bdp24
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| Subwoofer insight. @m-db,: no, because the input impedance of the high level input on subs allowing that are at an extremely high impedance---the sub is receiving the output signal of the power amp, but none of it's power. Amazing, ay?HOWEVER, whatever distortion th... | |
| I sure miss my Quad ‘57s! True George, and the lower the tap, the lower the output impedance, a very good thing with the ESL (it's impedance swing is brutal, insane). Interestingly, in my last email with Roger, he recommended I use the 8 ohm tap on the RM-10 with the ESL, ... | |
| How do you sort your LPs? @noromance (and other genre-ists ;-), I get it now. My Pop collection is almost all one genre anyway: Americana. Just kidding.I would love to be able to have my LP's cover-facing-out, but available room precludes that possibility. I spent a lot of... | |
| Herron VTSP-2a vs EAR 324 @dhcod, Here’s some info that may be of some value and/or use to you:Long time Decca user and enthusiast Ken Kessler of Hi-Fi News & Record Review reviewed the 324, and loved it. But then he’s a big Tim de Paravicini fan ;-) . Look up the revi... | |
| I sure miss my Quad ‘57s! @mglik, if you decide to try the ESL again, give Kent at Electrostatic Solutions in Kansas City a call. For an amp, the Music Reference RM-10 was designed using the ESL as it's load, and is perfect for it. | |
| Top ten American composers/songwriters Oops, right you are, @vinylandtubes (love the handle!). Squeeze sounds so American (as did The Beatles, imo) I had forgotten. I got to seem them live in London while there in late '82.@davepratt: Good one, Bacharach definitely deserves inclusion. | |
| How do you sort your LPs? Not to be a pest, but I remain curious about the rationale for organization/separation by genre. When a collection becomes "large enough", it becomes necessary to organize the LP’s in some manner, to allow finding any particular title easy. For my... | |
| what's the point? Crusty, another point is: this forum is populated by people who have long ago moved beyond the question the op posed. Why take the word of some guy who wrote an article? The op not only wants an answer to the assertion made in the article he cites... | |
| Subwoofer insight. For home use, where constant plugging/unplugging is uncommon, the Speakon plug & jack just add another interruption/solder joint/connection to the signal path. Probably no harm for subwoofer use, but I wouldn’t use them with main speakers. | |
| Has anyone else auditioned something that really was terrible? Mogami balanced/XLR interconnects are common in recording studios, not so their speaker cables. Ralph Karsten of Atma-Sphere, a man who knows good sound, recommends the ic's for use with his electronics. | |
| Psychedelic Get Down Party Playing on stage at LSD parties was, I can tell you, not easy. Those damned strobe lights made seeing the guitar & bass frets and Farfisa and Voxx organ keys hard to see. Might be why the San Francisco bands were so lame, Moby Grape the lone e... | |
| What would you buy Johnny used to sell the Music Reference RM-9 to 2C owners, a marriage made in heaven (owners of that pairing live happily for years). Alas, the amp is no longer available, and is hard to come by used. The RM-200 might be even better with the 2C, a... | |
| what's the point? Roger Modjeski argued that since most amps will occasionally be driven into clipping, how an amp behaves when it does so is an important factor in how good an amp it is. A reasonably good tube amp clips more "gracefully" than do many solid state a... | |
| What, in your system, have you owned the longest? My LP's. Then my Revox A77 Mk3, bought new in '73 (from Walter Davies, then the owner/operator of a 1-man hi-fi shop in Livermore, California, more lately the developer of the Last Factory line of LP/tape/CD care products). | |
| How do you sort your LPs? Remember the scene in Diner in which Daniel Stern's character reads his wife (played by the delicious Ellen Barkin) the riot act for mis-filing one of his LP's? She put it away in the incorrect genre. Great movie, great scene. |