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| Speaker of the Century Award Goes To .... The Sound Labs and Acoustats may play @110 dB, but my old Quads sure won't ;-) . Not sure about the Sanders, Music Reference, Martin Logan, Kingsound, and others. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados The first Classical I heard was on TV when I was a teenager (I didn’t come from a musical family). Being a modern, "raised-on-rock" kinda guy, I found it SO boring: slow, plodding tempi, orchestras with huge ranks of stringed instruments played wi... | |
| Tonearm suggestions for my Nottingham Analogue Spacedeck The new Audiomods (with carbon fiber arm tube) looks unbeatable at under a grand. Comes with silver wiring and KLE Innovations RCA's. | |
| Speaker of the Century Award Goes To .... It’s a shame so few have heard the Eminent Technology LFT-8b. It has about the same size footprint as Erik’s 2.5-way, but stands 5’ tall. The LFT-8b can actually be considered a 2.5 design; it has a pair of planar-magnetic midrange drivers (180Hz-... | |
| Take up drums at age 56? Yup @n80, drums are loud! Useta drive my dad nuts; one day he came into my room when I was playing along with Charlie Watts on "Satisfaction" and told me "I said you could practice, not do this." One reason Gretsch are big in the South is they're ... | |
| looking for ideas on must have classical music Wagner Overtures conducted by Sir George Solti. Holst The Planets conducted by just about anyone (I favour Sir Adrian Boult). Vivaldi Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons) conducted by Trevor Pinnock. Beethoven Symphonies conducted by anyone of y... | |
| Tune of the Day Kirsty MacColl: "There’s A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis". Kirsty was part of the 1976-77 Punk wave coming out of England, but the music she made was not at all Punk. She had a great sense of humour, as the title of this smokin’ s... | |
| Ultrasonic cleaning with kirmuss and loss of high frequency details. Hey @lewm, that would make a great name for a cleaner---The Record Butler ;-) . "I say, Sir. What shall I clean for thee this morning?" | |
| Take up drums at age 56? @n80, when you're ready to get yourself an acoustic set, give me a call. I restore and sell vintage (50's & 60's) American drums. Right now I have 20 or so kits, some of which I'm willing to let go; Ludwig, WFL, Camco, Radio King, maybe Gretsch. | |
| Ultrasonic cleaning with kirmuss and loss of high frequency details. My research into ultrasonic cleaning of LP's has lead me to conclude that the 35kHz frequency of the Kirmuss (and even the 40k of other machines) is too low. 60k and 80k creates more gentle water molecule activity, a good thing considering the rat... | |
| Tune of the Day @slaw, I too consider Joan Osborne great. I just so happen to be listening to her Pretty Little Stranger album right now; it's in my regular play (every day) pile. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw, Oh, I didn’t mean that Buddy Miller albums don’t sound "good"; they have a great deal of "in-the-room presence" and "aliveness". But Buddy isn’t adverse to using a great deal of compression, particularly on drums. I actually ask the enginee... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @rvpiano, Yup, that’s the sound "Historically-informed" or "Period" performers (of which Norrington is) are after. Their argument is that the sound of the modern Symphony Orchestra is far too influenced by the Romantic period (the number of player... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? The Audiomods arms were never "Rega-based", unless you consider using that company's good 1-piece tube makes an arm Rega-based. Every other part of the arm is non-Rega, and in the new Audiomods model even the tube is made by designer/machinist/own... | |
| Custom tonearm boards - who makes them to spec? I had Multi-Craft Plastics in Portland Oregon make me arm boards for my VPI Aries and HW-19 tables. I chose acrylic, but they also handle Delrin (technically named Acetal). They machine to order, and did a great job on mine. |