bdp24
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| "Original" equipment vs. upgraded equipment cleeds, I inadvertently left out the fact that the Factory Reconditioned LS-2B Mk.2 were sold for $1995. Then, only after all of them were sold did ARC sent the remaining brand new, never owned, non-reconditioned LS-2B Mk.2’s to their dealers, who... | |
| TT mats Thanks invictus005, but the Isodamp is not for my tables, all which have platters made either entirely of Delrin (Townshend Audio Rock), or aluminum with a top layer of Delrin (VPI). I have looked at the Isodamp for constrained layer applications,... | |
| TT mats Oops! I was looking at the R.S. Hughes Industrial Supplier website, and misread the price sheet. The $238 amount is correct, but that's for a piece 5.4" by 4 feet, not 4 inches! If I had thought about it for a minute, it would (or should) have bee... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Damn, what a fine, fine post, frogman. | |
| "Original" equipment vs. upgraded equipment Since ARC does a lot of model upgrades, let me tell you what they did that I found unbelievably unethical . It was in the 1990's; maybe they have abandoned the practice.When ARC discontinued the LS-2B MK.2 pre-amp (originally listing at $2995), th... | |
| TT mats Isodamp is great stuff, particularly when used as constrained layer damping. Because of it’s high price ($238 for a 4" X 4.5" X 1/8" square!), I chose to use the similar ASC Wall Damp for my constrained layer needs. A 4" X 4" square of Wall Damp c... | |
| Heart, Lungs, Brains, Veins, Liver Ha, some good ones theo! I was thinking more literally. For example, the power amp or pre amp being the heart is nice in the lyrical, romantic sense, but I was thinking of it in the sense of pumping power to the speakers (just as the heart pumps b... | |
| Anyone hear Robert Plant's new release, Carry Fire? I will say that I met Daniel (I know the guitarist in Henry Rollins’ road band, whose own band did some work with DL), and he was a very cool guy, no attitude what-so-ever. There are plenty of guys I can’t say that about. He did an instore perform... | |
| Waiting on 802D3 to arrive -- Will I need a sub? The bottom octave is a bitch to reproduce, and very, VERY few speakers are up to the task. To require them to try compromises their ability to reproduce 40Hz and up cleanly (due to the distortion the woofer creates by trying to play below it's cap... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? For Manfred Mann lovers (they were a great, great group), look for their 1969 album entitled Chapter Three. Singer Paul Jones is unfortunately gone (he and Van Morrison were the two best singers of the British Invasion), only Mike Hugg and Manfred... | |
| Heart, Lungs, Brains, Veins, Liver All right, I'll take a stab at it. The lungs are obviously the speakers, the veins the cabling, the heart the power amp, the brain the sources, which leaves only the liver to be the pre. | |
| Quincy Jones Interview Oops! The guitar break of George Harrison’s that I described as incredibly musically delicious is that in The Beatles song "Nowhere Man", on their Rubber Soul album. For fun, compare it to what James Burton (another fantastically musical guitarist... | |
| Dearly departed Music Reference RM9 A few weeks ago I called the number listed on the MR website, and Roger answered. Call in the morning. If you’re in S. California, the tech at Brooks Berdan Ltd. in Monrovia (a long-time Music Reference retailer) is very familiar with Roger’s desi... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? slaw, okay, now I get it---if you're writing about it, it's an LP! Red vinyl---my favorite LP color. Clear is pretty cool, too. Non-black LP's are sometimes noisy though. Let us know how the s/t vinyl sounds, ay?reubent, Nick had Los Straitjackets... | |
| What music do you want to play really loud? AC/DC, Weezer, Dave Edmunds, The Ramones, Wagner. |