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| Tech for cartridge and tonearm instillation Los Angeles Area As a bonus, both Brian and Elliot are very nice people. I can't vouch for Elliot as a turntable technician, as I purchased only amplifiers from him. He had a store front at the time, but I believe he now retails out of his home. Brian has a dedica... | |
| What was the first system you heard that made you think the high end made sense Hey Terry, I know where you heard that ARC/Tympani set up in Palo Alto: the first high end shop I discovered and visited in '71, Sound Systems. I heard the ESS Transtatics ($1200/pr) there, as well as Infinity 2000A’s ($600/pr), but couldn’t affor... | |
| Tech for cartridge and tonearm instillation Los Angeles Area Yep, Berdan's the man. His shop is named Audio Elements, one block off Colorado Blvd. | |
| What direction is VPI headed? Thanks slaw, there’s nothing like experience with a design for over twenty years! I got rid of all my rubber isolation products for the very reason you cite, but kept one set of the SIMS just in case. I’m going to give your roller bearing idea a t... | |
| Bass Traps Recording studios is where ASC and their Tube Traps first found acceptance. Art Noxon is a highly degreed acoustical engineer, a true expert in a field with rather low standards, if not outright charlatans. Room Tunes, anyone? ;-)Studios build bas... | |
| Great music few are aware of. Any genre. Yeah Bill, and Emerson's grim ending was shocking. Not being able to play anymore was more than he could bear. Richard Manuel, pianist of The Band, did himself in too. Broke my heart, and Eric Clapton's too. He was a great admirer of Richard. | |
| What was the first system you heard that made you think the high end made sense ESS Transtatic speakers driven by an ARC SP-2C pre-amp and Dual 50 power amp, the source a Sony turntable with a Decca Blue cartridge mounted on the Decca International arm, in 1971. Pure lust. I heard the original Infinity Servo-Statics shortly t... | |
| Great music few are aware of. Any genre. Yup Bill, Emerson got a lot of credit for being a "Classically" trained keyboardist playing Rock music. He did that, though, not by using Classical compositional knowledge (ala Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks, Randy Newman, Gary Brooker, a few other ... | |
| Great music few are aware of. Any genre. Hey whart, did you see The Nice in their one N. American tour? Must have been in '68 I saw them, at The Fillmore in SF. I was into that kind of thing at the time, had their debut album. They were a quartet, right? Keith Emerson on organ, of course... | |
| What direction is VPI headed? Thanks mofi, I happen to have a set of SIMS left. I'll give them a try, as well as a set of roller bearings that I neglected to include, though they don't isolate vertically. Maybe even the Townshend Seismic Pods! | |
| What direction is VPI headed? What have ya'll found to be an improvement over the stock isolation springs in the HW-19 (all iterations)? Herbie's dots, SIMS Navcom Silencers, Sorbothane spheres, cones, anything DIY, etc. | |
| Bass Traps Why are GIK products mentioned so much more frequently than ASC Tube Traps on Audiogon? Not that GIK doesn't make fine products, mind you. | |
| 50 of the best hi-fi albums for audiophiles I was making my maiden voyage to a just-opened Hi-Fi shop in 1972 (Audio Arts in Livermore, California, owned and operated by Walter Davies, now owner/inventor of The Last Factory of record care products renown) on the day Bill Johnson of ARC was ... | |
| Most transparent power amp Output transformers are often the limiting element in a tube amp, and the art of building them a dying one. The really good ones are expensive, hand-wound ones. Roger Modjeski may include transformer building in his course on amplifier design. | |
| AR ES-1 Transport Bolt Needed Are you sure your AR is an ES-1? The original AR turntable---the XA, was introduced in the very early 1960's. The slightly different XB followed sometime later, in the 70's iirc. The much different ES-1 was not available until the mid-80's, '84 I ... |