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| What is the ideal volume setting? Talk about a "First World" problem! | |
| Most transparent power amp The Counterpoint SA4 was designed by Roger Modjeski of Music Reference. It was an OTL amp, and he sold the design to Counterpoint, who manufactured and marketed it. Modjeski has some OTL's in his current Music Reference line. To find them do a Goo... | |
| Pros and cons of vintage Dynaco ST-70 Frank Van Alstine had (and has?) an extensive ST70 mod which greatly improved it, as did Bill Johnson in the early days of Audio Research. Frank also modded the Dynaco PAS 2/3 pre, which was a fitting companion. | |
| Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed? As usual, the implicate assumption is that higher priced = better sound. it's not that simple, of course, unless you think like Fabio. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Fantastic album, reubent! Ray Davies 1966-8 trilogy of "Face To Face", "Are The Village Green Preservation Society", and "Something Else By" are as good as anybody's peak output. | |
| What makes you build a system around an amplifier? ejr1953---Are you sure the speakers weren't merely reproducing the grainy sound of the amplifier driving them? I have found "grain" to be more a product of electronics than speakers. | |
| Best music of 2017 Damn you have good taste, slaw ;-) . | |
| A battle between two turntable generations. Which one is the winner? Thanks for your thoughts slaw and h-n-t-b, as always. The moving mass interacting with a soft suspension that I spoke of was that of the ET’s arm, which is considerably greater than that of the Trans-Fi. Brooks Berdan came up with that mod of his ... | |
| A battle between two turntable generations. Which one is the winner? Slaw, I recently got myself a VPI HW-19, the second one I’ve owned. I had an original Mk.1 (with a Mk.2 black platter) in the late 80’s/early 90’s that I was quite happy with, but sold it when I got a Townshend Audio Elite Rock (Mk.2). This HW-19 ... | |
| Best Rock Drummers dhpeck, shadorne, and roxy54, agree with all ya’ll. czarivey, if by best you mean technically, you have a point. It takes a lot more technique to play Jazz than most Rock, so Jazz players coming to Rock have a distinct advantage. Frank Zappa and S... | |
| What makes you build a system around an amplifier? Me too Erik. If I still lived in the Bay Area (Cupertino for twenty years), I would go to Modjeski's new operation in Berkeley/Oakland (after being in Santa Barbara for decades), where Roger demoes the speakers.maplegrovemusic---Modjeski is one of... | |
| What makes you build a system around an amplifier? There are a fair number of people who find the Atma-Sphere OTL's so much better than transformer-coupled amps (more transparent, better bass, more extended high end, "faster") that they are willing to find a speaker that will work well with them, ... | |
| Is it OK to use an 8 Ohm tubed amp to power 16 Ohm speakers? Modjeski's light-loading recommendation may be based entirely on implementation with his amps. I have found him to be relatively unaware, and uninterested, in what other designers are doing. Interestingly, I found the same to be true of many music... | |
| Room Acoustics Excellent willemj! The DSPeaker Anti-Mode 2.0 Dual Core comes with a measuring mic, and has a screen that displays the frequency response of the room, room modes often creating huge peaks and nulls in that response, in both the frequency and time ... | |
| What makes you build a system around an amplifier? An amp and a speaker make a "system", no matter what two they are. They are intrinsically, interdependently-related to each other. A particular speaker prefers (or even requires) a certain "kind" of amp, a particular amp performs better with certa... |