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| By popular demand. The Hartley woofer was actually a 24" driver. Matching subs with the ESL was for years unsatisfactory to most QUAD owners, but that was before the GR Reaearch/Rythmik OB/Dipole was introduced.I made my own stands for stacking pairs of QUADS: three... | |
| Wilson Audio Pedestal $2225 for a set of three?! The Townshend Audio Seismic Pods are far, far less money. | |
| Gold lion tubes The most thoroughly tested and matched GL KT88's are those sold by The Tube Store, retail outlet of RAM Tube Works, the late Roger Modjeski's company. EL34's and 6550's, too. Also 12AX7's, and 6DJ8's, and many others.Roger made sets for the amp's ... | |
| Opinion: Half of the reason to listen to choral works is the acoustics in the recording The @newbee recommendation is a real good one (as are many other Harmonia Mundi---both French and USA---recordings).In your hunt for LP’s, keep a look out for any of those on the ARK Records label. ARK was loudspeaker designer Robert Fulton’s (FMI... | |
| Interesting discovery when my carpets were cleaned yesterday! If you have plenty of dough, the Townshend Audio Seismic Podiums are worth looking into. Start with the YouTube video in which Max Townshend explains and demonstrates. | |
| Eminent Technology LFT 7 !! @gstewtoo, great to hear from another planar fanatic, especially of the Eminent Technology stripe! Bruce's speakers are ridiculously under-acknowledged and appreciated, aren't they? I'm still hoping to eventually snag a pair of LFT-6, but until th... | |
| Jazz is not Blues and Blues is not Jazz....... @edcyn, I know what you mean with your "fussy, smug" characterization of some Jazz guitar playing. There is one guitarist who doesn’t play Jazz that way, and he’s also great at Blues, Hillbilly, Rockabilly, 50’s Rock ’n’ Roll, and just about any o... | |
| Jazz is not Blues and Blues is not Jazz....... Good example, @orpheus10. Ray is imo the most important and influential male singer of 20th Century Pop music (along with Hank Williams). Does that sound too "grand"? ;-)And I consider Big Joe Turner perhaps the first Rock 'n' Roll singer. He too ... | |
| Wall mounting on studs For anyone not having a concrete floor, and a tall enough crawl space under a suspended wood one, an old technique is to install 4 x 4 braces at the location of the table on the floor, from the bottom of the floor into the earth below. A concrete... | |
| Am I too big of a jerk,even for audiogon? @nonoise, perhaps the person making the misleading and mischaracterized accusation is assuming his voters, like himself, doesn't read. | |
| Tune of the Day Iris Dement: "Wasteland Of The Free". This was written and recorded during the Bush Presidency, but is perhaps even more relevant now. This song got her excommunicated from the Far Right Radical Evangelical community.Iris was born in Arkansas into... | |
| Am I too big of a jerk,even for audiogon? Erik, looks like some didn't get the joke. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @noromance, I bought a UK copy of The Madcap Laughs when it was originally released (even though I didn't care for Pink Floyd or Psychedelia in general). We were at that time looking for anything "weird", but this album is WAY beyond that; it's te... | |
| Are my standards too high? Brings to mind the expression my Pa used regularly: "He likes the sound of his own voice." Ignore him and he'll go away usually works, but in this case I doubt it. | |
| Wall mounting on studs You got a point there, @lewm! There are a few exceptions, but only a few. |