bdp24
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| My Audio Research experience At one ARC in-store seminar I attended in the 1980’s, Bill Johnson stated that he designed and built his electronics to have a twenty year lifespan. At my then age, twenty years seemed to me like a long time, twenty years being a good chunk of it.... | |
| Brightest but shortest artistic bursts in the sky Any band that attempts to do one of the songs on that first album finds out it's harder than it sounds, or that they anticipated. I speak from experience! | |
| Amps Atma-Sphere M-60 Mono blocks OTL design Too bad more Maggie lovers who want to drive them with M-60's aren't aware of the Eminent Technology LFT-8b loudspeaker. It like Maggies is an inefficient planar-magnetic design, but the LFT-8's impedance is nominally 8 ohms, and if bi-amped the m... | |
| ARC Ref 5se inferior to LS28? So true, Schubert and JMC. Brooks Berdan had customers who bought Jadis or VTL pre's and amps instead of the Music Reference he also sold, and Wilsons instead of Vandersteens. At one CES in the late 90's, while eating steak and drinking wine (Vand... | |
| Brightest but shortest artistic bursts in the sky Damn, this talk of The Grape has me jazzed. I'm gonna pull our the '69 album and give it a relisten. | |
| Ayone know the wattage used at a Rock concert? Ah yes, the A7. The band house I lived in back in ’71 had a pair of them (the bands PA, of course) in the living room as a hi-fi, powered by a Fender Showman head. Had to be careful with the volume control---the A7 was so efficient, the 65 watts o... | |
| ARC Ref 5se inferior to LS28? For the consumer able to buy a REF 6 or 10 new, value may not be a concern! For the buyer of a cost-no-object, advancing-the-State-Of-The-Art product, future developments will be dealt with when they appear, the possibility of a new, even-higher l... | |
| Tube Preamp Recommendations? Way to go Robert! The SP-6b is not only a fine pre-amp, it also has a mode switch! The pre uses 12AX7's, so look into getting some NOS Telefunkens to put in it. | |
| My Audio Research experience Bingo, Thom. Different designers use the same tube (and other electronic parts) in their respective circuits differently, some using parts way "over-rated" (able to handle much greater voltages than they are asked to in a particular circuit, for i... | |
| Brightest but shortest artistic bursts in the sky Damn, how could I have forgotten about Robert Johnson? Real good one onhwy61, extremely influential is right. | |
| Crosley Record Cleaning System While not using the Crosley itself, I have used the cleaner it is an imitation of, the Spin Clean. In fact, I still have one, using it to pre-clean very dirty pre-owned records before they go on my VPI. At it’s price, not much is risked by trying ... | |
| Crosley Record Cleaning System While the Crosley may make an LP superficially look clean, where it matters, down in the groove. nothing has changed much. And chayro is exactly right---without a vacuum removal of the cleaning fluid, along with the dirt imbedded in the groove, th... | |
| Has anyone had experiences good or bad with speaker isolation or isolation in general ? Todd---a set of the Ingress Engineering Level 2 roller bearings are only $120 plus shipping, the higher performance Level 3 $175. A set of them plus springs should be all you need. The springs provide vertical isolation, the roller bearings isolat... | |
| Crosley Record Cleaning System I can tell this isn't meant as a joke, but it none-the-less is. As a real record cleaning machine (the Record Doctor V from Audio Advisor) can be had for as little as $199, there is no need to settle for this childrens toy. | |
| ARC Ref 5se inferior to LS28? Ha! It seems like progress is a circular phenomenon, coming back around to where you started, only slightly higher up the flagpole (as Donovan Leitch put it, "First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is".). The claims for i... |