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| RCA Caps I found the Aurora Tronics plugs in a 2015 ebay ad. It doesn't matter who makes them, as long as the hot center pin and outer ground are soldered together, to create the short. Anything less is merely cosmetic. | |
| Worked Backwards and Would like to Hear Suggestions on Speakers walterzlife---Whenever I see a comment such as yours, I can’t help but ask: How can you be so very, very sure? Have you heard all the ESL speakers available today? The Music Reference, for instance? All the SoundLab models? The Sanders 10e? All th... | |
| RE: Finite Elements Cerabase Slimline Precision Audio Footers are Recommended For not a whole lot of $, Ingress Engineering in Canada offers a couple of roller bearing models. The top model is made to Diament’s specs. Better than Symposium’s Rollerblock, and cheaper. | |
| Advise on TT Support Platform Whatever the nature of the structure, you will want to isolate the turntable from it and terra firma. Cost-no-object via a Minus K table, on the cheap (relatively) by a set of Townshend Audio Seismic Pods. | |
| Help! Tweaking My Lovan Rack for new Big A**ed Transrotor Turntable! Though 3" planks of Maple are hot right now, I myself would have some shelves made out of 19mm-3/4" 13-ply Baltic Birch plywood. You could even use two layers, with constrained-layer damping between the two. For the hollow columns of the Lovan, sa... | |
| Best looking reel to reel The consumer models by Studer are cool looking too---the Revox A77, B77, and A700. For the pro look, Crown's are impressive. All of these make the Teac look like the mass-market recorder it was. All of these also possess excellent sound quality, i... | |
| I'll Take "Songs About People" for $200 "Angie". I don't love The Stones, but I do love this song. | |
| RCA Caps There is a small operation making and selling true RCA shorting plugs: Aurora Tronics in Sandy Hook, CT (phone number 203/426-9599). I bought some a couple of years ago, and they were cheap: $19.95 for 20 plugs. They also offer RCA phono cap cover... | |
| Steve Hoffman site Beatles discussions? I have never liked the mixes on the original Beatles albums, in which the vocals are too high in level in relation to the instruments. George Martin produced them as a Pop group, not a Rock 'n' Roll band. The vocals don't "sit" in the over-all sou... | |
| Great music few are aware of. Any genre. Yes! The Muleskinner album is fantastic, and that live TV appearance was put out on VHS tape. I don't know about DVD. Speaking of Peter Rowan, he joined Seatrain in time for their second album (s/t, produced by George Martin), and the version on t... | |
| 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... |