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| VPI Turntable choices. The Aries comes with cones as feet. Cones are couplers, not isolators. The HW-19 had a spring suspension, but lots of owners replaced the springs with either Herbies Tenderfeet or SIMS Silencers (Navcom pucks). I'll bet some are now going to try a... | |
| Cheap Vibration Control Discovery For an epiphany, try a set of Townshend Seismic Pods or a Seismic Platform under your table. I’ve had the Bright Star sandbox, SIMS Navcom Silencers, EAR Isodamp, Sorbothane, BDR/Mod Squad/Audio Selection/Golden Sound Cones (all cones are couplers... | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. Highly-dynamic and un-dynamic are relative terms. Anyone care to name speakers of either type he considers prime examples? Klipsch and other horn-designs are sure to be first on the highly-dynamic side, but how about non-horn speakers? I imagine M... | |
| All the old issues of Stereo Review are online!! We must be about the same age, @millercarbon. Discovering Gordon and his little digest-sized, bi-annual Stereophile in early ’72 changed my life. Seriously! I subscribed and ordered all the back issues, and after reading them all cover-to-cover be... | |
| Bi amp pros out there I could use some help! First time Bi Amping... Ah, NOW I get it George. As usual I was thinking in perfectionist terms; gotta keep the op more in mind. | |
| Ingress Audio Engineering I tried a slab of marble back in the 80's; it rang too much for my liking. Perhaps with a sheet of constrained layer damping between it and another slab of something with different resonance characteristics would be good. | |
| Would an Isolation TT platform further improve my TT? And, the seismic vibrations traveling across the Earth's crust are, Max Townshend claims, many times greater in microns than is the distance a tweeter travels when reproducing a not-that-high a frequency. As are the vibrations that swamp the squig... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Going Down To The River by Doug Seegers. Closest singer to Hank Williams I believe I have ever heard. No boyish Alt-Country folks, Doug is the real deal, sings like a man who has done some livin’. Emmylou Harris duets with Doug on "She" (written b... | |
| All the old issues of Stereo Review are online!! I miss cigarette smoke in bars and clubs (some of my drumsets reek of the stuff ;-). California even outlawed smoking at the beach. Sand-huggers. Buncha guys I knew (and some I didn't) died of lung cancer: John Wicks (The Records), Paul Skelton (W... | |
| Bi amp pros out there I could use some help! First time Bi Amping... The thing is, to bi-amp using the internal speaker-level x/o is to not reap some of the major benefits of bi-amping: keeping the woofer frequencies out of the m/t amp, eliminating the effect of the woofer's emf on the m/t drivers (they remain elec... | |
| Ingress Audio Engineering Damn, 3" thick?! What's one weigh? | |
| Looking for great jazz guitar recordings - any recommendations? Danny Gatton. He’s not a Jazz purist, also playing Rockabilly, Blues, 50’s Rock ’n’ Roll, and lots more. He’s a favorite of many pro’s (Vince Gill nicknamed him The Humbler). He was (rip) REAL good. | |
| Bi amp pros out there I could use some help! First time Bi Amping... @sleepwalker65, I’m all for bi-amping, but haywood310 needed to be alerted to the fact that to do it correctly is much more involved than merely putting an external x/o and a second amp onto a pair of loudspeakers. The internal speaker-level x/o m... | |
| Shocked removed spikes, used blue tack, what other non spike footer If ones' speakers are under 70 lbs., the GAIA III at $200 per set of four ($400 of course for a pair of speakers) is not TOO bad, I guess (assuming the loudspeakers are good enough to warrant advanced isolation). But the GAIA II will set you back ... | |
| All the old issues of Stereo Review are online!! I have you ever seen a pic of Hirsch's "lab"? A barely converted garage, with a work bench and measuring tools all over the place. That was his listening room! His approach to hi-fi was through his eyes, not his ears. Music was nothing more than a... |