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| Great sounding/recorded albums Thanks for the reminder, Ray. I'm guilty of taking Van for granted, as he has been around for so long. He's one of my favorite singers of his generation, and I already thought so when I saw live him in Them in 1967. I love his duet with Richard Ma... | |
| Looks vs. Performance - How would you mix and match? I’ve always loved champagne finish on faceplates, like those of Conrad-Johnson and Atma-Sphere (at the time of the original M50/60 amps). Elegant, tasteful, and timeless. I ordered my ARC SP-3 in gold, thinking it would be more champagne than the ... | |
| Carver, THE standard of excellence IMO A tube amp with potted transformers that produces 75w/ch from a pair of output tubes each, on a modestly-sized and nicely-finished chassis, designed by one of the industry's leaders, for less than $2800? How do they do it?! The amp weighs only 19 ... | |
| High & low pass with subs? There are proponents of each method. High-passing relieves the Ref and it's power amp of having to reproduce lower frequencies, which will improve the midrange sound quality of both. Does that come at a cost? Purists don't like to add any active e... | |
| If you could bring back one great artist that has Beethoven is a very "masculine" composer. His music is unusually muscular, if you know what I mean. Bach's music sounds like it came from a source above the plane of humans imo. I sometimes feel like I am in the presence of that source while liste... | |
| If you could bring back one great artist that has It does roxy54, and I don’t disagree. I was in a band with a real fine bassist who really didn’t like Baroque music, but loved 19th and 20th Century stuff (Beethoven, Wagner). JSB to him sounded too mechanical, too stiff and regimented. I can see ... | |
| Drum throne suggestions I've been sitting on a Rok-n-Soc throne (the originator of the "bike seat" style) for over 25 years. Extremely comfortable, even when playing four sets a night. Very well made (I'm still on my original), lots of models and features to choose from.... | |
| If you could bring back one great artist that has Not meaning to be argumentative, but "J.S. Bach is better than all mentioned put together" is not just "one man's narrow minded opinion." There are a great many other composers who shared that same narrow-minded opinion, as do a fair number of oth... | |
| Again the topic of weight of amps Tim, I said the RM-200 is "really nothing special"? Au contraire! There is much more to the amp than what I wrote above, as a reading of the review by Fremer and Atkinson in Stereophile will illuminate. The "sales pitch" crack was made in referenc... | |
| LP12- Power Supply- Need education lewm, it was on the VPI Forum (as well as others) that Carlin voiced his opinion of the superiority of DC motors over AC ones in turntable applications, and he was also brutally honest in his critique of the Hurst AC motor VPI installs in their ta... | |
| CCR Woodstock 50 yrs Double LP Believe it or not I’ve never watched the whole movie (most of the bands/artists are not to my taste. The Band wouldn’t sign-off on any song from their set being included in the movie or soundtrack. By the way, though all the performers were asked ... | |
| Room setup Partly because of the cement slab foundation? That's assuming the floor of the house is a suspended wood structure. | |
| LP12- Power Supply- Need education @lewm, lots of other tables have had their motors mounted on a stationary platform and their platters suspended: the Acoustic Research, Thorens 125/150/etc, Oracle, VPI HW-19, and of course the Linn Sondek itself. Did the old Sapphire have the slo... | |
| Again the topic of weight of amps @fleschler, the RM-200 Mk.2 is an unusual tube amp, not behaving like a "normal" one. It has a lower-than-usual output impedance for a tube design (John Atkinson’s bench test results included in Fremer’s review of the amp), so interacts less with ... | |
| PayPal Frustration/Issue Heads-Up The same problem exists on U.S. AudioMart. Every single payment made to me via Paypal "through" the USAM system in the past month has immediately been cancelled. USAM and Paypal each blame the other. |