wasn't it a piss take?
The problems started even earlier than that I’m afraid with the lasers involved. Red lasers are inherently unstable at the higher frequencies. Most female vocals In the early days of CD suffered from terrible sibilance. This was countered a little by Sansui moving to green lasers in the middle nineties. Today of course, black lasers are used throughout and the problem has now disappeared.Yeah, in the beginnings of CD era the DACs converted the bass faster than the rest, so it was out of rhythm, despite of several other problems like CDs from the early era were mastered wrong in terms of dynamics. But these times are over, a RM CD without loudness war played from a harddisk and external DAC will sound very very good, HD files sound much better than a €30.000 TT.
....PSUs don’t sound different due to speed stability in my view, as they all will achieve an accurate speed.
Immediately the stylus hit the groove, it was clear that with the AirPower, there was more space, better inner detail and the top was somehow smoother and less fizzy, without losing the shimmer on the cymbals and Stevie Nick’s voice had more expression.
At last, I got around to comparing the Norton AirPower to the Lingo 1 on the LP12/Kore/Audiomods Classic/metal bodied 103. The Norton came straight out of the box and was plonked unceremoniously on the adjacent desk, with no warm up.
Immediately the stylus hit the groove, it was clear that with the AirPower, there was more space, better inner detail and the top was somehow smoother and less fizzy, without losing the shimmer on the cymbals and Stevie Nick’s voice had more expression.
A bit of a PITA tbh, because I like the 45rpm facility of the Lingo. I do have other record players that can play 45’s, or if I can be bothered, I could run the two supplies side-by-side; we’ll see.
I used Fleetwood Mac’s – Dreams as the test piece, mostly because I had been using it to compare mats on the 401 downstairs, having listened to @flatpopely Tranquiliy test pieces here, which use the aforementioned track.
You can still play 45's with the Norton . The Norton cable will fit the Lingo whch means you can keep the lingo for 45's .
Biggest Hi Fi mistake I ever made was selling my Norton .