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| Michael Fremer leaves Analog Planet @teo_audio: Without Art Dudley, Stereophile is barely worth reading (I have a complete collection of his Listener magazine). I stick around for John Atkinson's amplifier and loudspeaker measurements. When Fremer was originally with TAS, he never ... | |
| First Watt SIT3 vs Dynakit ST35 @rankaudio: Modjeski designed so as to create an amp as transparent and uncolored as possible (as well as stable into all loads, and trouble free). He considered "warmth" a coloration, but of course decreasing the warmth inherent in a recording is... | |
| How much faster of a sub is the REL T5X vs SVS SB12-NSD All right, I was gonna leave the details of woofer "speed" to those who cared enough to watch Danny Richie’s Tech Talk 6/Fast Bass YouTube video, but in light of the akg_ca post directly above, I’ll say more. The Vandersteen is indeed a very fine... | |
| New In 2022 @djohn: I’ve done the same on a number of my Acoustic Sounds orders (to get free shipping)! They were selling the Groovies’ Shake Some Action LP? (I don’t see it on the site now). That’s funny, ’cause the album is hardly what I would call audiophi... | |
| How much faster of a sub is the REL T5X vs SVS SB12-NSD My recommendation: Go onto YouTube and do a search for GR Research. Click on the GRR icon and scroll over to the Tech Talk 6/Fast Bass video. You will find the answers to all your questions, from an expert loudspeaker/subwoofer designer. After t... | |
| Old CDs and records I'll take 'em off your hands. ;-) | |
| Does a REL subwoofer make the speakers' job easier? Phase can be a somewhat complex matter, but in the case of subs it is not. The phase switch on most subs gives only two options: either the signal is left as received, or it is rotated 180 degrees (the phase is flipped, i.e. reversed). The phase ... | |
| First Watt SIT3 vs Dynakit ST35 Roger Modjeski used the EL84 in his Music Reference RM-10 amplifier, an amplifier with a cult following. It was Roger's favorite of his push-pull designs (he also did single-ended and OTL). | |
| Politics and Music Actually, Frank Zappa himself got very involved in politics in 1987, when he went up against Tipper Gore over warning labels on albums, even testifying before Congress. I know a fair number of musicians who identify as Libertarians, the interesti... | |
| Best microphone for recording home system Not to be argumentative, but the SM57 and 58 have midrange boosts built into their frequency responses, to make vocals more intelligible on PA systems. The SM57 is the industry standard for recording snare drums, as it makes them POP! For accurac... | |
| Hot Rats Zappa is notorious amongst drummers for his brutal auditions. He wrote parts for the applicants to play, parts intentionally extremely difficult to play. Some found him to be a sadist who enjoyed humiliating other musicians. One drummer Zappa was ... | |
| A perfect song? What are your choices? @larsman: The Smithereens’ songs had some great hooky riffs, didn’t they?! @mitchagain: Jellyfish were astounding, just as good live as on record. The Wondermints were very well known around L.A. before they hooked up with Brian Wilson, and thei... | |
| Politics and Music Johnny Cash was an early fan of Bob Dylan, but Johnny's cause was the plight of Native Americans. He did an album dedicated to the subject (Bitter Tears: Ballads Of The American Indian). Merle Haggard is most well known by the general population ... | |
| Politics and Music Did ya’ll know that Neil Young was for a time a "Reagan Democrat"? Disappointing. For years I greatly admired Joan Baez as an "activist" (I don’t care for the term, as it feels to me somewhat pejorative), but didn’t care for her artistically (too... | |
| A perfect song? What are your choices? Excellent recommendation @mitchagain! Poptopia includes "Starry Eyes" by The Records, a song written by drummer Will Birch and John Wicks, the latter of whom I had the pleasure of working with live. Also included is "Rock ’n’ Roll Girl" by The Bea... |