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| Thoughts about buying a Bedini 100 The lower-powered Bedini’s are renown for their good sound (the 10/10 and 25/25 are pure Class A). I don’t know if the same is true of the higher-powered models. They are all pretty old by now, and often in need of having their power supply caps r... | |
| Diminishing Returns Cool @b_limo. If you live 150 or more miles from an ET dealer, you can buy the LFT-8b factory-directly with free shipping.Regarding durability, the Linear Field Transducer (LFT) has been in production for over 30 years, unchanged! That midrange dr... | |
| What is up with Audio Research during the pandemic? Excellent advice Mike. Nobody else tests their tubes in all the parameters that RAM Tube Works does. The details of that testing are available of the website. Roger Modjeski matched pairs and quads for Quicksilver (he and Mike Sanders were close f... | |
| Tube Rolling Look at the getter (the chrome-like coating on the inside of the top end of the glass envelope) of each tube. As the tube is used, that "flash" is burned off. | |
| Diminishing Returns Very true about the ET LFT-8b, @tomic601. But for whatever reason, no matter how many times they are mentioned, people just like the OP continue to ignore them. I give up! ;-)Plus, as he was mentioning $500 loudspeakers, I didn’t want to suggest a... | |
| Ported versus sealed speakers: is one type better? Putting a woofer into a sealed enclosure raises the resonant frequency of the driver. The acoustic output of the woofer thus starts rolling off at a higher frequency than does the same woofer in a ported enclosure. However, it’s slope is (as Erik ... | |
| Best debut album Oh, just one? That’s easy: Music From Big Pink. It changed the world for every good musician I know, and many I don't (Eric Clapton, Nick Lowe, Neil Young, hundreds of others). | |
| Need speaker cable Though they don't show up very often, keep a look out for the no-longer in-production Clear Day Double Shotgun pure silver cables, originally $500 retail for an 8' pair, sold by their maker for $450. | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system Likewise Bruce, every time I have spoken with BT on the phone he has been very relaxed, not like he is trying to get off the phone as soon as possible. In my opinion, to realize the full benefits of bi-amping requires the employment of a filter on... | |
| Best debut album Moby Grape, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, The Band, Randy Newman, Van Dyke Parks, Jellyfish, Iris Dement, Gram Parsons, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Dwight Twilley Band, The Beat (U.S., not U.K.), Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Rockpile, Marshall ... | |
| Ported versus sealed speakers: is one type better? Ported designs do NOT "go" deeper than do sealed. In fact, the exact opposite is true. Ported woofers provide more output down to resonance than do sealed designs (which are already rolling off at 6dB/octave at their resonant frequency), below whi... | |
| Diminishing Returns If you have the self-confidence and DIY spirit required to build a kit, nothing beats a GR Research loudspeaker (and/or sub). | |
| Jazz for someone who doesn't like jazz. Seriously, give Danny Gatton a listen. He is a virtuoso guitarist (Vince Gill nicknamed him The Humbler) who mixes Jazz, Rockabilly, Hillbilly (he’s a master at the Merle Travis style), and Blues styles. There are some YouTube videos in which Dann... | |
| In the middle of a pandemic, Stereophile reviews ~ $30K equipment Received my first issue in 1972, and J. Gordon Holt became my hi-fi guru. Also liked Dick Olsher, from the same school as JGH. Stayed with the mag even after Larry Archilbald, having bought the mag from Gordon (publishing was NOT Gordon’s forte), ... | |
| Your favorite excellent quality/sounding LPs - Any and all direct-to-disk LP’s (Sheffield labs, M & K, Crystal Clear, etc).- Water Lily Records (start with A Meeting On The River with Ry Cooder).- Audioquest Records (lots of Blues and Singer/Songwriter).- Lots of albums on the labels Rou... |