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Old January 26th 08, 12:54 PM posted to uk.rec.audio
Dave Plowman (News)
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Default The emporers new clothes ? or cables.........

In article ,
keithr wrote:
I tend to read Hi Fi magazines more for entertainment than for sensible
information When they review turntables and say that they increase bass
or clarity etc, I wonder what planet they are from,


I'm not so sure. A disc with a pickup on it acts rather like a microphone
diaphragm. Under some conditions you can make the thing feedback or
howlround via the speakers. So it follows isolating the turntable/record
combination from external sound fields can have an effect on the overall
sound.

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