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From: jon@msunix.UUCP (Jonathan Hue)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: AR, Grado, Hafler, c-j
Message-ID: <165@msunix.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Oct-85 03:33:41 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 19 03:33:41 1985
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Organization: LMSC-Mechanisms & Servos, Sunnyvale, Ca.
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Keywords: Tonearm mismatch

Help!  I am the victim of excessive sibilance.  Words with the letters "s"
and "t" sound awful on my stereo, especially when spoken by the female voice.
It's like a hissing, the word "silence" comes out as "sssssilensssssss"

My system is Grado Signature 8 -> AR Arm & Turntable -> Hafler DH-110
-> Hafler DH-500 -> Magnepan SMGa.  The most common and reasonable
explanation I have been given is that the AR Arm is terrible, expecially
with the Grado Sig. 8, and the excessive sibilance is a form of
mistracking.  It never did this with the Shure M95ED from the thrasher
turntable.  Of course, it never sounded like music either.  The remedies
I have thought of are, in order of preference:

1) Replace the AR arm with a Premier MMT arm for $295
2) Replace the cartridge with a Talisman S for $295 which will require 3)
3) Replace the Hafler DH-110 with a conrad-johnson preamp (the <$500 one)

I would not like to have to spend much money to ameliorate the situation
(there's a TAS word).  Oh yes, the cartridge is properly aligned.  Just
goes to show that you can't pick things off the shelf and expect them
to work well together.  Any suggestions, net.audio.gods?


				Jonathan Hue
				LMSC-Mechanisms & Servos

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