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| Solid State Amps for Quad ESL 57? I belief I'll try it Geoff. The fanatic I referred to is master-tweaker Ric Schultz of Electronic Visionary Systems (EVS). | |
| Wrapping Up 2016 Yeah Jetter, Donovan’s Sunshine Superman album is his classic. In 1967, every band in San Jose (including legendary Garage Band The Chocolate Watchband, seen in Roger Corman’s Riot On Sunset Strip movie) performed his "Season Of The Witch" from th... | |
| Solid State Amps for Quad ESL 57? I, like Geoff, took the metal grilles off my Quads. Big improvement! I also removed the rear grilles with their attached absorptive pads, about which Quad owners have mixed opinions. If done, the speakers must be further from the wall behind them.... | |
| New Townshend Rock 7 owner Yeah Slaw, that K & K is gonna be great, a big step up from the EAR. I like Tim Paravicini's stuff a lot (I have an EAR 868 line stage), but the 834 is his economy/budget phono pre. Even a genius can do only so much at the 834's price! Your ar... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? In the 1980's I saw Tim Leary at a record store in Glendale California. He paid for his album (Devo ;-) with a Platinum American Express card. So much for "dropping out"! | |
| Should I consider the newer Audio Research pre & power amps, when I play records not CD's TonyKay, the SP-11 is not one of the legendary ARC classics, hence it's lack of sale. It replaced the SP-10, which IS one of the classics. The SP-11 suffers from the subtly "white/dry" sound of the early ARC tube/ss hybrids, the SP-10 has an old-f... | |
| Who do you like for equipment mods? Frank Van Alstine in Minnesota. For the McIntosh MR74/77/78 tuners, Richard Modaferri, who was heavily involved in their design, offers really good updates/improvements/corrections/fixes for them. | |
| Preamp choice for a Dynaco ST-35 amp If you get a Dynaco PAS, contact Frank Van Alstine to see if he still offers his great mod for it. | |
| 2016: In Memorium Thanks Jones, a great and important post. That’s a lot of talent now gone. | |
| New Townshend Rock 7 owner The Kuzma Stogi Reference is a great match for the Rock, the arm I would have gotten myself if I hadn't found a nice Zeta. A KSR has just listed on Audiogon for $1500, a great price (it retails for about $3200). Do it Slaw! | |
| Wrapping Up 2016 Donovan, under-appreciated imo. His early Fairytale album proved him to be a fully developed artist at a relatively young age. My favorite lines from a song of his:"First there is a mountainThen there is no mountainThen there is"It's about the cir... | |
| New Townshend Rock 7 owner Slaw, Max is known for two things: his brilliant designs, and his less-than-excellent manufacturing standards. Luckily, the former outweighs the latter, and makes his products, though imperfect, unique and excellent sounding! The arm mounting plat... | |
| Wilson Audio Haters That you can get a dipole magnetic-planar loudspeaker than is inherently time-coherent for $600, while 5-figure multi-driver box speakers have their three drivers wired in differing polarities, I have always found quite humorous. Speakers with 1st... | |
| Need Help setting up sub w/ maggies Subs offering a high-level input (from the output taps of the loudspeaker’s power amp) intentionally have a very, very high input impedance on their plate amp. This allows the sub to receive the signal from the amp, but without the speaker’s power... | |
| 2016 best new guitar oriented music Max, as well as "new" music (music recorded recently), let me suggest you look into "new to you" music that wasn't. Many current artists making new music you like do so with the knowledge gained from having absorbed old music which you may not hav... |