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| Removing silicone damping fluid "Mineral spirits" is also mentioned in the owners pamphlet for the Townshend Audio Rock turntable (which employs silicon damping fluid in a trough for the arm/pickup) as the fluid to use for cleanup in case of spillage. Mineral spirits is a spe... | |
| Loudspeaker designer/manufacturer John DeVore shows reviewer Ken Micallef his system. Here is a video of Modjeski’s seminar at the 2015 Burning Amp get together in the Bay Area. It’s an hour and a half in length, and contains a lot of Roger’s thoughts on tube amplifier design. Some humour too. https://youtu.be/io_yZENYlxY... | |
| Vinyl Me Please...well, not anymore They were dead to me when they announced the elimination of Rock and Country "tracks" from their monthly offerings. They put out some truly great albums, like those of Iris DeMent, Rodney Crowell, Marty Stuart, Waylon Jennings, Townes Van Zandt... | |
| Loudspeaker designer/manufacturer John DeVore shows reviewer Ken Micallef his system. @clio09: Van Alstine used GE 5751 tubes (in place of the stock 12AX7's) in his modified Dynaco PAS pre-amp. Better than the ARC SP-3! | |
| Loudspeaker designer/manufacturer John DeVore shows reviewer Ken Micallef his system. And thank YOU @clio09, for both your post and keeping the Music Reference name and products alive. Though reviews of tube amps in professional hi-fi mags commonly contain little exploration and explanation of amplifier circuit design, readi... | |
| Why I don't hear bass drums on Jazz LPs? Two great new posts! @billstevenson: It was I who mentioned Davey Tough. He was way before my time, and played a genre of music I am unqualified to talk about. But the other members of the bands he played in sure thought very highly of him.... | |
| Vinyl Care @twangy57: You’ll "probably" take @billstevenson’s VPI HW-16 for $75? Don’t just think about it, do it! That’s one hell of a bargain. My first vacuum-style LP cleaner was a Nitty Gritty, which I found to be lacking (too many revolutions to ... | |
| What artists can you not get enough of? Another one I forgot @chazz101s! I do indeed like Kelly a lot; I have seven of her albums on CD, one on LP. I used to have one Monte Warden album, and one Wagoneers album, of which he was a member. I don’t remember getting rid of them, but I do... | |
| Vinyl Care You can get a Record Doctor V vacuum LP cleaning machine from Audio Advisor for $199.37. The best two hundred bucks you’ll ever spend! Far superior to the Spin Clean. | |
| What artists can you not get enough of? I inexplicably forgot two of my very favorite music making couples: Buddy & Julie Miller and Larry & Teresa Campbell. If I could listen to only one currently-active artist for the rest of my life, it would be Buddy Miller. A great singe... | |
| What artists can you not get enough of? Hmm, how deep should one go? Many on my list have been included in those of others, one reason I continue to read the Audiogon Forum. When it’s time for Classical, I usually reach for something from the Baroque era. J.S. Bach of course, but... | |
| Tune of the Day NRBQ performing "Flat Foot Flewzy" live. The last time I saw the band live in a Portland Oregon club, Los Lobos saxophonist Steve Berlin joined them onstage for a coupla songs. They were---as this video displays---great. https://youtu.be/5K... | |
| Favorite rock/pop male voices Geez, I forgot Brenda Lee! | |
| Favorite Song Lyrics of All Time. What Say You? Oh @stuartk, good one! For those wondering, those cited lyrics are in The Band's song "When You Awake", found on their perfect second album. | |
| Develop a hierarchy for phono playback The cartridge is---as is the loudspeaker---a transducer. Both are the most variable (in terms of sonic character, color---the reproduction of vocal and instrumental timbre, and transparency) component in a system. IMO. Likewise, the biggest co... |