bdp24
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| Ayone know the wattage used at a Rock concert? Ah yes, the A7. The band house I lived in back in ’71 had a pair of them (the bands PA, of course) in the living room as a hi-fi, powered by a Fender Showman head. Had to be careful with the volume control---the A7 was so efficient, the 65 watts o... | |
| ARC Ref 5se inferior to LS28? For the consumer able to buy a REF 6 or 10 new, value may not be a concern! For the buyer of a cost-no-object, advancing-the-State-Of-The-Art product, future developments will be dealt with when they appear, the possibility of a new, even-higher l... | |
| Tube Preamp Recommendations? Way to go Robert! The SP-6b is not only a fine pre-amp, it also has a mode switch! The pre uses 12AX7's, so look into getting some NOS Telefunkens to put in it. | |
| My Audio Research experience Bingo, Thom. Different designers use the same tube (and other electronic parts) in their respective circuits differently, some using parts way "over-rated" (able to handle much greater voltages than they are asked to in a particular circuit, for i... | |
| Brightest but shortest artistic bursts in the sky Damn, how could I have forgotten about Robert Johnson? Real good one onhwy61, extremely influential is right. | |
| Crosley Record Cleaning System While not using the Crosley itself, I have used the cleaner it is an imitation of, the Spin Clean. In fact, I still have one, using it to pre-clean very dirty pre-owned records before they go on my VPI. At it’s price, not much is risked by trying ... | |
| Crosley Record Cleaning System While the Crosley may make an LP superficially look clean, where it matters, down in the groove. nothing has changed much. And chayro is exactly right---without a vacuum removal of the cleaning fluid, along with the dirt imbedded in the groove, th... | |
| Has anyone had experiences good or bad with speaker isolation or isolation in general ? Todd---a set of the Ingress Engineering Level 2 roller bearings are only $120 plus shipping, the higher performance Level 3 $175. A set of them plus springs should be all you need. The springs provide vertical isolation, the roller bearings isolat... | |
| Crosley Record Cleaning System I can tell this isn't meant as a joke, but it none-the-less is. As a real record cleaning machine (the Record Doctor V from Audio Advisor) can be had for as little as $199, there is no need to settle for this childrens toy. | |
| ARC Ref 5se inferior to LS28? Ha! It seems like progress is a circular phenomenon, coming back around to where you started, only slightly higher up the flagpole (as Donovan Leitch put it, "First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is".). The claims for i... | |
| Brightest but shortest artistic bursts in the sky I have to remind all of Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, Bobby Fuller, and Patsy Cline, all dying at a young age. | |
| Tube Preamp Recommendations? An Audio Research SP-6b was just listed here on AudiogoN today, and has just been overhauled. It has the classic ARC tube sound, and contains a phono section. It's priced below $1000, so act quickly! | |
| Brightest but shortest artistic bursts in the sky I just remembered another one-album band whose record was pretty special. In the wake of the Knacks success, Los Angeles was flooded with groups and bands playing showcase gigs in an attempt to get a record deal. One such group was Great Buildings... | |
| ARC Ref 5se inferior to LS28? That issue of Stereophile was my initiation into audiophiledom, and the ARC SP-3 my first serious pre-amp. My dearly departed pal Brooks Berdan sold ARC when he was at GNP in Pasadena, but by the time he opened his own shop (Brooks Berdan Ltd.) in... | |
| Isolation Devices: Any Good Ones? What's "Loyd 1"? |