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| Sellers increasingly overgrade records Craig Moerer is a safe bet. I first bought from him out of Goldmine Record Collectors Magazine, way back in 1977---40 years ago! | |
| Hope for the blues.. Amen, onhwy61. Licks can be studied, learned, and regurgitated. Creating music that expresses deep feelings and truths comes from one’s soul, not fingers. A lot of the greatest Bluesmen were pretty rough and unpolished as players and singers, but ... | |
| High Pass (Brick Wall/Rumble) Filter Suggestions Just so you'll know, the Fmod filters are only 12dB/octave, not exactly "brickwall" ! | |
| Hope for the blues.. It may be just me, but I don’t believe it is advanced technical ability that makes for a great blues player (in regard to speed, in particular), certainly not that alone. Jazz perhaps, but blues to me is about phrasing, melodicism, lyricism, and a... | |
| Are you seeing more 9/10s? The Vintage musical instrument business (the drum sector, at any rate) is even worse. Absolute junk and trash described as near-mint. Add poor packing and shipping cartons, and what you receive is often un-restorable. One ends up buying only from ... | |
| Moving a 5,000 vinyl LP collection safely I know what I would do: Rent an Econoline-type van (or even a minivan), and pack and drive the LP’s myself. On the west coast a rental is $20/day plus about a buck a mile from U-Haul, or $50/day with unlimited miles from Enterprise. | |
| What companies, out of Business, did you LOVE??? New York Audio Labs. As much for it's owner, Harvey Rosenberg, as for it's products. Characters like Harvey aren't common in business. | |
| Why is good, deep bass so difficult? - Myths and their Busters To state "a 10" woofer will not keep up with a 6" midrange. Too much mass." is to oversimplify the situation. For one thing, different 10" woofers and 6" midrange drivers have differing amounts of mass; there are some 10" woofers with less moving ... | |
| Why is good, deep bass so difficult? - Myths and their Busters The two bass panels of the Magneplanar Tympani-IV and IVa are used by planar speaker fanatics as woofers for other loudspeakers. There is one guy on the Planar Speaker Asylum forum who has Martin Logan ESL mains, Tympani-IVa bass panels, and an Em... | |
| Have you ever met another audiogon member in person? Damn Swampwalker, I’ve been writing it wrong all this time? Sorry mate, I guess I thought it was perhaps a Louisiana or Florida-derived moniker, as it may be. Time to start wearing my reading glasses regularly! bdp24 refers to my favorite vintage ... | |
| Have you ever met another audiogon member in person? Oh, I too have done that swampwater., lopping off about a foot six months ago. When I auditioned for Peart Harbor's band, she asked me if I was willing to cut my mop, which I had anticipated. She's from the Punk/Rockabilly world (and was married t... | |
| Need a new amplifier. Need a good match for my Audio Research LS7 preamp I believe the amp Ralph (atmasphere) was referring to is the Music Reference RM-200. In it’s current Mk.2 form it retails for $7995, and can very occasionally be found used (it’s a keeper!) for around $3000. The original non-Mk.2 version goes for ... | |
| acoustical stuffing / sound dampening subwoofer cabinet REL BRITANNIA B1 subwoofer As auxinput states, internal bracing is the best and first way to combat enclosure resonance. Braces stiffen the enclosure walls, raising their resonant frequency above the frequencies the sub is asked to produce. Internal stuffing "tricks" the bo... | |
| Forgive my ignorance. Now to start over. . . . For around $500 you can get a nice VPI HW-19, imo a much better table than a new entry-level VPI. Add a Rega 300 or Jelco arm for a few hundred bucks (or the amazing Audiomods arm for about twice that), and you’ll have a real fine LP player at a b... | |
| Have you ever met another audiogon member in person? I accompanied Brooks Berdan to the Vegas CES in the mid-90's to early 2000's, and spoke with Ralph Karsten and Michael Green there. If you saw a longhair at those CES', it was either one of them or myself. I believe Ralph has chopped off his freak... |