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| Your last concert was to see who and when? Swampwater---it was with his Big Band that I last saw Lyle, and what a band it was! What makes a band that good is just what makes Russ Kunkel such a good drummer---what each musician plays serves the song above all, the parts being "musical", ser... | |
| Are there headphones that image in front of you rather than in your head? Right you are Tony, the Sigma. Pretty goofy looking, and really bulky. I should have known better, still owning a pair of Lambda Pros! | |
| Do we really need anything more than 8" woofer and 1" tweeter for medium size room? Depends on the music. For lots of commercial "Pop" music, the lowest note in a recording may well be the open E string of a standard 4-string Bass (electric or standup), which produces a 42Hz tone. For Classical organ works recorded in a Church, t... | |
| ARC Ref 210...tube virgin I believe the ARC design team feels fuses on output power tubes cause an unacceptable loss of sound quality in their amps. They prefer to sacrifice a resistor (or more) to protect the rest of the amp rather than sacrifice the loss in sq they have ... | |
| What in the world is going on..... Taste is a very personal thing, not everyone has to like the same players. I find Van Halen to be a very unmusical player, but that’s just my taste. I prefer lyricism and subtlety in my playing. I part with most people in also not caring for Jimi ... | |
| Are there headphones that image in front of you rather than in your head? The old Stax Lambda Pro's, which put the drivers in front of the ears, pointing not straight unto the ear canal, but slightly toward the backside of the wearer's head. | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? Swampwater---Isn’t Lyle live just SO fine?! Great dry humor, too. When I saw him Kunkel was playing drums, great as ever (for you who aren’t familiar with Russ’ name, he was with Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor in the 70’s, and it is he playing th... | |
| What's the deal with idler turntables and do they have a place in modern HiFi? Vintage idler wheel drive turntable (Thorens 124, Garrard 301 and 401, Lenco) enthusiasts (including Art Dudley) cite the design's "forward momentum"/"rythmik drive" sound characteristic, supposedly a result of the high torque nature of idler whee... | |
| How to: Pack Vinyl Collection for Shipment on Boat Don't do it! Double box them, then arrange to have them shipped by air in Winter. If they sit on the deck of a boat for three weeks in Summer, they WILL be warped, very possibly no longer playable. | |
| What in the world is going on..... Wolf, couldn’t agree more with everything you said above. Sonny Landreth and David Lindley, two unfairly-overlooked guitarists. Bill Frisell’s recent Guitar in the Space Age album is a gas! Clapton’s playing just keeps getting deeper, and Beck is ... | |
| Subwoofers.... one 10" or two 8"? There is one sub using 8" drivers that breaks a lot of subwoofer rules. It is the GR Research/Rythmik OB/Dipole Subwoofer. Three 8" woofers per sub, mounted not in a sealed or ported enclosure but in an Open Baffle "H-frame". Exceptional sound qua... | |
| Recently re-discovered or newly discovered music in your current "heavy rotation" The Notorious Cherry Bombs: s/t. Super-Group whose members in the great Rodney Crowell. | |
| Should I keep or sell my modded AR XA for a Rega RP3 or comparable deck? I've had an AR-XA, an XB, the 1980's reissue AR table, as well as a Rega RB-300 arm. The problem in choosing between the original AR and a Rega is that any of the Rega arms is far, far superior to the piece of junk AR arm. If you want the suspende... | |
| Where to fix Forsell Air Reference Transport and D/A Elliot's shop is named Acoustic Image. He's located in Studio City, CA. | |
| Best Component Ever, for the money For LP owners, I'd say a VPI HW-16 cleaner. |