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| 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... | |
| 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... |