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| Turntable noobie...what advice do you have? For used LP buying you’re fortunate to be in Portland! Music Millennium is great for new LP’s, though you will pay full retail for them. MM also stocks a fair number of used LP’s, and at generally reasonable prices, some as low as $2-$3! Here ar... | |
| Balanced Line Stage Tube Preamps The EAR-Yoshino 868L, designed by tube expert Tim de Paravicini. Two unbalanced outputs on RCA’s, two balanced (AES48 complaint---Paravicini did a lot of work in pro studios, including Pink Floyd’s London facility, as well as the MoFi mastering ch... | |
| What's with all the new colored vinyl? The Vinyl Me Please (VMP) label does most of its’ reissues in colored PVC, and has many of them pressed at QRP (Quality Record Pressings), Chad Kassem’s in-house Analogue Productions plant. When Doug Sax of The Mastering Lab fame passed away, Kass... | |
| What's with all the new colored vinyl? The colored PVC craze/fad strikes me as a childish/girlie kinda thing. But some LP’s are available only that way, so if you want the music on LP you have to accept it. Some colored LP’s are noisy, but that’s not because of the color, but rather th... | |
| No frills speaker manufacturers GR Research, absolutely. Danny Richie is an excellent designer, and offers his loudspeakers as kits only. However, as noted above the enclosures are offered as flat packs (and even fully assembled and painted or veneered if so desired) by closely-... | |
| How does the VPI Aries II stand up to current mid priced tables? VPI had the chance years ago. Harry and the owner/designer of Phoenix Engineering Bill Carlin were in discussions about working together, but it blew up. Carlin is not the diplomatic type, and said some things Harry took offense to. That was the e... | |
| How does the VPI Aries II stand up to current mid priced tables? Congratulations @ozzy62, nice table! I have an Aries 1, and the only difference between the 1 and 2 is in the platter and its bearing. The 1 is fitted with a 1" outer diameter, stainless steel bearing housing and threaded (for a reflex clamp) spi... | |
| Inexpensive Good Vintage Turntables? Already mentioned above, the Townshend Audio Rock turntables are like no other. A main feature of the Rock is the employment of a silicon fluid-filled damping trough across the front of the platter, within which rides a "paddle" that is bolted ont... | |
| Inexpensive Good Vintage Turntables? My first good turntable was an AR XA. It had a good suspended subchassis design (the first in history), a good machined platter, but a terrible tonearm (the later XB just had a different base, and an arm cuing control). I replaced the table with a... | |
| Near field subs In the 1960’s the most popular subwoofer being mated with the QUAD ESL was the 24" Hartley. The rationale for the use of a larger woofer cone is not to produce more bass, but cleaner bass. A 24" woofer cone does not have to move as far as does an... | |
| Line Source - to toe in or not? Danny Richie measures loudspeakers in the same way John Atkinson does. One reason Harry Pearson never earned the credibility possessed by J. Gordon Hold was that measurements were not part of TAS reviews. In fact, Pearson lacked the technical know... | |
| Rtr speakers @musicalaviator: I would contact the JansZen Electrostatic Company. Though they did not make the RTR ESL tweeter (a great one, used not only in the Fulton Model J---a pair of which I bought new in 1974---but also the Wilson Audio WAMM and the ESS ... | |
| Is it good to upgrade the crossovers in your speakers? @mglik: A viewing of Danny Richie’s latest GR Research Tech Talk video on YouTube, in which he goes through his appraisal of the pair of Focal Aria 906 a customer sent him, will be informative. It’s easy to find: go to YouTube, do a search for GR... | |
| Line Source - to toe in or not? @erik_squires: Yeah, Danny Richie uses a notch filter to "tame" the ringing in the tweeters (and even midrange/bass drivers) in loudspeakers he is sent. Driver ringing is often also related to frequency response issues, so a filter addresses and h... | |
| Line Source - to toe in or not? Erik has a point, but it raises a couple of separate but related issues. A driver which is bright on axis, though not as bright off axis, will still be putting out too much high frequency energy into the room. It is the total power response of a ... |