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| Speakers & Electronics - Matching Components - Your Evolution Good Lord that's a lotta systems! Why so many? Bored with same old same old? Or just hard to satisfy? | |
| How "Tribal" are we? I would say everyone here is so out of a deep love of music, first and foremost. Everything else is mere details---each of us chooses equipment that provides us deeper immersion into the music, and visa versa. Music lovers are not necessarily (and... | |
| Good Bass Recordings on CD for Subwoofer Testing Good one stringreen. I have three versions of Saint-Saens 3rd Symphony on LP, perhaps they are also available on CD: Marek Janowski on Harmonia Mundi France, Jean Martinon on Angel, and Georges Pretre, also on Angel. It is indeed hair raising musi... | |
| Where were your audio components designed/engineered? Pickups: London (the company!)---EnglandRIAA amplifier: Herron---U.S.A.Arms: Zeta, Helius---EnglandTurntables: Townshend---England; VPI---U.S.A.CD/SACD: Esoteric---JapanTuner: McIntosh---U.S.A.Tape: Revox---Switzerland/Germany; Nakamichi---JapanPr... | |
| When System Improvements Are Marginal I've found that the character of a piece is more readily apparent when it is removed from a system after having been in place for a while, rather than when it is first inserted. By that time you have listened to a lot of music through it, and have... | |
| Best Drum Solos My pleasure, ghosthouse. There are plenty of other drummers with highly developed technique, but that alone is no guarantee of good drumming. It is that ability in combination with musical creativity and good taste that makes Gadd the drummer he i... | |
| Which components are "stupid good"? Clear Day Double Shotgun Speaker Cables. Ingress Engineering RollerBlocks. | |
| Linn LP12......That good?? I remember when I learned of the LP12. It was in the middle of 1974, and the table's retail price was $300! I had a Thorens TD-125 Mk.2 (with an SME 309 Series II Improved) at the time, and almost bought a Linn for myself. | |
| Arche headshell with London Reference cartridge - fantastic results Thanks for the report, Howard. Another great pairing with the London/Decca pickups is any of the Townshend Audio Rock turntables, with any arm of one’s choosing (the FR64/66’s being favorites, along with the Zeta). The damping trough inherent in t... | |
| walter becker Rest in Peace Steely Dan had the highest standards in the business, in terms of songwriting, musicians (they had the cream of session drummers on their albums), production, and engineering. | |
| Good Bass Recordings on CD for Subwoofer Testing Your normal musical diet. To hear what a sub will do for that, and for your Maggies, is what you want to access, is it not? | |
| Best Drum Solos gh, Steve Gadd is a very technically trained drummer (in rudiments, the equivalent of a guitarist, bassist, or pianist knowing all the scales of every key in every position. The Band bassist Rick Danko said organist Garth Hudson’s advice to learn ... | |
| VPI 2nd Pivot for 3D Slaw, you prefer the HW-19 to the TNT? The latter has always appeared to me as being a very high mass version of the former. But I never looked into it that much, as I was "sold" on the design of the Townshend Rock. | |
| Best Bang For The Buck I've Ever Spent Thanks for all the info, Terry. You are really stoking my interest in the Terminator! | |
| VPI 2nd Pivot for 3D Really good points, slaw. I didn't want to be that harsh, trying to give Harry the benefit of the doubt. But your assessment is more on point than mine. I feel the same way about ARC, finding their frequent and endless updates and revisions of cur... |