viridian
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| Audio Fantasies I do imaginary double blind testing of my fantasy components to eliminate confirmation bias. | |
| Anyone notice different amounts of surface noise with different arms? Of course it is the tonearm. HiFi News has been doing tests on the secondary resonant signatures of tonearms for decades, and they are not all the same. See links. And that makes sense, as no two dissimilar structures are going to have similar res... | |
| Straight tonearms without offset angle Thanks Raul. Interesting observations, I appreciate your input. As for me, I find it hard to separate the design components of any gear in such a way as to make value judgments on on any specific design criteria. We may like a component, that par... | |
| Straight tonearms without offset angle Much as I would like to hear comment about other underhung arms, GT5000, Stanton, etc, an interesting read. https://www.stereophile.com/content/spin-doctor-17-paging-dr-l%C3%B6fgren-viv-laboratorys-rigid-float-9ha-tonearm | |
| Phono Preamp Selection When you say "old vintage records" are you listening to 78s, 45s, and/or monophonic records? | |
| MoFi lawsuit It's like going to a vegetarian restaurant and finding out they cook everything with lard and the chef justifying it by saying, "But you loved the taste of the food." LOL. | |
| Straight tonearms without offset angle A big shout out to turntable guru Mr. Krebs. Fantastic video, the whole thing is worth watching. Thank you. | |
| Straight tonearms without offset angle Jason, the FR54 had an anti-skate mechanism so Ikeda must have thought it of value, either functionally, or for sales purposes, and all of the later FR arms had it. Yours may be lost , but you can see the little piece of bent metal on the side o... | |
| Straight tonearms without offset angle No, I was not speaking of the Viv Float, no interest in it at all. Just asking about the conceptual point brought up in the initial post. If neither proposition is true, what is? If not necessarily masking, or additive, is it a matter of construc... | |
| Straight tonearms without offset angle I think that the OP's logic that the THD from one component somehow covers, or overlays, the THD from another component, rather than the two being additive, does not make sense, IMHO. | |
| Klipsch La Scala or Altec 838 speakers The original EV T35 tweeter diaphragm had leads as thin as human hair that can burn up under high power. So make sure that both tweeters are working properly. And any scraping sounds from the woofer would be a concern as well. I would also budget... | |
| Klipsch La Scala or Altec 838 speakers So have you heard a set of Carmels then? | |
| Klipsch La Scala or Altec 838 speakers I broadly prefer vintage Klipsch to Altec, but in the specific instance, I would take the Carmels. The LaScala can sound shouty, not my favorite older Klipsch at all. The Carmels might need some crossover work but should end up being more even tem... | |
| NEW FTC Amplifier Law As an Anarchist I prefer to just break the windows of B&M hifi stores and steal the highest power amp within sight, so no concerns about ratings. | |
| What's Up With Jane's Addiction? This just in from the news desk. The band is reforming under the name "Perry’s Addiction", with Peter Green as the new lead singer. And from Dave Navarro’s Facebook page, "It’s much less problems to work with the deceased. Less personality conflic... |