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| What is the Best Amp.... to Mate With the Townshend Allegri Preamp? One good choice would be the version of the Music Reference RM-9 amp that provides three different amounts of gain, chosen via a toggle switch. That is true for all passives, not just the Townshend. By the way, the Allegri has gotten very positive... | |
| If you could, what live performances would you enjoy re-living? @roberjerman, you left out Mickey Waller on drums! I too saw that lineup, at the original Fillmore in San Francisco.I’d love to revisit seeing The Beatles at The Cow Palace (S. SF) in ’65, The Who at The Carousel Ballroom (I think) performing A Qu... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Yep @slaw, Elusive Disc is good too. They’ve been my first stop for a few years now, especially for MoFi’s. They have some OOP titles too, but a little overpriced imo.I’ve found a great little record shop locally, a husband/wife team who sell LP’s... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Speaking of Analogue Productions (as I did above), their retail arm Acoustic Sounds is now my favorite source for new "audiophile" LP’s. Great stock, reasonable prices, free shipping with a $49.99 purchase (a coupla LP’s), and the best shipping ca... | |
| Anybody have both Herbie's Cone/Spike Pucks and isoacoustics gaia's @gdnrbob: What I did was get sets of the Pods and install them on the stands Sound Anchors makes for the Eminent Technology LFT-8b loudspeakers. The stand comes with 3 spikes, and the Pods can very easily be used in their place. The threading on t... | |
| Need more slam! Help! Get yourself a London phono cartridge. The Super Gold will cost you about $1500, and give you unrivalled transient snap, immediacy, and dynamics. Order it with the optional Decapod, which provides much better mechanical coupling to the tonearm tha... | |
| Who are your three favorite female singers? Currently Iris Dement, Emmylou Harris, Julie Miller.From the past Brenda Lee, Tammy Wynette, Dusty Springfield. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw, I have the MCA Heavy Vinyl Buddy Holly, and the Analogue Productions version of that same album will be here tomorrow. On the front of the MCA cover the hype sticker has this quote from Fremer:"Music erupts out of total silence from these t... | |
| Jazz is not Blues and Blues is not Jazz....... Whatever name you put on them, the debut albums of Van Dyke Parks and (for example) Led Zeppelin are extremely different things. About all they have in common is that they are both music (being generous to LZ ;-). Maybe that's a bad example: Van's... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hey @tomic601, was the Alone Together reissue done with the "splatter" vinyl of the original? I have the copy I bought when it was first released, along with a 180g pressing (still sealed) done as part of MCA's Heavy Vinyl series (in the late-90's... | |
| The best speakers over 50K You can always add an Eminent Technology TRW-17 True Subwoofer to your speakers (and "non-true" subs ;-) to reach $50k. If you don't yet know that Bruce Thigpen is a genius (or at least a very clever fella), check out the TRW-17. TRW stands for Th... | |
| Anybody have both Herbie's Cone/Spike Pucks and isoacoustics gaia's Each "Pod" in the Townshend Audio Seismic products provides height-adjustability, great for leveling turntables and CD players. select-hifi on ebay is the place to buy them. The seller (John) is a fantastic guy to deal with. | |
| What's your favorite boutique speaker maker I don’t know what constitutes "boutique" when it comes to loudspeakers, but I would think Bruce Thigpen and his Eminent Technology LFT-8b meets the criteria.For those willing and able to DIY, Danny Richie's GR Research kits are fantastic speakers ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Ah, okay Jim. I saw Jerry on his last time through Portland. His solo stuff tends to be in the Bluegrass/Jazz fusion vein, with no vocals. I LOVE Jerry's playing (he and Ry Cooder, my favorite active guitar players), but prefer him in the purely B... | |
| Poor Fritz The rule of thumb in hi-fi manufacturing is to price a product at ten times the cost of parts. Assuming that is for selling through brick & mortar retailers, for direct sales let’s cut that in half. Even at five x parts, the $3500 Fritz is sti... |