The importance of VTA, SRA and Azimuth - pics

[c1ferrari]

Sorta like that joke about heaven and hell where the cooks are British, the Italians are the administrators, etc....{no offense to British cooking, that has improved; as to italian administration, well....}

Haha
How about those Italian cars, though

[jcarr]

Thank you for the kind words, Sam. The Atlas took about two years from inspiration to production, including the development of a completely different design which I ultimately decided not to release as a product, yet provided important contributions to the Atlas. So it's something of a relief when people say that they like how it performs and sounds.

Regarding the phono stage design that I am working on, how it operates is radical or downright bizarre, depending on whether you have a glass half-full or half-empty kind of mentality. The big problem with attempting radical things is that there are no existing examples that you can look to for guidance - you have to make your own experiments and suffer your own failures to learn what is possible and what isn't.

For the above reasons this project is not easy, but I believe that it will have a unique sound of its own, and hopefully be able to provide some unique insights into the performances that are recorded on LPs. Maybe it will even sound half-way decent (smile).

best regards, jonathan

[c1ferrari]

Entirely, my privilege, Jonathan

[MylesBAstor]

Thank you for the kind words, Sam. The Atlas took about two years from inspiration to production, including the development of a completely different design which I ultimately decided not to release as a product, yet provided important contributions to the Atlas. So it's something of a relief when people say that they like how it performs and sounds.

Regarding the phono stage design that I am working on, how it operates is radical or downright bizarre, depending on whether you have a glass half-full or half-empty kind of mentality. The big problem with attempting radical things is that there are no existing examples that you can look to for guidance - you have to make your own experiments and suffer your own failures to learn what is possible and what isn't.

For the above reasons this project is not easy, but I believe that it will have a unique sound of its own, and hopefully be able to provide some unique insights into the performances that are recorded on LPs. Maybe it will even sound half-way decent (smile).

best regards, jonathan

Think I know what you're talking about from our conversation. Now if you had been able to pull that off, that would have been exciting!

[andromedaaudio]

THis is not about kids and failure but failure in general .

http://utah4h.org/files/publications...b__6701109.pdf

[MylesBAstor]

THis is not about kids and failure but failure in general .

http://utah4h.org/files/publications...b__6701109.pdf

I agree. If you study some of the newer thoughts on changing human behavioral patterns, getting people to realize that failure is part of the learning process is very important.

[andromedaaudio]

Yes especially if you scroll the above quotes ,albert einstein said: if you ve never failed, youve never tried anything new

[jazdoc]

Dave Slagle has some interest comments regarding SRA on the HiFiHeroin blog:

http://www.hifiheroin.blogspot.com/2...s-new-toy.html

[audioarcher]

I have noticed that effect. Any magnification will distort the image because of the curved optics unless it is perfectly centered. Good luck getting it perfectly centered. I have pretty good near vision so I do the best I can with the naked eye and then adjust by ear.

[MylesBAstor]

Dave Slagle has some interest comments regarding SRA on the HiFiHeroin blog:

http://www.hifiheroin.blogspot.com/2...s-new-toy.html

Thanks Mark! The last paragraph sums it up quite nicely. It's a guide, nothing else; what some people have turned it into is a crutch because they don't trust their ears.