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| Low Frequency Equalizer Unit for Infinity RS-2b (IIB) speakers Oops, I WAS thinking of the RS-1b, which I at one time owned. The woofer system in the 1b is definitely a servo-feedback design, in essence a small-scale IRS. Six 8" woofers in a separate enclosure per stereo side, but no integral amplifier, an ou... | |
| What is it in MM that can give me goose-bumps? 🤔 Ya know, @noromance is right.In asking about MM's, I take it the op is thinking of such cartridges in terms of their high output voltage compared to that of MC's, correct? Well, the Decca and London cartridges are MI's (Moving Iron), and have extr... | |
| What is your favorite ''slow dance'' song of all time? If you want to slow dance to "Love Hurts", at least make it to the original version by The Everly Brothers. If not that one, the early-70's version by Gram Parson & Emmylou Harris. | |
| The Best Audio Retailers in Orange County, CA Yeah, Gene Rubin's great, but as stated he's North Of L.A., not South. Ventura is a nice beach town, with a bar that books great acts like Albert Lee. I saw him perform there (no stage, right on the floor) to a packed house of guitar players, all ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw, you have a very good memory ;-) . Yes, I recently saw that old post, and at that time felt most "Rock" albums weren't of sufficiently high recorded sound quality to justify an audiophile reissue. I still feel that way, but the qualifier "mo... | |
| Low Frequency Equalizer Unit for Infinity RS-2b (IIB) speakers The original woofers are used in an integral servo-feedback system. Are the replacements? | |
| What is your favorite ''slow dance'' song of all time? "In My Room" by The Beach Boys, "You Really Got A Hold On Me" by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, "Close To Kathy" by Mike Clifford, "Magnet And Steel" by Walter Egan. | |
| What tests would you like all speaker reviewers to do for their reviews? Exactly @tomic601. Danny Richie performs those tests on all the loudspeakers he gets in (and has designed and offered as kits), and displays the results in his GR Research YouTube videos. Very illuminating! | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Most LP’s in any and every genre are of less than "audiophile" sound quality. I have long felt audiophile reissues are of interest only if 1- the music is good enough to justify it, 2- the recording is of high enough quality to justify it, and 3- ... | |
| What exactly is textural density?? Good analogy @twoleftears. Art Dudley was fond of this kind of phrase as well, and both he and Herb used it in their reviews in Art's 90's mag, Listener. I've always taken textural density to mean a full-bodied sound, akin to color saturation in p... | |
| Artists you feel you can rely on, buy any new album unheard. A great topic, and a lot of great nominees already mentioned. Some relatively obscure, and very hip: The Wondermints (I saw them live in L.A. a few times before they hooked up with Brian Wilson), NRBQ (one of the very best bands in R & R histo... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @bkeske: I feel the same about Harvest, by far my favorite of Neil’s many albums. The NYA (Neil Young Archives) reissue provides noticeably improved sound quality over the original pressing. He also redid all the Buffalo Springfield albums, availa... | |
| The Tragic Decline of Music Literacy (and Quality) When I was in 6th grade we had a school orchestra (7th through 12th, too). Learning to play a musical instrument was considered part of a well-rounded education. When Ronald Reagan was elected Governor of California (proving the state was not tota... | |
| The Vinyl Community's Mazzy Loves You! Nice LP player @seanchau! I too have been buying a lot of Analogue Production, MoFi, Speaker’s Corner, Intervention, etc. records lately. At $35 a pop, it doesn’t take long to spend a coupla grand! But used LP’s are surprisingly cheap in my area, ... | |
| Record clamp/weight and turntable speed The first table I saw with a reflex clamp was the Oracle Delphi. As described above, a thin (1/16") washer is slid down the spindle and onto the platter---under the LP, which of course raises the LP off the surface of the platter by the same heigh... |