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| Good FM tuner for around $1K For selectivity and sensitivity, the MR78. If your reception situation is difficult, that's THE tuner. For the sound quality of the amplification circuits, some prefer the MR77. | |
| James Strickland/Acoustat To all who own Acoustats, Roger Modjeski of Music Reference is a fan of the speaker, and offers some great services and products for optimizing them. | |
| Old vs. new I myself was never too bothered by the sound of "Bop" wolf, but it DOES sound kinda antiseptic. It's worth it for the music! The New West record label puts the following sticker on the shrink wrap of the front cover of their LP's: "Audio mastered ... | |
| What is the first album you purchased, and do you still have it? Great first album, tostadosunidos! All Summer Long was the first album I truly loved, my favorite of 1964. I wasn't yet sold on The Beatles, and gave my ticket to their '64 Cow Palace show to my mom, who went with my sisters. That summer I went to... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Speaking of member names, I particularly like wolf_garcia's, as Howlin' Wolf is big in my house. Ain't that a man?! Mine comes from my preferred drum finish and bass drum (kick drum, if you insist) size; bdp for black diamond pearl (not the curren... | |
| extra links in the supply chain and do they affect performance? Right angle adaptors are made of brass, not the best sounding conductor. But then, so are most RCA plugs themselves, even the expensive ones (including the over-priced Cardas). Not the KLEI and WBT, however. | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD Just one opinion here, but you asked for them, right? The Esoteric X03SE is an unusually good CD/SACD player, your cartridge merely good; a better cartridge would improve the sound of your LP’s. A cartridge is like a loudspeaker, a transducer. Bot... | |
| Good FM tuner for around $1K The Mac MR 73, 74, 77, and 78 are all available for under $1000 used. Their RF capabilities are unmatched. Audio Classics often has all of them in stock. | |
| Anybody have experience with using Iso-Acoustics Iso-pucks under Maggies? Competition for the GAIA is the Townshend Audio Seismic Puck, priced about the same as the GAIA 2, I believe. | |
| Need a Record Brush. Got a recommendation? I don’t know if it’s still available, but I like the Hunt brush. Made in England, it has a center, velvet covered pad, with carbon fibre bristles on either side. | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? @n80, you misunderstand. My critique of Manzarek is not in terms of him not being a virtuoso (I don’t judge musicians by that yardstick), but by his musical ideas. The musical parts the other organists I named came up with don’t take virtuosity to... | |
| A Very Strange Cover Song @johnto, excellent point! The first version of "Money (That’s What I Want)" I heard was The Kingsmen’s (an early-60’s Northwest Frat band), and my first band played it in their style. Barrett Strong’s version (the original) is KILLER! The Beatles ... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Roger, I think you provided this information somewhere, but I can't remember where, and can't find it. So let me ask you: what is a good output impedance number to shoot for in a power amp? How low does it need to be to prevent frequency response ... | |
| Does impedance of a speaker change when one bi-amps? The most interesting loudspeaker product I am aware of is Roger’s new Music Reference ESL loudspeaker/dedicated direct-drive OTL amplifier combination (a great idea, though audiophiles don’t like to have their amp dictated to them ;-). ESL transpa... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw, isn’t that Terry Adams album killer? Terry has worked a lot with Ry Cooder, and is on some of his albums. But not in this kind of sound! Good for Bill Low. |