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If transient speed equals the squareness of a square wave - ie how sharp the corners are - then it is directly related to bandwidth. The higher the...

I thought you said "unfortunately, there was no practical way of removing and upgrading the surface-mounted shunt resistors on the existing...

I can't be right if the series resistors had the greatest effect. And how it's possible to differentiate between an electrical function and a sonic...

Sorry, I'm confused now. Did the tests show that the shunt resistors "were clearly influencing the music signal"? If so, that's what I was saying....

Sorry, my mistake - I was putting words into your mouth. I should have said that it is often assumed that one resistor is in the signal path and the...

I've never claimed to know what I'm talking about :lol:

It's quite important to configure the attenuator in a way that never puts an undue load on the source or has an unduly high output impedance. ...

The so-called "series" resistor and "shunt" resistor in a potential divider are both doing the same job and one cannot be more more important than...

In the recording world - certainly at the smaller studio or amateur end of the spectrum - the term "analogue sound" is almost universally taken to...

If you turn the volume down to zero and the buzzing is still there it must be due to a fault in a cable or in the Goldpoint. At zero volume the...

Yes, I agree. A lot of audiophiles seem to have a naive belief that what they're listening to was performed in the studio as live and captured by a...

I agree. I wonder how some folks ever get any pleasure from their music when they're always obsessing about minutiae. Just to clarify what I was...

I think you may have misunderstood me - I wasn't advocating nice rather than accurate playback equipment, I was advocating making nice recordings...

Absolutely.

Perhaps Quad should have said "the closest approach to the finished master tape" rather than "...the original sound". But I agree entirely, making...

I don't understand. How would the two mics interfere with each other? That's the way I compare microphones. :scratch: I'm not sure what...

I think we need to consider not only the technology used - valve or transistor - but also the way the music industry was changing in the late sixties...

I think that's the point Macca was making - the signal may have been an analogue recording initially, and it may be an analogue signal that drives...

Yes, think plug-in boards would be complicating/compromising the design for 95% of users and the 5% (or less?) who might want other EQs aren't...

Yes, that's true, but some systems sound great at low volumes but can't really play loud. That's ok for string quartets and the like but isn't...

While it's true that many transistors have enough in common to be interchangeable and in many circuits feedback will iron out any differences, this...

Adjustable spikes aren't a bad idea - they will allow you to level the turntable and have it sit firmly on whatever it sits on. Just don't expect...

Absolutely correct. Absolutely correct again. Where does this ridiculous idea that spikes isolate things come from? :scratch:

Did you achieve the improvement by putting a more expensive resistor in? :lol:

So that's a "no" then - you don't get a SUT.

Yes, but you only have to change one or two capacitor and resistor values (or add the capacitors and/or resistors if they're not there already) to...

No, but being so close to instability (ie going into oscillation) that only a specified cable can be used to connect it to a loudspeaker does make it...

Probably not, but I'll offer one. A dodgy power amp could fail with dire consequences but a dodgy phonostage is unlikely to pose any safety risk. If...

Yes, I'd be surprised if there's a regulation about fire retardancy too. If there isn't, it makes NVA's excuse about the fire being Wilson Benesch's...

NVA isn't a business the size of Toyota and it's quite possible that if NVA's products were dangerous they might never come to the attention of...