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| Eminent Technology LFT8B’s reversing woofer polarity @ledoux1238, the LFT-8b contains two pair of binding posts, one for the panels, one for the bass bins. The speaker comes with a set of jumper wires between the two, to facilitate running the speaker with a single stereo amplifier (the power amp ca... | |
| Your top 3 most EMOTIONALLY intense live concerts, and top 3 EMOTIONALLY intense records. @ericsch: I’m gonna guess your name is Eric. Cool name ;-)Hey, do you remember when towards the end of The Kinks' set, Ray said to the audience: "Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like you to give a warm round of applause for Mr. Van Dyke Parks", pointing... | |
| What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital? Howdy, @edcyn! I wouldn’t be surprised if we were familiar faces to each other (in the 90’s I looked a lot like Neil Young in the Buffalo Springfield days, complete with the sideburns). Working in the Classical Annex (which I frequented at least s... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Yup @slaw, saw the review (I’m on Bill’s blog mailing list. Though our musical tastes are very different, I like his writing a lot). If I was lookin’ for a mat I’d sure give yours a shot (still may, actually). I’m pretty darn happy with the Delrin... | |
| WHAT IS THE MOST UNIQUE SONG THAT YOU HAVE EVER HEARD? "Baby Let Me Bang Your Box" by Doug Clark & The Nuts, a 7" 45RPM single in 1963. How on earth did that get by the censors?!My friends and I rode our bikes to the record shop in downtown San Jose (which had a bank of record players hooked up to... | |
| Angstrom 200 Preamplifier balance adjustment Moffat started Angstrom after he left Theta, where he was head product designer. Good engineer, and an interesting character. | |
| What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital? I’m old enough for LP’s to have been the only album format available (my first records were 7" 45RPM singles). I never went for pre-recorded 8-tracks or cassettes, already being an audiophile by the time they were introduced. I held out against CD... | |
| Angstrom 200 Preamplifier balance adjustment They're cheap now, aren't they?! When I bought mine is was a couple grand iirc, and that was in the 90's. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Michael Percy sells EAR Isodamp SD in various thicknesses. He recommends the SD125 (1/8" thick) for damping metal enclosures. He says it’s the best thing he has found for that use. Economically priced, too. I stuck it inside my Herron Phono stage,... | |
| Why not more popular? @mijostyn: I expected to see the response in your paragraph number one, but not from you ;-) . Yes of course, planars are technically open baffle (though there have been some ESL’s made in sealed boxes). My statement was made in response to the po... | |
| Angstrom 200 Preamplifier balance adjustment Email Mike Moffat at Schitt Audio. He designed the 200 when he was at Angstrom. | |
| Your top 3 most EMOTIONALLY intense live concerts, and top 3 EMOTIONALLY intense records. Can't leave out:- "Lies" by The Knickerbockers. Amazing! At least as good as early Beatles (maybe better).- "Shakin' All Over" by The Guess Who (pre-Burton Cummings). The version by The Who (complete with hoary vocals by Roger Daltrey), um, sucks.... | |
| Your top 3 most EMOTIONALLY intense live concerts, and top 3 EMOTIONALLY intense records. Songs:- "Train Kept A Rollin" by The Rock ’n’ Roll Trio (Johnny Burnette). The version by The Yardbirds (my introduction to the song) is pretty good, the version by Aerosmith terrible.- " Like A Rolling Stone" by BD.- "God Only Knows" by The Beach... | |
| Your top 3 most EMOTIONALLY intense live concerts, and top 3 EMOTIONALLY intense records. - The Beach Boys at The San Jose Civic, Summer of 1964 (you never forget your first ;-) . Brian Wilson on Fender bass and falsetto vocals, Mike Love on obnoxiousness.- The Beatles at The Cow Palace in S. San Francisco, Summer of 1965. Not a very g... | |
| Eminent Technology LFT8B’s reversing woofer polarity @ledoux1238: The Townshend Pods raise the height of the LFT-8 about 1.5" above that of the SA stands’ stock spikes. One reason I prefer planars is because of the higher image they create relative to most "box" speakers. I like looking up at the "s... |