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| Best way to decrease the internal volume of a sealed speaker? Add bracing---dowels attached to opposing walls. It will not only decrease the enclosure's internal volume, but make it more non-resonant (or at least raise the frequency at which it resonates, thus making the resonance less audible). | |
| Jazz for aficionados Ry Cooder is great not only as a guitarist/frontman/bandleader/singer (of a "certain" sort ;-), but also as a sideman. When John Hiatt was preparing to record his Bring The Family album, the record’s producer invited him to choose the players for ... | |
| Most overrated bands I saw and heard Bill Weir and what remains of The Dead (the two drummers) on TV last week, and omg was he awful. Can’t sing to save his life, and neither could Jerry Garcia. I kinda liked the first three Dead albums at the time of their release, b... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? John, it’s just like anything else; there are good horn loudspeakers, and not so good. They got their bad reputation from the PA designs of the "dark ages" (1940’s-50’s). The old Altec A7 was a very popular PA loudspeaker (my teenage band had a pa... | |
| Medium Mass or Low Mass Tonearms? tzh21y---Don't worry about your LP's; a mismatch between an arm's moving mass and a cartridge's compliance results in, not groove damage, but, as others are pointing to here, a too-high or too-low resonant frequency. What WILL cause groove damage ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Another guitarist infamous amongst his peers is the late Danny Gatton. He played Jazz, Hillbilly, Blues, Rockabilly, you name it. Vince Gill nicknamed him "The Humbler". An astounding talent who decided to leave this world ahead of schedule. His g... | |
| What makes tape sound better than vinyl ? Atmasphere? I feel like Rodney Dangerfield! ;-) | |
| On/Off switch for RM_9 Mk1 does anyone know the voltage that isneeded for switch? Roger silk screens the tube biasing info on his amps top plates, so that in fifty or a hundred years they can still be optimized. Built to last, and sound real good long after more fashionable amps have been long dead, their many owners having fin... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Amen, Orpheus. Ry Cooder is in my Top 10 guitarists of all-time list, and I know a lot of musicians---guitarists or otherwise---who feel the same. | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system One great thing about the LFT-8b is that it's low 180Hz x/o frequency allows it to be used with a high-quality sub in place of it's stock woofer. Then a good tube amp can be used on the midrange magnetic-planar midrange driver and tweeter, which p... | |
| Malcolm Young...... Three great guitar sounds, shadorne! I’m working with a guy now who plays a White Falcon, and it sounds just fantastic. I knew a guy who had a Rickenbacker 360 12-string, and that darn thing was impossible to keep in tune. Fine for recording, but ... | |
| On/Off switch for RM_9 Mk1 does anyone know the voltage that isneeded for switch? Oops, sorry again Tony! I found the correct number which Roger gave me, the 415 Area Code one. I'll be in touch about the tubes---Eric. | |
| Is tonearm cable the most important cable in the system ? My pleasure, h-n-t-b! Vic is running low of his silver litz wire, the longest length he had left for my Terminator being 90cm. Luckily that’s enough for me, as my phono stage is right below my table. I can not believe people are still putting RCA ... | |
| Mel Tillis...... Both John Fogerty and Dave Edmunds do a killer version of Mel’s great song "I Ain’t Never". | |
| On/Off switch for RM_9 Mk1 does anyone know the voltage that isneeded for switch? Oops, sorry Tony. Roger gave me the number! My call was in regard to buying some KT88's---Eric. |