FM radio, once the mainstay for those seeking exposure to new music, is under attack from satellite radio, Web radio, and corporate playlists. Do you still listen to FM radio?
I have a number of albums with minor warps. I would like to hear your experience about the increasingly popular outer rings available for turntables. I know that VPI now includes them. There is also a company in Canada than manufactures these rings.
http://www.ttweights.com/page/page/6597621.htm
I just received mine and am starting some critical listening. I'll post my thoughts in the near future, but I thought that it is a good time to get the subject rolling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr0-9MHYTuQ
I am confused..watch the whole thing.
After reading Art Dudley's review of the Sony Playstation 1 from about a year ago, I bought one last fall on Ebay for a budget-busting $34.
I really like Art's writing in Stereophile, he's pretty consistently one of my favorite writers. Here are some of his comments from that review: "Above all, with every CD I tried, the PS1 exhibited a superior level of rhythmic acuity, or
Aloha,
Over time, we have run into comb filtering being offered again and again as the root 'confuser' of subjective listening reports.
Proponents of comb filtering cite the large differences in frequency emphasis or de-emphasis that can be seen over very small spatial positioning intervals. These differences are mentioned as the solution to almost all subjectively reported audible differences audiophiles hear between pieces of electronic gear, but I think this is not a fully appropriate answer.
Not far off the mark