Nov '23 and these videos Paul are exploding my imagination for starting the DIY journey, I do own a nice pair of CM8 BW columns but can't resist putting together a basement built transmission line pair of columns, LTspice here I come
all the YES!!! THIS gives me hope in the future of HIFI!! This is what it means to be born into a generation that has one foot in the analog world and one foot in the digital world. What an incredible throwdown of technology and passion!
What a waste of engineering talent and time on an overpriced, fragile, obsolete medium. Vinyl is just a trendy fashion statement, not a suitably robust way to store recorded music -- but it makes folks $$$$, so it will be around until folks get wise to what a dead end it is circa 2020.
@@utub1473 -- Many, many times. Thanks for asking. I was professionally involved in audio when vinyl was king and once digital recording and mastering got past it's considerable initial growing pains I was happy to see "plastic ware" go where it still belongs: in the proverbial dustbin of history. I do miss the larger cover art and space for literate notes -- aside from that, I say good riddance. These days I have neither the room nor the patience for such a space-consuming, high-maintenance, and intrinsically fragile and flawed medium. Lossless files allow me to simply enjoy the sound of well recorded music without de facto ritualistic playback procedures or hefty, costly LP-spinning hardware with their delicate, similarly expensive input transducers.
@@editorjuno I guess everyone will have differing opinions. Personally I can’t get over how records sound, but I can’t deny that the format has its flaws.
Great video. Can’t wait for the Perfectwave version. Hopefully it will be fully balanced. Unfortunately, I was distracted by the ‘open carry’ guy but hey, I’m Canadian.
Another Canadian here with the same reaction. I was shocked to think that you are enjoying lunch at a cool patio and the guy next to you is ready to shoot it out at the OK Coral. I grew up on a farm with guns from the age of 12. I learned gun safety and grew up a gun enthusiast. But still I can't get used to the fact that in every crowd of people in the USA, several are likely armed and dangerous. What could possibly go wrong?
Guy on the left has a badge clipped to his belt. They are clearly cops. They city they are in is about as progressive as any city in America. Get over yourself.
Could you guys consider a discussion about phono equalization curves and why RIAA is the most common and and why? Do certain curves fit certain types of cartridges better? Thanks in advance if this is at all feasible.
Looks more like armed people to me? I think they are police officers or sheriffs or something (I'm not American, but I saw a badge on their belt that looks like those from the cops in movies).
The most precious substance in the Universe is the spice melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel!
How can you limit the bandwidth and not effect the slew-rate? You say they are not necessarily tied together (for this I'll assume gains are fixed). The only case I can think of is by not passing the low frequency stuff, you could narrow the bandwidth but why would you do that other than for rumble? What about the flavor of the RIAA compensation in your designs?
What will have been the point of all this current fuss and indulgence in the vinyl record resurgence, when we are clearly moving toward a world that will be dominated by various forms of direct stream digital platforms and records will again be abandoned in favour of DSD, as they were in the 1980's in favour of CD's, for good reasons?
What the.. that’s so bizarre to see a guy just stroll up and sit down behind you with a gun! I guess that’s normal in the US 🤷♂️ what would you need a gun for at a cafe? 🤔 As always.. great video 👍
Michael Fremer of Stereophile fame who owns a $200,000 turntable, tonearm and cartridge speaking about Darren's Stellar Phono Stage Preamp creation stated "The midrange on this phono preamp is as open uncongested, transparent, and revealing as that of any phono preamp I've heard at any price." With this much praise, why would PS Audio want to create a more expensive Perfect Wave Phono Stage Preamp??
@@hermannschmidt9788 We'll see if PART 2 addresses the lows and highs! Midrange is the most important as most music falls in the midrange especially vocals and acoustic instruments.
It's awesome they're changing improving, and making better. Since when does someone design a thing, say: this is perfect! Throw up hands and quit. No way!
I used to use Spice simulation at Uni .. and Audio Precision analysers .. great fun .. brought back memories .. the fun really starts when you go from the Spice stage to reality ... very time consuming !
@@janinapalmer8368 I'd rather those fine, upstanding citizens next to me, than those who would slit your throat in a heartbeat if you wear an "all lives matter shirt" and riot and loot.
Don't know what pricey is to you, but how much you spend is entirely up to you. Like amplifiers, DACs, speakers, Streamers, camera equipment, bicycles, etc...you can get quality equipment for a fair price..or you can spend many times as much for higher quality. Amassing a vinyl collection can get expensive, except there's lot's of great mint and near mint, used LP's on eBay, in record stores, etc.
Nov '23 and these videos Paul are exploding my imagination for starting the DIY journey, I do own a nice pair of CM8 BW columns but can't resist putting together a basement built transmission line pair of columns, LTspice here I come
Is that what the Foo Fighters are doing now! Cool!
Another fascinating discussion. I look forward to hearing the rest of the story.
Very interesting would love to hear more
Stay tuned :)
all the YES!!! THIS gives me hope in the future of HIFI!! This is what it means to be born into a generation that has one foot in the analog world and one foot in the digital world. What an incredible throwdown of technology and passion!
What a waste of engineering talent and time on an overpriced, fragile, obsolete medium. Vinyl is just a trendy fashion statement, not a suitably robust way to store recorded music -- but it makes folks $$$$, so it will be around until folks get wise to what a dead end it is circa 2020.
@@editorjuno Have you heard a record on a properly set up system?
@@utub1473 -- Many, many times. Thanks for asking. I was professionally involved in audio when vinyl was king and once digital recording and mastering got past it's considerable initial growing pains I was happy to see "plastic ware" go where it still belongs: in the proverbial dustbin of history. I do miss the larger cover art and space for literate notes -- aside from that, I say good riddance.
These days I have neither the room nor the patience for such a space-consuming, high-maintenance, and intrinsically fragile and flawed medium. Lossless files allow me to simply enjoy the sound of well recorded music without de facto ritualistic playback procedures or hefty, costly LP-spinning hardware with their delicate, similarly expensive input transducers.
@@editorjuno I guess everyone will have differing opinions. Personally I can’t get over how records sound, but I can’t deny that the format has its flaws.
Fascinating stuff and well explained. Thanks, Darren!
Loving your podcast, btw! Learning a lot from yourself and Duncan.
Darren's cool!
The Stellar Phono stage is just incredible.
Great video. Can’t wait for the Perfectwave version. Hopefully it will be fully balanced. Unfortunately, I was distracted by the ‘open carry’ guy but hey, I’m Canadian.
Don't fear law enforcement. 99.99% are great citizens trying to protect us. But, if you give them a hard time, expect to get roughed up.
Another Canadian here with the same reaction. I was shocked to think that you are enjoying lunch at a cool patio and the guy next to you is ready to shoot it out at the OK Coral.
I grew up on a farm with guns from the age of 12. I learned gun safety and grew up a gun enthusiast. But still I can't get used to the fact that in every crowd of people in the USA, several are likely armed and dangerous. What could possibly go wrong?
@@user-od9iz9cv1w Nothing.
@@jeffhunter4395 Be sure to tell that to the parents of the kids who get shot every week just going to school
You lost me in the UK when I got two gun carriers in the scene WTF!!!
Saw that. Oh awesome, wild west open carry. Guess he's hoping to be a good guy with a gun.
Guy on the left has a badge clipped to his belt.
They are clearly cops.
They city they are in is about as progressive as any city in America.
Get over yourself.
You must be eating in a dangerous neighborhood! At 7:20, guy comes out with a pistol spewing coronavirus.
Could you guys consider a discussion about phono equalization curves and why RIAA is the most common and and why? Do certain curves fit certain types of cartridges better? Thanks in advance if this is at all feasible.
Paul discussed some time ago 😉
This is very interesting.
What is going on in the background? Looks like some high fidelity food photographing.
Looks more like armed people to me?
I think they are police officers or sheriffs or something (I'm not American, but I saw a badge on their belt that looks like those from the cops in movies).
More please!
The most precious substance in the Universe is the spice melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel!
Yes, but it will be many years before we have the technology to reach Arrakis, find the spice and figure out how to use it.
Nice video and interesting but Darren should take off his sunglasses. 🙂👍
How can you limit the bandwidth and not effect the slew-rate? You say they are not necessarily tied together (for this I'll assume gains are fixed). The only case I can think of is by not passing the low frequency stuff, you could narrow the bandwidth but why would you do that other than for rumble? What about the flavor of the RIAA compensation in your designs?
What will have been the point of all this current fuss and indulgence in the vinyl record resurgence, when we are clearly moving toward a world that will be dominated by various forms of direct stream digital platforms and records will again be abandoned in favour of DSD, as they were in the 1980's in favour of CD's, for good reasons?
Bologna. Records are terrific. I stream at work, and enjoy records at home.
Nice :)
I don't mean to be rude, but how about putting off the sunglasses when talking at the camera?
I’m pretty sure this guy is the Lead Guitarist for Tool
What the.. that’s so bizarre to see a guy just stroll up and sit down behind you with a gun! I guess that’s normal in the US 🤷♂️ what would you need a gun for at a cafe? 🤔
As always.. great video 👍
Law enforcement officers. You can see the badge.
@@andrewconger5045 ah, fair enough. Keeping the peace 😃
It certainly doesn't suck. Ha!
And a hundred years ago it was a catgut string guitar in a pub wow
Michael Fremer of Stereophile fame who owns a $200,000 turntable, tonearm and cartridge speaking about Darren's Stellar Phono Stage Preamp creation stated "The midrange on this phono preamp is as open uncongested, transparent, and revealing as that of any phono preamp I've heard at any price." With this much praise, why would PS Audio want to create a more expensive Perfect Wave Phono Stage Preamp??
What about the low and high range then?
@@hermannschmidt9788 We'll see if PART 2 addresses the lows and highs! Midrange is the most important as most music falls in the midrange especially vocals and acoustic instruments.
It's awesome they're changing improving, and making better. Since when does someone design a thing, say: this is perfect! Throw up hands and quit. No way!
Was that a police officer flashing a gun at the end? Or do civilians carry guns where you are?
Those two guys looked like detectives. Badge, gun, typical attire and overweight ;-)
Good catch. There was a group of cops or armed law enforcement something or others having lunch just next to us.
PS Audio I'd change my coffee shop I think lol 😂.... if those cops heard Darren going on about all his tech talk they might get suspicious 😂😂😂
I used to use Spice simulation at Uni .. and Audio Precision analysers .. great fun .. brought back memories .. the fun really starts when you go from the Spice stage to reality ... very time consuming !
@@janinapalmer8368 I'd rather those fine, upstanding citizens next to me, than those who would slit your throat in a heartbeat if you wear an "all lives matter shirt" and riot and loot.
Interesting. Phono is a pricey endeavor now. By the bye....maybe move the camera back a bit on these lunch vids.
Don't know what pricey is to you, but how much you spend is entirely up to you. Like amplifiers, DACs, speakers, Streamers, camera equipment, bicycles, etc...you can get quality equipment for a fair price..or you can spend many times as much for higher quality. Amassing a vinyl collection can get expensive, except there's lot's of great mint and near mint, used LP's on eBay, in record stores, etc.
So when Gene tells you all well designed amps sound the same, you can tell him to go spice himself.
He looks like the actor Peter Dante.
5:40 You freaked out a young engineer/audiophile
1:00 What about MicroCap? IMHO it's way better than LTspice
Darren loves his job, but he has to lose the shades. I now get the feeling he is on cocaine 🤣
Richard Blaauwgeers
He looks great