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| Why do we want to distortions? And there you have it: Ralph (atmasphere) just gave you a thumbnail version of the master-class in amplifier design he could teach! | |
| TONE Make your own music recordings! Borrow or rent a pair of good mics and a reel-to-reel recorder, and ask a musician friend (you do have them, right?) if you can record a live performance. Once the tape is rolling, listen intently to the music and t... | |
| Open Baffle Opinions - I Won't go back to Boxed Speakers Evr Again (maybe....) Ralph's (atmasphere) advice matches my experience with planar loudspeakers. The common wisdom for dipole/wall spacing is at least 3' from the front wall (behind the speakers), but that is incorrect. As Ralph said, we want the rear wave to reach ou... | |
| Berlioz Requiem Another vote for the Colin Davis w/ The London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus version. Phillips 6700 019. Good sq, too. | |
| Vinyl Sleeves and Jackets Ya’ll need to go to the Vinyl Storage Solutions website, and check out Mike’s clever (patented, I’m sure) new double-pocket outer sleeves. He also makes regular single pocket sleeves, fabricated using the best (in terms of vinyl storage) plastic. ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @dayglow: Are those grades on a scale of 5? Or 10?! | |
| Custom plinth Incredible! Love the Festool's, I make do with my Bosch ;-) .When Art Dudley made a plinth for his Thorens TD-124, he used multiple pieces of Baltic Birch ply, but then didn't veneer, leaving the exposed Birch layers (13 per sheet, a stack of 6 pi... | |
| Anyone's tried repairing/upgrading original Vandersteen 1 speakers? To replace a woofer can be a cheap fix. In 1981 I bought a pair of ESS TranStatics I’s, introduced in 1970 and discontinued a few years later (with the success of the ESS/Heil AMT 1). One of the two speakers had had it’s KEF B-139 woofer replaced ... | |
| Why do we want to distortions? The question posed is a red herring. "Tube amplifiers sound better because of the euphonic distortions they add to the music." Where the Hell did you read or hear that?!Bill Johnson always said he used whatever technology was available to make the... | |
| New In 2021 I don’t ordinarily go in for colored vinyl LP’s (isn’t black a color? ;-), but this one looks great: the upcoming John Hiatt w/ The Jerry Douglas Band album, Record Store Day edition. The vinyl is a very cool-looking "Coke bottle" green. I’m getti... | |
| The birth of a new thread dedicated to sharing our newly-acquired "old" LP's. @tablejockey: Yep, I played the Blue Cafe a coupla times, one time as a member of The Hillbilly Soul Surfers, an instrumental trio. We shared the stage with The Naughty Ones, the Austin band whose members included singer/songwriter/Ted Roddy and d... | |
| The birth of a new thread dedicated to sharing our newly-acquired "old" LP's. This is going well!@slaw: Yep, I remember A.B. Skhy, though I’ve never heard them. From the very-early 70’s, right? Wonder what the name means? I remember seeing their name around the Bay Area back then.I also remember seeing the debut Dust album,... | |
| Analogue Productions announces May 21st release of ultimate Kind Of Blue LP When it comes to audiophile reissue pricing: some of the reissues sell for less than a mint copy of an original. The Electric Recording Company titles, though THE most limited (sometimes only one hindered copies of a title are produced), are often... | |
| What Is The Most Romantic Song That You Have Ever Listen To? I got beat to the punch by a coupla posters ("Moon River" and "The Look Of Love"). Currently I get delirious every time I listen to Lucinda sing "Where Is My Love", and even more so "West". On the latter, listen for the triplet Keltner plays on hi... | |
| Best material for an isolation platform? Baltic Birch plywood (13-layer 3/4"), mated with a slab of slate, a layer of ASC Wall Damp in between them. |