Turntables...

[griffo104]

If you were buying a car you would want a test drive - take it out for an hour or a day around roads you are familiar with to get a feel for road handling etc.. You wouldn't just go around the dealer's parking lot for 5 mins. Why should hifi be any different ?

A hifi isn't a car, anymore than a sandwich is the river Thames.


I too think that dealer dems are pointless. The only way to test anything is to do so in your own time in an environment you are familiar with.

I think it is also very important to decide what you are interested in. Stepping out your front door with the inclination to listen to every turntable on earth until you find the best one would be disastrous.

A hifi isn't a car you are quite right - but the analogy is valid. You could probably buy a car for the price of a high-end turntable.arm/cart so why should the buying/demoing experience be limited to the dealer's shop and gear ?

I do agree with you last paragraph though

 

[The Devil]

The BLG is better engineered than the SME V I owned.

You are terribly funny. Stick around.

 

[anon_bb]

Not at all I have owned both - you have owned neither. Or did you read the opposite in a review?

Bradders - you are paying me an awful lot of attention for someone that is not reading my posts.

 

[The Devil]

How do you measure "engineering"?

You are awful, .... awful. But I like you.

 

[anon_bb]

It would be necessary to invent me if I did not exist bub!

 

[penance]

CD's what? And who is CD anyway?

Celine Deon, of course!

I will be setting fire to my bearing tonight, whilst creating much high temps in the room by means of heavily growling at the badger.
I will report on my findings.

 

[Bradders]

Not at all I have owned both - you have owned neither. Or did you read the opposite in a review?

Bradders - you are paying me an awful lot of attention for someone that is not reading my posts.

I said I didn't read them properly. I keep getting the impression that you are a thundering nonsense of a man... something must be wrong somewhere.



Are you an engineer then?

 

[penance]

I'm A failure analysis engineer, i have worked out that BBV failed due to incorrect heating of the brain stem.

 

[Bradders]

I will be setting fire to my bearing tonight, whilst creating much high temps in the room by means of heavily growling at the badger.
I will report on my findings.

That's the spirit, Penance!

He who dares, wins.

 

[penance]

I may even light a fart or two, whilst aiming at my Led Zep collection.

 

[anon_bb]

I think you are reading them avidly and attentively bradders.

Well I am a chartered engineer and member of the IEE - which means almost nothing other than a quirk of fate that put me in an engineering department as a young physicist. I actually trained as a theoretical physicist and have a PhD in the application of nonlinear and AI theory to space weather forecasting. I can just about use a soldering iron. In person I am actually quite quiet and reserved.

 

[greg]

I actually trained as a theoretical physicist and have a PhD in the application of nonlinear and AI theory to space weather forecasting.

I knew it - an AI driven forum bot. All the indicators added up.

 

[anon_bb]

Please tell me more about your indicators.

 

[greg]

Please tell me more about your indicators.

No way. I'm not helping you raise your self-awareness index.

 

[Bradders]

I think you are reading them avidly and attentively bradders.

Well I am a chartered engineer and member of the IEE - which means almost nothing other than a quirk of fate that put me in an engineering department as a young physicist. I actually trained as a theoretical physicist and have a PhD in the application of nonlinear and AI theory to space weather forecasting. I can just about use a soldering iron. In person I am actually quite quiet and reserved.

I think you have a very active imagination.

However, I bow to your considerable engineering prowess.

 

[anon_bb]

Are you happy with your index?

 

[Stereo Mic]

Rather amused by some of this. The Bryston/PMC comments maybe a bit of a strange considering how many recordings are made out there using this combination for monitoring recordings. Must be a reason why they are so popular in the professional world .

AFAIK their penetration of the pro market is tiny in real terms - far more studios using speakers from better known manufacturers or of higher quality.

Their marketing is excellent however! Shame the same cannot be said for Quested.

 

[anon_bb]

Its not tiny for the cost level. Have you looked at what the film industry is using these days?

 

[greg]

I bow to your considerable engineering prowess.

Thanks.

 

[Stereo Mic]

Its not tiny for the cost level. Have you looked at what the film industry is using these days?

Yes, primarily Dynaudio & MK for smaller setups, JBL and TAD for the really large studios. PMC are hardly known outside of the UK if the truth be known. Of the small British companies, ATC seem to have a far higher profile worldwide.