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Hi All,
I'm thinking about adding this amp to my HT system, any experience on the forum with this power house would be helpfull. I don't run Klipsch with my HT system as you can see in my profile, the Def Techs are great for HT but I have a big two story family room which opens up to a kitchen. Things can sound a tad anemic at times, I think 3 times more power will give it the punch, dynamics and control I'm looking for, my concern is, if this is the quality of power that can do the job.
Tom
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fini, is that the original head shell? It looks like it is going up whilst the arm is going down.
Rick
That's what I'm seeing. How does it sound and are you able to adjust it properly for VTF?
Tom
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shes not underage now, and she's hot.
Tom
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Nothhing wrong with this mind you but I hear he could buy and sell a guy like me 3 or 4 times over with the worth of the cars he has parked in his garage. Yep it would indeed be nice.
Craig
Damn Craig, I didn't know you were that cheap!
Tom
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"Sony is overstepping the fair-use clause that gives consumers the right to make backup copies. "
And how about the fact that they are "infecting" consumers computers for their paranoid benefits.
Tom
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My needle can virtually play any vinyl without a trace of hiss, pop and crackle!
Are you for real?[:$]
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you got pm
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Oh, and by the way he did change his policy, all tubes are available to everyone now, you just pay a premium if you didn't buy the equipment from him.
Tom
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In all fairness I must chime in, Kevin treated me more than fairly when my upsampler went bad in my CDP. It was a month out of warranty, replaced it free of charge.
Tom
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When I ocassionally rip an LP to disc with Sound Forge I have to usually normallize the sound to balance the channels, employ click & scratch filter twice, clipped peak filter once, on the fly low end equalizer boost, a touch high end boost, edit out needle thump at beginning and end, employ noise reduction filter once, some huge glitches have to be cut out because they cannot be processed. After all this they sound pretty good. I have found that I can cut out very loud pops and still can't tell if anything was cut. The low end boost ends up usually +12 db from original and the high end maybe 1 or 2 db. Sometimes have to run through the equalizer again to get rid of low end groove noise. The man is right. They cut the crap out of the bass, compressed the crap out of everything else. And vinyl is better than Disc? Impossible dream.
JJK
And I'm sure after all that, in my opinion it must sound like a great digital recording.
Tom
lol!
sorry I can't resist.....
I previously ran a tape production studio where we have thousands of audio cassette masters of all kinds of recordings. When I became the guy in charge we promptly moved to a digital studio (dvd and cd production) for a few reasons:
-supply and demand: the mass market wants CDs, not tapes
-time: it takes way less time to produce and rip all the CDs (on the order of 2 hours versus 18 hours).
-quality: CDs simply sound better than tape. Lower noise floor and cleaner sound
-longevity: the master doesn't get damaged everytime you play a CD and it has a longer shelf-life. Also, because it won't get damaged you can forever burn a new master and not lose any quality
I know tapes are a bit different from LPs, but they are also very similar in regards to the artifacts present on the medium.
We're now in the process of converting the old analog cassette tapes into a digital format for archiving purposes. The oldest of the tapes are beyond their shelf life and are at times unretrievable! It is on these damaged recordings that we are implementing some hardcore noise reduction and processing to at the very least make them intelligible. In other words, all quality is thrown out the window and we're just trying to make the source material heard.
Achieving such good results I of course wanted to apply this process to the not so damaged cassettes - "of course it must sound better". Well the reason for this long story is that after years of experimentation I have found that there is no noise reduction, pop filter, or any "flaw reduction" process that is going to improve upon the quality of the original flawed recording. There is of course a huge wow factor as you notice all this noise and stuff getting sucked out of the recording, but at the same time you are sucking the life out of the MUSIC as well. A few years down the road I think you're going to realize that you wish you had the straight original rip from the LP into the digital format. I can understand the use of a little EQ, but don't try to "fix the flaws" - as you simply end up ruining it for yourself in the future. I call this the "wow factor".
Now I know I'm not listening to your actual final product and it wouldn't be fair for me to have a preconcieved notion on how it sounds, so I simply challenge you to make a few recordings. One original straight to digital copy. One where you use as little EQ as possible (say at most a bass-shelf filter and maybe some HF attenuation only if needed - don't try to fix flaws, just make it sound good). One where you EQ to your hearts content (lets those dials rip and try to fix the flaws if you want) and then one where you use all the processing you have available (what you're doing now). Put all 4 recordings on a single CD and just listen to the same song on the different tracks, but listen in a random order. I bet you'll find the second method to be the most enjoyable - if you enjoy the 4th method more then I want to know your exact settings to try it out for myself [
] Perhaps make it an interactive experience and share all the files with the forum and demonstrate the differences.I was being fesisious (sic?), should have put a wink smiley after my post. I too believe a straight burn on a needle drop is the way to go.
Tom
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Dragonfyr,
Is this the correct cd issue:
http://www.deepdiscountcd.com/index.cfm?request=cd.cfm?upc=696998573529
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When I ocassionally rip an LP to disc with Sound Forge I have to usually normallize the sound to balance the channels, employ click & scratch filter twice, clipped peak filter once, on the fly low end equalizer boost, a touch high end boost, edit out needle thump at beginning and end, employ noise reduction filter once, some huge glitches have to be cut out because they cannot be processed. After all this they sound pretty good. I have found that I can cut out very loud pops and still can't tell if anything was cut. The low end boost ends up usually +12 db from original and the high end maybe 1 or 2 db. Sometimes have to run through the equalizer again to get rid of low end groove noise. The man is right. They cut the crap out of the bass, compressed the crap out of everything else. And vinyl is better than Disc? Impossible dream.
JJK
And I'm sure after all that, in my opinion it must sound like a great digital recording.
Tom
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Damn, Dylani are you restoring yourself? If so, you don't need to sell all that stuff, on the other hand even if you gotta pay labor, maybe a couple of those pieces should cover it.
Tom
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All time scary, first Exorcist second Demon Seed, third Phantasm.
Tom
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Dr. Who
I'm located about 30 minutes north of you, lets hook up, come over with your favorite material, and give me your input on what you hear.
Tom
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The bass was the one thing that I noted as being unique with this speaker, tight, fast and acurrate would some it up. The attack on the skins these speakers convey gives a true sense of realism, the rest of the package just follows along.
Tom
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Thanks for the input guys, I'm glad to see they are bing enjoyed.
Tom
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I've been away from the forum for about 9 months, upon my return I've noticed an increased popularity for LaScala's, and Cornwall craze has subsided some. I remember about a year ago it was close to a dirty word around here, what gives, or am I just imagining things.
Tom
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I agree, my system starts to sound good after about half hour, an hour later balanced and open is the best to discribe what I exhibit. Maybe its a equipment issue or maybe the protons flow better after an hour....NOT!
Tom
Geezzz Tom tell the truth by the time a hour has past so has a couple beers[
]Craig
Beer, yuck I prefer the tan stuff.[6][<
)]Tom
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How about those Sox![
]Tom
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I agree, my system starts to sound good after about half hour, an hour later balanced and open is the best to discribe what I exhibit. Maybe its a equipment issue or maybe the protons flow better after an hour....NOT!
Tom
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Black sounds better.[
]Tom
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I'm no expert but but no Diamond no Tele.
Tom
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Here is another interpretation, using all new parts and refurbished power and OPTs, of the ST70. These are built by the same person who did the brief modifcations on the Baldwin I have. This person has professional metal working ability from automobile restoration/painting, and has been working with tube and television equipment since most of us were kids. His workmanship, including chassis painting (powder coated here) wiring -- all of it, is really among the best I have seen. He also installs the meters you see on the front panel of this amp. There is another Dyna 70 available for under $700 that doesn't have the meter.
Dee's awesome new MKIIIs were from the same builder.
http://cgi.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cl.pl?ampstube&1134664996
Erik
I'm sorry but that amp looks like one of those antique clocks you place on the center of a fireplace, and with a bad coating job to boot.
Tom
] Perhaps make it an interactive experience and share all the files with the forum and demonstrate the differences.
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Im looking for some speakers to use for parties for my college
in 2-Channel Home Audio
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These are in another thread:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5833877898&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1
Tom