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| What are the top 3 dream speakers you wanna buy next regardless of price? Hey @josh358, wouldn’t it be fascinating to hear the Tympani IVa and MG30.7 side-by-side?! That would take a MIGHTY wide room ;-). As you recently (today?) said over on the Planar Speaker Asylum, the 30.7 can’t be bi-amped, so the T-IVa has that a... | |
| New Townshend Rock 7 owner @slaw, I too would have to be considered old school (as well as somewhat old ;-), and our definitions of plinth are the same (see my post above): it is the "body" of the turntable (in a suspended sub-chassis table like the VPI HW-19, the Linn Sond... | |
| Can one ever be "done" in this hobby? The more time and energy one devotes to focusing on the music, the less one has left for thinking about sound for sound’s sake. Just as the best musicians play in service to the music, so too do the "best" audiophiles. Perhaps I’m actually not an ... | |
| Recommendation for higher power tube amp What sets the Music Reference RM-200 apart from (as far as I know) all other tube amps is that it's power output does not decrease with speaker impedance---it puts out 100 watts at both 8 ohms and 4 ohms. It also has a low (for a tube amp) output ... | |
| New Townshend Rock 7 owner @nsp, the Zeta is a cult item from the 1980’s and 90’s, far better known in the UK than in the U.S. It was a favorite with users of the idiosyncratic Decca cartridges, who also liked the Rock. In fact, the Rock was developed using the Decca cartri... | |
| 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 ;-) . |