Phono corrector

[ijr]

:idea:
Well, this stuff can be called "audiofoolish" a bit,
also, there's too much to translate here and I'm TOO lazy...
but who can read schems and formulas, will catch)
http://www.aml.nm.ru/articles/RX%20-%20corrector.htm
Sound? Best I heard.

This one is for comlete freaks :grin:

 

[gyraf]

Thanks, Igor!

:grin:

Russian-to-english webpage translator found at:
http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/babelfish/tr

 

[ijr]

Yes, wery fun...if you translate some Microsoft help stuff fron english to russian you will die from laugh (increpancies in translation). :grin:
Both languages based on non-pc-simulateable slang

What about this phono pre, it based on strange winding technique
of output trafo. One my friend spent a month to wound a pair of them, but
results really great. (worthy to try ))

 

[Guest]

[quote author="ijr"]
http://www.aml.nm.ru/articles/RX%20-%20corrector.htm
Sound? Best I heard.
[/quote]
Some other non-boring acoustic schema.
Interesting.
Is guru what draw it someone who studied sankt.
Petersburg KinoVUZ ?
xvlk

 

[ijr]

Seems)
As well as I know the Man
(A. Lihnitzki) is big prof of psychoaccoustics.
Leakage inductance and RIAA, this is cool!

 

[Marik]

HaHaHa!

Just for fun translated it online and compared to Russian text--got some good and healthy laugh! :green:
Very cool idea. Thanks Igor!

 

[SmG]

I particularly liked the bit about dielectrics and air-spaced capacitors:

• experiments with the dielectrics I stopped immediately, as soon as heard equalizer with the air-speed capacitors. True, last experiment proved to be complex. In order it to carry out, it was necessary to reach, naturally from the pantry, two units of variable capacitors from the old German radio receivers. Moreover a comparatively small amount of capacitance of one of section of capacitor (about 500 pF) and its monstrous overall sizes they became the reason for appearance at the output of the corrector of the strongest alternating-current hum. Unfortunately, this problem could not be completely manage.
  
  Nevertheless the result of hearing the "air" the that correcting RC- chain exceeded my expectations. It turned out that the filled by air chain in no way spoils sounding. It remains the same detailed, clear, thinned and energetic as without RC- chain. By the way, and the effect of the "rottenness" completely disappeared.

The idea that this sounds so much better, even with an almighty hum is... interesting. One wonders what else he has in his reproduction chain that allows him to hear minute differences in transparency and 'air' in recordings that were presumably made with rather less than wonderful equipment?

I've listened to a few acoustic recordings replayed on a really large acoustic gramophone with an enormous horn, and these certainly have a quality all of their own. But being able to determine the quality differences between dielectrics in the presence of an almighty hum seems somewhat fanciful, to say the least. Yes, the translation is great - but I don't know what my wife would say about keeping variable capacitors from old German radios in the pantry. I keep a few (not German ones) in a biscuit tin, though, which is conceptually quite close, I suppose!