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Ramones mixed with BW 801 at Abbey Road.. Back to Mono! That seems very appropriate for The Ramones. I'm gettin 'it! I like their second, third, and fourth albums even more (Marky is a much more "muscular" drummer than is Tommy), but the first is great too. | |
Magnepan 20.7 Larry, what do you consider near field distance? I listen at 8' from speakers usually, anything closer being what I consider near field. But big panels like Maggies make the same distance seem closer than do smaller speakers. | |
Audio and the acoustic therapy of spaces Love it Tom! | |
When will there be decent classical music recordings? The difficulty in recording and reproducing large orchestras is why old-timers like J. Gordon Holt considered reproducing such recordings the ultimate challenge and test of a music system's capabilities. For the exact reason Al just explained, get... | |
Your last concert was to see who and when? Excellent swampwater! Speaking of Pat McLaughlin, he is himself a fine songwriter, singer, and guitarist, with some great recordings worth seeking out. | |
best phono stage to mate with a London Decca Super Gold cart? UK reviewer Ken Kessler of Hi-Fi News is a longtime Decca devotee, and has praised Glenn Croft many times, including his phono designs for use with Deccas/Londons. And Croft, being intimately familiar with the cartridges, may have his own preferen... | |
best phono stage to mate with a London Decca Super Gold cart? What the Decca/London's need is not much gain (40dB is plenty) and lots of headroom. Their 5mV output is way too hot for lots of phono stages. For solid state, the Liberty B2B-1 has both, John Atkinson finding it's overload margin about as high as... | |
Magnepan 20.7 Irsky, since you have a large room and would like more bass slam, add a pair of the old Magneplanar Tympani T-IV or T-IVa bass panels to your MG20.7's. There's nothing like Tympani bass! | |
Need Help From The Resident Experts The Modulus is well-known to have excessive gain, it's design dating back to the pre-CD era. Most modern pre-amps provide around 12dB. There are attenuators available for inserting between pre and power, or resistors can be installed on the inputs... | |
Herron VTPH-2 12ax7 Recommendations? Thanks ochremoon. In the 80's I had the Frank Van Alstine Super Pas in which he used 5751's (Sylvania, if memory serves) instead of 12AX7's, for their linearity and low noise said Frank. I had Keith send my VTPH-1mm with two 12AX7's and two 12AT7'... | |
When will there be decent classical music recordings? Yeah yeah tostado, Kirkpatrick and Kipnis are fantastic players and interpreters. Kipnis even did some audiophile label recordings. I have more of these two players on CD though, which I assume will be okay with the OP, assuming he is interested i... | |
VPI Avenger VPI and ARC seem to operate rather similarly, don't they? | |
Speakers for 15K - Discounts Rythmik is located in Austin. If you buy two of their great subs at the same time you get a 10% discount, and save the shipping if you pick up the subs at the Rythmik office/warehouse. | |
Your favorite BEACH BOYS LP besides PET SOUNDS I somehow missed your 01-30-2016 post Marty, with which I concur 100%. There are others I listen to for different reasons: All Summer Long for it’s "before sex and drugs" innocence, Sunflower for The Beach Boys finally putting out a good album on ... | |
ELO and the search for SQ Speaking of ELO, Jeff Lynne produced an album in 1993 for Julliana Raye entitled Something Peculiar, and it is fantastic! |