There Lies the Home Track Listing Total Time: 70:23 "Prelude (Before Dawn)"* Edie Hill (2005) 1:16
Microphones: two DPA 4011 cardioids (ORTF pair); two Earthworks QTC40 omnis (wide-spaced pair); two DPA 4003 omnis with acoustic equalizers (on Coresound Jecklin Disc); DPA 4006 omni (spot mike, cello); Neumann M147 tube cardioid (spot mike, voice, guitar); two Neumann TLM103 cardioids (spot piano mikes, as ORTF pair).
Microphone Preamps: two Millennia Media HV3Bs, Earthworks "Zero Distortion," Forssell M2a, DPA power supply/preamp, Metric Halo ULN2.
A/D Converters: dCS 904 (master), Metric Halo ULN2 (slave), Metric Halo MIO 2882 (slave), all…
Our shops are filled with clever answers. The trick is to find out which ones are attached to similarly intelligent questions.
Remember the Nakamichi "computing" turntable of the early 1980s? The biggest jewel in its engineering crown—the only jewel, some would say—was its ability to correct off-center records on the fly. The Nakamichi could determine, with astounding precision, how much correction a given record required, then compensate for the…
A little over a year ago, I borrowed a sample of Well Tempered Lab's bread-and-butter turntable-tonearm combination, the Well Tempered Record Player. Distributor George Stanwick (of Stanalog) let me keep the review sample a little longer than usual, and that gave me a chance to make a few more notes.
Next to the Rega P9, which I also admire, the WTRP came closer than any other new turntable or tonearm to coaxing this Linnie into abandoning his LP12—or at least buying an alternative. The LP12 and the WTRP differ in their…
I can look back at 10 years' worth of my own phono-preamp reviews and the stain is unmistakable: In every one is the subtle anger, the subtle pissiness, that came from my having to write about such a thing at all. I found it difficult to forgive an industry that would expect preamp buyers to start paying thousands of dollars more, just like that, for a phono section: something that we used to get for free, like drinkable water or a good education.
Nowadays…
Thus my comments are distilled from a variety of…
Description: Tubed phono preamplifier. Tube complement: one 6N1P, two 12AX7, two 5687. Frequency response: 10Hz–42kHz, ±0.5dB. Input impedance: 47.5k ohms. Output Impedance: 1300 ohms at 1kHz. Voltage gain: 52dB. Maximum output voltage: 40V RMS. Total harmonic distortion: <0.2% at 1kHz, 2V RMS output.
Dimensions: 6.5" (165mm) H by 8.5" (220mm) W by 14.6" (375mm) D. Weight: 24 lbs (10.9kg).
Serial Number Of Unit Reviewed: 0007.
Price: $2890. Approximate number of dealers: 17.
Manufacturer: Artemis Labs, 260 Marvista Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91106. Web…
Analog Sources: Linn LP12 turntable, Naim Armageddon power supply, Naim Aro tonearm; Well Tempered Record Player; Brinkmann EMT Titanium, Linn Akiva, Lyra Helikon Mono, Miyabi 47, phono cartridges; Tamura TKS-83 moving-coil step-up transformer.
Digital Source: cartonless Sony SCD-777ES SACD player.
Preamplifiers: EAR 834P, Linn Linto phono preamplifiers; Lamm LL2, Juicy Music BlueBerry Xtreme preamplifiers.
Power Amplifiers: Lamm ML2.1 monoblocks.
Loudspeakers: Quad ESL.
Cables: Interconnect: Audio Note AN-Vx, Nordost Valhalla. Speaker:…
Measuring the performance of phono preamplifiers can always be problematic because a signal generator is not a phono cartridge. Even with the wide variety of grounding options offered by my Audio Precision System One measuring rig—its generator outputs and analyzer inputs can be independently grounded or floated—as well as the options of grounding or floating the AC lead of the device under test, or running a separate ground lead from the unit's chassis to the analyzer chassis, the occasional component refuses to cooperate. Such was the case with the Artemis PH-1…