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| KEF for Near-field? What distance is considered the dividing line between nearfield and non-nearfield? Nearfield about 6' and less, non-nearfield greater than 6'? | |
| Decca London Super Gold Compatibility Question The Decca/London is tricky because its’ lateral and vertical compliances are very different, the lateral being about 50% higher than the vertical. Schizophrenic! Of course, the effective (moving) mass of all arms is partially determined by the dis... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. The talk I saw about the DIY kit version of the First watt B4 was maybe six months ago, on a Nelson Pass-related DIY Forum site. I’ve been looking through all my folders, but have yet to find it. I’ll keep looking, but a call to Pass Labs may get ... | |
| Catastrophic Accident! What To Do!? It could be the over 2 dozen fuse replacements of which chazro was speaking have been in all his pieces, not just the RM-9. | |
| Can we hear from those who essentially repurchased previous system? I myself have not done this, but more than a few have tired of the limitations of the original Quad ESL loudspeaker, bought another design free of that limitation, then another, ending up coming back to the Quad. Within its' limitations, it remain... | |
| New $24,000 inter-connect The percentage argument is a common one, but ignores an important issue. A $100 cable is 10 times the price of a $10 one, the dollar amount of that difference being $90. A $1,000 cable is also 10 times the price of a $100 one, but the dollar amoun... | |
| Is there a Northern and Southern California Sound Brooks’ son Brian (who ran Brooks Berdan Ltd. as Brooks’ health declined) now has his own shop, Audio Elements, in nearby Pasadena. Audiogon contributor folkfreak (who has had me over at his place in Portland to hear his super-fine system) has bee... | |
| Decca London Super Gold Compatibility Question Some people claim the Decca/London design doesn't like the knife-edge style bearings of SME arms. If you can get your hands on a Zeta at a reasonable price (under a grand), snap it up! Johnnie at Audio Origami knows all about the arm, and has rest... | |
| Hihat Question Hey Gary, have you ever heard the original JBL L-100 loudspeakers? They sound very much like the Shure SM-57 mic that a lot of the snare drums (and therefore hihats, to some degree) you hear on albums were recorded with. A nice, big fat presence p... | |
| Favorite band or artist of all time? Atlantic Records in-house producer Jerry Wexler was given Wilson Pickett as a project by the label's president Ahmet Ertegun. When Wexler told Pickett they were going down to Muscle Shoals, Alabama to record, he recoiled in horror. Wilson, like ma... | |
| Is there a Northern and Southern California Sound The Byrds, silly. Even better than they are given credit for. The sound Tom Petty was chasing. | |
| Treated my interconnects with Deoxit D5 today As Elizabeth, I prefer the 100% solution in a small bottle with an applicator brush. Caig offers a kit (K-DG100L-2DB) that contains a 7.4mL bottle each of both the Red and Gold cleaner (along with brushes and cloths) that Markertek sells for $25.9... | |
| Favorite band or artist of all time? You are SO right, boxer. That album was a desperately-needed relief from what everyone was listening to (Jimi, Cream, The Dead---another band with fierce defenders, Zeppelin of course---who ended up being perhaps the most influential band of all t... | |
| Tune of the Day Great song slaw (BPDG). I’m sure you’ve already heard it, but comparing the version by Them (with a very young Van Morrison singing) to the original by Muddy Waters illustrates why Them’s version is just about my all-time favorite cover song. That... | |
| Favorite band or artist of all time? Damn, I shoulda waited ’til I was more awake. Can’t be without Hank Williams (writing, singing), Buddy Miller (singing, guitar playing, producing, arranging), Ry Cooder (guitar, musicology), The Swampers (Fame Studios house band in Muscle Shoals),... |