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| Another Audiophile obituary Excellent overview of Aczel, Al. In his second act he was just so full of contempt and hatred, it made me uncomfortable to read.There was little point in his reviews after his "enlightenment", as all he said in them was, "Yes, this sounds just lik... | |
| Quad ESL 57 with subwoofer UPDATE! In the intervening years since my 2014 post above, I have learned that hardcore panel speaker enthusiasts recommend employing Magneplanar Tympani-IV bass panels as woofers, or even subs. There is one guy over on the Planar Speaker Asylum w... | |
| What are some of the downsides of owning a Magneplanar .7 or 1.7i ? Owners of the Mye stands like them not just for their front-to-back stabilization of the Magnepan panels, but also for their ability at reducing/eliminating the flexing of the MDF frames used in Maggies. | |
| Standing waves Conversely, I HATE music played and heard outside. My drumset sounds thin, flat, and dead, with no resonance, no low frequency fullness, no sustain. Music reproduction is a different matter, added room resonance, fullness, and sustain (all boom) v... | |
| New Ikea storage unit great for LP's! When I said their names was the only difference between the Expidit and Kallax, I was speaking in terms of the over-all dimensions, style (room divider with no back panel), and LP capacity. At a glance, they look very, very similar, if not identic... | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system I know what an OTL is, ya big silly ;-). I had a pair of Atma-Sphere M60’s for years, which I bought for driving my old Quads. One cool thing about them is you can take out half the output tubes, to create a 30 watt version of the amp, perfect for... | |
| New Ikea storage unit great for LP's! There are a few differences between the two:1- The Valje is 11-3/4" deep, the Eket 13-3/4".2- The Valje is 59" tall by 39-3/8" wide, and priced at $149. The Eket is 27-1/2" square at $50. So for the price of one Valje, one can get three Eket’s. Fo... | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? Wicked good. A unique and interesting singer and songwriter too. | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system Nice Lew! I'm a fan of the B139 (Dave Wilson is too, using a pair in each WAMM, for mid-bass), and I have a pair of ESS TranStatic I's that use it in a quarter-wave (I think it's called) transmissionline. The midrange is covered by a KEF B110 5" ... | |
| Jerry Garcia, A Legacy? Back atcha, brother. I saw The Dead in ’67 (in the Panhandle at Golden Gate Park), with Ron (Pigpen) singing. I liked that first album a lot, and the next few that followed. But when they started trying to sing harmonies (that had became all the r... | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system What? The LFT-8b’s aren’t perfect?! I like my Quads (original 57's) and Magneplanar Tympani-IV's more than the LFT's in some ways, but that's not the point of the post. | |
| Subwoofer for classical music listener If one's sub can be integrated using a mere 1st order high-pass filter (6dB/octave), there is a simple, easy, transparent way to accomplish that. Just solder a capacitor of the correct value (the formula for determining that value can be found on ... | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system Ha! Hyperbole on my part Lew, obviously. But close to it (let's say 120dB @ 1Hz ;-), the Rotary Woofer not being constrained by physical excursion like mechanical transducers. A really fascinating, revolutionary, visionary creation from the mind o... | |
| Jerry Garcia, A Legacy? Coincidently, I just read a quote from Jazz musician Ornette Coleman. After jamming with The Dead in the early 90’s, he said to their manager "Man, those guys don’t listen to each other when they play". Looks like I'm not the only snobbish elitist... | |
| Jerry Garcia, A Legacy? Understandable boxer. I played in my first all-original-material-band in ’71, and could not get the other guys to listen to my recent (’66-’71) Beach Boys albums. The image of them at that time was of their early, surf style music. There is actual... |