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| First impressions of the Isoacoustic Gaia 1’s There IS that consideration, @ozzy. The Sound Anchor speaker stands I bolted the Townshend Pods onto are even more stiff and rigid (and filled with sand) than is the thin sheet of steel used in the Podium and Platform. For lighter components (phon... | |
| $1500 tube amp for La Scalas? A Music Reference RM-10 Mk.2, if you can find one. | |
| Missing Members I’ve been wondering about Schubert myself. I figure he may have grown weary of being surrounded by heathen Rock ’n’ Rollers. ;-) | |
| Great Rock Bassists your Top 10.Rock not Jazz. But Hey what about Reggae In 1971 I was in a band with a real good bassist. His three favorite players were Rick Danko, Jack Casady, and Phil Lesh. He loved Jack's tone, so ordered himself the same bass jack was at that time playing: A Guild Starfire. The bass arrived, he... | |
| First impressions of the Isoacoustic Gaia 1’s @jafant: I actually don't have any IsoAcoustics GAIA's. I learned of them from VPI's Harry Weisfeld, who raved about the improvement they wrought when installed under his KEF Blades. So I investigated them, as well as the Townshend Seismic Pod. I ... | |
| Led Zeppelin 11 Great point @lowrider57. I have seen lots of factory-made scratch-outs of matrix numbers in the run-out grooves of new (factory-sealed) LP's. | |
| First impressions of the Isoacoustic Gaia 1’s I guess I’ll say it again, though perhaps again to no avail ;-) . The Townshend Podium cost multiples the price of the IsoAcoustics GAIA II and III (though not the GAIA I), but a set of Townshend Seismic Pods doesn’t. In fact, a set of 4 Pods cost... | |
| First impressions of the Isoacoustic Gaia 1’s @jafant: An Esoteric DV-50S. I bought Arthur Salvatore's personal example of the CD/SACD player from him at a good price. Everything else in my system is tubed, except for a couple of spare SS power amps. | |
| i hate Beatle fans. (REFERENCE TO ANALOG PLANET article) What Analog Planet article are you referring to? The problem I have with the Beatle fanatic musicians I know is that they act like no music made since is as good, let alone "better" (whatever that may mean to anyone). I disagree. | |
| First impressions of the Isoacoustic Gaia 1’s @havocman: How much do your speakers weigh?! The individual Pods are the same as the Pods that come on the Podium and Platform, available in six weight capacities, the "F" model Pod capable of supporting up to 50 kilograms. Four of the Pods can th... | |
| Led Zeppelin 11 Thanks @audioguy85, I stand corrected. I heard about Port obscuring the dead wax info somewhere, and assumed it was in fact true. That’ll teach me! I myself bought only one LP from Tom, and not because it was a hot stamped LP. In fact, I don’t th... | |
| Best Rock Drummers "There were no great Rock drummers before Ringo Starr, Charlie Watts, and Keith Moon". Wow, such unashamed ignorance. So no Earl Palmer (Little Richard)? D.J. Fontana (Elvis Presley)? Fred Below? Below was the house drummer at Chess Records, play... | |
| Audiophile Grade Wall Receptacle @nonoise: I too have the Porter Ports, which are good enough for me. But then I’m not fanatical about that kind of stuff. Is Albert still offering them? Geez, I hope he didn't die and I never heard about it! ;-( | |
| A bit too "non-audiophile", but what are your favorite high-end tuners based on Looks? McIntosh MR-67, 71, 73, 74, 77. Understated elegance. Too bad Mac added that hideous bezel in the MR-78, and switched from their nice original knobs to the ones with the black front. | |
| Toroidal transformer on tube amp Roger Modjeski (Music Reference, RAM Tubes) brought up the topic of the employment of toroidal transformers in tube amps in one of his Burning Amp Festival amplifier design seminars, and was adamant in his opposition. Tim de Paravicini (EAR-Yoshin... |