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| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD For those who like "Americana" music, know that New West Records, home to many of my favorite artists (Buddy Miller, John Hiatt, Rodney Crowell, Richard Thompson, plenty of others) offers some of their titles on cassette. | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. @ramtubes, Roger, I know you consider the 6DJ8 superior to the 12AX7 for use in a phono stage, but let me ask you this anyway ;-) : how do you feel about substituting a pair of 5751’s in place of a phono amp’s 12AX7’s? I know the 5751 exhibits low... | |
| What’s wrong with Diana Krall? I’ve seen some of our greatest artists at different points in their lives, and they have been almost like different people. I’m thinking mostly of Bob Dylan and Brian Wilson. I’ve also been involved with a few artists, and saw first-hand how they ... | |
| Rectifier Tube Rolling in a Modwight LS 36.5DM EAR-Yoshino's Tim de Paravicini has talked about how in the "old days" when one tube maker ran low of a given model (tube factories often made an entire years supply all at once, then switched over in production to a different model), they would b... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. @krelldreams, if LPs are your main source and focus, one option is to buy as good a phono stage as you have the dough for, along with a relatively inexpensive passive pre. Passives work better in some situations than others, having to do with sour... | |
| Rectifier Tube Rolling in a Modwight LS 36.5DM @roberman, I love your making the point that what is commonly thought of as the "sound" of a tube is more a matter of it’s electrical characteristics and performance in any given circuit than some inherent subjective, "artistic" quality. That elec... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. @krelldreams, the "cleaning of a window" is the transparency I was speaking of above. It’s the opposite of the veiled, opaque, translucent sound (a layer of "scrim", as J. Gordon Holt called it) you are trying to rise above. Transparency can and h... | |
| The Aaron Copland / Bob Dylan connection Yup @jafant, I put it on my Christmas list for the sisters. I’m so backlogged with CDs and LPs waiting for their first spin that I can wait. I have the original LP, the version with back-cover liner notes by Pete Hamill. | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. @krelldreams, Conrad-Johnson uses the 12AU7 in their pre-amps, so I’ll guess that’s what you have. CJ products are considered to have a "warmer" sonic character than those of other companies. Some like and want that in their system, others want a ... | |
| Tubes with Infinity IRS Betas One tube amp designed specifically for problematic low impedance loudspeakers is the Music Reference RM-200. It even has a 1 ohm tap! 100w/ch from a pair of KT-88 or 6550 tubes/ch. | |
| soundstage question The op doesn't need to deal with much floor, ceiling, or sidewall reflections---the ET LFT-8's are line source dipole loudspeakers. Behind the ET's is a different story, of course. One thing you could try is a pair of 2' X 4' floor-standing diffus... | |
| Tune of the Day @slaw, that's gotta be a take-off of Merle Haggard's "The Bottle Let Me Down"! | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Oops, clio09, I meant to say ct0517 above. I keep conflating you two! | |
| Where do cables upgrades have the most impact? If you include the tonearm, I would say its internal wire. Especially if you eliminate all the junctures, solder joints, and connectors, creating an uninterrupted run of wire from the cartridge pins to the RCA or XLR plugs. The reason being the ou... | |
| Seeking advice on possible VPI turntable upgrade @arsh, have you been over to the VPI Forum? That's the place to converse with very experienced VPI owners and aficionados. |