bdp24
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| Tune of the Day "As If We Would Never Love Again" on Jim Lauderdale’s Onward Through It All album. A great, great song (chord progressions, melody) from a "perfect" album (not a single bad song. Jim is a master songwriter, his songs having been recorded and made ... | |
| Eminent technology et2 on Linn Lp12 Brooks Berdan may have mounted more ET arms on turntables than anyone else in the world. His original choice for the arm was the Oracle Delphi, for which he created a mod eventually incorporated into the table by Oracle itself (a round block of st... | |
| Degritter brand ultrasonic record cleaner I can't speak for anyone else, but the LP's I bought from Tom Port are no quieter than those I cleaned myself. But then, those LP's were acquired from Tom many years ago; perhaps his current cleaner does a better job than the one he used on my LP's. | |
| Degritter brand ultrasonic record cleaner I lived two blocks from Tom Ports apartment in Sherman Oaks in the late-80’s/early-90’s, and bought some LP’s from him (the original German pressing of Magical Mystery Tour is a must!). I was pretty surprised by his hi-fi system, and not in a good... | |
| New versus old top of the line speakers. I heard the originals many times. They had a VERY forward, brash character, the polar opposite of the Acoustic Research rather recessed/laid back "East Coast" sound. Around the time of the L-100, Infinity came out with their Model 2000A, which had... | |
| What are the top 3 dream speakers you wanna buy next regardless of price? @tomic601, the fan is the easy part. Getting it to spin at the correct speed in response to frequency is a bit trickier! Then there is the matter of the fan blades spinning around their axis'. Bruce Thigpen is a REAL smart guy. | |
| Degritter brand ultrasonic record cleaner Damn @reubent, the price has gone up 50% from just six months ago! I posted this not to make the case for ultrasonic cleaning, but for those considering purchasing one of the $4,000 machines (Audio Desk, KLAudio, etc.). Here is a cheaper (even wit... | |
| What are the top 3 dream speakers you wanna buy next regardless of price? Oh, and an Eminent Technology TRW-17 Rotary Woofer (for the "real" bottom two octaves---1Hz-20Hz!). | |
| Which is the best audio magazine? I’ve always liked Dick Olsher, and there’s a lot to like in the writing of Art Dudley. Both are avid music lovers with well-developed listening skills, and also technically-informed. Because of John Atkinson's bench tests, Stereophile is imo indis... | |
| What are the top 3 dream speakers you wanna buy next regardless of price? Magneplanar MG30.7, restored Stax F-83 ESL’s, Music Reference ESL’s with dedicated Direct Drive OTL amps. | |
| Your ship just came in! time to buy new gear..? Add a 10' x 16' x 26' (or so) room with a cement floor onto the house. Folkfreak says that would cost more than $56,000, but his standards are awfully high! | |
| Audio Critic 10 lies>>>>>>>>>> I found it funny that after Aczels epiphany he dismissed as delusional all claims for component differences he didn’t "believe" in, yet before his epiphany he had "believed" he himself heard those same differences. Was he delusional before his epi... | |
| Music I would succumb to under torture What makes Pop Country popular is that it is really just Pop music---melodies, chord structure, high-gloss production---with just a hint of Country, via the cynically-calculated and contrived lyrics sung with a deliberately-hick "twang".The Countr... | |
| When the Audio Critic was subjective. Aczel was just a run-of-the-mill subjective reviewer, certainly no J. Gordon Holt, or even Harry Pearson. I don't recall what lead to his "objective" transformation, but was thereafter an obnoxious jerk. His ethics came into serious question when ... | |
| File Under Misc. Audio Musings--Do any famous/infamous people qualify as audiophiles? Henry Rollins bought his VTL/Wilson system from Brian Berdan (Audio Element in Pasadena, formerly at Brooks Berdan, Ltd. in nearby Monrovia). I think his table is an SME, but I may be mistaken. |