octaves, all the way down to 16-Hz. Those low strings add sonority even when playing standard repertoire. The bridge design pr... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @dogberry @mijostyn I bought an 18" Velodyne servo-controlled subwoofer to replace my Duntech Thors, back when my main speakers were Quad ESL-63. One undoubted advantage is that, by relieving the Quads of low bass, they can play much louder be... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @mijostyn I did not mention dipole nor bipole! The Quad ESL-63 was called FRED as it is a Full Range Electrostatic Dipole - the rearward bass radiation is out of phase, since it comes from the same plane as the forward bass. FRED is logically a ... | |
| What exactly is PRaT??? @dogeardaudio As a teenager I was air-conducting (might even have been to Pierre Monteux’s Elgar) when I accidentally hooked a vase on the mantlepiece and hurled it across the room. Mind you, Georg Solti (the Screaming Skull) got so carried away,... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @mijostyn "Dipole subs do not work well, I have built and tested them. No matter how heavy you make them they shake and the cancellation effects along with room modes create wild frequency response aberrations." Plenty of speakers use dynamic d... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @lewm "Like I said, in my opinion Quad 57s are best if you remove the complex electronics that Walker implements in order to make the panel act like a point source. Then a stacked pair (or triplet) can act like a line source. Hearing is believin... |