dgarretson
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| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool, as one progressively raises the bar in the hobby through a process of acquiring or hearing successively improved components, what is the nature of the "reinforcement of preference" that you propose is occuring? Assuming that break-throu... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Such descriptions of personal experiences regarding coloration and neutrality as related to specific components, may serve as helpful illustrations of abstractions explored elsewhere in the thread. My personal preference (and also my perception of... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Kijanki, Warmth that lacks correct pitch definition is yet one more example of an undesirable coloration-- often indicative of weaknesses in rectification, power supply, or coupling caps. IME it is one of the most difficult problems to eliminate i... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? This weekend I turned up a circuit that allows continuously variable cartridge loading using Silonex light dependent resistors(LDR). In my balanced phono stage, the LDR works in parallel with Caddock TF020 high-value fixed resistors. In a single-e... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Kijanki, my view is that analytic & sterile err at the opposite extreme of unresolving warmth. Both kinds of extremes are colorations and as such, represent deviations from neutrality. There are many instances in which internal mods to electro... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? "Sounding better and sounding neutral are two completely different things."Assuming that one accepts common usage in critical vocabulary that "neutral" means "uncolored," can you suggest a better term than neutral to describe the experience of "be... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Bryon, several posts back you raise interesting points by distinguishing between perceptions and preferences, while acknowledging their interrelatedness. You suggest that perception and preference are fungible characteristics that both evolve thro... | |
| Sundsmith rebuild. Thanks, Al. My blood pressure dropped a psi or two toward normal. | |
| Review: ALLNIC HT 2500 Head Amplifier Nuvistor Tube preamp Excellent review. You had me jumping off to put on that Steven Stills '70 solo album. In spots the mix is a bit dated with panned guitar licks. But images seem solid where intended. I have not yet heard Allnic, but anyone interested should know th... | |
| Review: Trans-fi Terminator II Tonearm To follow up on this review, I had recently been considering update to T-Pro. T-Pro has a solid aluminum alloy block in place of the hardwood core at the interface between the air manifold and the arm base. It also adds on-the-fly VTA. Since I hav... | |
| Sundsmith rebuild. That's very interesting, as I have been waiting now seven months for my first Soundsmith retip. I have been patient & am still hoping for the best, but this approaches my limit. | |
| Sundsmith rebuild. How long did you have to wait for the work to be done? | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? To whip the horse's eyes with one more water analogy, "You can bring a horticulture but you can't make her think."Too much abstraction, Dorothy Parker? | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Bryon wrote, "by improving the way you think about things, you improve the way you perceive things."Similarly, as an English teacher once told me, if you can't communicate clearly in words, you are not thinking clearly. This thread evidenced clear... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? A fuller extract of ideas from G. Holt’s audio glossary seems relevant in context:1. Frequency response: Phase shift and distortion can sound like frequency-response aberrations.(Note 1: Perception of neutral frequency response may be subjectively... |