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| Tonearm rewiring @arcamguy, excellent! Brian Berdan at Audio Elements is not only a great technician, he's a great guy. I've known him since he was a little kid, he watching his Dad Brooks Berdan (who rewired my Rega 300) setting up tables, arms, and cartridges. O... | |
| Mapleshade Isolation: Does Nothing? @matteos, another convert to roller bearings! Ingress Engineering in Canada is making some really fine ones, cheaper and better than the Symposium Acoustics Rollerblocks. | |
| Impedance matching with tube amp Exactly muffinhead123. Not that problems WILL occur because of the input impedance varying with frequency, but that they can. For instance, a tube pre-amp may have an output impedance of 600 ohms at 1kHz---which is probably fine for an amp with an... | |
| Phono Preamps with "balls" ? Powerful, dynamic, and ballsy sounding? Get a Decca/London pickup---they almost don't even need a phono pre-amp! | |
| Impedance matching with tube amp "this wouldn't quite fit that range of ratios" suggests a misunderstanding of the ratio "rule". The pre-amp's output impedance doesn't have to fall within 1/10th and 1/100th of the power amp's input impedance, it's that the ratio of power amp inpu... | |
| Zeta Tonearm Troubles @bensturgeon, email Johnnie at Audio Origami in England. He knows all about that arm (a favorite of his). As I recommended earlier, a better route is to send him your Zeta for a complete internal-rewire, terminated in RCA plugs. Why anyone would v... | |
| Transport Phillips CD80. | |
| Isoacoustics GAIA question @tonediary, if you're in the UK, you have a good alternative to the GAIA. Townshend Audio makes a line of great isolation products, all incorporating his Seismic Pod. Check out his You Tube video describing and explaining it, and demonstrating it'... | |
| Favorite Dylan? Yep, me too @whart! The released Blood On The Tracks has never rung my bells, for whatever reason, and from what I've read about the Phil Ramone recordings I might find them more to my liking.Mick Ronson being part of The Rolling Thunder Revue has... | |
| Favorite Dylan? Not yet jafant. Speculation is either the Rolling Thunder Revue Tour recordings (with Jim McGuinn, T Bone Burnett, Sam Shepard, Joan Baez), or the complete Blood On The Tracks recordings (he recorded that album's songs more than once, with differe... | |
| Shipping heavy speakers For 800 mile-away buyers, both of you could drive and meet half-way. | |
| Ugraditus is calling....again. Phono stage? My kinda guy, slaw. Another like him is Roger Modjeski of Music Reference. He now teaches a class in Audio Engineering in Berkeley/Oakland, where he has moved his operation (from beautiful Santa Barbara). You can build your own tube power amp whil... | |
| Subwoofer for Ayre AX-7e? Rythmik Audio's PEQ plate amps provide both line-level inputs on RCA jacks, and high-level inputs (from a power amp) on speaker cable binding posts. REL's and Vandersteen's also have provisions for high-level inputs. | |
| Have you moved from tubed amplification to solid state amplification... Why? The Quads to which I was referring are the originals ("57’s"). Modjeski says he used that speaker for evaluating his design choices in the development of his RM-10 amp (35w/ch in it’s Class A/B version, 25w in the Class A version). The Quad 63 and... | |
| Cable Snake Oil Antidote Aczel took himself WAY too seriously. He was also a little too fond of attacking other critics personally, in what I found to be an obnoxious, self-righteous manner. He seemed to a stranger to joy, happiness, and humility. A very bitter, negative ... |