bdp24
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| 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... | |
| I can not live without "Room Correction" shkong78, the IsoAcoustic GAIA isolators (and the Townshend Audio Seismic products) address only the speaker they are used with. Addressing the issue of room acoustics is a separate issue, including room dimension-created eigenmodes, reflections, ... | |
| Total cost of ownership - how to reduce it Yup Wolf, Gold Lion are making real good tubes, and they are reasonably priced. Still have to match them, of course. RAM Tubes is great at that. | |
| A song murdered by someone. Dylan wrote the song for the movie Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid, and is used to great effect in the scene in which Slim Pickens' character is dying. Dylan had a small role in the movie, playing a character named Alias. | |
| Worst Rock Band Ever !!!! Music categories and labels are somewhat subjective. I consider ABBA to have been not a Rock Band---the OP’s category, but a Pop Group, and a great one. Benny & Bjorn wrote GREAT Pop songs (chord sequences, melodies, harmonies, arrangements, e... | |
| Session Men by Gil Baker The L.A. film includes mention of Carol Kaye, including comments about her by Nancy Sinatra. Some of the players discuss the money inequity issue; everyone else involved in a hit song receives points---the songwriter, the publisher, the producer, ... | |
| DIY Audio Rack [*fail*] If sufficient isolation is achieved for every component, the importance of the rack itself is minimized. Maybe not completely eliminated, but close enough for Rock ’n’ Roll---a classic musician’s joke. Audiophiles tend to drive themselves crazy, t... | |
| Spectron Audio Out Of Business? Right you are tomic601. The tech's name is Tom Carione, in the store on Wednesdays and Saturdays. His other job is the service manager at a major radio or TV (I don't remember which) station in Los Angeles, and he REALLY knows his stuff, tube and ... | |
| This is juvenile... @frogman---Ha, good thing women don't feel that way. There'd be a lot of homeless musicians ;-) . One performer who has left a littered field of past relationships is Lucinda Williams. She has been through more marriages and boyfriends than a movi... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Thanks @mental. Amazon has the LP, but they are selling it for $48.99! I like and want to support the LP, but that's a bit much. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? reubent---Alone Together is a FANTASTIC album! I have only the original pressing, the vinyl of which looks like a paint wheel---lots of splattered colors, gray being primary. I'll have to look for the MCA remaster. | |
| This is juvenile... @audioman58---Apparently Keith Richards finds Norah very attractive. The two of them did a duet on "Love Hurts" at the tribute show to Gram Parsons at The Universal Amphitheater in 2004. I was in attendance, and watched in horror as Keith couldn't... |