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| 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 ... | |
| Planar ribbon speaker and Tubes Not working Please help! If you love both the speakers (GT Audio Works have made some great ones, though I haven't heard these) and the amp, the Anti Cable Zero Autoformer seems like it could be the perfect solution. It merely raises the impedance of the speaker, making i... | |
| Room Correction I don't what constitutes huge, but the GR/Rythmik dipole, when built as an H-frame (see below) and positioned standing up, is only 16" wide, 14" deep, and about 28" tall. The cool thing is the sub, being dipole, can be laid on it's side and used a... | |
| Room Correction Now Willem, take that dipole room mode behavior and extend it into the bass region, with an OB/dipole sub. NOW yer talkin'! The GR Research/Rythmik OB sub provides dipole benefits where they matter most, at low frequencies. | |
| High mass vs Low Mass Turntables - Sound difference? You would say that, slaw! Your fantastic Townshend Rock 7 table has the excellent Seismic Pod isolators ;-) . | |
| The Aaron Copland / Bob Dylan connection I have now finished the book, and it is my number one recommendation for insight into, and plain ol' info on, Dylan. This Wilentz guy is really somethin'! I suggest taking notes as you read it, as there will be stuff you want to later check into, ... |