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| Recording Studio sound Vs. Audiophile system lowrider---Tracking and mixing engineers (typically two separate individuals in big-time recording) often taped tissue paper over the tweeters of the Yamahas, to tame the speaker's hot tweeter. Yamaha took notice, and offered a version of the NS-1... | |
| Suggestions for a passive line-level high-pass crossover? A passive high-pass filter is commonly accomplished via the insertion of a single capacitor on the input jacks of the main speaker’s power amp, the value of the capacitor determined by: 1- The desired x/o frequency; 2- The input impedance of the p... | |
| Recording Studio sound Vs. Audiophile system I just watched a video on Michael Fremer’s Alanog Planet website in which he visits a couple of mastering studios. Sterling Sound in NYC is one of them, and in their monitoring system is a pair of Pass amps and Rythmik subwoofers, plus a pair of f... | |
| Recording Studio sound Vs. Audiophile system Auratones and Yamaha NS10's were in the control/monitoring room of just about every studio I recorded at in L.A. during the 80's and 90's. Some of them also had large Altec "monitors" (Voice Of The Theater) or other 15" woofer/compression horn sys... | |
| Your Favorite Cover Songs? Joan Osborne: "What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted" (fantastic original by Jimmy Ruffin).Joan Osborne: "Shake Your Hips" (original by Slim Harpo)Bobby Fuller Four: "Loves Made A Fool Of You" (original by Buddy Holly).Phil Seymour: "Let Her Dance" (o... | |
| Is Anything Really "Future-Proof"? A good listening room will accommodate any and all systems timelessly. | |
| How do tube manufacturers like VAC get 55 watts per KT88 where others get only 30-35? Definitely mechans. Modjeski offers ot that he hand winds himself as a thousand dollar option in the RM-200T, but the standard ones in the non-T version of the RM-200 Mk.2 are real good, custom built for him to his specs.Dang Normie, that's a lott... | |
| McIntosh MR78 upgrades? Richards MR78 mod includes increasing the tuner's alternate and adjacent channel selectivity, which improves it's ability to pull in closely-spaced channels cleanly. | |
| Sorbathane under granite slabs for speaker bases? I should have mentioned that the Townshend Seismic Isolators are also offered on a number of different "platforms". In addition to the individual Pod which can be used in sets of three or four for use directly under a component, Townshend makes th... | |
| Sorbathane under granite slabs for speaker bases? The Townshend Seismic isloators are also available separately, as individual "Pods". Using three or four of them under a speaker (or any other component) provides isolation to a very low frequency, and is cheaper than the Seismic Shelves themselve... | |
| Has anyone considered rebuying a speaker you once owned?? Magneplanar Tympani's---the 3-panel Maggies. I had T-I's back in '73-4, T-1D's in the '90's, and now T-IV's. | |
| Tuner tragedy! There is a great tech working at Brooks Berdan Ltd. in Monrovia, just East of Pasadena. Tom is the service engineer at one of the big L.A. TV stations, and does all the repair work for Sheila Berdan. He’s in the shop on Wednesdays and Saturdays. M... | |
| How do tube manufacturers like VAC get 55 watts per KT88 where others get only 30-35? That’s nothin’! Roger Modjeski gets a hundred watts out of a pair of KT88’s in his Music Reference RM-200 MK.2, and without running the tubes hot. How? Creative, outside-the-box thinking. He discusses the amp's design in his now-dormant AudioCircl... | |
| Rega planar 3 bearing and oil Silica Nitride and Tungsten Carbide ball bearings have a much smoother surface than do steel ones, which makes for a quieter turntable. | |
| Tube Preamp Recommendations? Robert, my time with the SP-6b was a long time ago, it's tubes no longer in my memory. What the mode switch allows is for each channel to heard through both speakers, or both blended together to mono. I use it to switch between left and right chan... |