albertporter
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| How to hang rugs. If you view my system thread you will notice there's a brick fireplace between my speakers. That image was made during the short period of time my rug was not hanging in front of that brick.I hung a silk rug with a 2X2 piece of lumber cut 1/4 inch... | |
| Tube Characterization: 6DJ8, 6922, 7308, CCa, etc In the meantime Albert, please feel free to basterdize this thread to your hearts content. The rest of us will be somewhere else. I guess spending an hour on the phone with me discussing audio at 3:00 in the morning was not so much personal genero... | |
| Tube Characterization: 6DJ8, 6922, 7308, CCa, etc Hey Ralph! I need to call you.Hope your going to attend Rocky Mountain again this year, you can spin some more new music. I bought that Shins "Chutes Too Narrow," LP and still trying to get into the new Bjork. | |
| Tube Characterization: 6DJ8, 6922, 7308, CCa, etc What you wish could be stated with absolute certainty is not possible, in my opinion. There is too much variation in sound, even when the exact SAME tube is auditioned in two or more pieces of equipment.Depending on design, a 6922 type tube might ... | |
| VTL MB-450 "Generations" Zaikes, good additional information. I'm pretty sure the cap upgrade path removes the MIT's and replaces them with Infinicap. Between the guys in my group and those I trade data with we have upgraded eight VTL amps and this is one of the more impo... | |
| Best lines in a song But you tease, and you flirt And you shine all the buttons on your green shirtYou can please yourself but somebodys gonna get itElvis Costello, "Green Shirt. | |
| VTL MB-450 "Generations" I believe the second generation VTL is primarily the same amp with a resistor upgrade that reduces risk of catastrophic failure to the big electrolytic caps and performance improvement provided by replacing the MIT caps with Infinicaps. I have the... | |
| Ampex Model 1250 Tubed Reel-to-Reel Your comment about delving into a medium that is closer to the original performance leads me to believe you plan on purchasing software as opposed to copying LP's.The problem with the machine your describing is most of the software for sale is qua... | |
| Re Miles Davis vinyl ChazzboAlbert is an Audiogon G-d but he is dead wrong about OJC re-issues. Fantasy just wasted bad remelt vinyl that sounds bad and start to develope surface noise after just a play or two. THEY SUCK!! All lips pressed after mid sixties started t... | |
| audience au24 I agree with Glory, Audiogon is the perfect way to try equipment without a time limit. You can buy and decide if you like a cable in as little or as much time as needed to be comfortable with your decision.As stated above, most used cables will co... | |
| Re Miles Davis vinyl Miles has produced such a wide range of work it would help if you revealed your favorites. This is an artist with an incredibly long career, releasing his first work in 1949 and continuing until his death in 1991.Most of his original releases are ... | |
| task lighting suggestions I use a Lightolier Dramalux attached to the ceiling above and in front of the turntable on a Monopoint. A Monopoint serves the same purpose as a track but accommodates only one fixture (tidy for this purpose).Within the base of this fixture is a s... | |
| Krell Driving Fronts and HT Amp Driving Cent/Rears Ryder I've just had a quick peek at your virtual system and noted your TV is located on the side for normal viewing purposes and only pushed in between the speakers for some real cinematic HT experience? Does that prove to be an arduous task each ... | |
| Krell Driving Fronts and HT Amp Driving Cent/Rears I did a similar thing, I upgraded the tube amps on my front channels and downsized to a cheap transistor integrated for the dialogue and side speakers. At one time I drove everything with tube amps, including an Atma-Sphere OTL for the dialogue an... | |
| need help with ella song during malcom x The song is "Azure,' and you're correct, that's Ella singing. "Azure" appears on the following albums (and perhaps others I missed) :Ella Fitzgerald, "The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books"Ella Fitzgerald, "Best of the Duke Ellington Songbooks"E... |