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| et-2 damping trough-good idea or not? At the headshell is the most effective location to apply a damping system to a tonearm/cartridge, for reasons explained in the writings on the design of the Townshend Audio Rock turntables, currently out-of-production. But the Rock is not usable w... | |
| What are your top three live concerts of all time? Oops, Big Joe Turner with The Blasters was in the mid-80's, not 90's. Joe passed away soon thereafter, I feel lucky to have seen him. Missed Howlin' Wolf, however. | |
| Another great dies Yeah tomic601, Lucinda can afford the best musicians now. For a while she had Jim Christie in her band, a great, great drummer. He quit Dwight Yoakam’s to join hers, and is on the Live At The Fillmore album and others.On the original Sweet Old Wor... | |
| Another great dies Actually Steve, when I started buying Lucinda's albums (1988, the s/t album on Rough Trade. I had been introduced to her at Club Lingerie a year or two earlier, when her then-husband's band The Long Ryders performed. She was very shy.), I did buy ... | |
| Hotel Room Confessions - Best Sound at a Show? @tomic601, I too am a customer of Randy’s (I bought an ARC LS-1 from him, which I still have. It has a mode switch!). His shop is a half-block off Pacific Coast Highway, overlooking the beautiful Pacific Ocean.I accompanied Brooks Berdan to the Ve... | |
| Another great dies I does, doesn’t it Steve? The contrast I would make between the two is that TSOW sounds like it was recorded in Memphis in the 1950’s, SOW in L.A. or New York in the 1980’s. TSOW is "smokier", deeper, "darker" (I like "dark"), much more soulful. S... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? @jrwaudio, and Alison's band is insane! Her dobro player Jerry Douglas (who has his own band and solo albums) is the best in the world. I saw him on his last tour, playing a sort-of progressive Bluegrass/Jazz blend. No singing, all instrumental. | |
| Distance from the front wall for magnepan mg 20.7 Some Maggie experimenters are enthusiastic about locating the panels very close to (or right against) the side walls, with the tweeters "inside" (away from the wall) of course. The side wall acts as a baffle, preventing dipole cancellation on that... | |
| Hotel Room Confessions - Best Sound at a Show? Randy Cooley DOES get good sound at shows, as did Brooks Berdan (who won "Best Sound At The Show" at the first or second Stereophile Show in the 90's). The Sanders Model 10 ESL's sounded great at the last show I attended, Irvine 2014 I believe it ... | |
| Headphone King of Soundstage? The only phones I've heard that produce "out-of-head" sound are the old Stax Lambda Pros, whose drivers were situated slightly in front of and aimed at the ears. | |
| Adding another ARC AMP to Tympani - D-400 or 2x 100.2 (SS) ..or 2x D-150 (tube) ?? With 6 + 4 panels, you may have the big daddy of the Tympani’s---the T-III. A rare beast, congratulations! If not, what are they---T-I’s or T-IV’s with extra bass panels? By the way, the mid-bass produced by Tympani’s (and bass down to almost 30Hz... | |
| Capacitors for HP filters in tube amps recommendations? So Erik, how do you incorporate the caps into an interconnect? Now that I think about it, since each amp is fed via un-switchable cables (one amp is balanced/XLR, the other se/RCA)---my pre has multiple balanced and se output jacks, caps on the ca... | |
| Capacitors for HP filters in tube amps recommendations? Actually Erik, the caps are going into the two power amps rather than the output jacks of the pre, as each amp is used with a specific loudspeaker. But I take your point---the caps could be incorporated into the interconnect going to each amp. Not... | |
| Capacitors for HP filters in tube amps recommendations? Ah yes @pragmasi, you explained that above and I missed it. And the caps you speak of are small enough to fit side-by-side on the input jacks. Thanks, mate. @Erik, I’ll have to look inside the amps to see exactly how much room I have for the caps.... | |
| What are your top three live concerts of all time? Only 3?!I won’t include The Beatles at The Cow Palace in S. San Francisco in ’65, ’cause though a historic thing to experience, even at the time I was not very impressed with them as a live band.And though I liked them at the time, the Cream, Hend... |