TT 1 Trans-Fi Salvation with magnetic bearing + Trans-Fi Terminator T3Pro + London Reference
TT 2 Garrard 301 with NWA main bearing + Audiomods Series Six 10.5" + Ortofon 2M Mono SE
Digital Lindemann Bridge + Gustard R26 with LB external clock
Pre and Power Amp EWA M40P + M40A
Bass Amp & DSP Behringer iNuke NU3000DSP x 2
Speakers 1 Bastanis Sagarmatha Duo with twin baffleless 15" bass drivers per side
Speakers 2 MarkaudioSota Viotti Tower
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Hi Marc,
Sorry for my late response to this.
That's a fair point, and I accept it. However, I can only comment on what I see written in front of me, based on my previous experience of observing this type of behaviour, and as far as Frank goes, all the usual signs were there of a typical 'objectivist', bearing in mind that many self-proclaimed objectivists also use their ears, in the final analysis, to form their opinions in audio.I think yet again you're misinterpreting those of us who are interested in the technical discussion and (wrongly, it would appear to me) painting us as 'objectivists'.
However, as I said earlier, if Frank rejects the label of an 'objectivist', I'm more than happy to stand corrected, and that also applies to you
Of course not! I've made plenty of misjudgements and mistakes, over the years, in audio. I'm human the same as anyone else. However, I've learned from those mistakes and so don't repeat them, and instead use the information gained to strengthen the skills of my subjective analysis. Ultimately, for me, the practical experience gained from listening to 100s of different types of equipment, in many different contexts, over many years, is worth much more than the contents of any technical textbooks!Are you suggesting that you've never made a subjective decision (of the hundreds), based on your senses, which you latterly realised was wrong because you'd mis-heard/mis-read/got caught out cos it looked different in the certain light (or what ever) etc and then when the information is presented again and you took it in differently you made a different decsion?
Yes, occasionally I look at the technical specifications of some equipment, which I may have to buy blind, and those often give me an inkling of what to expect, sonically. Cartridges are a good example here. I will also take into consideration information given by those whose ears I trust. There are a few people on this forum and in 'real life' whose opinions would influence my prospective buying of equipment.Do you never use any other point of information /knowledge to make a judgement beyond your gut instinct?
I tend to shun the opinions of so-called 'experts', whether they are media-based or otherwise, as often their ego is greater than their actual knowledge of the subject in question. Unfortunately, we're predisposed to follow the opinion of 'experts', especially when said 'experts' come from a scientific background and have great technical knowledge.
Well, I'm afraid that that doesn't impress me one iota. Those who impress me are people who can demonstrate that they have good ears, through what they write on the subject of audio and music, and ultimately, from demonstrating that they have superb sounding systems and a good grasp of how real instruments and voices sound, un-amplified, in order to use this as an effective benchmark from which to judge how they are reproduced through a hi-fi system.
Science and measurements will only ever tell us so much about audio. I'm a free-thinker who follows my own path, and ultimately will always trust my ears.
That's fine - I understand that. However, I rarely find that necessary. The only test equipment I use on a regular basis is a stylus pressure gauge and an alignment protractor - my ears are plenty good enough to judge anything else I may need to know!I'm not advocating using test equipment to test a hifi setup I'm suggesting using it to test the quality of (and potentially improve) my own subjective judgements!
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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"People will hear what you tell them to hear" - Thomas Edison
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I'm afesteringvinylphile.
I think you were referring to my comments, although I believe you misunderstood them. Yet somehow you've managed to state exactly what I was getting at. And, I can't state that any better than you just have for that was my point.
Of course, we don't just throw out science. A whole boat load of science went into analogue playback before anyone ever thought about using A/D/A for the purpose of recording and playing back consumer music.
But, as you said "conclusions evolve because new information comes to light". So, it seems to me we have a choice. Do we really accept that, essentially, science stopped at 16/44.1 ??? Do we really accept that just because we don't have a glaringly obvious equation for what scores of folks are obviously hearing in analogue playback, we should regard it as euphony? Or does it make more sense to assume that there just might be something to that. Something that requires "more scientific questioning and continuos testing...." The most unscientific stance to take is to plant one's feet so deeply in the ground as to say there is nothing more science needs to or can tell us about this matter. That's what I'm getting from some of the posts here about the "completeness" of 16/44.1 and supposed inabilities of analogue playback. I can't agree with such statements "because research changes over time and may change conclusions" and often does.
Lyrics are the ramblings of man, sometimes inspired by The Creator, most often, not.
But music (melodies, harmonies, rhythms), that's God stuff.
Always was. Always will be.
One of the biggest lies ever told was that only certain kinds of people should listen to certain kinds of music.
(silent) VINYL LP SLIDESHOWS
Location: Eastern, US
Posts: 1,869
I'm afesteringvinylphile.
Lyrics are the ramblings of man, sometimes inspired by The Creator, most often, not.
But music (melodies, harmonies, rhythms), that's God stuff.
Always was. Always will be.
One of the biggest lies ever told was that only certain kinds of people should listen to certain kinds of music.
(silent) VINYL LP SLIDESHOWS
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
Protect your HUMAN RIGHTS and REFUSE ANY *MANDATORY* VACCINE FOR COVID-19!
Also **SAY NO** to unjust 'vaccine passports' or certificates, which are totally incompatible with a FREE society!!!
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