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| Subwoofers and Phase Question For You Sub Experts In regard to Duke's mention of Jon Dahlquist's conclusion that the trailing edge of a bass tone is of more sonic consequence than is it's leading edge: Danny Richie of GR Research, in one of his Tech Talk Tuesday videos (viewable on You Tube), dis... | |
| How much does a Zobel network and its components affect the sound of speakers? If you want to pay the shipping, Danny Richie of GR Research actually lets you send him your speakers, which he then measures and checks out the cross-over of. If he sees a way to "correct" some engineering "mistakes" (or compromises) for a reason... | |
| New Years Resolution ....... The biggest change the CD made to music listening was the elimination of the two sides of an LP. The songs on one side of an LP were programmed to flow independently of the other side. The CD of course has only one (playing) side, and for that rea... | |
| chop stick holders. Splurge, and use new toilet paper rolls that you remove the paper from. For greater height, paper towel rolls. For stability, maybe one end will slip into one of those rubber caps they make for the ends of ironing board feet/legs. | |
| What's Worth More on the Open Market - Your Records or Your Audio Gear Don’t think I haven’t considered that scenario Chris! The top left cube contains (amongst others) The Animals, The Band, Count Basie, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Chuck Berry, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, T Bone Burnett, The Byrds, Johnny and Rosan... | |
| What's Worth More on the Open Market - Your Records or Your Audio Gear Exactly @slaw. If the house were burning down, and I had to choose which to save, no contest. The eq can be easily replaced, the music not. | |
| Tune of the Day "Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends" by the divine miss Joan Osborne, one of my favorite living singers. On her excellent Pretty Little Stranger album, the song is a classic Country tune in the style heard in the 50's and 60's by the likes of... | |
| What's Worth More on the Open Market - Your Records or Your Audio Gear There's not enough available time in an average life to listen to 100,000 LP's even one time each. | |
| Life After Your Magnepan’s Add a pair of OB/Dipole subs! If you have the dough, check out the MG30.7 ;-) . | |
| LA - Monrovia - Brooks Berdan Anniversary this Weekend Likewise, @edcyn. I spend many hours at BBL in the 90’s and 2000’s. Sheila Berdan has done a great job with the shop since the passing of her husband Brooks. Sheila hired me to put a band together for Brooks’ 50th birthday party, at which he got u... | |
| Doge 8 Clarity: 12AT7 replacement for phono stage The Schitt Mani RIAA phono amp has a "Decca" gain setting, which provides 30dB. | |
| What's Worth More on the Open Market - Your Records or Your Audio Gear Exactly teo, depends on what records are in the collection. I took a box of some duplicates I had into Music Millennium and got $400 for about 2/3 of the contents. The MM buyers know what's collectable, are honest, and pay fairly.One of my 7" 45 R... | |
| Transitioning options from Big Maggies Oops, good point @ozzy62. No, no it's not. | |
| Doge 8 Clarity: 12AT7 replacement for phono stage The quietest new tubes around are those tested, graded, matched into pairs and quads, and sold by RAM Tube Works. | |
| Transitioning options from Big Maggies Derek, if you're not in a rush, consider waiting for the concept speaker Magnepan is working on, the "Dual Dipole". It consists of a 1' W x 6' H midrange/tweeter panel coupled with a 1' x 3' H triangular OB/Dipole sub. Each sub contains 8-6.5" dyn... |