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| If you could, what live performances would you enjoy re-living? I just flashed back on seeing Lucinda Williams at a pizza parlor somewhere in L.A. in the late-80's. Her s/t Rough Trade album had just been released, and I loved it. There were only a half-dozen people in the place.The stage was tiny, her drummer... | |
| My thoughts on TT isolation methods. Actually @toetapaudio, that's John, not Max ;-) . | |
| change amps or speakers The LFT-8b is a pretty-stable 8 ohm load. The LFT m/t panel itself is an almost purely resistive 11 ohms, so good with tubes. If you bi-amp---with any old solid state amp for the woofers (180Hz down) and your excellent Quicksilver amp for the pane... | |
| Question regarding subwoofers Using 80Hz as the x/o frequency is not the whole story: what’s the order of the filter? A 1st-order filter is only 6dB/octave. A sub so used is still putting out a lot of sound at 160Hz (an octave above 80Hz). If using 80Hz, the filter must be ver... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? In addition to it's silicon fluid-filled cup rear bearing, the Well Tempered had it's arm tube filled with sand.By the way, the Townshend Rock table can be fitted with any 9"-10" pivoted arm. The table comes with the front-end damping trough "padd... | |
| What are Your Favorite and Most hated Record Manufacturers Oops, the Kinks’ expanded Muswell Hillbillies is coming from Amazon. Coming from Elusive Disc is the 3-LP/5-CD/3-7" expanded boxset of The Kinks’ fantastic album The Village Green Preservation Society, the original of which Pete Townshend said is ... | |
| Who are your three favorite female singers? For current rotation, that would be Lucinda Williams (I love her reimagining of the Sweet Old World album, now entitled This Sweet Old World), Mary Gauthier, and Patty Loveless.There is a YouTube video wherein Iris Dement is accompanied on harmony... | |
| What's your definition of an audiophile? The Absolute Sound imo gives audiophiles a bad name. It's been a long time since it was relevant (though I do like Steven Stone, who was mentored by the great J. Gordon Holt.). You know it's bad when TAS founder Harry Pearson quits! But then JGH q... | |
| What are Your Favorite and Most hated Record Manufacturers Having now finally received some Analog Productions LP’s, I too can confidently recommend them.On it’s way is a Speakers Corner LP (Raphael Puyana’s The Golden Age Of Harpsichord Music, an original on Mercury Living Presence of which I already own... | |
| My thoughts on TT isolation methods. @mijostyn, to have the design of the Townshend Seismic Pod (the active element in all the Townshend isolation products) explained, and to see it demonstrated, watch Max Townshend's videos on YouTube. Once on YouTube, a simple search of his name wi... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? As far as I am aware, Max Townshend is the only turntable designer/manufacturer who has actually brought to market a product offering damping at the headshell end of the tonearm (via his patented silicon fluid-filled trough). If anyone knows of an... | |
| Morning coffee with Beatles and a hole The Capitol Records engineer who prepared The Beatles recordings for the 60’s U.S. LP’s added gratuitous electronic reverb to the copy tapes he received from Parlophone. You really haven’t heard The Beatles early albums until you hear the UK versi... | |
| Another Bass discussion... For a reference, the lowest note the standard 4-string bass (electric and acoustic) plays---the E string played "open"---is located at 41Hz. The fifth string on a 5-string (played open is a B note) makes a 31Hz wave. Some electronic keyboards play... | |
| You can Vote for Most Valuable Lead Vocals (Rock Groups) For Rock, four of the best singers to come out of the UK imo started as the front man for a group:Van Morrison/ThemPaul Jones/Manfred MannSteve Winwood/The Spencer Davis GroupSteve Marriot/The Small Faces | |
| 1st Album you Ever Owned? Oops, the Paul Revere & The Raiders song I meant to cite was "Just Like Me" (not that "Him Or Me" isn't also great. The Flamin' Groovies covered that one in the 70's). Great Pop/Punk, like The Ramones with a Vox Continental organ added. Fantas... |