The state of the industry
In part 1, we laid out a strategy for auditioning multiple tonearms and cartridges on both a Galibier Eiger prototype and our customer’s turntable (from another manufacturer). In this post, we finalize how we adapted the customer’s existing armboard to work correctly with his mis-specified Reed 2A tonearm. Mis-specified tonearm? Strong words, I know.
We’re remounting a Reed 2P tonearm for a good customer of ours. The ‘table is from another manufacturer and the individual who mounted it apparently didn’t understand the Reed’s many quirks which I describe in part-2. I can’t begin to tell you how many $30k to $60K turntable mounts I’ve had to correct – mounts …
The last of the Summer updates – adapting a first generation Gavia platter to TPI© / Carbon.
I’ve been thinking about guitar amplifiers lately, and their relationship to hi-fi amplifiers. The common “knowledge” is that they’re entirely different – with a guitar amplifier being a tone producer (even a “clean” jazz guitar amplifier) and a hi-fi amplifier being tone reproducer. Well, it’s not so simple …
If you’ve spoken with me over the past fifteen years or so, we’ve had this conversation – what a musical playback system means to you, and whether you’ve fallen into the trap of configuring a system that limits your musical enjoyment. Steve Guttenberg covers this in his “The Audiophiliac” YouTube video.
I had a conversation with a friend in the industry who challenged the premise of Galibier’s on-site setup model.
How many cable lifters does it take to “fix” a bad amplifier? By the time people come to Galibier, they’ve been ’round and ’round the high end audio game. Many are on the verge of checking out of this wonderful hobby. This snip from The Marx Brothers’ movie “A Day at the Races” sums …
All too frequently, succumbing to “retail therapy” is a sign that something else is wrong. This behavior can creep into every area of our lives – not just our role as audio consumer. This can spill over into audio design as well, as the designer tries to either spend his way out of a design …
The poor selection of demo music in the majority of the rooms at audio shows has always been a sore point with me and my circle of associates. There are many pleasant exceptions, but for the most part, the music in play is something I’d never sit through at a friend’s house. Apart from heavy …
Remember back in the 1990’s when the death of both vinyl playback and vacuum tubes was predicted? The death of the electric guitar is now forecasted, based on declining sales by the big players (Gibson and Fender). The same could be said about “heirloom quality audio”, because people aren’t replacing their equipment with the frequency …
