For Your System-Analyzing Pleasure, or: Screwing the Definite Standards of Quality!

For Your System-Analyzing Pleasure, or: Screwing the Definite Standards of Quality!

Busy here in <i>Stereophile</i> HQ. As the salsa blares ("<i>Clavo saca clavo!</i>"), we're happy to be working on Issue Number 1 of Volume 31. That's January 2008. And I just sent the 2007 Article Index to our copy editor, Richard Lehnert. Having compiled this list of every equipment report, column, interview, and feature we've published over the past year, I can confidently say:

That picture of a listening room front and center on the main page...

Hi.

If you click on the picture of the listening room on the featured part of the main page, it opens into an old article by JGH about listening rooms.

My question is about the pic.

Are those Magico Mini's and a Wilson Bensech Torus?

Is it Johnathan Valin's listening room?

If it's JGH's, then what's he kvetching about?

(Also, where's the turntable?)

Enquiring audiophiles (well, at least one) want to know!

Blind Testing

Blind Testing

Jonah Lehrer has been promoting his new book <I>Proust Was a Neuroscientist</I>, which means I've heard him interviewed on the usual chattering-classes suspects. And every time I hear him, I think I need to read his book.

Rega P1 Tonearm drifting

Hello guys!does anyone know,should the tonearm stay still
or drift awat a bit as i lower the tonearm on the record?
i'm new to turntables,and i've just got regap1 as the entry
level turntable.After reading manual instructions i set the
tracking force to 1.75 and anti-scate system to the same 1.75 using shure force gauge.i cannot play a song right at
the beginning cus'the tonearm drifts away as i lower it
on the record.Any opinion would be very helpful.thanks

static

finally got my turntable talking to my amp.
any suggestions on eliminating static pops when spinning my vinyl?
years ago i recall disc=washer made an "anti static gun" which seemed to do the trick.
thoughts / advice ?

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