richardbrand
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| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @stereo5 "I bought the Shure V15-4 body and a new Jico SAS with the boron cantilever. I love it! ... It is also better than my Audio Technica VM540 MM cartridge." I missed your post in the off-topic noise (I plead guilty). I have a Shure V1... | |
| What exactly is PRaT??? Ah, Chris Rea. First heard "The Road to Hell" in a clapped-out army truck descending into the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, with truck wrecks littering the landscape. Later I was MC for a conference and had a copy with me. Played it as attendees ... | |
| What exactly is PRaT??? I've posted that in my opinion PRaT relates to the time domain, not the frequency domain that we usually talk about. To the person that never listens to symphonic music, I would ask if that extends to films which use such music to underscore the ... | |
| Looking for a narrow baffle small footprint speaker @yyzsantabarbara "KEF Blade 2 Meta. Forget that BestBuy sells it too. This is one of the very best. The soundstage is the best I have ever heard, except live. The tech and research KEF put into the Blades is unlike most competitors." Absolutely ... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @lewm "With all due respect, you asked a very bad, very open-ended question with many ambiguous edges (the question pre-supposes that analog is in fact superior to digital and that there is or could ever be such a thing as a recording that could p... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL Wow, this is getting interesting! Hopefully this is my last quote from Peter Walker of Quad on the subject of speakers: "Anybody can build an electrostatic loudspeaker. The trick is to build one that lasts" or some such. In the 18 years betwe... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital Thanks to everybody who has responded so far. I would have liked to have had more space in the title to make it clear that I am not really looking for opinions on equipment, just for one or more jazz records capable of sounding excellent on vinyl... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @mijostyn "I specified the distance, 10th Row" True, and many people would roughly agree with you. But there is nothing mathematically special about the 10th row. Why not the 9th or the 12th? Or an equal distance behind the orchestra? I hea... | |
| Which power cord should you buy first Which of your components is going to inject the most electrical noise into your power supply? Most likely culprit is a class D amplifier, followed by a computer! Least likely might be a turntable, provided it does not have a switching power supply. | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @mijostyn Peter Walker of Quad used to do A / B demonstrations of his electrostatic loudspeakers, which were hidden behind a screen. Often B was a live string quartet. I am not talking about dynamics in what follows, but imaging! Not just imaging... | |
| What exactly is PRaT??? @yoyoyaya "... The irony is that the ... LP12 of the mid eighties had dreadful micro timing stability due to the movement of the subchassis/armboard relative to the platter. Linn’s mantra was pitch and rhythm." I lived in the UK before Linn, when... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @lewm I think unamplified jazz and classical are the only genres which provide a live 'reference' against which recorded sound can be judged. My local concert hall is in the Sydney Opera House which has just undergone a 10-year A$300-million refu... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @mijostyn Ha, Wagner invented the "wall of sound" concept so beloved of pop promoters like Phil Spector. Wagner’s ’temporary’ concert hall in Bayreuth is still the world’s biggest wooden building, as far as I know. Having a full orchestra effecti... | |
| What exactly is PRaT??? Of course, the actual music does not really slow down, nor change in pitch, nor timing (unless stylus drag actually slows a turntable down!).. But our perception of when the beat starts is affected by the arrival pattern in time of the first tran... | |
| analyzing sound Since OP listens to classical music, I'll give you my one-track work which I always use for auditioning components (CD or streaming - I cannot afford the prices this record commands second-hand). This work was originally recorded by Decca (Londo... |