bdp24
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| Is it true records are sealed to look better.... You should also know that there is such a thing as an LP resealing machine. Every Tower Records had one in it's back room; every returned LP was visually inspected, and a disc with no obvious defects (scratches, etc.) was cleaned of fingerprints (... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. @tomic601, Oops, I had you confused with clio09! He DOES have a professional relationship with Roger. I’ll put the Decca info up in a thread, for all to see, hopefully tomorrow---Eric. | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. @cardiffkook, I’m sure Roger will get to your question, but in the meantime you should know that he does NOT share your feeling that "the PC is a fundamental part of the electronic device", and does not "optimize the cord for the device in buildin... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. @noromance, I respect Roger’s directive to keep this thread focused on amplifier design, and questions about that topic alone. I brought up Harvey Rosenberg and the Decca only in response to tomic601’s (who has a close relationship with Roger, if ... | |
| If you could only keep 5 record albums, what would they be? This topic thread pops up regularly, sometimes with a more reasonable 10 album limit ;-). But okay, 5. I’ll limit it to Pop (non-Classical), as this crowd is of a more Rock persuasion. I will also leave off my number 1 and 2, as everyone may be si... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. @tomic601, your mention of mentoring has jogged my memory (too much alliteration? ;-) . Everyone who met or even read the writings of Harvey Rosenberg knows what an interesting character he was. He was also a generous man, as I found out in the mi... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. When the ARC SP--3 was considered THE pre-amp to own, Frank Van Alstine took a look at it. He found the RIAA eq to be a little too off to be acceptable, the basic circuit to have a little too much non-linearity, and the power supply to be somewhat... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. @ramtubes, I finally got around to reading the review by Herb Reichert of the Cary SLI-100 in the December Stereophile. Damn, what a piece of junk! Cary specs the amp at 100w/ch from a pair of KT150 power tubes per channel; John Atkinson, using 1%... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @uberwaltz, Yup, I collect and play 7" 45rpm singles. My first records were singles, at the dawn of the 1960's, before Rock 'n' Roll was an LP format. There are lots of songs I want by artists/entertainers who did not make good albums, in some cas... | |
| My first Tube Amplifier @unreceivedogma, if the Altecs are, as I suspect, a nominally 16 ohm load, that would be a good reason. | |
| OTL Tube Amps and Full Range Electrostatic Speakers Damn @kalali, can that be right? $13,000/pr is a lotta dough! I guess I assumed the $6500 quote was for a pair, but it appears you are correct. Looks like I won't be buying a set! | |
| What is the best song you are hearing? "Walk Through The Fire" by Mary Gauthier, on her Filth & Fire album, a great one. The song is just fantastic; great chord progression, a wonderful melody, and intriguing lyrics superbly sung by Mary, my favorite "new" artist.The album was prod... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? @uberwaltz and @reubent, I got to see Robben live many times when he was living in San Jose in the early 70’s. He and his brothers (Pat on drums, Mark on mouth harp) had moved down from upstate California, and were living in a house right by the c... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Yow, things are warming up around here ;-) . I like opinionated people, it requires and reveals passion. That’s true even if I see things differently; no two people agree on everything, and everyone develops their own priorities and tastes in musi... | |
| Best places to find vinyl A long time ago (starting in late 1976), when Goldmine Record Collectors Magazine was a huge, monthly print publication, I began buying from sellers of rare and collectable LP’s. And remember, the LP was at that time the main format (almost the on... |