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| Bands with great second albums Oh yeah, Ram by Paul McCartney. Not a band of course, but that wasn't absolutely literal, right? | |
| Seeking listening help in Austin area What in the Hell is "electroscopic" and "mangetostatic" operation?! | |
| Speed kills.... Erik, did you meant to say "the perception of speed does NOT come from dispersion alone"? Or is that in fact the main tenet of your assertion?For speaker designers who have used the Quad 57 as their standard for natural timbre reproduction, I’ve r... | |
| Bands with great second albums Some great nominations, particularly The Band (big surprise ;-), Neil Young, and Procol Harum. I’ll add Bob Dylan’s The Freewheelin’, Buffalo Springfield’s Again, The Byrds’ Turn! Turn! Turn!, Juliana Raye’s Something Peculiar (great album produce... | |
| SAT Comparison I'm reminded of the room romance novel cover male model Fabio put his very expensive system ($2m says Fabio; Infinity IRS, Krell, etc.) into. Hilarious---all marble and glass! | |
| Total cost of ownership - how to reduce it If you want to stay with tubes, it's simple: get yourself a Music Reference amplifier. Roger Modjeski makes push/pull pentode, push-pull triode, single-ended triode, OTL's, direct drive amps for ESL's (no output transformer, no ESL input transform... | |
| Your Favorite Cover Songs? The Four Tops: "Just Walk Away Renee" (original by The Left Banke). Unusual for me to like equally two completely different interpretations of a song (in this case a great one), but, hey, it’s The Four Tops!The Band: "Long Black Veil" (original by... | |
| For those of us over 60.. slaw, I don’t know what you mean by "best describes you/your life as you see it." I’ll just say the band that currently really knocks me out is The Fabulous Superlatives, Marty Stuart’s "backing" band (they are actually more like collaborators), c... | |
| This is juvenile... Jessi Colter in 1976. Check out the cover of her Diamond In The Rough album. Daaaaamn..... | |
| Speed kills.... Erik, there is a reason loudspeaker designers still work hard to get theirs to sound as natural (lifelike timbres, especially vocals) as the 1957 Quad ESL. Limitations yes, but not at what's most important to some music lovers. Add a pair or quad ... | |
| For those of us over 60.. If a solo artist rather than a band can be cited, for me it's Iris Dement, then Buddy Miller. While not wishing to sound pejorative, there is a reason band members aren't solo artists ;-) . | |
| Seeking listening help in Austin area Barry, Magneplanars (and Eminent Technology LFT’s) are actually called magnetic-planar loudspeakers. The term "static" is appropriate for electrostatic speakers, but not magnetic-planars. | |
| Speed kills.... Erik, as you know ESL’s aren’t the only dipole planars. Magneplanars and Eminent Technology LFT’s, both magnetic-planar/ribbon speakers, also have nulls to either side (their radiation pattern is a figure-of-8), but they don’t have the apparent sp... | |
| Speed kills.... Music Reference is offering a direct-drive ESL for $12k. That buys you left and right panels, each of which is powered by it's own direct-drive tube amp (no output transformer on the amp, no input transformer on the panels!), plus a pair of 8" dyn... | |
| SAT Comparison If I was going to blow 48 grand on hi-fi, I’d build a room with a 3’ thick cement floor, interior dimensions of 10’ H x 16’ W x 26’ L, with bass traps built into the walls. FAR more improvement to the sound of a system than that from ANY arm, I’ll... |