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| Experimenting with reversing polarity to speakers Yup. If you think about it, it has to be---both ways does the same thing, and neither the amp nor speaker cares. | |
| New Townshend Rock 7 owner Damn, 5" in one night! After living in the California desert for the past eight years (with temperatures in the teens---one hundred and teens!), the 23 degrees today (with ice everywhere) of Portland Oregon/Vancouver Washington is a major readjust... | |
| Solid State Amps for Quad ESL 57? The Quad 57 can’t be beat for some music---small Baroque ensembles (well-recorded harpsichords sound in-the-room), acoustic music like Bluegrass and Jazz trios and quartets. And vocals of course! People who say that some speakers are not better fo... | |
| Tower Records Documentary jafant, Russ Solomon sent some of his people over to Japan to set up the stores and train the staff, and though using the same business model they were some of the most profitable in the chain. | |
| Why are low impedance speakers harder to drive than high impedance speakers In a related matter, Roger Modjeski of Music Reference recommends hooking up your speakers to a tube amp on the lowest impedance tap that provides the power you need. So if an amp puts out 45 watts at 8 ohms and 30 at 4, and 30 watts is enough for... | |
| Vertical bi-amping with two different amplifiers Very bad idea, imhififan said it all. Vertical bi-amping MUST be done with two identical amps. | |
| Amplifier Enclosure Resonance By three inches "wide", do you mean thick or high? If so, look for a VPI db-5 Magic Brick, whose dimensions are about 2" H x 4" W x 5" L and 8 lbs. It damps physical vibrations and absorbs EMI/RFI. Echo Audio in Portland Oregon has one for sale on... | |
| 2016 best new guitar oriented music By the way Max, the name No Depression was "borrowed" from Alt-Country band Uncle Tupelo, who had an album with that title. Uncle Tupelo disbanded in 1994, and leaders Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar formed Wilco and Son Volt respectively. | |
| Manley Chinook or Allnic H1201 I don't believe the Chinook is considered competition for the 1201 or Herron VTPH-2. There may be Chinook owners who disagree! Another real good one perhaps available used at your price is the original version of the Zesto. | |
| Tower Records Documentary The movie is fine as far as it goes, but doesn’t tell the whole story, for whatever reason. Tower borrowed it’s operating capitol every quarter, repaying the loan at the end of that quarter. That worked fine for a long time, but after owner Russ S... | |
| Wrapping Up 2016 I had forgotten about Julie & Brian’s version Jetter. I really liked their albums together. Cross your fingers on the basement-stored LP’s---basement moisture may have taken it’s toll! If you don’t already have an LP cleaner such as the VPI HW... | |
| Materials to reduce sidewall flex & vibration ? Heavy paving stones have long been placed on top of subwoofer cabinets by owners, as have bags of sand or lead shot. | |
| 2016 best new guitar oriented music Good stuff Max. Being older, I have migrated away from Rock towards other guitar-based musics, particularly Bluegrass. There are some great acoustic guitarists making music these days, as well as players of other string instruments. Any recording ... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? For those still with me ;-), an inference that can be drawn from the feeling of being outside the physical universe is that the source of our collective consciousness, such as it is, is itself ("His" self) outside of it; the Creator and his Creati... | |
| Materials to reduce sidewall flex & vibration ? If appearance is not a concern, a C clamp attached to each pair of opposing walls. One top-to-bottom, one left-to-right on the upper half and another on the bottom half, and one front-to-back, between drivers. Kind of drastic, but it would certain... |