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| Who do you like for equipment mods? Frank Van Alstine in Minnesota. For the McIntosh MR74/77/78 tuners, Richard Modaferri, who was heavily involved in their design, offers really good updates/improvements/corrections/fixes for them. | |
| Preamp choice for a Dynaco ST-35 amp If you get a Dynaco PAS, contact Frank Van Alstine to see if he still offers his great mod for it. | |
| 2016: In Memorium Thanks Jones, a great and important post. That’s a lot of talent now gone. | |
| New Townshend Rock 7 owner The Kuzma Stogi Reference is a great match for the Rock, the arm I would have gotten myself if I hadn't found a nice Zeta. A KSR has just listed on Audiogon for $1500, a great price (it retails for about $3200). Do it Slaw! | |
| Wrapping Up 2016 Donovan, under-appreciated imo. His early Fairytale album proved him to be a fully developed artist at a relatively young age. My favorite lines from a song of his:"First there is a mountainThen there is no mountainThen there is"It's about the cir... | |
| New Townshend Rock 7 owner Slaw, Max is known for two things: his brilliant designs, and his less-than-excellent manufacturing standards. Luckily, the former outweighs the latter, and makes his products, though imperfect, unique and excellent sounding! The arm mounting plat... | |
| Wilson Audio Haters That you can get a dipole magnetic-planar loudspeaker than is inherently time-coherent for $600, while 5-figure multi-driver box speakers have their three drivers wired in differing polarities, I have always found quite humorous. Speakers with 1st... | |
| Need Help setting up sub w/ maggies Subs offering a high-level input (from the output taps of the loudspeaker’s power amp) intentionally have a very, very high input impedance on their plate amp. This allows the sub to receive the signal from the amp, but without the speaker’s power... | |
| 2016 best new guitar oriented music Max, as well as "new" music (music recorded recently), let me suggest you look into "new to you" music that wasn't. Many current artists making new music you like do so with the knowledge gained from having absorbed old music which you may not hav... | |
| Classic el34 tube amps versus current models Mani-2, Roger Modjeski himself agrees with you about SET amps! He makes a number of different models of them, for use with high-sensitivity loudspeakers. But for use with low-sensitivity designs, including the OP’s LS3/5a and Tablettes, SET’s are ... | |
| Which songs or musical standards have haunted you? OMG, "Our Day Will Come"! The version by Ruby & The Romantics is just sublime. | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? Oops, forgot Pearl spells it Harbour. She's half Japanese/half American, so the name has a special significance. She useta do "Fujiyama Mama", the old Wanda Jackson Rockabilly song. Funny! Pearl is quite an amazing looking woman, very sexy. And wh... | |
| Subwoofer without hi pass filter 1- The L12 doesn’t contain a filter because it uses the economy Rythmik plate amp, not their full-feature model, which does.2- However, picky listeners have found that many subs contain high-pass filters that aren’t the most transparent around, in... | |
| Wrapping Up 2016 Excessive weight is a HUGE problem in the USA, an epidemic even. I don't know about the rest of the world (except Asia, perhaps because of their leaner diet?), but it's even worse up here in the Northwest than it is in S. California, I have discov... | |
| Tom Petty Box Sets Great info Brad. I can add only the following. On their drive from Florida to L.A. to pursue a recording contract, Mudcrunch stopped in Tulsa Oklahoma to talk with The Dwight Twilley Band, to get their advice and possible connections. The DTB Sinc... |