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| ARC Ref 5se inferior to LS28? Darn it, I was sucked in again and got carried away, losing the point I had intended to make. Of course ARC makes great sounding gear, and deserves all the success and satisfied customers they have earned over the past forty-seven years. And they ... | |
| Brightest but shortest artistic bursts in the sky Your critique of the second Moby Grape album is, upon reconsideration, better than mine! I'm going by recollection, feeling disappointed with it at the time of it's release in comparison to the first. If their debut hadn't been SO great---not a si... | |
| Various power cables, which would you put where? itsikhefez and auxinput---It seems logical to upgrade the duplex wall outlets before the power cords themselves, so may I ask if you did that already, and if so what you have found to be worth their price? Thanks---Eric. | |
| My Audio Research experience I feel vindicated! | |
| Has anyone had experiences good or bad with speaker isolation or isolation in general ? If I had unlimited funds, I’d put everything on platforms such as the Minus K or Newport microscope tables, or folkfreaks Herzan. The closest a poor slob can get for relative peanuts is with a set of roller bearings and Geoff’s springs. The middle... | |
| ARC Ref 5se inferior to LS28? As my Mama useta say, "Each to her own, said the lady as she kissed the cow". ARC loves their customer base the same way Trump "loves the poorly educated". If the newest ARC pre-amp is sooo much better than the one it's replacing, and that one was... | |
| ARC Ref 5se inferior to LS28? The mode switch I am referring to is a rotary knob providing Stereo/Reverse/Mono/Left/Right, all sent to the pre-amps main outputs (not it's tape out jacks). Just what I need for those horrid 60's pseudo-stereo LP's! | |
| Has anyone had experiences good or bad with speaker isolation or isolation in general ? Schubert's pronouncement violates the idea that spikes are mechanical diodes---a one-way street for vibrations. Once one has seen the truth---that spikes provide not isolation but rather coupling, he is ready for real isolation. Watch Max Townshen... | |
| List of artists that have never lost quality throughout entire career Many artists have "arcs" in the quality of the work. Up, then down, hopefully then up again. There is the thought that most have only "so much" in them, some only one album. What a depressing idea for those just beginning. I can think of many band... | |
| Random question/ thoughts about stuff for sale here When one finds himself absorbed by the music---becoming one with it, the gear becomes secondary, just the means to the end. When that doesn't happen, time to change something I guess. | |
| ARC Ref 5se inferior to LS28? Anyone who gets on the ARC train is going to be put through this until he jumps off. Why not instead buy from a designer/company who keeps a model in the line for many years, offering occasional upgrades to the basically "correct/finished" circuit... | |
| The Band on MFSL MFSL also recently put out The Band’s studio collaboration with Dylan, the Planet Waves album. It came out on Asylum Records in ’74 (the only Dylan album not on Columbia Records), and is really, really good. It contains "Forever Young", a song you... | |
| The Band on MFSL Disagreement welcome slaw! I actually haven’t compared back-to-back my RL lime green Capitol pressings of the 1st and 2nd Band albums to the MFSL ones now available. I just acquired Mint copies of the Capitols, as well as the current LP and SACD v... | |
| The Band on MFSL Oh, and the 3rd and 4th Band albums, "Stage Fright" and "Cahoots", are also available on MFSL LP and SACD. Though not up to the level of their first two albums (nothing is!), they are well worth having. Todd Rundgren produced SF, and he was not up... | |
| The Band on MFSL The Bands second album (S/T, "brown") album was once again released on LP by Mobile Fidelity in 2013, catalog no. 1-419; they had already put out a version in the 80’s, around the time of your copy of Music From Big Pink. By the way, MFSL has also... |