bdp24
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? @mammothguy54: Yeah, Music On Vinyl is a terrible reissue label. Everyone here should avoid all their LP's. I'm surprised Acoustic Sounds is selling them. The MoFi A Salty Dog was $35 when released, but as with all MoFi's the price skyrocketed wh... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @bslon: Is your A Whiter Shade Of Pale LP (A fantastic album!) a "stereo" pressing? I put stereo in quotes because the original U.S.A. A & M pressing was a "Reprocessed For Stereo" (fake stereo) only release. For that reason we Procol Harum fa... | |
| VPI Scout 1.1 parts to upgrade HW~19 I was relying on memory when I stated the Mk.3 HW-19 has a steel subchassis rather than a stainless steel one. At my age that is ill-advised. ;-) I knew VPI had replaced the steel plate with a stainless steel one, but I mistakenly though it was in... | |
| Eminent Technology 8b Speakers - Amp/wattage Recommendations I don’t yet know anything about the new ET woofer system for the LFT-8, but unless it’s a dipole design I can’t see how it will be as good a mate as is any dipole sub (including the Rythmik Audio/GR research OB). Magnepan is working on a "concept... | |
| Does a REL subwoofer make the speakers' job easier? I was amending my above post, and ran out of time before fully completing my thoughts. As we know, a continuously-variable phase control is very uncommon on subwoofers. All the control on the Rythmik subs does is provide either no delay, or up to... | |
| Does a REL subwoofer make the speakers' job easier? @gladmo: I time after after time see and hear people laud REL for their high-level connection design. Well, Brian Ding provides both high-level AND line-level connections in the non-XLR/Standard Size versions of the plate amp of his Rythmik Audio ... | |
| Eminent Technology 8b Speakers - Amp/wattage Recommendations There is a new listing on USAM for a Music Reference RM-200 MK.2, asking price $3,000. The amp has been Michael Fremer's "reasonably-priced" reference tube amp for about 20 years. Roger Modjeski's engineering brilliance allowed him to produce 100 ... | |
| 80 years old - Paul McCartney & Brian Wilson Jerry Lee Lewis has somehow managed to make it to 87 (so far), and can still out-drink Keith Richards. | |
| VPI Scout 1.1 parts to upgrade HW~19 The matter of the different bearings and platters VPI used on the various incarnations of the HW-19, Aries, and TNT tables is a little convoluted, and can be confusing. But first, the Mk.3 HW-19 does NOT have a stainless steel sub-platter, it has... | |
| Eminent Technology 8b Speakers - Amp/wattage Recommendations @jrw159: One thing to know about open baffle woofers is that because of their inherent dipole cancellation characteristic (the front and rear waves meeting on either side of the open baffle frame, the opposite polarity waves causing a drop off in ... | |
| Eminent Technology 8b Speakers - Amp/wattage Recommendations @jwr159: I’ve been away from home for a coupla weeks, and have been playing catch-up, just now seeing your thread. First, congratulations on your new speakers! And on your good taste ;-) . The ET LFT-8b is an outrageous bargain, imo one of the bes... | |
| Interesting ASR review of small GR Research speaker kit Danny has posted a new video addressing the "review" on ASR. | |
| Thoughts on the Linn LP12 turntable When the Sondek was introduced in the early-70’s (I first learned of it in 1974), Linn was touting its superiority over all other current tables (I at that time owned a Thorens TD-125 Mk.2) in two regards: 1- As the first turntable designed with ... | |
| WTH TAS?! @r27y8u92 (what the heck kind of "name" is that? ;-) : I understand your points, but I intentionally went out of my way to write the way I did. So you think "there was nothing wrong with it" reads better than "there was not a thing wrong with it... | |
| WTH TAS?! Geez, is there nothing a person can say that someone else won't take issue with? ;-) Sure, before Bill Johnson formed The Audio Research Corporation, there had been the QUAD ESL, the KLH 9 ESL, the Klipschorn, the Marantz Model 7 tube pre-amp and... |