bdp24
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| Is it time in your hobby to build a speaker kit? @n80, GR Research sounds perfect for you. Danny Richie supplies the drivers, x/o parts, enclosure damping material, connectors, hardware, etc. He leaves the enclosure to the customer, providing he or she (yeah sure ;-) the internal cu.ft. volume r... | |
| Using Martin Logan speakers with tube amps??Any experiences?? The Music Reference RM-200 Mk.2 is designed to work into low impedance loads. 100w/ch into 8 and 4 ohms. The amp has low output impedance (for a tube design), so no loss of bass or treble (depending on where the speaker exhibits very low or high i... | |
| Is it time in your hobby to build a speaker kit? Another good source is GR Research. Sealed, ported, open baffle, OB/Dipole sub, great designs. | |
| Yep Roc Records Sale So true @slaw! Yep Rock has a great artist roster in addition to Lauderdale (who hosts the annual Americana Music Awards Ceremony) and Amy Helm (Levon Helms' daughter). Nick Lowe, The Rubinoos (a great Pop band from the SF Bay area (if you ever ge... | |
| 3 great tube preamps. Which would you purchase? @three_easy_payments, I and many others have had the same great experience with Keith Herron. I called him looking for a VTPH-1mm for my very high output cartridges (5mV!), and he just so happened to have one that had been traded in. He optimized ... | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. Duke, Brooks Berdan Ltd. is in Monrovia, a 15 minute drive east of Pasadena. He had a fair number of regular customers who worked at either the Jet Propulsion Laboratory or Caltech, smart guys with good educations. A goodly number of them bought e... | |
| Who can dance? I once got trapped in the mosh pit at a Ramones concert. Punks like to "slam" dance. Serves me right for being too close to the stage. I had to leave anyway, the SPL was insane, my earplugs making the sound only somewhat painful, rather than excru... | |
| Gobel and the Bending Wave Erik, I have a pair of that Radio Shack speaker, named the Optimus Pro LX5. The Linaeum driver was used as a dipole in that model, and as a direct radiator in an even cheaper model. | |
| Most “disappeared” speakers. @johnnyb53, have you heard the new MG30.7? Oh, baby! How 'bout the old Tympani T-IVa? | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. Damn @audiokinesis, I gotta get out more. ;-) The Edgar of Edgarhorn came into Brooks Berdan Ltd. regularly, but Brooks didn't seem to take him seriously, and never had a pair of the horn speakers in his shop to listen to. Near the end of his life... | |
| Who can dance? I used to go to a Rockabilly/Rock ’n’ Roll bar in Burbank (Joe’s Great American Bar & Grill) just to watch the Swing/Jitterbug dancers. They look like they're having a ball! Some Country bars offer free dance lessons, and I tried to get my wom... | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. Performing on stages with Altec Voice-Of-The-Theater PA speakers starting at a young age (before I heard my first audiophile speakers), I had a bad first impression and opinion of horn loudspeakers. But the VOTT was designed for a different purpos... | |
| Black Ash..... On the enclosures I made myself (subs), I painted them Hot Rod Black, which is a very cool black with a sheen between matte and flat black, used by, as its' name suggests, 1950's Hot Rod customizers. John Deere, the maker of tractors, offers a rea... | |
| All the old issues of Stereo Review are online!! @crimsoniter, I saw the Jeff Beck Group live in late-68, at either The Carousel Ballroom or Fillmore. I was stoked to finally hear Nicky Hopkins live (I later met and spoke with him in L.A. in ’81. Sweet guy, and one of the best English musicians ... | |
| From tubes back to SS? Ralph, you mentioned a couple of my favorites (BEL 1001, EK Eagle 2, which I still have); how 'bout the Bedini 25/25? ;-) |