Recent content by ravenacustic

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    Axpona 2024 who is going and why?

    I go because it is the biggest domestic show with.a mind blowing amount of equipment. Plus I go to see old friends whom I don’t live near.
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    TIDAL - The hidden gems

    Depends on the analog gear being used of course. Also the pressing of the record. But the MQA may in fact sound better if the analog system isn’t at the cutting edge.
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    TIDAL - The hidden gems

    Were these originally Philips catalog tapes? I have some of these on record and very well recorded. I am sure that the digital reissues would be excellent.
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    TIDAL - The hidden gems

    Fantastic musicianship. I found this album about two years ago.
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    Pranawire

    I had a loaner pair of balanced Pranawire Arhat interconnects a few days ago. These aren’t inexpensive but there are a lot of expensive audio items in the marketplace which don’t perform well in our respective systems for any number of reasons. The Arhats were not just good but the equal of...
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    Negative show report posts... enough is enough.

    Actually pursuant to this question of bashing show exhibitors for bad sound I find something else more disturbing and it is happening quite often. Reviewers are reviewing equipment almost solely on comparative merit. The review that comes to mind only because it is recent and speaks to my point...
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    Negative show report posts... enough is enough.

    Sorry folks. I'm not in the biz. I attend a couple of shows each year to have FUN! I get a chance to hear equipment I rarely get to hear and see exhibitors, many of whom I know and like, and catch up on whatever. I don't go expecting to hear ANY equipment at its best. Some exhibitors with a good...
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    Transfiguration Proteus

    Lotus, Cartridge comparisons being next to impossible due to set up variables, arm and table differences, platforms, phono preamps, et al, the Proteus is the most detailed and musically satisfying cartridge I've heard in my system. I would have preferred that they did not drop output to 2mv but...
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    Transfiguration Proteus

    To all of you folks who have had reason or desire to move to the Proteus after living happily with the Orpheus, don't hesitate to do so. Having broken my Orpheus stylus last week I was confronted with buying a new cartridge or having my Orpheus Re-tipped by Soundsmith. There is so little known...
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