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| Sly Stone Fresh Promo LP It may very well be the real McCoy. Don’t let the fact it is shrink-wrapped worry you; I got many promos that way when I was a buyer at Tower. As for a counterfeit, I sincerely doubt anyone would bootleg that LP. Counterfeiting is not cheap. | |
| Ingress Audio Engineering @mewsickbuff, I can help ya’ll. Not that I want the credit, but it may have been I who brought Ingress Engineering to the attention of Audiogoners a few years back. I had read Barry Diament’s writings on the subject of isolation, and found his arg... | |
| What a sad world we now live in....... @glupson, you’re last post (at 8:14pm on 05-16) supports my argument that the even the people who were at one time buying their Garth Brooks CD’s at Walmart are just not buying or listening to albums anymore. Is it that they just don’t care that m... | |
| Tune of the Day As I was just again listening to "West", its’ hearing brought to mind another song, one I have loved from the first time I heard it at the time of it’s use in the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s: "Moon River", written, orchestrated, and conducted by H... | |
| My experience adding subwoofers to 2 channel All the Phase Control on the Rythmik plate amps is, is a delay circuit; it achieves the same end as physically moving the sub enclosure to a different location. 1ms (the control has millisecond markings) equals roughly 1’. The control can of cours... | |
| What a sad world we now live in....... I don’t intend for this to sound judgmental, and I may be mistaken, but I don’t think Walmart customers were ever exactly the most music-loving people around. Or perhaps it is that they, like myself, are just not interested in the music that is cu... | |
| My experience adding subwoofers to 2 channel The plate amps in the Rythmik subs provide all the controls mentioned by @Noble100: volume, phase (180 degrees via a continuously-variable rotary knob), x/o frequency (40-120Hz) and slope (2nd/4th order), plus damping, a rumble filter, one band of... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? @uberwaltz, I LOVE that you listen to both Shania and Merle. No snobbishness! Hardcore Country purists badmouth Shania (Steve Earle dubbed her "The highest paid lap dancer in Nashville" ;-), but I like her for what she is, not dislike her for what... | |
| Speaker of the Century Award Goes To .... @atmasphere’s post reminds us of why electronically separating a woofer from the midrange/tweeter drivers can provide better sound; bi-amping, with an outboard x/o over dividing the signal before the two power amps, one amp for the woofer, the oth... | |
| Tune of the Day Once in a great while I hear a song so special I just keep coming back to it, sometimes listening to it multiple times in a row. "West" by Lucinda Williams is one such song. It closes the album of the same title, and is the most hauntingly beautif... | |
| 3 great tube preamps. Which would you purchase? Now @jred, get yerself the matching VTPH-2a phono amp, and be REALLY happy! | |
| High definition vs. tonal balance Harry Pearson started the obsession with the "soundstage" in his first issues of TAS. Gordon Holt’s first concern was with the timbre (pronounced tamber; I often hear it mispronounced timber) of acoustic instruments and voices. He looked for any "... | |
| The best State or region for Audiophile Whatta ya talkin’ bout?! Washington has state sales tax, it’s Oregon that doesn’t. I live just north of the Columbia River that is the border between the two states, so when I cross the bridge into Portland to buy LP’s and other stuff I don’t pay ... | |
| Isoacoustics Gaia Speaker Footers In the new Stereophile Art Dudley reviews two different IsoAcoustic footers, and says he prefers the GAIA to the Oreo under his Garrard 301. The GAIA is intended to be used with loudspeakers, the Oreo with components, but Art found the GAIA to pro... | |
| Music room dimensions @elf1, Maggies (and all other planars) benefit from being as far from the wall behind them as possible (to avoid the front-and-back waves from creating comb filtering), 5’ being a good objective (to create a 10ms delay between the arrival times at... |