I assume that he's using USB OUT on Urd, but don't know. If so, all he needs to do is select USB IN on Yggy, and he'll get whatever Urd is doing. CD or USB 1 or 2...
Souther was simple, once you got the hang of it - expert friendly. No tweaking except to keep the quartz rods from getting fouled with dust/grease.I've never had a linear arm. Had a good buddy with an Eminent Tech air bearing linear arm mounted on a Merrill 'table. Sounded great, but he was constantly fiddling with the arm, the pump, the tubing, valves, pressure, etc. Was never sure if it actually required that much fiddling or whether he was just more OCD than me.
Yeah in my experience back then, all the air bearing arms were immensely fiddly; heck the setup balance of *everything* had to be, and remain, “just so”… the Souther fixed the issues, from what we could tell. I had just gotten my SME309 at a great new price by grey-marketing it myself on a business trip to London in 1990. My friend had been trying air bearing arms, and just gotten the TriQuartz. Since I already had the SOTA, the SME made more sense for me (SOTA/SME synergy is legendary, just like Classe’/Apogee), but, had I a VPI…I've never had a linear arm. Had a good buddy with an Eminent Tech air bearing linear arm mounted on a Merrill 'table. Sounded great, but he was constantly fiddling with the arm, the pump, the tubing, valves, pressure, etc. Was never sure if it actually required that much fiddling or whether he was just more OCD than me.
So what output are you using on Urd? And sorry if I missed that somewhere...
Oh... 'air' bearings... not err bearings.
Not mine, but the same model. That friend of yours sounds like an "Audio Vision" customer.
He was actually the guy that introduce me to Mal and Steve at Audiovision. Got my Classe’ amp and pre, the Duettas, and the SOTA there, as well as the AQ7000.
Not mine, but the same model. That friend of yours sounds like an "Audio Vision" customer.
37-42 years ago.... Remember it like yesterday, too bad I can't remember what I get up to get something 75% of the time these days...
I suppose you are what you listen to.Dangerous!! Bass!!
LOL
Was on my Qobuz discover for the week?
Why....No idea. Crazy but neat bass!!
https://open.qobuz.com/track/237934831
Well, since you're not going to build it, what would be perfect is some tube shelves to cover the wall behind the couch. What excellent diffraction for free! So as there's a 9' ceiling in that room, maybe make the height 8'9" to allow for carpet and such. Wall is 15' long, so 3 sections 5' wide each and 9" deep, and maybe 12 adjustable height shelves per section. 15' L x 8'9" H x 9" D in 3 sections. Easy peasy, right? That should probably hold all the novals and small octals, or at least be real close, I can figure out something different for the power pentodes and big triodes.
No. But there was more than once where we didn't get 30 seconds into a song before he stopped it because something needed adjusted..... The BIG question: did the 'constant fiddling' occur while LPs were playing?
Got it, space for three 6sn7’s and a couple novals.Well, since you're not going to build it, what would be perfect is some tube shelves to cover the wall behind the couch. What excellent diffraction for free! So as there's a 9' ceiling in that room, maybe make the height 8'9" to allow for carpet and such. Wall is 15' long, so 3 sections 5' wide each and 9" deep, and maybe 12 adjustable height shelves per section. 15' L x 8'9" H x 9" D in 3 sections. Easy peasy, right? That should probably hold all the novals and small octals, or at least be real close, I can figure out something different for the power pentodes and big triodes.
