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| 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. | |
| Does impedance of a speaker change when one bi-amps? Being able to get rid of the speaker-level crossover parts is one of the two reasons for bi-amping (doing so has at least the potential for producing a worthwhile improvement in the sound quality of a loudspeaker). The other is, as Roger Modjeski ... | |
| Discontinued equipment that you wish were still here. What do you miss or think will miss? @weebeesdad, yep, Tom Carione is still at Brooks Berdan Ltd. in Monrovia, CA. He's in the shop on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and is a great tech. He did (Brooks left us awhile back, but his widow Sheila has kept the shop going) all Brooks' bench jo... | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? Exactly slaw, Rock. The two are used interchangeably, as if they mean the same thing. They obviously do to younger dudes, but not to me. Here’s how I differentiate between the two:Rock ’n’ Roll, or Rock & Roll, or Rock and Roll, is the combina... | |
| Your Forever Pieces? What and Why? Slaws nomination of his Townshend Rock 7 tunrtable has broken down by resistance to contributing my own nominee. I have a much older Rock, the Elite (Mk.2), from the early 90's. Mounted on it is the Zeta arm/London Super Gold (Mk.7, w/fineline sty... | |
| Speaker type for my Conrad-Johnson ET5/LP70S tube combo @routeman21, that’s the thing about ESL’s. They are so transparent, you are listening through them as much as to them. Crappy amp + ESL = crappy sound. Magnetic-planars aren’t quite as transparent as ESL’s, imo, but as both are dipole planars they... | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? All right slaw, I didn't want to be the one to say it, but now that you have ;-). I too saw the doors (they made a point of using all lower case in their name, perhaps as a conceit a la e.e. cummings ;-), twice. Not only were they not a Rock 'n' R... | |
| What separate tube phono stage do you use ? Good question inna. The phono amp in the EAR-Yoshino 868 is also considered by some to be mighty fine, but there aren't a lot of them around. The English mags use to do "shoot-outs", comparing comparably-priced components. I'm not expecting to see... | |
| Tune of the Day Good one slaw. I just listened to Mary’s Filth & Fire album, which I love. It was produced by Gurf Morlix, Lucinda Williams' guitarist/bandleader/producer up through and including her Car Wheels On A Gravel Road album. Talented guy. |