I'd need to check whether I'm free. July gets busy with family commitments.
The level matching is crucial but you'll also need to decide whether this is an MM shoot out or MC. Some stages like the Paradise are only MC if memory serves.
I'd need to check whether I'm free. July gets busy with family commitments.
The level matching is crucial but you'll also need to decide whether this is an MM shoot out or MC. Some stages like the Paradise are only MC if memory serves.
Has anyone got a test record with continuous tones on it?
I can bring an oscilloscope so levels can be accurately matched.
The other thing it'd be handy to check would be the Eq accuracy. A noise source (test CD) & an accurate inverse RIAA are needed. Also some means of capturing the output.
I've a friend who has a lovely, lush sounding, home built LCR stage. He knows that it deviates from the prescribed curve quite a bit but sounds so sweet as is, he has no inclination to change it & I've heard plenty of 'accurate' stages that sound far worse! That kind of deviation can make a stage stand out, often favourably.
the nak has both mm and mc,i can also bring the denon ha500 head amp too.
My System
John Wood KT88 Amp.
Paradise Phono Stage
Sony TTS-8000 Turntable.
PMAT-1010 MK6 Tonearm.
Ortofon Cadenza Bronze
Sony X555ES Cd Player
Yamaha NS1000m Speakers
Quite agree. It has to be fun but it's surprisingly easy to be swayed by frequency response deviations and unmatched levels. For it to be a meaningful exercise there needs to be some control even if any odd measurements are referred to & acknowledged in the subsequent discussion.
I'm not sure expectations at a bake off are likely to quite be the same as those from laboratory condition trials.