bdp24
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| 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... | |
| Does anyone use wood for vibration control? All one has to do to see evidence of the ability of a well-designed spring system to provide true isolation is to watch on You Tube the videos Max Townshend (a real mechanical engineer, if you care about such matters ;-) has made to promote his Se... | |
| What's Your Fantasy Supergroup? John Hiatt already did the job for me, when he picked Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe, and Jim Keltner to help him make his Bring The Family album. Just as people are known by the friends they keep, singers and songwriters are by the musicians they surround ... | |
| Bobbie Gentry or Dusty Springfield? This may be unfair on my part, but for whatever reason I view Bobbie as an entertainer, Dusty an artist. What's the difference, and what is the criteria for making that judgment? I don't possess the skill to put it into words, but, as they say, I ... | |
| Replacement Amp For Audio Research Classic 60 ARC owners love their Ref 75SE. Something to consider is that the output tubes in a power amp put out a LOT of heat, and the more space you allow above the amp will be rewarded with longer life for the amp in general. 8" may not be enough. | |
| Well maybe it IS my hearing @jrpride did I what I see happening all the time in social media: taking a comment from another and mischaracterizing it to mean something that was neither stated nor even implied. To see what I'm talking about, read my original comment above, the... | |
| Top five live Rock And Roll Albums Nice list @larryi. The Last Waltz is required listening (if only for the songs with Van Morrison and Muddy Waters), but anyone not wanting to have to hear Neil Diamond (he was there only because Robbie Robertson was at the time producing an album ... | |
| Under speakers Vibrapod or Gaïa GAIA are sold in sets of four. I'm considering getting a set of the model 2 (which support up to 120 lbs. when used in quads) for my Sound Anchor speaker stands, but they are a 3-point design. If anyone else needs only 6 GAIA's for his/her speaker... | |
| Well maybe it IS my hearing For anyone prepared for a rather depressing shock, do have your ears tested by an audiologist, and look at the printout of the results; it's not pretty. But here's the thing: we hear reproduced music with the same ears we hear live. Within the fre... | |
| Why the fascination with subwoofers? @clio09, I think of bass reproduction in terms of leanness vs. plumpness. I’ve worked some with upright bass players, so have heard them up close in all kinds of acoustic environments. I have also heard them from the audience side, both unmic’ed a... | |
| Top five live Rock And Roll Albums I skipped Lucinda's Live At The Fillmore album when it was released, but got it after seeing it on this thread. It's fantastic! | |
| New Townshend Rock 7 owner The U.S. distributor of Townshend does the same for Helius, and he always had a Helius Omega mounted on the Rock at hi-fi shows. It's real good arm that doesn't get much attention. The older Heliuses got a bad reputation, but the Omega's a differe... |