Recent content by DesertHawk

Thank you for such an in depth and we'll explained response.

I would say this thread has been really helpful. If I'm summarizing what I've gleaned from it. Essentially, timbre is the "artifacts" that an instrument adds to a note that is played. After reading this, I would say it absolutely can be measured in the sense of we can take a recording of an...

Is it subjective? I don't mean to be combative but a bugle horn playing e flat and an electric guitar playing e flat are objectively different sounding (at least I think you can say that's objective). Yet, both should be around 311hz. So, if the frequency is the same, what's causing them to...

My understanding is timbre is describing the differences in sound of different instruments playing the same note. My understanding is also that this site effectively evaluates musical equipment by passing a set frequency (a note) and evaluating how faithfully the equipment reproduced that...

If you have a balanced preamp and power Amp then you have to go from balanced to unbalanced at some point, right? I don't know if there are pros/cons to doing that in the phono stage rather than in the preamp.

I think a puffin would be fun to have. The waxwing, IMHO, made a design flaw in having all controls be done via an app. I get so frustrated with streaming or Bluetooth apps. Plus, one of the biggest advantages to vinyl for me is the "analog experience" - I'm not talking about the sonic...

If you're already committed to strictly MC or MM, I'd be very tempted by Michael Fidler's stuff

I'm worried about alcohol poisoning

What is ABX testing? Why is it so hard to do in practice?

Fair enough

Almost certainly. But you could also look at the cheaper Mani 2.

Pretty well summarizes the thread.

It's probably more than just "r&d". They probably have a whole ecosystem of parts and boards and interchangeability that make it so they can deliver at the cost they can for a number of products and overhauling designs would lead to needs to redisgn that while ecosystem. That said, it looks like...

Oh I'm not saying it's great by any stretch. My point, if I even have a point, is that there's a hole in the market for these all in ones and while you can build a much better system piecemeal, it's hard to do so for $400.

And a free phono stage and Bluetooth