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| What drugs do you use to enhance your listening experience? Good one, vegasears! I learned just yesterday that a guitarist I played with way back in the late 60’s and early 70’s got drunk on May 5th and drove himself off a cliff in Arizona. He also didn’t put on his seatbelt, was thrown from his truck, and... | |
| What drugs do you use to enhance your listening experience? Actually Geoff, I believe you have it reversed :-) ! | |
| Sealed subwoofer for ESL-63 There actually are dipole subwoofers---the OB/Dipole Gradient offered in the 1980’s for the QUAD 63, and the OB/Dipole now offered by Rythmik/GR Research. It consists of a pair of 12" OB-specific woofers mounted on an H- or W-frame---an open baffl... | |
| Richard Clark $10,000 Amplifier Challenge - Why Couldn't Anyone Pass this Test?? Because all properly designed and built amplifiers not in clipping sound exactly the same, of course ;-). But seriously, shadorne's assertation that "well built amplifiers....." can be proven to be untrue by hooking up a low-powered class-A amplif... | |
| Isoacoustics Gaia Speaker Footers Are the Gaia available in sets of three rather than four? | |
| Ry Cooder recommendation... Right you are sfar, Ry and Flaco have worked together a lot.infection, Van Vliet was, as expected, like no one else I've ever seen. Said not a word to the audience! His vocals were very low-pitched, and his band played very economically, leaving m... | |
| Adding mass to a tonearm Great post ibelchev! I've never understood why tone arm makers provide an effective mass figure for their designs as a static amount. All arm's em is determined in part by how far the counterweight is positioned from the arm's bearings, for a star... | |
| MMGs Not to dismiss bassdude’s recommendation to "gun" Maggies, let me point out that the resulting total money spent (for the speakers and having them gunned), plus the cost of the power amp required to run them, exceeds the cost of a pair of ET LFT-8... | |
| Audiophile Humor Randy, unless you were being ironic ;-), Aczel’s mag was The Audio Critic. And critical it was! There are a bunch of issues viewable on the TAC website, but new ones are a very rare occurrence---Aczel is pretty old now, and admittedly sick and tir... | |
| Best tonearm for London Reference Cartridge I was looking at contemporary arms for the current London’s a while back. Robert Levi at Positive Feedback has his Reference mounted on a Helius Omega Silver Ruby---a great arm, but over five grand retail. The Kuzma arms look up to the job (stiff ... | |
| Pass Labs Son of a .....! I take my sister to the VA hospitals and clinics in Portland and Vancouver a few times a month---she was in the Navy, and is now partially-disabled. Ya’ll know the cuts in funding for services for working class people in the new fe... | |
| Pass Labs Montreal is where Ronnie Hawkins put together, one player at a time, many different incarnations of his backing band, The Hawks. The longest-lived of those was the one that included amongst it’s members Levon Helm, J.R. Robertson, Rick Danko, Rich... | |
| Time for Two Ways ! The original QUAD is both an ESL AND a two-way, of a sort. | |
| Ry Cooder recommendation... Yup, that's a good one infection. I think it was on the tour in support of that album that I saw him live in '78, at The Roxy Theater on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood. Nobody even remotely like him, though Tom Waits tries ;-). | |
| Room treatments - GIK Vs Acoustimac I've noticed ASC products are not mentioned on Audiogon. Why is that---the higher prices? Their Tube Traps are "real" bass traps, unlike the flat panels from others. :-) |