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| I hate biasing! Wait for the Ref 160 SE, which will come out as soon as sales of the original drop off. It will make the non-SE original sound broken. Actually, it probably will be ;-). | |
| Best vinyl purchases based on pressing, studio production, sound quality and enjoyment. John Hiatt: Bring The Family; Mobile Fidelity.T Bone Burnett: Truth Decay; Takoma Records (Chrysalis Records pressing, NOT the Allegiance Records one).Stevie Wonder: Taking Book; TamlaMuddy Waters: Folk Singer; Mobile Fidelity.Richard & Linda ... | |
| 50 years on---the brilliance of The Band and their astounding debut album. jafant, the album was released on the 1st, and on that day I Googled the deluxe boxset (which contains a 2-LP 45 RPM set, a single CD, a Blu Ray-24/96 disc, a 7" 45 single of The Band’s first single "The Weight"/"I Shall Be Released", a set of pri... | |
| record collectors/record collecting/ e bay Redneck hillbilly record dealers? There are used and collectible record dealers all over the country, and have been for many years. I started buying out of Goldmine Record Collectors Magazine in 1976. I recently bought Mint- copies of the Robert L... | |
| Which subwoofers have at least a 20k input impedance as required for ARC preamp Or Rythmiks. | |
| Western Electric 10ga vs Dueland 16ga The Western Electric is also available in 14g and 16g. | |
| audi research m100 tubes rolling Give Roger Modjeski at RAM Tubes a ring. He knows a LOT about tubes. | |
| DIY ?uestion A speaker with well-designed transmission-line woofer loading is the ESS Transtatic I, from the very-early 70's (I first saw and heard it in 1971). The woofer in that speaker was the famous KEF B139, a great driver for it's time (David Wilson used... | |
| What were your humble beginnings on the path to high end audio? Fun topic. You can tell a person’s general age by what comprised their first hi-fi. My best friend was sick of the Dean of Boys at Cupertino High sending him home for a haircut (public schools had dress codes up until the end of the 1960’s; boys h... | |
| Rodney Crowell Rodney ascended to the level he is on now (amongst the absolute top songwriters and music makers alive) with his 2001 release The Houston Kid, a great, great album. I consider it and everything he has released since a must-own.By the way, Rodney e... | |
| What is the epic song of a group? roxy, I admit to being one who didn't take the term "epic" literally enough. I named titles which I consider epically great, but that wasn't the question. Some of mine do fit the term, such as Richard Thompson's "Shoot Out The Lights" and Televisi... | |
| Simon and Garfunkel "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" MOFI UD1S I’ve always found Mobile Fidelity’s choices of titles to redo inexplicable. They always do a great job, I just can’t discern what the rational is in those choices. It doesn’t seem to be the sound quality of the original master tapes, as that varie... | |
| Stillpoints - snake oil? The roller bearings made by Symposium, Ingress Engineering, and FIM each use one ball bearing per foot. How many are in each Stillpoint? The more ball bearings, the more friction and noise, etc. | |
| Best vinyl purchases based on pressing, studio production, sound quality and enjoyment. wow whart, Brian Davidson! I haven't thought of him in years. I saw him live when The Nice came to San Francisco in '68. For those who don't know, The Nice was the group Keith Emerson was in before ELP, and I kinda liked their first album at the t... | |
| Phono cable and preamp for soundsmith Carmen mk2 What is the output voltage of your pickup? If it’s a couple of mV’s or more, you need only the 42-44dB gain provided by the mm version of the Herron VTPH-1 or -2. Keith Herron sometimes has a used VTPH-1 that was traded in on a TVPH-2. I bought a ... |