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| Townshend Maximum Supertweeters There is a loudspeaker with what amounts to a super-tweeter built in: the Eminent Technology LFT-8b. The ribbon tweeter in the LFT-8 is employed from 10kHz up, fed from a 1st-order filter set at that frequency. The LFT-8b retails for $2499/pr, not... | |
| Looking for preamp which is good at BOTH single-ended AND balanced output The over-looked EAR-Yoshino 868L, designed and built by the recently-departed Tim de Paravicini, occasionally available used for around $3,000. The 868 sports two pair each of single-ended and balanced outputs on it’s rear---all independent of eac... | |
| Boy, Oh Boy! Towshend! Last I heard Sound Advice in Long Beach, California is Townshend Audio's U.S.A. distributor (as well as that of EAR-Yoshino and Helius Designs, both, like Townshend, UK companies), but that was a few years ago.Finding Sound Advice's Dan Meinwald t... | |
| Arrangement of components on rack The arrangement of my components is the consequence of my thinking in terms of the signal path and it’s inter-connect terminations.I’m a firm believer in the notion of tonearms being wired in the single-shot fashion: single uninterrupted runs of w... | |
| Derek and the Dominos 50th I haven't heard it, but Bobby Whitlock (the band's organist/vocalist/songwriter) panned it in one of his recent YouTube videos. The new mix was done so as to highlight Clapton, at the expense of the band's ensemble sound.The version to have is the... | |
| Boy, Oh Boy! Towshend! @arafiq: The part of the Townshend Audio Seismic products---all of them---that provides the majority of the isolation they afford is the Seismic Pod, which is built into the Platform, Podium, and Bars.The Pods are available separately in sets of 4... | |
| Perfect Pop Songs Agreed @rvpiano, that song defines Pop. Carole and Gerry wrote a lot of fantastic songs, including the astounding "Halfway To Paradise", recorded in the 1980's by Nick Lowe, a great version. | |
| The birth of a new thread dedicated to sharing our newly-acquired "old" LP's. Once a year Music Millennium in Portland (featured in one of Michael Fremer’s Analog Planet YouTube videos) has a sidewalk sale: boxes and boxes of used LP’s, priced to sell. I guess it’s done partly to make some room in their LP racks (which fill... | |
| Springsteen and Clapton on their favorite, heh, band. @bkeske: The night before! Upon hearing the news, I for the first, last, and only time cried at the passing of a musician or singer. I'm tearing up now; I loved Richard SO much. So did Clapton. | |
| Is your heart filled with a love of music, or something else? Great story @tablejockey! If I had been at the Bar-B-Q, Harold and I would have been discussing Earl Palmer, the New Orleans drummer whom I and others credit with creating Rock ’n Roll drumming (okay, D.J. Fontana deserves some credit too ;-).I wo... | |
| Springsteen and Clapton on their favorite, heh, band. @tomcy6: Because at the time of The Last Waltz, the plan was to take some time off, then later regroup to recommence recording. Robertson wanted to get off the record/tour/record/tour merry-go-round, which he thought was an unhealthy lifestyle. In... | |
| Springsteen and Clapton on their favorite, heh, band. Yeah @roxy54, I think of The Band (and others like them) as the counter-Counter Culture ;-). The movement they were spearheading was definitely swimming against the tide, and was almost on a cult level. Though their albums did actually sell pretty... | |
| Most important fundamentals in your built/modded listening room? Sheetrock is well-known to be fairly resonant, behaving like a struck drumhead. Go to the website of Acoustic Sciences Corp, and check out their wall-damping and isolation products, particularly Wall Damp.I've been in a room constructed with the A... | |
| New Hobby Ultrasonic Record Cleaning I did @slaw. His TINDIE.com webstore, too. No response from either. | |
| Beatles Vinyl Mono Box..do you have one? @aberyclark: The 2009 stereo LP's are made from digital copies of the master tapes. NO one needs them! |