bdp24
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| Nature of the current used speaker market A pair of brand new Magnepan MG 3.7i can be had for $6,000. | |
| Pop Sound in my speakers when driven loud from studio recorded CD sources. Sure sounds like amp clipping, which can fry tweeters. It happened to me one time. | |
| Could I be a Retail Wretch? There was a good independent musical instrument store on Santa Monica Blvd. in W. Los Angeles named West L.A. Music, which everyone preferred to the Guitar Center on Sunset in Hollywood. They did a good business, and thrived. But the owner finally... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Along with VAC, Music Reference amps provide multiple impedance (transformer winding) taps; in the RM-200 Mk.2: 1, 2, 4, and 8 ohms; in the RM-10 Mk.2: 4 and 8 ohms; in the discontinued RM-9: 4, 8, and 16 ohms. | |
| Stacked Quads wiring question Your confusion appears to be arising from the thought that, should the second set of Quads receive their signal off the speaker terminals of the first pair (as is the case in series wiring), they will see a signal filtered from the x/o in that fir... | |
| Thumbs up for ultrasonic record cleaning The VERY interesting Degritter brand Ultrasonic cleaner is scheduled to become available in January 2019, at what retail price I don’t know (last I heard, a little over $2,000). It operates at 120kHz, for reasons explained on the company’s website... | |
| RMS Power? @almarg, Al, as you can’t attend any of Roger’s presentations, have you watched the two videos on You Tube of his seminars at The Burning Amp Festival? His and Nelson Pass’, that is. Great stuff! It's a pleasure to own products by both these great... | |
| Is the Last Record Preservative system a worthwhile investment? @french_fries, are you sure it is Last Record Preservative you are using? How much did you pay for the pint bottle? A pint of Last is not cheap!@harrylavo, you either have the year wrong, or it is not Last you are using. It was not introduced unti... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. I couldn't agree more with both clio09 and gpgr4blu. Thanks guys. | |
| Is the Last Record Preservative system a worthwhile investment? @rshak, First was made by Nitty Gritty, but was discontinued because some chemical it contained was banned by the EPA. It was as you said, a heavy-duty pre-cleaner, made to remove mold release from new LP's before they were cleaned with regular cl... | |
| Is the Last Record Preservative system a worthwhile investment? Thanks for the link to Larry Archibald's Stereophile review, has2be. I had seen those microscope pics of Last treated and untreated grooves, but it was years ago. Michael Fremer has also reviewed Last, and is an enthusiastic endorser. You know who... | |
| ARC REF 150 Buzzing noise I’ll bet minorl is right. The KT150 is much more demanding of transformers than is the KT120. Verify that the tech is replacing the one in your amp with one rated for the KT150, otherwise you may end up right back where you are. Maybe consider get... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. NO amp is happy with a 2 ohm load, or at least it’s far happier seeing a higher impedance. When did all these very-low impedance loudspeakers start appearing, and why? The original Magneplanar Tympani T-I was a nominal 8 ohm load, which soon was c... | |
| Hi Fi Tuning fuses Let me see if I have this right.....If, in a discussion about turntables, I post that John Atkinson has stated that he finds his Linn LP12 to better reproduce the timing element in music than any other table he has heard. And by dint of my posting... | |
| Cowsills @sbank, The Continental Drifter’s albums are good, and they were an even better live band. They had a residency at a club called Raji’s, located in the basement of an old hotel on Hollywood Blvd. They played every Tuesday night in the early-90’s, ... |