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Stereophile doubles down on the snake oil!
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One of my fav crime dramas!
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We got it bad, ain't we?
My cartridge stash is left over largely from my years in the industry. I still have a lot of records, some unplayed for many many years. At some point there'll be a reckoning, but as much of it is appreciating in value currently, it'll be a nice little nest egg for my wife and son to sell on if he's of a mind to.
Tonearms? I have a Basik Plus, brand new RB330 and an SME fixed-shell 3009 with V15 III lined up (for a Garrard 401 rumble box I have in waiting).
The Dual carriers do come up on our favourite auction site occasionally...
Sell it all now and build a great Atmos playback rig.
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Maybe at frequencies way beyond audible ones, there could be some effects due to the cable design. For home living room lengths of adequate gauge copper audio cable, no.
That is for some really serious 'lectric!Just espied this on the Polk Audio forums - thought this thread was a worthy spot to share it.
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Stumbled across this discussion reminded me of Currys (a UK electrical retailer) who were notably bad for selling “Black”, “Bronze”, “Silver”, “Gold”, “Platinum” rated HDMI cables ranging between £20-£150 IIRC. My snake senses still tingle to this day!
Although not as prevalent not multifaceted, I believe the practise still exists over there with Black and Gold offerings.
Although not as prevalent not multifaceted, I believe the practise still exists over there with Black and Gold offerings.
Vinyl cultists have had a long run of making zany claims about the ineffable analog magic of the medium. Claim like this “second class” thing and related digital-über-alles suggestions that vinyl doesn’t offer excellent hi-fi reproduction (along with its miscellaneous anachronistic imperfections) are just the same zaniness, inverted.
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The intent to deceive usually remains hidden, that's how deception works.
We've got plenty of that on ASR, too, so that alone can't be it.
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Nice! You could wear those to a soirée at Mar-a-Lago. Be sure to keep the price tag on.
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Only the ones who haven't had the opportunity to listen to low-generation copies of master tapes.
In comparison to digital, whether looked at from a subjective or objective viewpoint, I'm sorry sir but that's where your wrong.
A expensive, high quality combination of turntable, arm, and needle, plus another expensive investment in LP eq and amplification, can return
a fairly nice sounding approximation of what was captured on the master. At least when combined with a 1 in 100,000 pressing of the existing vinyl
recordings available, all the rest are still overwhelmed by surface noise, snap, crackle, pop, and the rest of the LP's ill's as a part of the billions
of LP's still floating around. At Hi Fi shows I've heard much the same from near 100 year old 78 shellacs when played back on expensive
gear owned by dedicated classic recording devotee's.
But a "fairly nice sounding" result is still miles away from the near SOTA sound you can get from a $25 used CD player and the millions of old, mis-handled silver discs being thrown on the ground all around the world.
The "Vinyl cultists have had a long run of making zany claims about the ineffable analog magic of the medium." are still making crazy, exaggerated claims for vinyl monthly in a number of high-end publications and dozens if not hundreds of web sites around the world. But just like the cable/cord claims also made at these locations, BS is BS, and the facts of the recording/playback quality of the two mediums can be very easily documented.
Enjoy playing with vinyl or even a wind-up acoustic shellac record player if that's what you enjoy, but it's been over 50 years now since any of that could be said to offer near SOTA home music reproduction.
'Excellent' is pushing it a bit. That doesn't happen so often. With a good pressing, disc in perfect condition, mint condition stylus, a couple of grand (at least) spent on the deck arm and cartridge, sometimes you can get there.
I perservered with it for years until finally accepting that the game isn't worth the candle.
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How about this for an idea. If you're going to equip your system with something like those D'Agostino things, surely you could cut one of the potential music destroying elements from the system by simply backing your mono-block amp up to the speaker and coupling them with some short lengths of bus bar! By doing this, the Audiophool could avoid the cost of the magical cables and be assured that the amp to speaker connection was the absolute purest it could be! They could still enjoy the wallet draining experience of high-end interconnects so they wouldn't miss out completely 
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This illustration is labelled incorrectly. The grooves that cause lateral movement in the stylus are actually a sum of left and right ie; a mono audio channel. This is how the brilliant design of the original stereo cartridge and disc remained compatible with mono reproduction equipment. The groove itself is a matrix with the lateral movement being the mono channel and the vertical movement being the difference between the left and right channel. The wiring in the cartridge (4 conductors) allows the matrix to be decoded into left and right signals.
Except then, audiophile bus bars would come onto the market, each with their own 'sonic signature'...How about this for an idea. If you're going to equip your system with something like those D'Agostino things, surely you could cut one of the potential music destroying elements from the system by simply backing your mono-block amp up to the speaker and coupling them with some short lengths of bus bar! By doing this, the Audiophool could avoid the cost of the magical cables and be assured that the amp to speaker connection was the absolute purest it could be! They could still enjoy the wallet draining experience of high-end interconnects so they wouldn't miss out completely
The diagram is correctly labelled. There are no grooves that cause lateral movement. Lateral movement is the vector sum of the left wall and right wall of the grooves. The clever bit is that a pure left signal causes the stylus to move at 45° to the horizontal (or vertical!) and similarly, a pure right signal causes the stylus to move at 45° to the vertical the other side, and 180° out pf phase. Consequently, a mono signal which is identical on both walls but one wall 180° out of phase will cause the stylus to move horizontally only, as the stylus goes up one wall but down the other wall by an equal amount. An out of phase signal causes the stylus to move vertically only, which is why the L-R content has to be carefully controlled to avoid the groove depth going to zero, and the stylus leaving the groove.
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Nice pictures of dragin a rock thru the ditch Smithy! LOL
You have to look closely at the grooves and wonder how in hell the playback is even remotely quiet.
The ugly roughness of the walls of the groves surface, it's a wonder how this thing sounds..
Maybe they are photos of something less than a high quality pressing ?
I have zero problems with anyone who prefers digital music playback. It’s great! But exaggerating the limits and drawbacks of vinyl playback to the point that it’s depicted as inevitably and universally “overwhelmed by surface noise, snap, crackle, pop, and the rest” is just propaganda, not audio science.
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