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| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Csontos, well it is great to be able to hear stellar performances from the past with great realism. I just heard Nnenna Freelon from about ten feet away from her. The performance was heavily amplified, however. She was great, but so was her Live r... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Rauliruegas, "From this point of view a long tonearm against a shortest one is in clear disadvantage because can't " respond " to the cartridge tracking movements as fast as the shortest one." I think you are referring to the great mass of the lon... | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? Budt, I do. It is very good and its Wavefront Timing Control allows dialing in a very realistic image. The only problem is that they were very under capitalized and have all but out of business. I am a long time friend of Roger Paul and I cannot r... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Lohanimal, you said, "One of the real problems of neutrality replicating the illusion is that I cannot recall last attending an un-amplified live performance in music, and trust me, I have tried very hard to do this, so I for one and truly denied ... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Rauliruegas, I have seen the data of tracking error and nevertheless find the Ikeda long arm sounds much better than the short arm. I would prefer a straightline tracking arm and perhaps the pivoting tracking error arms will become more affordable... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Mapman, speed constancy while playing music is a major keep. Also major vibration control is essential. I certainly have heard very expensive turntables that were massive and had lots of bling, but sounded pretty poor. I think it is also the case ... | |
| Cheap tweaks...What would YOU reccomend? Opps, I've learned it is not the Rick Schultz of High Fidelity Cables. | |
| Cheap tweaks...What would YOU reccomend? Billgaw, there are several manufacturers of such devices. I have tried those by Exemplar and found they had a very nice improvement. When I got Rick Schultz's High Fidelity series of cables, I accidentally noted that without the Loops, the sound w... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? Mapman, but I know many of them. They tend to not be "technical" in the university sense of the word, but rather military or self trained. | |
| Fuses that matter. Mapman, I know your concerns but most components have externally accessible fuses. | |
| Fuses that matter. Mapman, I like the IMHO. As long as people respect the fast versus slow distinction and the amp value on the stock fuse, experimentation is perfectly safe. Why you would advocate avoiding the fuse tweak, I don't understand. | |
| Equipment that has made you 'stop' looking? I could have list many such products, such as the ARC SP-3 pre and Dual 75 stereo amp, the H-Cat preamp, Fulton Premiers and speaker cables early on, but the reality is that whether I was looking or not, I found superior components. I now know tha... | |
| Fuses that matter. Turboglo and Vhiner, most reviewers don't have the benefit of manufacturers coming to their listening room and setting up already brokenin equipment and setting the room to optimize their equipment. And, of course, those who get this benefit may b... | |
| Review: Stillpoints ERS Tweak I am in a quandary. Years ago I bought four sheets of ERS paper. On my Reimyo 300B amp's transformer, I initially cut a 3 by 2 inch piece. It was awful. I cut it in half and tried again. This went on until the piece was a one half inch square, but... | |
| Fuses that matter. Almarg, i wonder if any manufacture has ever gone about choosing a fuse value this way. I know with certainty two who went to a different value when the first was blowing too often. I think it is more like civil engineering with a big safety facto... |