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| Stereophile, no more bench tests????!!!! As always, almarg said it all (mapman too). I find especially useful and interesting---and necessary---the input and output impedances of tube pre's and power amps, and the modulus of a loudspeaker's impedance. The interaction between all three ca... | |
| GIK - Free 3D Acoustics modelling! Erik, ASC IS expensive. I got lucky and found my Traps for $10 each, including two 16" ! I found them in the mid-90's, listed in The Recycler, a Buy/Sell newspaper in SoCal. I went to the sellers house to pick them up, and the place was empty exce... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Brooks Berdan was a big fan of the Oracle Delphi (he even came up with a mod for it, which Oracle ended up copying), to which he mounted many of the Eminent Technology arm. But when the HW-19 (and then the TNT) was introduced, he switched allegian... | |
| I like Steve Guttenberg. So, do you long-haired reviewer "haters" also hate long-haired musicians?! If you've seen clips of Classical orchestra conductors from the first half of the 20th Century, you know why Classical was at that time referred to as long-hair music. | |
| Stereophile, no more bench tests????!!!! TAS "reviewers", with their "chocolate", "caramel" colorations, and "yin/yang" & astrological references. Too "new age" for me. Subjective taken too far. | |
| AT ART 1000 vs London Reference vs Ana Mighty Sound 103.3 @audiofun, a Tzar dealer will provide that $10,000 cartridge for audition?! I don’t have a spare ten grand, but would love to hear it. I'm a diehard Decca/London enthusiast, getting my first in 1972 (a Decca Blue), and current owner of two (about ... | |
| Shure to leave the phono business How ironic. Analog is supposedly in the throes of a resurgence, and one of, if not THE, iconic cartridge makers goes down?! Who hasn’t owned a Shure? Out-of-fashion in the high end, but high end doesn’t drive the business, does it? | |
| GIK - Free 3D Acoustics modelling! C’mon Erik, one bad experience with ASC products and you write them off?! I fairly recently visited Audiogon member folkfreak, whose room was designed with heavy input from Art Noxon, and is fitted with many ASC products. Incredible sounding room ... | |
| Stereophile, no more bench tests????!!!! Good bye, Stereophile. | |
| Nakamichi Cassette Decks Recordings made on Nak’s must be played back on Nak’s---and visa versa---to sound "right". Nakamichi used a different EQ curve than other companies. | |
| Tube pre-amps: balanced a big deal? The only tube pre-amps I am aware of that can drive 600 ohms are Atma-Sphere’s and EAR’s. Atma-Sphere’s because Ralph Karsten is an unusually hip designer, EAR’s because Tim de Paravicini does most his work in pro recording studios (including Pink... | |
| Direct Servo Subwoofer Suggestions Rythmiks are indeed the ones---the 12" F12, 15" F15, or 18" (take a guess ;-) F18. The Rythmik website has a lot of info on the designs. For those who think smaller woofers are "faster" than larger ones (a gross over-simplification), single and du... | |
| AT ART 1000 vs London Reference vs Ana Mighty Sound 103.3 I found it inexplicable that after Art Dudley finally heard a modern London (the cheapest model, I believe) not long ago, and wrote a rave review of it in Stereophile, he never endeavored to hear the $1500 Super Gold, $2800 Jubilee, or $5300 Refer... | |
| Good Speaker within a budget of USD10,000 Used Sanders ESL's, if you can find a pair. | |
| Tube pre-amps: balanced a big deal? Ralph, what is the AES standard, again? Which signal on which pins, etc? Thanks---Eric. |