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| Recording Studio sound Vs. Audiophile system Auratones and Yamaha NS10's were in the control/monitoring room of just about every studio I recorded at in L.A. during the 80's and 90's. Some of them also had large Altec "monitors" (Voice Of The Theater) or other 15" woofer/compression horn sys... | |
| Your Favorite Cover Songs? Joan Osborne: "What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted" (fantastic original by Jimmy Ruffin).Joan Osborne: "Shake Your Hips" (original by Slim Harpo)Bobby Fuller Four: "Loves Made A Fool Of You" (original by Buddy Holly).Phil Seymour: "Let Her Dance" (o... | |
| Is Anything Really "Future-Proof"? A good listening room will accommodate any and all systems timelessly. | |
| How do tube manufacturers like VAC get 55 watts per KT88 where others get only 30-35? Definitely mechans. Modjeski offers ot that he hand winds himself as a thousand dollar option in the RM-200T, but the standard ones in the non-T version of the RM-200 Mk.2 are real good, custom built for him to his specs.Dang Normie, that's a lott... | |
| McIntosh MR78 upgrades? Richards MR78 mod includes increasing the tuner's alternate and adjacent channel selectivity, which improves it's ability to pull in closely-spaced channels cleanly. | |
| Sorbathane under granite slabs for speaker bases? I should have mentioned that the Townshend Seismic Isolators are also offered on a number of different "platforms". In addition to the individual Pod which can be used in sets of three or four for use directly under a component, Townshend makes th... | |
| Sorbathane under granite slabs for speaker bases? The Townshend Seismic isloators are also available separately, as individual "Pods". Using three or four of them under a speaker (or any other component) provides isolation to a very low frequency, and is cheaper than the Seismic Shelves themselve... | |
| Has anyone considered rebuying a speaker you once owned?? Magneplanar Tympani's---the 3-panel Maggies. I had T-I's back in '73-4, T-1D's in the '90's, and now T-IV's. | |
| Tuner tragedy! There is a great tech working at Brooks Berdan Ltd. in Monrovia, just East of Pasadena. Tom is the service engineer at one of the big L.A. TV stations, and does all the repair work for Sheila Berdan. He’s in the shop on Wednesdays and Saturdays. M... | |
| How do tube manufacturers like VAC get 55 watts per KT88 where others get only 30-35? That’s nothin’! Roger Modjeski gets a hundred watts out of a pair of KT88’s in his Music Reference RM-200 MK.2, and without running the tubes hot. How? Creative, outside-the-box thinking. He discusses the amp's design in his now-dormant AudioCircl... | |
| Rega planar 3 bearing and oil Silica Nitride and Tungsten Carbide ball bearings have a much smoother surface than do steel ones, which makes for a quieter turntable. | |
| Tube Preamp Recommendations? Robert, my time with the SP-6b was a long time ago, it's tubes no longer in my memory. What the mode switch allows is for each channel to heard through both speakers, or both blended together to mono. I use it to switch between left and right chan... | |
| McIntosh MR78 upgrades? I disfavor mods in general, but the Modafferi MR78 one is different. Richard was heavily involved in the design of the RF sections of the tuner, and his mod of the 78 is more like an update, he putting everything he has learned about tuners in the... | |
| Brightest but shortest artistic bursts in the sky Of course---Hank Williams! My favorite Hillbilly genius. | |
| New in 2017 I never bothered to give Bob's Sinatra-themed album a listen---it just didn't interest me. I also feel ambivalent about the American Standards album. It appears that when his writing-mojo fails him, he records the songs of others, to keep the cash... |