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| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: A quote attributed to many master Jazz musicians---Miles Davis, Count Basie, and Duke Ellington to name just three---goes "The Notes you don't play are as important as those you do." I consider that essential musical wisdom.I've been watching Jack... | |
| Next step in Turntable The HW-19 Mk.2 has a floating subchassis composed of a bottom layer of steel top with a 1/2" split-slab of acrylic (the split between the larger piece onto which the platter bearing is bolted, onto the smaller the tonearm), and a 1" Delrin platter... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Let’s just think of (U.S.A.) Americans and Canadians as North Americans. ;-) . I would argue that in some ways Americans from the North (or at least non-South) have more in common with Canadians than they do with Southerners.Levon Helm---born and ... | |
| Which subwoofer? @lewinskih01;By jove, I think you have it! 18" woofers have gained favour amongst OB enthusiasts because of their higher max-SPL characteristics in comparison to smaller woofers (and 15" for the same reason). Open baffle woofer design results in l... | |
| Next step in Turntable @unreceivedogma: Now get yourself the VPI SAMA (Stand Alone Motor), and you’ll be set! And if you can find a TNT-3/4 platter (a bottom section of 7/8" aluminum with a plate of cork-covered lead inserted into it’s bottom side, topped with a 5/8" la... | |
| What speaker has the best tweeter? Magnepan owners (and others) think very highly of that company’s current ribbon tweeter, used in the MG3.7i, 20.7, and 30.7. The long-discontinued Tympani T-IV and T-IVa also used an earlier incarnation of basically the same driver.The Townshend A... | |
| Free in-home testing? Rythmik: Returns allowed for 45 days, but customer pays return shipping, which on a hundred lb. sub is not inconsiderable. I have never heard of Rythmik deducting for fingerprints on the enclosure though. ;-) | |
| Audio companies or boutique labels for good SQ LPs? Audioquest, Vandersteen, and Water Lily (get the album A Meeting By The River, guitar by Ry Cooder). You mention Sheffield: have you ever heard a direct-to-disc LP? Find one, any one!Back in the 1970’s FMI (Fulton Musical Industries) produced some... | |
| recording to Reel to Reel directly from "preamp out" For best SQ, it's better to plug the source component directly into the reel-to-reel if and when possible (if your integrated contains your RIAA phono stage, obviously not). Not convenient, but if you don't do it often not that big a deal. | |
| Cost of state of the art? The classic recording of this work is by Janos Starker, very difficult to find in it’s original Mercury Records LP pressing in good condition. When you do, it is very expensive.There are two superb reissues currently available: a 4-LP set done by ... | |
| What are the current useless terms in this "audio world" Vinyls. Vinyl (singular) is fine, vinyls (plural) not. An LP is made of vinyl (actually, PVC---poly vinyl chloride), but an LP in not a "vinyl". | |
| Which subwoofer? @lewinskih01: Your question has me confused. After stating "So he's using F12's up to 40Hz", you then ask "Do you happen to know how high he crosses over to the F12G's?" Aren't those the same? Or am I not seeing what you're asking?You're not diffe... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: @orgillian197: You are correct in the literal sense about The Band being not American (or at least 4 of the 5 members weren't), but I above explained my admittedly thin excuse for overlooking that fact. ;-) Isn't it ironic, then, that The Band are... | |
| Which subwoofer? @ewinskih01: Danny Richie uses a pair of OB subs in the front of his room and a pair of F12G's in the rear (in both his company's listening room and at hi-fi shows), the F12's in phase opposite that of the the OB's. I believe he uses 40Hz as the x... | |
| Thank God for Chad Kassem. Hi @hotel. I too have the DCC Pet Sounds LP, as well as their gold disc CD of the album, both mastered by Steve Hoffman.Kevin Gray was years ago hired by Capitol Records to produce a new stereo mix of Pet Sounds, and he worked side-by-side with Br... |