bdp24
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| Name Your Top 5 Most Musical Dynamic Sounding Tonearms of All time? I've heard the Eminent Technology ET1 and 2 (but not the 2.5) on many occasions, as well as the old Rabco (ancient history), the Goldmunds, Mapleknoll, Souther, and Versa Dynamics (oh how I lusted for that table/arm!). They were all, for their tim... | |
| How much does volume matter when breaking in amps and cables? Yeah, who needs David Hafler, Peter Walker, Sid Smith, Bill Johnson, Frank Van Alstine, Ralph Karsten, Tim deParavicini, Nelson Pass, Roger Modjeski, and all the other great designers and builders of hi-fi electronics? We have self-appointed amate... | |
| why do hi-end fuses keep blowing, while std don't? You're missing my point, Mr. Kait. You are in fact making it without realizing it. Listening for the audible effects of a fuse, and evaluating it's electrical behavior, are two very different things. Modjeski approaches hi-fi evaluation first as a... | |
| Do you have a defining musical moment from your early years? Hey @ericsch, we probably "inhaled the same smoke" at some Fillmore and Winterland shows (and don't forget The Carousel Ballroom, where I saw The Who perform the "A Quick One" Suite in '68). The Bay Area was a great place to be a music lover in th... | |
| It is balanced or not? Call Emotiva. | |
| Suggestions for my next upgrade Room acoustical treatment, assuming (and it’s a reasonable assumption) it's needed. | |
| Do you have a defining musical moment from your early years? Wow, great stories that will make mine sound superficial. It was the Summer of 1964, and The Beach Boys were coming to The San Jose Civic Auditorium. My 8th grade girlfriend and three of her friends made a cake for one of the boys (I don’t recall ... | |
| why do hi-end fuses keep blowing, while std don't? Modjeski doesn’t talk about the "sound" of fuses, only their electrical behavior. What the internal composition of the fuse does with the gas created when a fuse pops (if my memory serves me well. I haven’t read his Forum posts in in years), what’... | |
| Tune of the Day "There’ll Be No Teardrops Tonight" (written by Hank Williams), sung as a duet between Buddy Miller and Doug Seegers’ on the latter’s Going Down To The River album. Doug also duets with Emmylou Harris on "She" (written by Chris Ethridge and Emmylou... | |
| why do hi-end fuses keep blowing, while std don't? At the risk of being flamed, I'll remind everyone of the RM-9 amplifier Roger Modjeski received back at Music Reference after the Hi Fi Tuning Fuses installed by the amp's owner didn't perform their intended task when a power tube in the amp blew.... | |
| Magnepan for Background Listening I'm not sure how speakers pulled out from the wall behind them at least 3' are going to work as "background". ;-) | |
| Spiking speakers not designed for spikes? Yup, the GAIA first came to my attention via a quote from VPI’s Harry Weisfeld, who put them under his KEF Blade loudspeakers and loved the results. Others have also reported hearing benefits from their use, so I've been waiting for someone to com... | |
| A reappearance of Black Diamond Racing? George Merrill was at one time (in the 1980’s, at least) putting a top layer of lead on his turntable platters, in support of the notion that lead provides a better mechanical impedance to the vinyl of LP’s than does any other material. That was f... | |
| Take up drums at age 56? @n80, you've discovered the main failing of electronic drums, that of dynamic graduation. Don't worry about that for now, there's nothing to be done.Excellent advice from shadorne, the George Stone book is the standard. He also brought up the wris... | |
| A reappearance of Black Diamond Racing? mc, Groovetracer makes both an acrylic and Delrin version of their Rega replacement platter, which are reported to sound quite different. VPI switched to acrylic for their platters for a while, but quickly considered it a step backwards from the D... |