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| New Ikea storage unit great for LP's! bdgregory---The Expidit was the model the Kallax is a replacement for. There was such an outcry when the Expidit was discontinued that Ikea reintroduced it as the Kallax, the name being the only difference between the two. The drawers look like th... | |
| Old Amp vs. New Amp Ha, good one Wolf! I love the Fender Deluxe, probably my all-time favorite guitar amp. Dwight Twilley's guitarist Bill Pitcock plugged (R.I.P., lung cancer) his Gibson 335 into a pair of them, with an MXR digital delay between the two, to get his ... | |
| Help me get started again. Tube amp... Yep Chris, completely agree. If I had found an RM-9 Mk.2 first I would have gotten it instead of the RM-200 Mk.2. On the other hand, I like that Modjeski gets 100 watts out of only a single pair of tubes in the 200, and that those tubes are KT88's... | |
| Tuners that do it? Yes indeed, zavato. Not just in sound quality, but in alternate and adjacent-channel selectivity perhaps the best tuner ever made. MR78 designer Richard Modaferri offers an update/mod/improvement for the tuner. | |
| Help me get started again. Tube amp... I sold my RM-200 in 2015 (not 2014 as I incorrectly stated above) for $2000 (hope my post above wasn't the impetus for the seller raising his price!) only because I found a Mk. 2 version for $2500. The Mk.2 provides a worthwhile improvement for th... | |
| What Will Happen to Your Music Collection and Equipment When You....... Agree completely, and have been thinking about this very subject myself lately. The thought of my very personal music collection being broken up and disseminated to various and multiple strangers is very disturbing to me, and I don't how to prepar... | |
| Help me get started again. Tube amp... I sold my MR RM-200 in late 2014 for $2000. I can't imagine why the one mentioned above is half that, and hasn't sold! | |
| Most coherent low volume speaker with very fast bass under 10k used? There’s nothing like a full range electrostatic loudspeaker for coherency imo. As you say "low volume", a pair of QUAD’s will do quite nicely. Restored 57’s are a perennial classic and favorite, but also the model 63 and it’s descendants, the 998/... | |
| Best divorce album? Derek's Ry Cooder pick is such a cool song. Jim Keltner's drumming on it is just insanely great! | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Thanks Chris, interesting info from Bruce, a very talented, clever, and creative engineer. Why his LFT-8b loudspeaker isn't more widely known and owned is a mystery to me. | |
| Best and Worst Rock Concert Moments The Beach Boys at The San Jose Civic, Summer of ’64 (my first show).The Beatles at The Cow Palace in San Francisco, Summer of ’65 (my second).All the San Jose Garage Bands that were playing from ’65-8---The Chocolate Watchband, The Syndicate of So... | |
| For a quick good time, blankets... I mentioned this somewhere else, but remember seeing a picture of male model Fabio's system? Nice gear, (IRS speakers and Krell electronics iirc), but set-up in a marble-floored, glass-walled room. Ridiculous. | |
| KT88 tubes for Monos Oy, the Twin Reverb. God I hate that amp---so bright, piercing, and loud. I lost some of my hearing due to that damn amp. I haven't seen an SVT half stack, but that's a great idea. With micing, who needs 8-10" drivers? The two worst things I had t... | |
| KT88 tubes for Monos Ah yes Wolf, I did indeed miss the "bass" in your post. I should have also mentioned the 6L6, used in a lot of Fender amps (including the 1967 Single Showman I use to have), A lot of guys I’ve played with have had the classic Ampeg SVT (as did Ric... | |
| KT88 tubes for Monos Wolf, I'll bet Ry Cooder knows all about tubes! As for the KT150, high-powered amps are completely out-of-fashion with the best guitar players. Low-powered combo amps using EL34's or 6150's is all that anyone plays. To get the tube saturation and ... |