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| What's Your Fantasy Supergroup? 21? Marty Stuart joined Lester Flatt's band when he was 14. Levon Helm joined Ronnie Hawkins' band The Hawks the day he graduated from high school, and immediately left for Canada, where he eventually met the other guys who one-by-one joined The H... | |
| Why the fascination with subwoofers? A number of years back, Danny Richie's GR Research system was voted as producing "Best Bass At The Show" by attendants of the RMAF show. Danny used a pair of Rythmik/GR Research OB/Dipole Subs at the front of the room, and a pair of Rythmik F12G S... | |
| Turntable Mat question Boston Audio developed a carbon graphite mat that many found to their liking, and sold it for quite a few years. BA is out of business, but Sakura Systems is now making and selling it for $250. | |
| Moderately priced audio J. Gordon Holt was always on the lookout for high-value products, and reviewed them regularly. For instance the Dynaco A25 loudspeaker, which he put into his Recommended Components list.Harry Pearson with The Absolute Sound was on a different miss... | |
| Jadis DA-7 @mommytartin, if you ever need servicing on the Jadis pre, give Tom Carione at Brooks Berdan Ltd. a call. He knows all about the brand, is a great technician, and a swell guy. | |
| Does anyone use wood for vibration control? I have fairly recently been in a room designed by Art Noxon of Acoustic Sciences Corporation, and build using his products. The walls are double layers of sheet rock with Wall Damp constrained-layer damping between them. I rapped on a wall with my... | |
| Puzzled about reasons why there seems to be no shortage of used planner speakers @lwrobertson, terrific post! The Tympani T-I’s were also my first planars, but mine were the original 1972 version, no A, B, C, or D. I also moved on to the Fulton Model J, but soon missed what a big planar does that NO box speaker I have heard ca... | |
| New Townshend Rock 7 owner @nsp, the Triplanar, another mighty fine arm! Another good arm for the Rock is any of the Kuzmas. It has been said that the Rock minimizes differences between arms, but differences nonetheless remain. An arm partnered a lot with the old Rock Elite... | |
| The under appreciated impedance curve Bruce Thigpen stated in his discussion on the design of his magnetic-planar driver, the Linear Field Transducer (LFT), that he could make it with any nominal impedance he chose. Bruce says he chose 4 ohms for the LFT-3, LFT-4, and LFT-6 so as to e... | |
| NAD 3020 That's when Aczel "thought" amps sounded different from one another ;-) . | |
| DIY is not all about saving money For anyone in the San Francisco Bay area, Roger Modjeski (Music Reference, RAM Labs) offers a course in hi-fi electronic design. In his course he teaches you electronic theory, and you get to build your own amp or pre-amp.Rythmik Audio offers thei... | |
| Preamp Question Tim de Paravicini is well known to be a great designer/engineer (he designed the tube electronics in the analog recorder Kav Alexander uses for his superb Water Lily label albums), yet his EAR-Yoshino amps and pre-amps remain largely ignored by au... | |
| Increasing gain for your vinyl front end when pre-amp doesn't quite have enough juice Not to rain on your parade, but for most music, and certainly the Rock it sounds like you may favor, the Magnepan LRS will absolutely require a sub or four. And if it’s a "dynamic" sound you’re looking for, though Maggies have their charms (I own ... | |
| Why the fascination with subwoofers? @rodman99999 used the term "tight" in regard to a subject near and dear to my heart, that of musical cohesion within the rhythm section of a band. That is one of the foremost criteria in assessing the quality of that section, and his use of the te... | |
| Bobbie Gentry or Dusty Springfield? @n80, if you're interested enough, give a listen to Dusty In Memphis, considered her best album. Prior to that, she, like almost all Pop singers, was a "singles" artist, not an album one. Her voice has a subtle, exquisite quality of heartbreak and... |