bdp24
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| How about a list of speakers that are time and phase coherent? Thiels and what else? Yes prof, the Quad 63. The Eminent Technology LFT-8b, with it's magnetic-planar midrange drivers reproducing 180Hz up to 10kHz without a crossover. The dynamic woofer and ribbon tweeter are employed below and above that (respectively) via 1st orde... | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? The Stones are American?! The Four Seasons were a Rock & Roll band?! Ay carumba!I would say Los Lobos are in the running, and The Blasters, though they are on the border where Rock & Roll and Blues overlap. | |
| Your (perfect) record Oh, me too slaw, otherwise I wouldn't bother having them in my collection. I also have about 750 7" 45's, of individual songs I like a lot. There are currently quite a few young bands and solo artists making albums with at least mostly good materi... | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? Since The Band were 4/5’s Canadian, and Rockpile English/Welsh (and played American Rock & Roll at least as well as any band of which I am aware), I’d say NRBQ. But then I don’t consider The Eagles a Rock & Roll Band. Rush can be called ma... | |
| Reminiscing about Dual and AR turntables I would avoid the 60’s/70’s AR, the XA and XB---it’s tonearm was not so hot, though the table was fine for what it was. The ES-1, introduced in the mid-80’s with an outsourced arm (Jelco? Audioquest?), the arm weakness of the XA/B cured and theref... | |
| The current best band in the world? jnorris, I didn't expect a consensus. If "this discussion will really lead anywhere" it is to "introduce people to new music". THAT was my intent! | |
| The current best band in the world? @ron1319---Is your swing dance venue The Derby? That place really took off in the 90's, when the Swing Revival got underway. The clientele was into the whole lifestyle---zoot suits, vintage cars and haircuts, the ladies in garters and seamed stock... | |
| Switched from RCA to XLR Interconnects - WOW Paravacini uses transformers to create the balanced/XLR outputs in his EAR-Yoshino 868L pre-amp. If the power amp it feeds has only XLR inputs, the 868's balanced outputs (there are two pair, plus two pair of unbalanced/RCA outputs) are obviously ... | |
| Your (perfect) record A few more: Dylan's Blonde On Blonde, John Wesley Harding, and Blood On The Tracks, Rockpile's Seconds Of Pleasure, John Hiatt's Bring The Family and Slow Turning, Loudon Wainwright's Last Man On Earth, Weezer's s/t ("green" album), The Byrds Swee... | |
| Pieces of music that digital can't get right @onhwy61, as you may already know, a good small diaphragm condenser mic is best for cymbals. I’ve been recorded with Sony’s (don’t know the model number, but I believe they cost over a grand), the Shure SM81, AKG’s, and Neumann’s (very expensive, ... | |
| Your (perfect) record This kind of topic invariably leads to a listing of primarily old albums from the 50’s. 60’s, and 70’s. Sorry youngin’s, but that’s when an album was more than a single and a bunch of filler. Actually, that’s an over-simplification. In Jazz, an al... | |
| What's Your Approach to Dressing Rack Cables? It also helps to keep interconnects a length no longer than absolutely necessary. I have a few 0.5m lengths for that very reason. | |
| Marty Balin has passed away. The 60's generation artists/entertainers are coming to, as The Traveling Wilbury's sang, the end of the line. They've been dropping like flies for a while now, and it will only get worse. Most of them are in their mid-70's, some almost 80. That's ... | |
| Best building material for vibration free shelving slaw’s point is well taken. While a stiff shelf is better than a weak one, neither provide isolation to any appreciable degree. Baltic Birch is not only stiffer than MDF, it is lower in mass, so it exhibits a higher-frequency resonance, and absorb... | |
| Speed kills.... @russellrcncom, I too have the Stax Lambda (Pro) phones and SRM-1. Have you heard the Sanders ESL's? I heard them at the show in SoCal a few years ago, and found them very much to my liking, more than the current Quads. |