We’ve all been there … a component upgrade and suddenly, your system sounds “off”.
Sometimes it’s a case of shooting the messenger (the “upgrade”), and this can leave you scratching your head, especially if you’re evaluating the changes through your analog rig.
Steve Guttenberg interviewed one of my customers (Mark) who is a location sound engineer. My customers are some of the smartest and happiest people.
Mark discusses his job, how it relates to his audio hobby, his system (including his hybrid Galibier turntable), and his generally happy approach to both life and his hi-fi.
But I like it (with apologies to the Rolling Stones) …
We just returned from tuning a customer’s system – a visit which brought up the age-old discussion about the validity of dialing in your system with rock music. Read more …
We sold a customer some late stage prototype, Wind River speaker cables. He loved them, and asked us about our design approach and how we arrived at our current production cables.
So here you go … 15 months’ development summarized in a few paragraphs.
We’ve been advocates of rigid drive belts for over two decades.
As much as our early experiments are burned into my memory, I never cease to be amazed at how tunable a turntable drive system can be, merely as a result of drive belt selection.
With the release of our new drive system, it was time to return to first principles and review variations of this concept, and (why not?) throw a rubber belt into the mix for sake of comparison.
In the second post in this series, I alluded to system issues that can fool you into thinking you have a setup problem with your turntable. I’ll cover a few of these situations in this post.
A few days ago, I wrote about musicans’ risk taking and how we make similar decisions when configuring and setting up our hi-fi systems.
In this post I’d like to comment on some misunderstood setup parameters, and in the next one, I’ll cover system configuration.
As I wrote earlier, I’m all about dynamics, tone color, musical pacing and rhythmic “intelligibility”.
Of course, when we focus on individual attributes, there’s always the risk losing site of the whole picture. I’ve found that the above 4 attributes however, serve as a good measuring stick for a system that’s faithful to music. Read more …
Yesterday, I was searching for words to describe my system building approach to a customer.
I started off with a description of attributes I consider to be non-negotiable – tone color, dynamics, transient speed, that sort of thing.
The idea of risk-taking occurred to me …
It’s all too infrequent, that beautiful mechanical construction and good sound come in the same audio connector.
It had gotten to the point where I developed a prejudice against “pretty” connectors.
ETIs new power connectors are one such instance where the twin stars of beauty and function align.
We previously wrote about the superiority of cotton sleeving over polyester braided outer jackets on our signal cables.
Yesterday, we delivered a complimentary upgrade to a local customer – a balanced tonearm interconnect to compare against a cable we delivered last Winter.
We were confident he’d like the update, but you never know …
