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| VTL 300 Deluxe monoblocks @tomic601: I hadn't heard about Tom retiring. Glad I got the RM-9 Mk.2 he scrutinized for Sheila while I could! I assumed he wouldn't be coming along when she moves the Brooks Berdan operation up to Washington, sometime this year I believe. | |
| How to repair bottom diaphragm connection of Eminent Technology LFT8 planar speakers By the way, nice loudspeaker! An overlooked little gem. Only a little more $ than the Maggie 1.7i, and imo quite a bit better. | |
| Acoustic treatment for windows and a piano As @dekay suggested, damping the piano strings (two per keyboard note---that's a lotta strings!) is the first order of business. They ring like crazy when provoked, much more than an acoustic guitar or drumset. A folded furniture moving blanket wi... | |
| Another great gone, this time its Charlie Watts I just heard. There are those who consider The Stones Charlie's band, not Mick & Keith's. I guess Steve Jordan now has a full-time job ;-) . I love the pictures of Charlie on stage, smirking at Mick's "antics". Charlie was a hardcore Jazz fan,... | |
| Discovered I had a One Step pressing....from 1978! The direct-to-disc LP still beats all LP's pressed using a recorder of any kind. Skipping the recording "step" is the biggest of them all. | |
| surround processor? An economical way to give surround sound a try is to get the old Dynaco Quadaptor. You hook it up to your power amp's binding posts, and it creates a left minus right (L - R) signal, which is sent to a rear channel amp and speakers. The L - R sign... | |
| TEKTON IMPACT MONITORS If you send one speaker to Danny Richie at GR Research, he will thoroughly evaluate it's performance (frequency response, spectral decay---aka waterfall plot, enclosure resonances, x/o parts quality, etc. If he thinks a redesign of the crossover w... | |
| How to repair bottom diaphragm connection of Eminent Technology LFT8 planar speakers Why not send the pics to Bruce Thigpen at Eminent Technology? Don't worry, he's a real nice fella. | |
| VTL 300 Deluxe monoblocks Tom Carione at Brooks Berdan, Ltd., in Monrovia, California. Tom was servicing VTL products when Brooks was a VTL retailer. He's an excellent technician, and a great guy to deal with. | |
| Thorens, TD-125 MKII I bought a TD-125 Mk.2 new in '73. It was defective out of the box: bad electronics. I had it in the warranty station I don't know how many times, and finally sold it. Tell your friend to look for a VPI HW-19 Mk.2, 3, or 4. Much better table imo. | |
| The great Don Everly has left us. Ah yes @pehare, The Louvin Brothers! Emmylou Harris has said Gram Parsons turned her onto them, for which she is grateful.No Louvin Brothers, no Everly Brothers? ;-)We all stand on the shoulders of giants. That includes Dylan and Simon & Garfu... | |
| Audible illusions Slow customer service Ric Schultz of EVS (Electronic Visionary Systems) might be willing to work on an AI pre-amp. He worked at the company for a while (in the 80's or 90's, I believe), and came up with a series of mods for the Modulus 2. | |
| surround processor? If you can find one, the Angstrom 200 Surround Sound Processor / DAC / Pre-Amp, designed and built by Mike Moffat of Theta and Schitt Audio. | |
| The first system you had that was "high end/audiophile", by you standards @tomic601: I discovered the high end in 1971 (Infinity Servo-Static’s, ESS TranStatics, SAE electronics, then ARC), and commenced visiting every HE shop in the Bay Area. One was The Audio Clinic in Berkeley, which I visited to hear the Dayton Wrig... | |
| Do you all agree when Prince said the 60s, 70s and 80s were the golden ages of music? I couldn't agree more @stuartk. The album's cultural significance is one thing, it's music quite another. Reminds me of how Atlantic Records' President Ahmet Ertegun characterized Cream's Disraeli Gears album when he heard the tapes: "Psychedelic ... |