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| Isolation footers for amps Brass had better be soft---it's what cymbals are made of! I don't believe tiles sound too good when struck with a drum stick ;-). | |
| Curved and Straight Tonearms Roy Gandy, designer and manufacturer of the game-changing Rega pickup arms, proselytizes that it is a straight wand which can be made stiffer than an S-shaped one. SME, whose arms in the 1960's and 70's (Series 2 and 3) were S-shaped, does the same. | |
| Jerry Garcia, A Legacy? The idea that technical proficiency is the enemy of soulful music is a very common one. It is also mistaken. Danny Gatton produced far more fire than do less proficient guitarists. Ry Cooders ability at bottleneck slide guitar playing is legendary... | |
| Jerry Garcia, A Legacy? For anyone loving Garcia’s mix of all forms of "Pop" music, check out Danny Gatton, a true "guitarists guitarist". Now THAT guy could play all strains of music, and really, really well---a true master. No excuses necessary, unlike Jerry’s sloppy, ... | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system They were recommended to me by the late Brooks Berdan. He included an evaluation of the design and theory behind Hi-Fi products when deciding what to sell in his shop, and was a long-time Eminent Technology Air-Bearing Arm dealer. He installed tha... | |
| If bi-amping is so great, why do some high end speakers not support it? Adding (a) powered sub(s) with built-in x/o filters IS a form of bi-amping, but doing so does NOT replace the speaker-level x/o, which is left in place to divide the signal for the speakers’ (not the subs’) woofers vs. tweeters.There has been ment... | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system As does ET’s Bruce Thigpen! His TRW-17 Rotary Woofer is the product of a very creative and talented designer, unlike anything else in the field of audio engineering. Brilliant, I tells ya! There’s a guy over on the Planar Speaker Asylum who augmen... | |
| Herron 1A,, Herron 2A, Modwright LS100 or Aesthetix Calypso? There is a VTSP-1A/166 on Audiogon right now, at an asking price of $1295. Buy it! | |
| Preamps with two main-outs What I would do is disconnect the ic going to the amp/speakers not wishing to be heard, at the pre-amp end. | |
| Can upgraded power cords help my setup? Audio Advisor will also let you return their Pangea cables (within a certain length of time), should you decide they provided no improvement (or worse, as stereo5 found). But they are reputed to "flag" the name of customers who return product, so ... | |
| Subwoofer for classical music listener Two ideas regarding subs that I consider very true and important are:1- You shouldn’t hear a sub. A good subwoofer placed optimally in a room should just make the loudspeaker it is augmenting sound as if it now has response to a lower frequency. I... | |
| Last stylus preservative...anyone still use it? Mr. M, was the Last migration confirmed as the cause of the coils going bad, or just assumed? A single swipe of the Last applicator brush doesn't contain much liquid, not enough to migrate all the way up the cantilever to the coils, I would think.... | |
| Lifters ForGetting Cables Off The Floor, Worth It Or Snake Oil I, like shadorne, thought of saving empty bathroom tissue rolls, gluing them together (with some in the middle cut shorter, to create a channel for the ic's, speaker cables, and power cords), and painting them black or brown (black to match the ca... | |
| What are some of the downsides of owning a Magneplanar .7 or 1.7i ? I recently took a magnet, and tested all the parts on the terminal plates of a pair of Tympanis. The parts appear to be the same as on current models, and here’s what I found: The speaker terminals (those short little tubes into which you insert b... | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? Oh yeah, Rodney is great live! I saw him on his The Houston Kid tour, at The Roxy Theater. He was accompanied by only a guitarist and bassist, the latter Jerry Scheff (Elvis Presley, T-Bone Burnett), the absolute best bass player I've seen live. A... |