bdp24
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| Acoustic treatment Quite right, GK. If you score some of the old Tube Traps (before ASC starting marking them) as I did (a guy advertised them in The Recyler in L.A. in the 90's---ten bucks apiece, for 13 of 'em, 9", 11", 16"!), the seam side is the absorptive side,... | |
| All the old issues of Stereo Review are online!! Hirsch was a member of the WWII-generation electronic engineers, working in the field right at the dawn of the high fidelity boom of the 1950’s. That generation of engineers operated under the presumption that low measured distortion was synonymou... | |
| Bi amp pros out there I could use some help! First time Bi Amping... I just (in the past week) sold my DQ-LP1. I at one time used it as rodman suggests, for just the 3rd-order low-pass filter, installing a capacitor on the input jacks of my power amp for high-pass filtering, THE way to do it if a 1st-order filter (... | |
| UPGRADE FROM VPI SCOUTMASTER And of course there’s no reason one cannot mount any arm one prefers on any VPI table if he or she so chooses. I don’t know, I still like my HW-19 Mk.3, and now an Aries 1. Great values used (the only way you can buy them, of course). I anxiously ... | |
| Speakers under $50k that rival $200k+ speakers? @smodtactical, Maggies needing "a nice big space to sound good" is only partially true. They, like any and all dipoles, have to be a good distance from the wall they are in front of. What that distance is, is a matter of opinion; in a recent posti... | |
| Worst Rock Band Ever !!!! Oops, I of course meant to say Wexler was Aretha’s producer at Atlantic Records. After Columbia failed to figure out what to do with her, Wexler got Aretha out of her contract with them and took her down to Muscle Shoals, putting her in Fame Studi... | |
| Bi amp pros out there I could use some help! First time Bi Amping... I got my B4 used for $750, I think it was, and that was the last one I've seen come up for sale. I read Nelson discontinued it as a finished product, offering it only as a kit, but Steve (hifidream) may know better. | |
| Worst Rock Band Ever !!!! @dgarretson, I realize mine is a minority opinion, but yes, it was in the Summer of '68 I saw/heard them live. The guys in Big Brother exemplified everything that was wrong with hippie musicians, and Janis was doing her standard "shrieking/screech... | |
| Bi amp pros out there I could use some help! First time Bi Amping... @hifidream, the pre- .7 series Maggies are just about the easiest to bi-amp speakers available. The .7 have series crossovers, so it takes internal surgery to bi-amp them. The earlier models have parallel crossovers, and as you know a line-level x... | |
| Worst Rock Band Ever !!!! Many of ya'll may be too young to have seen/heard Big Brother & The Holding Company live. Believe me when I tell you, you have never heard anything as bad. I had to leave the ballroom. | |
| Looking for great jazz guitar recordings - any recommendations? Does Bola Sete' count? I saw him live at a little theater in late '67. Sweet. | |
| Any steel 14” to 16” speaker stands out there? If you take @dweller's advice, use 19mm 13-ply Baltic Birch plywood, the stiffest wood (we're all adults here, right? ;-) available. But the Sound Anchor stands ARE really good; I too have a pair. | |
| "Tip on jacket" @slaw, if you have a UK Beatles LP, look at the back of the jacket. See how the front cover comes over the top, bottom, and sides of the edge of the jacket, folded over and glued onto the back cover? That's a Tip-On. | |
| VPI Turntable choices. @bpoletti, in the past year I got the best deal of my audiophile life. I found an Aries 1 in great condition, missing its' bearing housing and platter. Just the plinth with its' four cone feet, motor in its' separate pod, and arm board, for $400. ... | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. @tomic601. Small world; the SP-6 you got from Brooks came from me, and before me it belonged to Steve McCormack. I bought it from him when he was closing his retail store (named Music By The Sea, iirc) to focus on The Mod Squad and McCormack produ... |