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    Dereneville - linear scanning of the grooves

    I discovered my Goldmund T3f did this too to my horror. It uses an LED system, I expect a laser system in many times brighter so less likely to respond to a bit of sunlight though. I keep the appropriate blinds closed now on sunny days.
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    Dereneville - linear scanning of the grooves

    Fabulous. That makes my Goldmund T3f look very old-fashioned, which it is, of course :)
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    Dereneville - linear scanning of the grooves

    I have been using a similar concept of arm but much older engineering without mishap for nearly 30 years. This with its much more modern control system should be fine. I have plenty of pivoting arms (I was involved in the business in the 1970s) and none of them are as safe to use as this will...
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    Dereneville - linear scanning of the grooves

    Delighted to see this. As an old bloke who worked on engineering record players in the 1970s but stopped to work in F1 racing I have found it depressing to read about "advances" on tone arms which have actually been variations on same-old, normally using static parameters for a dynamic device :(...
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    Mono Cartridges

    The actual reason older stereo records had a notice not to play using a mono pickup was the compliance, not the stylus size or shape - stereo pickups also usually had conical stylii. Mono records only have lateral modulation and mono pickups only had to be compliant in the horizontal plane...
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    Goldmund Apologue installation just completed on Long Island, NY

    If there was still a distributor in the UK I would probably have a Satya now. From my experience with the Epilogs and Goldmund in general I wouldn't expect any gain on music in my room from the bigger systems and I am not into home theatre where I am sure the biggies would be magic! Does the...
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    Goldmund Apologue installation just completed on Long Island, NY

    The Epilog bass is isobaric, so each bass unit is mounted as a pair, face to face sandwiching the baffle, so you see half the bass units.
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    Goldmund Apologue installation just completed on Long Island, NY

    I came across Goldmund kit when it was imported into the UK by Absolute Sound. As an engineer who had worked on record players early in my career it was the turntables which drew my attention, since they were designed in a way that made perfect sense to me based on what I had learned myself...
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    Goldmund Apologue installation just completed on Long Island, NY

    I have had a Goldmund system for many years. I am not one for changing equipment much, too much time wasted! I have had Epilogs since they were first released. I have yet to hear better speakers. My Mimesis 20, 22 and 29.4s are "resting" but I am enjoying the Epilogs as I type!
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    Stereophile | January 2017 Issue

    I actually don't feel that strongly about it, just playing devil's advocate really. It is quite easy to find a piece of work supporting almost any theory on the internet, we live in a "post-truth" information environment after all:) One researcher concludes one thing, a different researcher...
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    Stereophile | January 2017 Issue

    Ha-Ha-Ha! Are there any speakers with a flat enough impedance characteristic to have its FR inaudibly changed by a SET amp,given that 0.1 dB change is audible?
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    Stereophile | January 2017 Issue

    I agree that flawed reasoning leads to flawed deductions, but it is your reasoning which has no basis in fact. Simplicity of circuit has no merit if it results in a non-linear solution, it is poor engineering understanding. There is evidence, quoted by another poster, that people found the...
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    Stereophile | January 2017 Issue

    I remember that!
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    Stereophile | January 2017 Issue

    :) :) Just agreeing with those 1999 observations. Still do. Nobody has yet produced a cogent reason why people buy these items other than this. For me it is no problem to buy what you like to listen to best, that makes sense. If you want to justify it to yourself any way you like, fine.
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    Stereophile | January 2017 Issue

    Years since I last saw this but it is the evidence that listeners find 0.5% added 2nd harmonic distortion to be "more musical" which leads to the idea that people may well chose a piece of kit which adds this sort of distortion because they prefer it. Again "does it sound good because of the...
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    Stereophile | January 2017 Issue

    Thanks for the reply, I am retired now so my time is very much less valuable than it was. When I was still working I never looked at sites like this. I take on board all your points. Personally I mostly listen at lower levels than I measure in concerts (I have measured both). Indeed a good...
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    Stereophile | January 2017 Issue

    Hi Stavros, this could go on like ping-pong! 1. 0.1% is possible from ~250Hz to 1500Hz up to realistic listening levels. Not common but available. 2. My concern about my horns has always been more about sound reflections within the horn, very similar to the tuning of the induction and...
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    Stereophile | January 2017 Issue

    Interesting post. 1. I am familiar with the distortion shortcomings of loudspeakers, that is why, IMHO, one notices much bigger sound differences between speakers than electronics in most hifi systems of my experience. It is very expensive and rare to produce low distortion in the bass, which...
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    Stereophile | January 2017 Issue

    I don't know. OTOH it seems plausible that, even if a human can discern them equally that higher levels of any euphonic harmonic may not only discerned but preferred and used as a buying choice, whereas any harsh harmonic will cause rejection even at low levels.
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    Stereophile | January 2017 Issue

    I believe that some types of distortion are euphonic and others unpleasant. I think it is not a question of the ear prioritising one over the other, just amps with euphonic distortion sound lovely, and so quite a lot of this distortion is not only tolerated but positively favoured. In the case...
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    Stereophile | January 2017 Issue

    This is where I disagree with you. Some distortion is harsh, some euphonic. SET amps produce lots of distortion but usually sound nice therefore the distortion they are producing is euphonic. If the distortion level is low enough it will effect the sound less, harsh distortion will always be...
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    Stereophile | January 2017 Issue

    I do understand the "difference" between thd and relative amount of harmonics. If an amp has audible levels of thd it is definitely adding to the harmonic structure of the instrumental timbre. I have read loads of opinion pieces about which harmonics are unpleasant and which not, but that does...
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    Stereophile | January 2017 Issue

    I understand Michel Reverchon of Goldmund has the same approach.
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    Stereophile | January 2017 Issue

    Does that mean it is a used car salesman has given the best explanation or that he has has the same opinion as you? It is not open to discussion that SETs produce more distortion than any other type of amp, and most of them have an uneven frequency response due to poor speaker impedance...
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    Stereophile | January 2017 Issue

    It may not be the goal, but it is always the result. The difference in tone between instruments is the harmonic content the instrument adds to the fundamental. I believe the flute is the nearest to a pure tone and the characteristic sound of an oboe is because it adds quite a lot of 5th...
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    Stereophile | January 2017 Issue

    Lots of people love the sort of equipment like SET amplifiers and record players which have audible levels of euphonic distortion, often lots. Since most modern recordings are mixed from multiple microphones placed much nearer to the instruments than any listener (other than the player...
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    Stereophile | January 2017 Issue

    We are going to disagree again :) The two things which definitely change the sound of an amplifier are its distortion characteristic and its output impedance. The first changes the timbre of instruments, many people like this but anything above 0.1% is audible, not objectionable maybe, but...
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    Stereophile | January 2017 Issue

    Always due to ignorance about vibration.
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    Stereophile | January 2017 Issue

    OK I won't bow out. It is most probable that most cones are not pistonic over the whole frequency range they are used for. Those made from traditional materials definitely are not. What I wrote was that the material does not matter if the cone is in its pistonic range, and this is true. It may...
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    Stereophile | January 2017 Issue

    I am familiar with all this. I am afraid you are not understanding the physics but here is scarcely a forum for going back to University, so I will leave you with your misunderstanding and bow out.

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