Zero distortion: linear trackers

[the sound of Tao]

Great idea for a thread Bonzo. I've been asked if I am considering a linear tracking arm for my new table. I look forward to hearing more videos.

This first video sounds a bit flat to me. Great music and I like the detail and tone on leading edge and sustain, good body, but the decay and harmonics sound somewhat truncated to me, less than full resolution of the entire note. Perhaps it is a really dry acoustic setting or something, but there is no sense of presence or dimension or mass of the violin, or the space in which it is being played, unless it is in a damped booth. This is what I think of as detail but not resolution. Lacks a bit of life. I listen primarily for balance and information from videos. This lacks a bit of both, IMO. Hard to know why.

Do you have another recording on the same system? The only LT arm I have heard is on the Walker table. I liked it.

+1 I’m looking forward to the thread. It’d be great to get a sense of the any shared characteristic nature of LT arms in general.

 

[Audiophile Bill]

Ha Ha, my Io actually broke i while ago Ked, i have just been too disgusted with its reliability to do anything about it yet. And yes i went to Sweden to get away from you, and your comparative listening sessions !

Hey - this is alas the problem with the Io. On its day it is incredible sounding. But its day are few and never far from the next issue. I know multiple folks with same gripe.

 

[tima]

Do you plan to use other music to demonstrate linear trackers? What happened to Rimsky Korsakov?

 

[bonzo75]

Do you plan to use other music to demonstrate linear trackers?

I got exposed to a new prog rock band I liked called riverside. Strongly recommend it to the rockers

 

[bonzo75]

Hoodoo man blues reissue

 

[cjfrbw]

Weird. I played 1 and 3 through my own system with Airplay for sheiss and giggles. It surprised me that both sounded quite good. 1 had better dynamic relations, 3 had a bit more volume and resonance, but perhaps slightly flatter. Both sounded mono with sound clustered at the center. Considering the chain of events leading up to the final vid, it really should not have sounded that good.

Maybe I should compound the absurdity and record it back on my cellphone and post the result. I might have to turn myself in to the funny farm for audiophiles, though.

Riverside didn't sound so hot, but also didn't sound so hot through headphones. Hoodoo Man also sounded pretty good, but all sound more or less mono.

 

[bonzo75]

@bonzo75 can you state which recordings we are listening to?

J.S. Bach, Sigiswald Kuijken - Sonates et Partitas Pour Violon Seul BWV 1001-1006

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1983 Vinyl release of "Sonates et Partitas Pour Violon Seul BWV 1001-1006" on Discogs.

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Heimo haitto bach Gabriell records, 1958. It is a private press, mono. https://gripsweat.com/item/323546465089/private-press-heimo-haitto-gabriell-2453-bach-haendel

 

[bonzo75]

This is the guy in Denmark ?

Oh btw, he also owned ML statements back in the day.

 

[tima]

J.S. Bach, Sigiswald Kuijken - Sonates et Partitas Pour Violon Seul BWV 1001-1006

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1983 Vinyl release of "Sonates et Partitas Pour Violon Seul BWV 1001-1006" on Discogs.

www.discogs.com

It's an excellent volume - recommended!

 

[bonzo75]

I might have to turn myself in to the funny farm for audiophiles, though.

I thought you have been a forum member for a few years now

 

[Audiophile Bill]

 

[iaxel]

J.S. Bach, Sigiswald Kuijken - Sonates et Partitas Pour Violon Seul BWV 1001-1006

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1983 Vinyl release of "Sonates et Partitas Pour Violon Seul BWV 1001-1006" on Discogs.

www.discogs.com

Heimo haitto bach Gabriell records, 1958. It is a private press, mono. https://gripsweat.com/item/323546465089/private-press-heimo-haitto-gabriell-2453-bach-haendel

Thanks! I'm familiar with the Kuijken performance. I don't have it on LPs though.
Not familiar with the Finnish violinist.

I have the early Szeryng Odeon record, which I also like.

 

[bonzo75]

Thanks! I'm familiar with the Kuijken performance. I don't have it on LPs though.
Not familiar with the Finnish violinist.

I have the early Szeryng Odeon record, which I also like.

Haitto was called Finnish Heifetz

 

[mtemur]

I got exposed to a new prog rock band I liked called riverside. Strongly recommend it to the rockers

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This one (Riverside) doesn’t sound as good as Hoodoo man blues reissue or others IMHO. BTW I spotted a good record -mocca flor- on the video. I guess it will sound great on that system.

 

[bonzo75]

This one (Riverside) doesn’t sound as good as Hoodoo man blues reissue or others IMHO. BTW I spotted a good record -mocca flor- on the video. I guess it will sound great on that system.

Riverside was given as a music recommendation. Not easy to find modern rock groups. The LP is nothing special

 

[morricab]

This one (Riverside) doesn’t sound as good as Hoodoo man blues reissue or others IMHO. BTW I spotted a good record -mocca flor- on the video. I guess it will sound great on that system.

From Quadro Nuevo? My wife saw them in concert and got a signed cd from them. Been listening to that one for over a decade…very well recorded acoustic instruments playing lots of music styles

 

[bonzo75]

He mentioned this was reference recordings first LP. Not a RR fan for classical but this for jazz was ok

 

[morricab]

I got exposed to a new prog rock band I liked called riverside. Strongly recommend it to the rockers

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Is this prog? Sounds like pretty straightforward metal. Not much complexity or time signature shifts or motif changes etc.

Is the amp used in this system a Robert Koda K70?

 

[bonzo75]

Is this prog? Sounds like pretty straightforward metal. Not much complexity or time signature shifts or motif changes etc.

Is the amp used in this system a Robert Koda K70?

They are called a prog group. I didn't think they were when I heard them.

Yes K70

 

[Lagonda]

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Witch one is Marc ?