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| Atma-Sphere MP1 with single-ended inputs and outputs? Adapters OK? The problem with XLR-to-RCA adaptors is that they’re made of brass, including the Cardas. But then so are most RCA jacks. Apparently copper is too soft. | |
| Turntable and Rack vibration control pani, I believe the 'correct" model is the one that is intended for the weight of your table, as well as it's size, of course. | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? A lot of the "best" music has always flown under the mass-market radar, subsiding on a cult level; Gram Parsons, John Hiatt, Rodney Crowell, Richard Thompson, Marshall Crenshaw, Dave Edmunds, and Nick Lowe, for instance. Their ARE artists of quali... | |
| High quality high pass filtering for speakers? If a 1st order (6dB/octave) high pass crossover is steep enough for you, all that's required is the installation of a capacitor on your power amp's input jacks. The value of the capacitor plus the amp's input impedance determines the "elbow" frequ... | |
| Mono recordings - two questions... The London cartridges can be made mono, and for a very good reason: their design is sum and difference. | |
| Turntable and Rack vibration control For any turntable without a spring suspension, the Townshend Audio Seismic Pod is a great way to isolate the table from whatever structure it sits upon. Even better are the MinusK and Newport microscope platforms, but at a cost of over $2k, more t... | |
| Room treatments GIK superior to ASC Tube Traps? Au contraire! | |
| Tube Preamp Recommendations please to partner with Parasound JC-1's.... EAR-Yoshino 868. | |
| Townshend Elite Rock Mk III / Rega RB300 tonearm question Audio Origami in England is well-respected for their Rega arm rewires. They offer Cardas copper and both Kondo and Ikeda silver. | |
| "Is that a record??? " There is a vintage furniture/clothes/knickknack shop in Vancouver, WA (across the Columbia River from Portland, OR) I visit about once a month. When I was there this week I noticed a lot more vendors (each of whom has an area on the floor) offerin... | |
| Most "Accurate/Realistic" Sounding Speakers? Actually kosst and soundsreal, binaural recordings are an attempt to do exactly that. Many of them sound amazing on headphones, the only correct way to listen to them. | |
| Mono recordings - two questions... Three Pop/Rock groups and one solo artist whose early LP's (pre-1968 or so) are better in mono than stereo are The Kinks, Beach Boys, Beatles, and Dylan. The Kinks and Beach Boys because their "stereo" LP's (with the exception of The BB's Surfer G... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Great album reubent, their last with original organist Matthew Fisher. Matthew came up with the great quote from J.S. Bach in his "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" organ part. After he left PH, guitarist Robin Trower became the featured musician, to the de... | |
| Tonearm microphonics To clarify, the relationship between warp and eccentricity demands on the ability of the arm to follow them, and the frequencies involved in those demands, are a matter of the time it takes the arm's headshell to traverse a warp or eccentricity. I... | |
| Tonearm microphonics In his original review of the Well Tempered arm, and in Bill Firebaugh’s literature on his arm, Gordon Holt discussed the viscosity of the arm’s "bearing" well damping fluid, and how it allows the arm to freely move at very low frequencies (those ... |