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| What is the most FUN pair of speakers you've ever had and why? Richopp, did you sell the ARK Label LP's Bob Fulton recorded? Fantastic sound quality, as good as direct-to-disk! Fantastic transparency and inner detail (you can hear every single voice in the Minnesota church choirs he recorded), natural organic... | |
| Which belt-driven table to play Rock vinyl? Why, the Townshend Audio Rock, of course. If you’re into 50’s Rockabilly, Chess Records, etc., it will be the original Cranfeld Rock turntable. For British Invasion, the Mk.2. For Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Black Sabbath, the Mk.3. For AC/DC, A... | |
| Were you naughty or nice? What did Santa bring you! Audio related only please! An Amazon card, with which to buy music. That's "audio related", right? ;-) | |
| New Magnepan "Concept Speaker" introduced at Audio Connection Tim, Duke of Audio Kinesis was asked by the owner of a planar loudspeaker if his Swarm or an OB/Dipole woofer system would meld better with the planar loudspeaker. Duke recommended the OB/Dipole. The monopole characteristics of sealed and ported s... | |
| How good can it get, really? - my stereo sounds amazing! Buy more music. | |
| Tune of the Day Dylan: "Idiot Wind". Contains the lines "Blowin' every time you move your teeth", "It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe", "From the Grand Coulee Damn to the Capitol", and finally "It's a wonder we can still feed ourselves". One of my v... | |
| What is the most FUN pair of speakers you've ever had and why? @richopp, I replaced my Magneplanar Tympani T-I's with Fulton Model J's (which used the Model 80 as it's midrange. The 80 had an 8" woofer, the 100 a 10"), wanting their deeper bass (transmissionline-loaded woofers) and greater transparency (the M... | |
| New Magnepan "Concept Speaker" introduced at Audio Connection The open baffle servo-feedback bass system used in the GT Audio Works magnetic-planar loudspeaker mentioned by faxer above is the GR Research/Rythmik sub. It is available separately from both GR Research and Rythmik, and can be used with any louds... | |
| What is the most FUN pair of speakers you've ever had and why? My first pair of Magneplanars---the Tympani T-I. Finally, life-size images and scale (grand pianos are huge, piccolos tiny), singer's voices at true-to-life height (five feet off the floor), wide open sound, and great depth and height (if the reco... | |
| Breakdown of Turntable Performance I've never heard of a turntable with no motor or bearing. | |
| DIY speaker isolation base for a wood floor The best isolation I have ever witnesses was Audiogon member folkfreak’s Herzan active isolation platform under his turntable. Very effective, and unfortunately very expensive.Here's a real talking point: "low mass". My Music Reference RM-10 Mk.2 ... | |
| It's National "One Hit Wonder" Day! Good one @acresverde! The Count Five came out of the San Jose Garage Band scene of the mid-60’s, as did a couple of other One Hit Wonder bands: The Syndicate Of Sound ("Little Girl") and People (a cover of The Zombies "I Love You"). There was also... | |
| DIY speaker isolation base for a wood floor "So bdp24 thinks you can place something in a room without it touching anything."No he doesn’t. Not on Earth anyway. | |
| Value of mint condition first pressing of Sgt. Pepper? An English pressing? Yes, worth more than a U.S.A. pressing, but not nearly as much a Mono LP, English or U.S.A. Do you have the included page of mustache cut-outs, etc., and the E.M.I. inner sleeve?What determines the value of an LP is:1- Supply ... | |
| DIY speaker isolation base for a wood floor "There is no such thing as decoupling in audio. That’s just a talking point from those who are dampening (1). Once you put your speakers in a room all the physics of that room and the speaker becomes one and the same (2)."1: We are not dampening (... |