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Free Free Feedback Advice Advice on modern computers. Both are in our Audiophile Store. We have our eye out for a better optical cable if there is one, but we’ve come up empty so far. Incidentally, though there are proquality Firewire DAC’s still on the market, Firewire itself seems poised to vanish, to be overtaken by Thunderbolt, the new high-speed interface developed jointly by Apple and Intel, which has replaced Firewire on current Macintosh computers. I am looking for a replacement turntable mat. I’m wondering if you have a 10 ULTRA HIGH FIDELITY Magazine preference for a felt or a cork mat, or maybe another type I haven’t considered? I have a Denon DP-23f turntable. Mark Boutcher SHERWOOD PARK, AB Mark, the ideal turntable design is the sort that doesn’t need a mat at all, because then, with a clamp, you can get the best possible rigidity of the system, and therefore recover the most detail. Few turntables are designed that way, however, and a felt mat is the best compromise, damping any possible ringing of the platter, but maintaining good rigidity. Mats made from cork, rubber, and other resilient materials will have a devastating effect on resolution. We should add that, notwithstanding what we’ve just said, some people do buy such mats and swear that they hear a huge improvement. There are two possible reasons for the perceived improvement. If the turntable, arm and cartridge are mediocre, losing detail can seem like a good thing, because artificial detail can be annoying. And a thick mat (some aftermarket mats are plenty thick) will raise the record, which has the same effect as lowering the tone arm, and thereby affecting the vertical tracking angle of the cartridge. A tone arm that is too low will result in exaggerated lows and wooly highs. Wooly highs might seem like a bad thing, and it is, but if those highs were harsh and unmusical in the first place, rolling them off might seem to offer welcome relief. We’d go with felt. I am considering the purchase of an 11-year-old Linn Genki CD player, and I would ask what type of laser/mechanism it utilizes. The excellent review of the Linn Genki (in UHF Magazine No. 59) is not clear enough in this matter. In one place it reads, “the drawer is about three times as tall as that of the Ikemi. It belongs to the Philips CD-12 PRO transport, the same one used by a number of other manufacturers.” In another “Linn’s custom-built transport (used in the Ikemi and the CD-12) actually doubles the cost of the player.” Could you make it clear, please. Jan Jedlinski WARSAW, Poland To read the rest of this article, you can order either the print issue or Maggie’s electronic version. We continue with what looks like Latin, but it isn’t. Of course the paid version is uninterrupted! Re facin henis nisl iustrud enim aute duis dignisc iliscipissi. Tum veliquat ulpute dolore volore facipsum esequat. Ut lan veliquat praese facilit lutpat nibh euguero ea feuguer suscing enismod dolorero odiamco rtiscil lamconsequat wismod modion vel ulputat. Utpation utpat augait am, core tisi.
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