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| Tower Records Documentary The movie is fine as far as it goes, but doesn’t tell the whole story, for whatever reason. Tower borrowed it’s operating capitol every quarter, repaying the loan at the end of that quarter. That worked fine for a long time, but after owner Russ S... | |
| Wrapping Up 2016 I had forgotten about Julie & Brian’s version Jetter. I really liked their albums together. Cross your fingers on the basement-stored LP’s---basement moisture may have taken it’s toll! If you don’t already have an LP cleaner such as the VPI HW... | |
| Materials to reduce sidewall flex & vibration ? Heavy paving stones have long been placed on top of subwoofer cabinets by owners, as have bags of sand or lead shot. | |
| 2016 best new guitar oriented music Good stuff Max. Being older, I have migrated away from Rock towards other guitar-based musics, particularly Bluegrass. There are some great acoustic guitarists making music these days, as well as players of other string instruments. Any recording ... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? For those still with me ;-), an inference that can be drawn from the feeling of being outside the physical universe is that the source of our collective consciousness, such as it is, is itself ("His" self) outside of it; the Creator and his Creati... | |
| Materials to reduce sidewall flex & vibration ? If appearance is not a concern, a C clamp attached to each pair of opposing walls. One top-to-bottom, one left-to-right on the upper half and another on the bottom half, and one front-to-back, between drivers. Kind of drastic, but it would certain... | |
| Tube amp for KEF Reference 3s If, as I suspect, the KEF's are a low-impedance design, an amp particularly good at driving low-impedance speakers is the Music Reference RM200 Mk.2. Read the Stereophile review of it to see why. It is included in the Class A/Tube category in the ... | |
| Experimenting with reversing polarity to speakers To expound on Geoff's good point, another fact making absolute polarity moot is that the signal on each track of a recording made on a multi-track recorder may or may not be in the same polarity as any other. That’s one reason many recordings bear... | |
| Opinions Please - New Prodduction Sophia EL34ST Coke Bottle One tube seller who DOES stand behind his tubes more than others is Roger Modjeski of Ram Tube Works (and Music Reference). | |
| 2016: In Memorium Playing drums on the first Airplane album was Skip Spence, later of Moby Grape and acid-casualty fame. He had earlier been in a very early version of the cult San Jose Garage Band The Chocolate Watchband (seen appearing in the Roger Corman teen-ex... | |
| 2016 best new guitar oriented music Great suggestion Tostado. BS had three guitarists, Richie Furay on rhythm and both Stephen Stills and Neil Young on lead. Neil is not to every guitarists liking, but he sure has his own style!Another band with three guitarists was Moby Grape, whos... | |
| Wrapping Up 2016 Yup Tostado, Terry's version is a good one. The guys on the first Super Session album (Stephen Stills, Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper) did it too, but in an only okay version I thought. | |
| Materials to reduce sidewall flex & vibration ? Hard floor tiles! The thicker, heavier type without self-stick bottoms. They add mass, which lowers the cabinets resonant frequencies, and damp that resonance. | |
| Solid State Amps for Quad ESL 57? ct0517 (Chris) uses a Music Reference RM10 with his Quad 57's, and he will tell you how well that particular amp works with the speaker. Roger Modjeski designed the amp with the Quad as it's load! Though a tube amp, Roger designs his amps with rel... | |
| Materials to reduce sidewall flex & vibration ? No Rez, designed by Danny Richie of GR Research. It is expressly for absorbing speaker enclosure wall resonance, being installed on the interior of the enclosure's panels. Very effective. |