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| Favorite Collaborations In the mid-80’s I saw & heard The Blasters back Big Joe Turner live at Club Lingerie on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood. Dave Alvin was of course at that time still in the band, as was the legendary Lee Allen, tenor sax player on all Little Richard’... | |
| Mono Reissues and the Conical Stylus @goofyfoot, have you searched the Analog Planet website for info on this subject? Michael Fremer is really up on these issues, so I would start there. | |
| Best Record Cleaning Fluid In the late 70's-early 80's, Los Angeles resident, chemical engineer, and audiophile Toy Shigekawa developed his Torumat TM-7 Record Cleaning Fluid, and sold it though audiophile hi-fi shops until his death in the 90's. He was a regular at Brooks ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Yes indeed reubent! In my Top 3 Super Group category, the other two being Rockpile (of which Nick Lowe was also a member) and The Traveling Wilburys. I got to see and hear John, Ry, Nick, and Jim live, on a sound stage in Burbank at an invitation-... | |
| Pass amp paired with audio research pre? I anticipated that observation might ruffle a few feathers ;-) . Further evidence ;-) ;-) . | |
| Pass amp paired with audio research pre? ARC owners can sometimes resemble owners of Linn ;-) . | |
| Here is an interesting artist that's new to me, and I wanted to share his music. Batiste is the musical director on Stephen Colbert's Late Show. You can see and hear Jon every weeknight at 11:35 PM! | |
| Pass amp paired with audio research pre? @fanotunes, I would attribute the lifeless sound you hear to the LS-16 before the RM200 (I've owned both, and dumped the 16). Check into how ARC creates the balanced XLR outputs on the LS-16. Since the RM200 has true balanced inputs, you may as we... | |
| Does it come down to the mastering quality only?? Absolutely @onhwy61. Many of the recordings that feature James Jamerson on electric bass are of mediocre or worse sound quality, yet hearing his playing never fails to get me high. There are plenty of excellent sounding recordings that leave me un... | |
| My Cary amp - the story of a hum and a bug I know what I would do: send the amp to Cary to fix, when it is received back sell it, and never again buy a Cary product. There are plenty of other amps and amp companies out there, no need to settle for a poorly designed one from a company treat... | |
| How Do You Deal With Baffle Edge Diffraction? @elizabeth, it may be of interest to you (if you don't already know) that Danny Richie is largely responsible (along with Brian Ding) for the design of the Rythmik/GR Research OB/Dipole Sub that mates so successfully with planar loudspeakers like ... | |
| Pass amp paired with audio research pre? @fanotunes, Tim deParavicini's EAR-Yoshino electronics don't get much love here (though they do elsewhere, including at Positive Feedback by Robert Levi, and in the UK press, especially Ken Kessler in HFN&RR. Ken loves Tim's stuff), but his 86... | |
| Phono Cable Recommendation Please IMO, the best way to go is to have one’s arm rewired with one uninterrupted run from cartridge tags to RCA (or XLR) plugs. That can actually be cheaper than a phono cable! Very cost effective, enabling the arm to produce the best sound it is capab... | |
| How Do You Deal With Baffle Edge Diffraction? John Bau did the same on his Spica loudspeakers. Richard Vandersteen puts a thin felt sheet around the drivers in his Model 2 and 3. | |
| What was your first system? When was that? After escaping from high school in June of ’68, I got myself a job for the summer before starting college in September, mostly to get money for a car and a hi-fi. That Fall I bought myself a Garrard SL55 table and Shure M44e cartridge, a used Fish... |