bdp24
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| RIP Leon Redbone Must a been them ceegars what done 'im in. He was a welcome reprieve from the noise of the mid-to-late 1970's, when he appeared out of the blue. He sang like he had done a lot more living than his modest years suggested. Male white singers in thei... | |
| What is the best solid state amplifier you have ever heard? @roberjerman, I used that same combination myself for years, but sold my 25/25 about a year ago. Another worthy contender is a pair of BEL (Brown Electronic Labs) 1001 Mk. V's, ay? The only solid state amp Brooks Berdan liked and sold (he was enou... | |
| My experience adding subwoofers to 2 channel Music Reference now offers an ESL with the option of a direct-drive (no ESL transformer) OTL power amp. MR's Roger Modjeski designed the same for the original Beveridge, and has custom made some d-d amps for Acoustats. | |
| Polyfill placement question in monitor speakers. The fill is put in the enclosure to achieve a few ends. One of them is to "slow down" the sound waves traveling through it, the effect of which is to make the enclosure behave as if it were larger. Unless you want to change the sound the speakers'... | |
| An Audiophile is Anyone Who Loves Audio Regardless of Monetary Status. Agree? Yeah Tim (@noble100), and the term suggests sound quality comes before musical quality (in recordings). I prefer to think of us all as music lovers who want its' reproduction in our homes to sound "right". | |
| Herron VTPH-2A final thoughts. My experience exactly. I felt like my small sale was as important to Keith as a large one would have been. A pure class act, except it’s no act. I sat and talked with him at the Irvine Hi-Fi Show in 2014, I believe it was, and found him to be a do... | |
| AR ES 1 our buy a newer TY I had an AR ES-1 when it was first introduced, and liked it okay. But for $700 you can get what I consider to be a better table (with an arm of your choice, perhaps a Jelco), the one I replaced my ES-1 with: VPI HW-19 Mk.2 or Mk..3., commonly avai... | |
| Telefunken Tube Information Sources? Thanks one and all. @jab, I know what you mean, but I'll be okay ;-) . I have only a coupla AX and AT in my RIAA phono amp (a Herron), my line stage using a pair of 7JD8, which are cheap. I'm not necessarily going to buy Telefunkens, but I want to... | |
| New vinyl quality.... @denjer1, Sundazed is a great label, I have a bunch of their albums (on both LP and CD). So is their counterpart in the UK, Ace Records. Their Everly Brothers albums are fantastic, and the sound is audiophile quality.Let me correct one misimpressi... | |
| Diffusion vs. Sound Absorption views Diffusors behind dipole/planar loudspeakers are preferred to absorbers by many, though not all, owners of such speakers, for a couple of reasons. Too much absorption can result in a room overly "dead", but that’s true no matter what the speaker de... | |
| Is it time in your hobby to build a speaker kit? Good choice @N80! The stand mounted version, or the floor stander? Both are made with the same parts, just a different enclosure (plans for both monitor and transmission-line enclosures are provided with the kit). Great Neo 3 pdr tweeter, Danny Ri... | |
| Filling speaker Stands? Sound Anchors damp their metal-tube stands with a foam-like substance, I believe. Great stands imo. | |
| Do You Remember Your First CD Player? Philips CD80. Built like a tank, weighed a ton. | |
| New vinyl quality.... @winoguy17, I have the answer for how and why that dirty LP you returned ended up back in the rack. When a retailer buys an LP from its’ distributor, it is a 1-way buy; that is, the LP is non-returnable to the distributor, for ANY reason, includin... | |
| Name Your Top 5 Most Musical Dynamic Sounding Tonearms of All time? I have no experience with the Audio Technica, and am in fact unfamiliar with it. When it comes to arms, I've always gravitated to those from the UK: SME, Decca, Zeta, Trans-Fi, Helius (the Omega is a fantastic tonearm!), Audiomods, Rega, Naim, Lin... |