eldartford
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| Is a good Cermic Cartridge an Oxymoron? Narrod...I'll take your word for it. I never used such record players. I just can't visualize the geometry of the device. | |
| Is a good Cermic Cartridge an Oxymoron? Long ago, about 1958 or so, someone (Stanton maybe) made an effort to market a ceramic pickup which was about as good as the magnetics of that time. However, ceramics had gained such a reputation for cheap low fidelity and high tracking force that... | |
| Are some tracks impossible to track? Qdrone...God has more important things to worry about than antiskating force. | |
| Are some tracks impossible to track? Dougdeacon...Just to be fair, a blank disc is good for demonstrating that a significant skating force exists. It is no good for setting accurate antiskating compensation. | |
| Are some tracks impossible to track? Qdrone...Antiskating force is caused by drag of the stylus and the geometry of the arm. The drag varies with groove modulation, and is always more than what occurs with a blank disc. A test record with a heavily modulated pure tone (so that you ca... | |
| is there a current production 20 bit cd player ? Texasdave...I always thought that Sony had a more or less equal part in CD development, but you may be right about that. I vividly remember driving over to Albany NY having already decided to buy my first CD player, a Sony, and then being astonish... | |
| Whatever Happened To SAE? For some info about James Bongiorno and SAE you might be interested in:http://www.tnt-audio.com/intervis/bongiorno_e.html. | |
| Are some tracks impossible to track? The Shure V15Xmr (if you can still find one) tracks anything and is reasonably priced. Sounds good too. | |
| What happened to the loudness control? Spatialking...First let me point out that my subwoofers are a custom design, and may not behave like your off-the-shelf subwoofer. Each of my three front speakers (Maggie 1.6) has its own subwoofer system in a 7 cubic foot sealed enclosure embedde... | |
| is there a current production 20 bit cd player ? Can anyone tell me what a 20 bit D/A does when presented with 16 bit data? With oversampling a 16 bit D/A can output discrete levels corresponding to a 20 Bit D/A. That must be what is going on.In any D/A the least significant bit, and sometimes t... | |
| Very short speaker cable length recommended? Cable makers price their product by the foot. What would you expect them to say?My 3 foot Goertz are intended to simulate having no cables at all, which is what I think would be best. Supposedly the Goertz stacked flat wire configuration gives ele... | |
| is there a current production 20 bit cd player ? The only way to get 20 bit resolution out of 16 bit data is by oversampling. And why avoid 24/192? | |
| Chinese Loudspeakers ARE GOOD When the USA was a young brash nation we (or our forefathers) paid little respect to intellectual property rights. In the field of music the example that I recall is the work of Gilbert and Sullivan (comic operas...Pirates of Penzance, Mikado...et... | |
| EQ's... why doesnt everybody have one? Jafox..I have read that certain specific frequency bands, boosted and/or cut, have the effect of enhancing "decays,ambience, harmonic textures" and (one you forgot) a sense of height. I wonder if the recording engineers who made the LPs that you l... | |
| sound sacd discs like dsd Cds? The maximum signal level recorded on a SACD or a DVDA will be the same as the maximum on a CD. In other words, bit 24 of a DVDA represents the same player output voltage as bit 16 on a CD. So what you gain with "high res" is less quantization erro... |