bdp24
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| New to vinyl, where to start? The best advice you can be given is to not put the cart before the horse. As you upgrade your equipment, the amount you spend should be at least equaled by the amount you spend on LP's. You don't want to become an audiophile with 100 records and a... | |
| replacement for MOFI beatles box set Yeah, the Beatles MoFi boxset is not a keeper. I had all the individual LP’s, the price I got for them greatly exceeding the price I paid for the mono boxset ($300 at the time). But ya know, the original Parlophone stereo pressings (which I bough... | |
| Who's an artist that you're a fan of but whose name you're not sure how to pronounce? Rameau. Ram-"mo", or Ram-"waw"? I've never heard his name uttered. Those darn Europeans ;-) . | |
| Looking for a new (preowned OK) line stage under $5K: suggestions? No pre-amp will solve the problems created by room acoustics. A better approach than to change pre-amps might be to switch to a loudspeaker which interacts less with the room. A dipole planar has significantly less floor, ceiling, and side-wall re... | |
| Line Source - to toe in or not? The answer is related to the phase relationship between drivers. With no toe-in, the tweeter strip will be either close to or further away from the listening position than is the woofer/midrange driver (the most common driver arrangement in line-s... | |
| Avoiding US dealer markups Foreign tonearms are okay to buy direct. But don't expect any after-purchase help from the U.S.A. importer. You're on your own! Paying full price for a tonearm is worthwhile if you have a dealer---such as the late Brooks Berdan, or his son Brian ... | |
| Subwoofer Amplifier Guidance If you select one of the two XLR versions of the Rythmik plate amp in the F12 you purchase, you can connect it to the balanced output of your ARC LS-5. One benefit of doing so is the interconnect can be as long as you want or need. The non-XLR ve... | |
| New In 2022 Ben Vaughn's new album, a Record Store Day exclusive. Only 1,000 copies pressed, so show up early to get yours! | |
| Best Rock Drummers Ringo’s drumming on Rubber Soul is fantastic! So is his drum sound. For whatever reason his playing on Revolver---as well as the sound of his drums---changed dramatically on that album. But then the sound of the whole group had changed too. Anoth... | |
| Magnepan LRS with JC 1s The Audiophiliac on YouTube. | |
| Magnepan LRS with JC 1s Consumer alert! The LRS has been superseded by the LRS Plus, about to start shipping. The Plus will be priced at $995 (I believe). | |
| First impressions of the Isoacoustic Gaia 1’s @curious Jim: No. The Podium is fitted with 4 Pods. If you get the Podium, you obviously don’t need individual Pods. So, the choice is to either remove a loudspeakers’ stock base (if any) and set the speaker on the Podium, or, if you are happy wi... | |
| First impressions of the Isoacoustic Gaia 1’s @havocman: Your most recent post tells me two separate issues have become conflated: 1 - Using individual Pods bolted onto your loudspeaker’s stock bases VS. removing the bases and placing your now-baseless loudspeakers on Podiums. 2- My unique ... | |
| First impressions of the Isoacoustic Gaia 1’s @curtousjim: No, the Townshend Podium does not screw into the holes of ANY loudspeaker or it's bottom plate. The Podium is just a metal plate with Pods bolted onto it. If you want to keep the Reference 5's bottom plate (I would), just install a se... | |
| Best Rock Drummers @mbennes: Oh man, you are too hip for the room ;-) , Buddy Harman is FANTASTIC, in my all-time Top 10. I’ll bet you and I are the only ones here who know his name. Buddy was the "first call" drummer in Nashville for decades, in effect that city’s ... |