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Vaguely back on topic, I am watching "Randall and Hopkirk (deceased)" the theme tune is distorted, it works a treat. |
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The Garrard 301, on the other thread, reminded me of the time I put one on ebay. I had given it a full service and said as much in the description. Some chap in France bought it, so off it went. Several weeks later I received a rather nice email from the guy. He had taken it to a top notch Garrard specialist in Paris who declared it 'the quietest 301 he had ever encountered'. Not only that but it sounded fantastic. They wanted to know which lubricants I had used on the motor and especially the lubricant for the main bearing. I'm afraid I had to inform him that due to being commercially involved in the restoration of classic turntables the type of lubricant had to remain a secret.
It has now been well over 15 years, so I do feel at liberty to give everyone a clue. It began with three and ended in one. At least it didn't cost more than the finest French champagne, not per ml. A lot of that snake oil does! |
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Thinking seems to be very expensive, seeing the length some firms go to to avoid it. Still, I haven't yet seen thinking described by managers as "Not a core competency" that really is the kiss of death.
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Perhaps relevantly, I was working in radio at this time and our monitors were JBLs. A year or 2 later, I visited a hi-fi emporium in the UK and heard their best system in action. A minimalist CD player and a valve amp, driving two electrostatic speakers of about 7ft height. The reproduction was eerily clear; no noise, no discernable colouration. The system was 'transparent'. Nonetheless, I rated it beneath the Harman Kardon & JBLs setup cited above! Perhaps I am an audiophilistine. |
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You can have fun at hifi demos at shows, but only on the pretentious stands. Listen very intently for several minutes. Move around a little. Rotate head a bit. When someone comes over say that there is something.... you're not sure but you think they have one of their speaker cables the wrong way round, the amp end to the speaker and the speaker end to the amp, but you can't quite hear just which one It's affecting the phasing, the two directions have different velocity factors, you know..... or make up some equal twaddle. This should sow seeds of doubt quite well. If it's all bi-wired, it'll take them even longer playing around to decide where the problem lies.
Then slope off to the Quad stand and tell them what you've done. Who? Me? Evil? read the strapline!
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DC being a 0Hz sound pressure level of about 1013 hectoPascals.
Was it specified in Cage's score, or the 'lawsuit'? Mike Batt might have been able to get off if the QNH was different on the day and place of his performance. It's a shame 4minutes 33 seconds is over the 3 minutes mark, I'm certain this limits its airplay, so it's never become as popular as it deserved. Good test record! David
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I have had a revelation, because we can't get negative pressure it must follow that all air based audio is distorted. That could make "absolute phase" a real phenomenon.
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Yeah! The air itself is 'Single-ended' That concept alone ought to make a lot of audiophiles very very happy. A revelation indeed.
But there's more. Holes don't exist. Like caves don't exist, only the rock around them exists... so that means the single ended thing sort of applies to semiconductors as well! Maybe they aren't the spawn of the devil? They were just faking it. David
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Caves (dents) and holes (toriods) do exist on earth, the air/water defines the shape the rock surrounding is merrily a simple way of not having a vacuum around it with the attendant problems of leakage etc.. 'aint nature wonderful!
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Air! Has anyone considered that inferior air filled with dust, and other particles and uncontrolled water vapour emissions from exhalations and God forbid - flatulance will degrade the sound quality. Those hi-fi shows held conference suites only filled with non audiophile grade common or garden air in the room. Only the purest air collected in the Amazon rain forest, liquefied, shipped and then slowly released into the listening chamber and allowed to stabilise 24 hours before listening commences is a must. The Audiophile elephant in the room!
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As anyone who's set up a room to demonstrate an audio system knows, one particular additive (strictly 'addition', I suppose, as the two aren't miscible) to the air in a room makes a huge difference - bodies. A room with people in can sound dramatically different from one without.
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Indeed. That is why concert hall acoustic design is a tricky thing. The effect of an audience on the acoustics is a major effect.
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