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| Tube integrateds and Electrostatic Speakers You want an amp with as low an output impedance as you can find, to keep the amp from affecting the frequency response of the speaker. One amp designer who takes this subject very seriously is Roger Modjeski of Music Reference. He designs and buil... | |
| Which British Hi-Fi Magazine is Your Favorite of the Brits? Hi-Fi News & Record Review and HiFi Critic. | |
| Which songs or musical standards have haunted you? "On Broadway" by The Drifters. "Maybe" by The Chantels (also by Dave Edmunds on his Subtle As A Flying Mallet album, which has some other haunting songs as well---see above). | |
| 5 most recognizable voices in American music? Darlene Love, one of my absolute favorite singers! Her vocal on "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" is astoundingly great!! She sang for Phil Spector, who kept all the money his label made, sending the artists out on the road to work for peanuts. ... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? Now THERE is some engineering prowess! Thanks Ralph, just beautiful. | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? Man, I’m still surprised by the amount of hubris out there.I’ll never forget the first time I heard a direct-to-disc LP, the second Sheffield. That label’s recording engineer Doug Sax went back in time, resurrecting recording without an electronic... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? You just don’t get it Ethan. Kavi listens to the direct mic feed, then to his recording of that mic feed. He listens for any difference between the two, for any degradation caused by the recorder. He has concluded that his recorder is the most acc... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? There is a select group of professional recording engineers now working who are considered the best in the business, responsible for some of the best sounding recordings ever made---lifelike instrumental timbre, high resolution and transparency, w... | |
| New Component Upgrade Success Rate Dave---Vibration isolation? So you too are "delusional"? (read the entire "Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics" thread for context ;-).MWard---Up above you said you think you just like your existing sound too much to change it. The o... | |
| Which songs or musical standards have haunted you? "Where Or When" (written by Rodgers & Hart) as performed by Dave Edmunds on his Get It album. Dreamy. Also "Let It Be Me" (originally a hit by The Everly Brothers, and performed on Self Portrait by Bob Dylan) on his Subtle As a Flying Mallet a... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? It was David Hafler (I believe) who proposed the "null" test for power amplifiers. Once an amplifier so tested produced zero sound, it would ipso facto be producing zero audible distortion, for any audible artifacts produced by an amp in a null te... | |
| New Townshend Rock 7 owner Oh yeah Roscoe, the Audiomods arm is a very interesting design, with some unique, creative, and sophisticated thinking behind it. | |
| What are the smallest speakers that are clean and flat down to 20hz? Hey Chris (ct0517) sorry, I just saw your post asking me about Phil Collins. I missed it somehow. Anyway, I’m not that familiar with Phil's playing, though I do know he is, as am I, a lefty. I never got into Genesis (I’m not a fan of Progressive R... | |
| What are the smallest speakers that are clean and flat down to 20hz? Good one (or two ;-) Mark. Very few speaker really play flat to 20Hz cleanly, and the Rythmik F15HP (and it's smaller brother the F12) does so in a small enclosure and at a low price. The best value in high-performance subs! | |
| Equipment that has made you 'stop' looking? Townshend Audio Rock turntable, London Reference Pickup, QUAD ESL (original), Magneplanar Tympani T-IV, GR Research/Rythmik Audio Direct Servo-Feedback OB/Dipole Subwoofer, ASC Tube Traps, Owens Corning Rigid 703 Acoustical Panels, J.S. Bach. |