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| Whats on your turntable tonight? @reubent and @slaw, one era of the Manfred Mann history that is little known is that of the Chapter Three years. They made two albums for Vertigo UK, one in ’69 the other in ’70. I have the debut, and love it. Only Manfred Mann himself and drummer... | |
| Preferred Contact Cleaner and Contact Enhancer for Audio? The Gold is, not-ironically, for gold plated jacks and plugs. As Elizabeth suggested, the Gold is available in a 7.4 mL bottle with brush applicator (part no. G100L-2DB) for twenty bucks on Amazon. In that bottle is a 100% solution; the aerosol sp... | |
| This Schitt is totally refreshing in the world of high end audio! Fantastic! I use to have a Theta D/A, and still have the Moffat-designed Angstrom 200 Director. The one product they talked about that seems unlikely to me is the processor that will, allegedly, allow the vocal in a recording to be adjusted in tim... | |
| 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... |