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| Clipping triode or ultralinear Not all triode (or ultralinear) amps clip the same. It is the bi-product of clipping---high levels of ultrasonic garbage---that burns up tweeters. Different amps produce different amounts of that garbage when clipping, irrespective of class of ope... | |
| Favorite Dylan? I sure am, jafant. I've been dying to hear the NY versions of some of the song's since I first learned of those unreleased recordings. | |
| Is the Vinyl Revival well and growing? Good post Bill (whart). Having begrudgingly lived through the dark days of the 1990’s, when the availability of new music on LP was effectively nill, for me the greatest benefit of the LP revival is the resurgence in new music and recordings being... | |
| balanced vs. unbalanced sound quality My comment about Keith Johnson’s statement wasn’t intended to endorse it, but rather to clarify it (correctly, I hope). I imagine there are as many ways to build a balanced circuit as there are design engineers. EAR-Yoshino’s Tim de Paravicini cho... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? My U.S. copy of the Rockpile album does too, reubent. The last entry, of Los Angeles Dec. 13-15, is the shows I was at. It wasn't really in Los Angeles proper, but over the Hollywood Hills in the center of the San Fernando Valley, on Sherman Way i... | |
| Thoughts on Big Star I saw a great documentary on Big Star a couple of years ago, should be easy to find somewhere. There are quite a few Pop groups who are cult legends, never achieving much commercial success, but inspiring a lot of members of groups/bands who did. ... | |
| Problem related to Push-Pull or EL34? The obvious question is, what speaker is the amp hooked up to? All amp/speaker combinations are "systems", the sound of each dependent on the other. Why is it assumed it is the amp that is boomy, rather than the result of the amp/speaker interaction? | |
| which Audio Research pre-amp? A reasonable question a-s, the answer being ARC pre-amps have a certain cache' amongst audiophiles. My question is, why doesn't the op audition both the ARC pre's he is interested in at an ARC dealer? Doesn't trust his own judgment, but "knows" th... | |
| I wonder how many audiophiles there are these days Set up in a marble and glass room! | |
| Whats playing on your system today? reubent, did you manage to see/hear Rockpile live? They played three consecutive nights at The Country Club in Reseda, CA in 1980, with Moon Martin opening. I went all three nights; now THAT was a Rock 'n' Roll band! Moon was great too. My first w... | |
| balanced vs. unbalanced sound quality I'm guessing Johnson was referring to the signal path length within a balanced circuit, not within a balanced cable. | |
| Best vinyl purchases based on pressing, studio production, sound quality and enjoyment. Yer welcome, knollbrent ;-) . The music’s great too. If you love the album enough to justify the cost, look for the original UK/British pressing; it has a great front cover. | |
| Esoteric Support - nonexistent??? Ah jafant, another happy DV-50s owner. The SACD/DVD player is garnering a cult following. | |
| SPEAKERS JUMPER CABLES I would assume the preferred arrangement is to connect the cable from the power amp onto the upper-driver binding posts, then jumper from there over to the low frequency driver posts. Is that how ya’ll do it? | |
| Mountain and Cactus I saw Leslie West playing in The Vagrants (on a Les Paul Jr., iirc), pre-Mountain. He came out onto the Fillmore stage wearing a mesh cape covered in bird feathers. Quite a sight! |