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| Question on FR 66s Bill, John, Lew and others, I would like to have your opinion about the following calculations I made regarding the geometry of the FR-66S with a SPU (52 mm length). Please correct me if I'm wrong.The effective length of the FR-66S with needle to ... | |
| Question on FR 66s Hi Bill, thank you for your recommendation. It appears to me that the manufacturer specified S2P distance is not some kind of "holy grail" that cannot be touched by mere mortals. According to an geometriy calculator as supplied by Vinyl Engine you... | |
| Question on FR 66s Hi Bill, thank you for your recommendation. So if I'm correct the specified P2S distance is not a "holy grail" that cannot be touched by mere mortals?More important is the correct geometry at the null points (that is that the cartridge is parallel... | |
| Question on FR 66s Hi Henry, I use the protractor which is supplied by the manufacturer of my turntable, Acoustic Solid. It is a Feikert like protractor.Using the DB Technologies for the off set angle check at the null points.Chris | |
| Question on FR 66s Hi Lew, I believe Jonathan Carr has a point here. Sometimes I do hear something that you can call ringing when comparing vinyl playback with digital.Of course it is not a proof this is due to the tonearm only because many other things can also con... | |
| Question on FR 66s Dear vinyl-o-philes, it is perhaps a bit late to chime in but I haven't noticed this thread until now.For the FR 66S enthousiasts: I don't want to be the fly in the ointment, but some experts (like Jonathan Carr of Lyra) say that the FR-66S rings ... | |
| Quad 2905 versus Quad 2805 plus subwoofer To Willemj: Hi, I'm also matching my electrostatics (in this case Soundlabs) with DIY open baffle woofer towers.I'm curious about the sound of your system. Maybe the insights derived from listening to your system can be of additional value in the ... | |
| An audiophile dilemma To Rfleff: hi, in my opinion the JBL's do nothing seriously wrong. Of course the Soundlab give a sense of height with regard to soundstage because they are quite tall.In my case, I have tried to mimic some of the characteristics of PA speaker syst... | |
| An audiophile dilemma Let me give you some additional information: I'm an owner of Soundlab A-1 PX speakers. Prior to the Soundlab I had Dunlavy SC-V's.So I'm quite familiar with "high end sound".I know you can't compare apples to pears but I have heard with my own ear... | |
| unshielded SPDIF digital cable? Hi Clio, could you explain a bit why in this case simpler would be better? The OTA cable (like the DIY cable) is a non- shielded and non-75 ohms cable, which is against the existing paradigm with regard to a SPDIF cable!What are the sonic attribut... | |
| unshielded SPDIF digital cable? Hi Al, I compared the DIY with Nirvana AES/EBU and Atlas Opus SPDIF. Both the Nirvana and Atlas sound quite similar. The sound is clear and spacious, but rather "hifi-ish", with some emphasis on the highs. High pitched violin sounds a bit thin thr... | |
| unshielded SPDIF digital cable? Hi Al, I have a JMF Audio DXC2.2 D/A-converter with jitter reduction feature. My transport is MBL 1621. If the DIY has an impedance of 110 ohms, then it is a gross deparment from the recommended 75 ohms! That would be the same as screwing up digit... | |
| Wide bandwidth = necessary? It should be "artificially", not "superficially". Sorry for typo.Chris | |
| Wide bandwidth = necessary? Eldartford: that is an interesting phenomenon. Do you think we humans can appreciate more of the sound if the gear is capable of reproducing frequencies above 20kHz even if the recording itself doesn't contain any frequency above 16kHz? With other... | |
| Wide bandwidth = necessary? Amazing! Thank you for the references. Still I can't understand the need for such a response (to 40kHz) while during recording the bandwidth is limited.Chris |