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| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. Performing on stages with Altec Voice-Of-The-Theater PA speakers starting at a young age (before I heard my first audiophile speakers), I had a bad first impression and opinion of horn loudspeakers. But the VOTT was designed for a different purpos... | |
| Black Ash..... On the enclosures I made myself (subs), I painted them Hot Rod Black, which is a very cool black with a sheen between matte and flat black, used by, as its' name suggests, 1950's Hot Rod customizers. John Deere, the maker of tractors, offers a rea... | |
| All the old issues of Stereo Review are online!! @crimsoniter, I saw the Jeff Beck Group live in late-68, at either The Carousel Ballroom or Fillmore. I was stoked to finally hear Nicky Hopkins live (I later met and spoke with him in L.A. in ’81. Sweet guy, and one of the best English musicians ... | |
| From tubes back to SS? Ralph, you mentioned a couple of my favorites (BEL 1001, EK Eagle 2, which I still have); how 'bout the Bedini 25/25? ;-) | |
| 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? |