terry9
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| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? I should have made clear that I agree about the "digital" aspect of many modern speakers. I do not agree about Atmasphere, who I regard as highly expert. | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? I agree, Inna. I solve that by replacing the nickel and dime components in the crossovers. A single electrolytic cap in the signal path creates an unpleasant haze of high frequency distortion, which one identifies with digital. Red Book CD digital... | |
| Audio Research Reference 6 Preamp Review Well, Don, caps make a huge difference in a finely tuned system. For example, I tested two different brands of teflon cap in my RIAA stage: one was fast and clear, one was unlistenable. Now, having brought my amps to a fine edge, I found that powe... | |
| Individual International Seller Scam Taiye, sorry it happened. Thanks for sharing.But I think that just about everyone’s been scammed at one time or another, in one way or another. And I suspect that the exceptions are those with really bad memories. | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? Another new thing - laser trimmed resistors. Can be made accurate to a few ppm. The new (dare I say it?) Vishay VAR series is in a sonic class by itself. | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? Whart, you raise interesting points. As for the Quads, I have the new ones, highly modified.Your experience mirrors mine in that the Quad 57’s sounded very good. What prevents the successors from sounding as musical is, in no particular order:- st... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? ESL's. Walker's originals were very musical, but today's ESL's are cleaner, more dynamic, with an extra octave top and bottom. Magnepans are another innovation. Especially with cost-no-object aftermarket parts. What about MBL? | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Sorry I commented, Nandric. Let's stop the digression. | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Nandric, I was speaking of propositional logic, or truth table logic, which does not use quantifiers. I assume that is what you meant when you referred to "quantor". Prop logic applies to statements, which are sentences which are true or false, bu... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Don't think that's right, Nandric. A false statement logically implies all statements, true or false. IIRC | |
| What has your audiophile experience taught you about yourself? The joy of making.When I retired I began to make my own gear. New skills, new knowledge, new friends. This way, I own gear which I could not possibly afford from a manufacturer. | |
| Is it possible for the center image to drift from lp to lp? I hear it too, and I vote for 2, 3 and 4. Of course, this may have something to do with the fact that I am 70 (seriously, though, I hear just fine to 11KHz, lab measurement, repeatable). And I have taken care of the obvious things, as CLEEDS sugge... | |
| Will an Isolation Transformer Help My Digital? Another thought, Lowrider - the obvious place for a manufacturer to skimp is on the power supply. But high fidelity begins with pure power, because every bit of garbage, grunge, or harmonic which is generated by a power supply is going to end up a... | |
| Will an Isolation Transformer Help My Digital? Lak, I have a similar setup, and don't understand why it isn't among the first upgrades on the audiophile radar. My isolation transformers are Plitron.Lowrider, before you spend big bucks, you might want to consider a nice used power supply for th... | |
| Will an Isolation Transformer Help My Digital? Lowrider, I'll bet the wall-wart is a switching power supply. If so, it may be feeding noise back into your wall. Why not try an old laboratory power supply capable of the same voltage, instead of the wall-wart? "Old" being the operative word, bef... |