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| Fidelity Research FR-64 vs. FR-54 Do you understand at least the complexity of what you are asking?Dear Raul, quite frankly, I am very disappointed! Being a distortion expert, you are still drilling on the distortion level of a single piece of equipment, when I was asking for the ... | |
| Fidelity Research FR-64 vs. FR-54 - what kind of parameters take I in count to evaluate any home audio systems and its differences in between?: mainly the distortion levels, every kind of internal/external home audio system distortion.Raul, Always talking about distortion, but ca... | |
| Manly Steelhead - any downside?? Lewm, thank you for the reply! Purely based on reading of reviews and posts, my speculation actually matches your ranking of the 3 units. It is just too bad that Atma-sphere doesn't have any agent in Hong Kong, I would love to have an audit... | |
| Manly Steelhead - any downside?? Hi Lewm, can you give a brief comparison between the Steelhead and the phono sections of your Atma-sphere MP1 and the Aesthetix Janus? I am using the Aesthetix IO and thinking of getting an additional phonostage / preamp, the Steelhead and M... | |
| Balanced or single ended phono cable to Aesthetix Io? o_holter, I just got the idea from the Wavestream Deluxe Phono, which had similar arrangement, only that both input and loading jacks are RCA. In my system, I prefer 200 ohm with the Ortofon A90. | |
| Balanced or single ended phono cable to Aesthetix Io? Hi o_holter, sorry that I wasn’t clear on my description! Actually, there was no cable needed, I just got a pair of male XLR plugs, soldered a resistor of the required value to pin 2 and 3, then simply plugged them into the XLR phono input for l... | |
| Bad NOS tubes... I am somewhat with stevecham on this one, not that I can't tell the difference in sound, but it is not a sure thing that NOS will always outperform current production tubes. I believe, like many things in audio, it is just a matter of matching.... | |
| Balanced or single ended phono cable to Aesthetix Io? As I don't have a tonearm with XLR termination, I can't attest to the difference in connection.However, I have found a convenient use of the XLR input! Since the two connectors are connected in parallel internally, I am using the RCA as the main... | |
| Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ? It is unimportant whether the vibration is occurring at a resonant frequency or not- its vibration either way- just more of it if its at a resonant frequency Again, I tend to agree with Ralph on this one and find it hard to believe that airborn... | |
| Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ? Hi Fleib,In his last post, 1st paragraph, Ralph clearly stated that the vibration is likely to be airborne.Also, if I have read it correctly, Ralph's arm pod was on an antivibration platform together with the lathe, so I would assume most of the s... | |
| Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ? Hi Halco,While I tend to agree with Ralph / atmasphere, I think it would be interesting if you could do some tests.To my way of thinking, the test can be rather simple, just lower the cartridge on a stationary platter / LP, then play music th... | |
| Michell Gyro SE + SME IV upgrade path Hi Tom, You may want to try the blu-tak tweak mentioned in this link : http://tnt-audio.com/clinica/orbetweak_e.html I can’t recall the details, but remember having considerable improvement when I was using the Orbe with SME V years ago. Goo... | |
| What cart. for the Reed 3P? Dover, thank you for your detailed reply! | |
| What cart. for the Reed 3P? Dover, thank you for the information! My question is, if we can block all, or most, of the external vibration at that resonance frequency (6Hz in my previous example) from reaching the TT by a Vibraplane or somthing similar, would that still has a... | |
| What cart. for the Reed 3P? Please correct me if I am wrong! As far as I understand, there is nothing special about this so call ideal resonance range of 8 - 12 Hz. It is just a general range to stay away from the lowest audio frequency (20Hz) and structural borne vibration ... |