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| Audio Research Ref 6 SE At least ARC is no longer hiding the "fixes" they made to design weaknesses, problems, and outright failures as they did during the SP3 and SP6 days, sneaking them in when they introduced the New! Improved! Mk.2/3/4/5/6 versions.ARC pulled another... | |
| Looking for repair service for EAR preamp Try Tom Carione at Brooks Berdan, Ltd. in Monrovia, California. He knows tubes very well, and has done lots of work on ARC, VTL, Jadis, Music Reference, McIntosh, etc. He's in the shop on Wednesdays and Saturdays. | |
| Value of mint condition first pressing of Sgt. Pepper? Stereo U.S. pressings of SPLHCB are VERY common, and worth no more than any other album from 1967, and actually less than many others that didn’t sell well (there were a lot of SPLHCB pressed and sold, and then not played much---it’s not a very go... | |
| DIY speaker isolation base for a wood floor For a demonstration of a speaker support which both isolates and damps, watch the Townshend Audio Seismic videos on You Tube. | |
| Sound Anchors Floor Bases The Sound Anchors for the Eminent Technology LFT-8b are all but required for that loudspeaker. ET in fact stocks and sells the SA stands. The SA for the Vandersteen Models 1, 2, and 3 are also.The one speaker brand for which there is a superior st... | |
| How much of your free time is dedicated to listening to your stereo? I don't listen TO my stereo, I listen to music through it ;-). And when I'm not, I still hear music playing in my head, all waking hours. | |
| Does raising speaker cables off the floor really make a big difference? @mijosten, okay man, my mistake! By the way, my post was double-layered; I’m goofing on audiophilia, not cable risers themselves. I avoid the question altogether by having all my cords short enough that none CAN lay on the floor. They are suspende... | |
| Does raising speaker cables off the floor really make a big difference? @mijostyn, for the answer to your question, reread my post, this time with your tongue firmly planted against your cheek. Which, by the way, also leads to better sound: the tongue’s pressure against the cheek damps the resonances of that skin (the... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @tomic601, wish I coulda introduced Roger to Iris Dement (though he actually may have known of her). There are a coupla videos on You Tube of Emmylou singing harmony with Iris, filmed in an old house with a group of great Bluegrass pickers backing... | |
| Does raising speaker cables off the floor really make a big difference? I think Cardas actually cut their little wooden doohickeys into Golden Ratio-sized blocks. Gotta keep to the program, right? In for a dime, in for a dollar. Even better, for a bunch of 'em! | |
| Best speakers out there for Midrange and Highs I dislike applying the adjective "Best" to anything (except J.S. Bach and The Band ;-), but I’m with ya George. Hearing my first ESL’s was a game changer: the Infinity Servo-Static I and 2000A, the ESS Trans-Static I (a pair of which I now own), t... | |
| New Phono cartridge The London's are much improved over the Deccas. And the Decapod is a must on the Gold and Super Gold. Another good arm for Londons/Deccas is the Zeta, occasionally available for under a grand. Damped uni-pivot arms used to be popular for them, but... | |
| SOTA Sapphire aquired @tomic601, have you seen Lyle live? Oh, man, is he great. I saw him with his Large Band, with Russell Kunkel on drums. Whatta band!Roger knew a lot about music. In an email, I was telling him about all the guys I had worked with who had died in th... | |
| Recommendation for an audiophile speaker cord that is not "bright"? Cardas are known for warm sound, except the "Clear" model. | |
| Does raising speaker cables off the floor really make a big difference? If you use cable risers, make sure to try them facing in both directions. The grain in the wood, plastic, Styrofoam coffee cup, and cardboard toilet paper roll interacts with the photons traveling down the cable dielectric, smearing the music. If ... |