Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Too bad it is just after christmas..

2015-12-31 Thread Julf
ralphpnj wrote: > While the bass may be solid the highs are very sibilant with lots of > hiss. But that is good, old-fashioned analog hiss. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Too bad it is just after christmas..

2015-12-31 Thread ralphpnj
Julf wrote: > But that is good, old-fashioned analog hiss. I was thinking of a "wetter" kind of hiss, more like that of an old steam heat radiator. Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Too bad it is just after christmas..

2015-12-31 Thread Julf
ralphpnj wrote: > I was thinking of a "wetter" kind of hiss, more like that of an old > steam heat radiator. That is what I was assuming. What can be more analog than that fluid, rounded sound of heated water vapour escaping? So much more organic than the crude, edgy "digital" sound created by

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Too bad it is just after christmas..

2015-12-31 Thread ralphpnj
SBGK wrote: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSiVWkk5zaQ > > the sound of the sex pistols is barely audible above the steam sounds, > I'm sure Sid would have approved. Great find and an excellent video. After watching the video I think that this record player should only be used to play the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Too bad it is just after christmas..

2015-12-31 Thread SBGK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSiVWkk5zaQ the sound of the sex pistols is barely audible above the steam sounds, I'm sure Sid would have approved. Touch optimisations http://touchsgotrythm.blogspot.co.uk/ SBGK's

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Too bad it is just after christmas..

2015-12-31 Thread Mnyb
He he the wov and flutter is clearly audible :) and it actually explained the strange arm mount , he turned it 90 degrees over the spindle to use it . But i duobt any corect distnace and angles are cared for . fun never the less . We must have a pair of flame speakers to this

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Too bad it is just after christmas..

2015-12-31 Thread ralphpnj
Mnyb wrote: > He he the wov and flutter is clearly audible :) and it actually > explained the strange arm mount , he turned it 90 degrees over the > spindle to use it . > But i duobt any corect distnace and angles are cared for . fun never the > less . > > We must have a pair of flame speakers

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Too bad it is just after christmas..

2015-12-31 Thread ralphpnj
Okay time for even more audiophile humor. I hope that the steam powered turntable is using triple distilled RO water, any other water would just add a graininess to the sound from the trace minerals in the water. One would imagine that the flame would definitely color the sound so the choice of

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Too bad it is just after christmas..

2015-12-31 Thread Julf
ralphpnj wrote: > I hope that the steam powered turntable is using triple distilled RO > water, any other water would just add a graininess to the sound from the > trace minerals in the water. Oh no, you really need to buy the special mono-molecule audiophile water from a tibetan mountain

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Too bad it is just after christmas..

2015-12-31 Thread Julf
SBGK wrote: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSiVWkk5zaQ Yes - that link and more from 'the full story' (http://www.asciimation.co.nz/bb/2010/11/30/a-steam-punk-record-player). "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Too bad it is just after christmas..

2015-12-31 Thread ralphpnj
Julf wrote: > Oh no, you really need to buy the special mono-molecule audiophile water > from a tibetan mountain stream, that has then been processed by playing > for 100 hours of Fleetwood Mac to the bottle of water. Only $999/bottle. Fleetwood Mac? I would think something with a little more