bdp24
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| Component isolation Good questions and comments Terry. Damping the vibrations in a component, vibrations that the component may potentially add to the signal, is not "dampening (sic) part of the audio signal." Where in hell did THAT idea come from?! This idea that co... | |
| Magnepan and room size, room placement Agree 100% with tomic601, the extra 2' and 4' make all the difference. A 10 X 10 room is inappropriate for any planar, 12' X 14' about as small as you can go. | |
| The best music in 2019 @tomcy6, Rosie Flores is wonderful! I have all her stuff, and have seen her live many times, the last time up at Pappy & Harriet's, the roadhouse bar in Pioneertown (not far from Joshua Tree, where Gram Parsons met his maker). She was in the a... | |
| Component isolation Frank Van Alstine was recommending a paving stone sitting on an under-inflated inner tube as a turntable isolation platform way back in the mid-80’s. I believe the idea was already very old even then, dating back to the 1950’s. The early, WWII-gen... | |
| Dick Dale HUGE influence on many guitarists, ones as good as Bill Frisell (listen to his Guitar In The Space Age album) and even Saint Jimi (his "We’ll never listen to Surf music again" song lyric was said facetiously). Leo Fender created his great Dual Sho... | |
| Do any of your Rolling Stones recordings bring "Satisfaction"? Every musician I knew had the Harvey Mandel album and followed him when he later joined Canned Heat, but I wasn't aware he had recorded with The Stones. Ry Cooder also did, and has told a very interesting story about that experience. I don't want ... | |
| Component isolation Isolation need not involve damping or lack thereof. The Townshend Audio Seismic products and the IsoAcoustic GAIA's provide isolation only. | |
| Speaker With Least Room Interaction Yet another benefit afforded by subs is that, should one elect to employ digital room correction (the DSPeaker Anti-Mode, for instance), the bass portion of the source signal can be digitized without the higher frequencies needing to be. This is e... | |
| Tune of the Day Thanks @slaw, on my list of To Buy it goes! | |
| More Cowbell For any drummer wanting a great sounding cowbell, look for the one Zildjian made for a while. Best sounding cowbell I've ever heard! Sweet, musical sound. | |
| Tune of the Day Not yet @slaw. Jim puts out albums so frequently, it’s hard to keep up with him! I assume you got the album on LP; how’s the sq? As usual, I have to choose between LP and CD; I don’t mind paying the higher price for an LP if the sq of the recordin... | |
| Is this too hot for my preamp? What should I do? You also want to separate the chassis’ from each other to prevent self-generated internal vibrations from each to pollute the sound of the others. | |
| Subwoofer location/facing question I’m sure Duke will give you some definitive info, but as an introduction, subs need to be located in a room so as to counteract that room’s high and low pressure zones (modes and anti-modes) created by the room’s wall boundaries (the room’s dimens... | |
| How many brands use own drivers? As far as I know, ALL electrostatic (many) and magnetic-planar (Magnepan, Eminent Technology) drivers are manufactured in-house. If not, each company's are made for them exclusively, unlike most speakers employing dynamic ("cone") drivers, Vanders... | |
| Is this the real life, or just death on 2 legs? @richopp, you don’t have the full picture. I hold no songwriter in higher regard than Brian Wilson. My first live concert was The Beach Boys in the summer of 1964, when Brian was still playing bass and singing on stage. Upon hearing the Smiley Smi... |