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| 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 ... | |
| Should I eliminate my preamp? Ralph Karsten (Atma-Sphere) has in a few threads here lately discussed the issue of the benefits of an active pre-amp in certain system set-ups vs. the penalties. If you can find them in the Audiogon Forum, you will learn all there is to know on t... | |
| Trying different output impedance taps with tube amps As Ralph Karsten (Atma-Sphere) and Roger Modjeski (Music Reference) will tell you, the lower the impedance tap on a tube amp, the lower the output impedance (higher damping factor) and distortion, generally speaking. Unfortunately, that comes with... | |
| Neil Young - Guitarist Agree about Gatton and Thompson, onhwy61. The difference between them and Vai is a question of taste, which is of course highly subjective. I find Danny and Richard's playing to be cool, Vai's corny. But that's just me. | |
| Over time, with playing constant playing, do vinyl records wear out? The Last Factory makes a vinyl preservative that prevents wear in the groove of an LP (an LP has only one continuous groove, not multiple grooves). It is used by The Library Of Congress and many record collectors & audiophiles. But you need to... | |
| Have you moved from tubed amplification to solid state amplification... Why? Some speakers are optimized for, or are more appropriate for use with, either a tube amp or a ss one. terry9’s Quads were used by Roger Modjeski in the development of his Music Reference RM-10 tube amp, and the pairing is to die for. That amp is, ... | |
| Neil Young - Guitarist Douchiest---love it! All those hair/metal band musician’s are like "Don’t look over there, look over here. Ain’t I great?!" The singer, the guitarist, and the drummer, all trying to steal the spotlight from each other. Embarrassing.Drummers have a... | |
| Neil Young - Guitarist I am apparently incapable of making myself understood. No matter how many times I plead my case against technique being viewed as the NUMBER ONE or MAIN criteria by which a musician’s playing is judged, I still am perceived as being anti-technique... | |
| Neil Young - Guitarist I have found that many musician’s who have highly developed technique are often prone to play in a manner as to make sure that fact is obvious to all. Guitarist’s parts are arrived at with a few factors involved, the balance between those factors ... | |
| Neil Young - Guitarist Stewart, my musings on this subject are once again not understood. My point is not that technique is not a factor (or even requirement) in being a superior musician, but rather that technique is often the sole (or at least main) criteria with whic... | |
| Neil Young - Guitarist aalenik's post begs the important question: Is technical ability what distinguishes one as a superior guitarist---or singer, or drummer, or whatever? Or is it something some elusive, more abstract, more, dare I say it, artistic?In the mid-70's I j... |