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| Mobile Fidelity Introduces UD1S Analog Mobile Fidelity's release choices have always eluded me. Santana Abraxas? Does anyone love that album enough to pay a hundred bucks to get an audiophile pressing of it? | |
| I can't play a recording all the way through Oh, and my excess Classical CD’s (about a thousand of them, all great stuff---Baroque through late-19th Century---on Harmonia Mundi etc.) went to Atomic Records in Burbank (Amoeba didn’t want them!), a real cool little two-brothers-owned shop spec... | |
| Best Small Floorstanding Speaker under $2K IF you are open to dipole/planar speakers, and IF you have at least 3’ (5’ is better) to move them out from the wall behind them, there is a mint pair of Eminent Technology LFT-8b’s on U.S. Audiomart right now at an asking price of $1800 (retail $... | |
| I can't play a recording all the way through Approaching, reaching, and then passing a certain landmark age, I recently set about weeded my music library on both LP and CD, getting rid of anything I viewed as non-essential. Check Amoeba Records on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood for my roughly 100... | |
| THE most sonically dissappointing (lp) you own of great music? Toscanini conducting Beethoven's 9th Symphony in a live recording from the 1950's. Great performance, dreadful sound quality. | |
| 2 prong power cable The highest gauge Pangea power cord has a ground post that can be unscrewed from the plug. | |
| Amps and Preamps has standby, but should I turn them completely off? The Deluxe was suppose to produce 28 watts, but at what percent distortion? The cream and brown tolex Deluxe had somewhat different circuitry than the later black tolex (but still blackface control panel) version, with more overdrive/tube distorti... | |
| Equipment Rack Geoff’s right ya know. Isolation down to around 3Hz can be accomplished pretty cheaply via a mechanical filter. With it in place, the nature of the shelf under the filter makes far less difference. A lot of people are "tuning" their audio equipmen... | |
| Synergistic Research Atmoshpere UEF Level 3 XLR What is the length of your Kimber KS-1016's? | |
| Recommnedations for moderately price balanced IC's, and adaptors to an RCA end Cardas makes XLR-to-RCA and RCA-to-XLR adaptors, but they aren't particularly moderately priced considering the fact that they are made of brass, a not particularly good conductor. | |
| Room Acoustic treatment suggestions, ideas & recommendations If you have money to burn, check out the review in a recent TAS of an active electronic bass trap which the reviewer found to be very effective. Then there is always the industry leader in true bass traps, Acoustic Science Corporation. There are n... | |
| vandersteen 2sigs to magnepan .7 good move? The .7's, like any dipole (including the ET LFT-8b), need to be a minimum of 5' from the wall behind them (because of the precedence effect), in your case the 13' one, the speakers firing down the 16' length of the room. Because of the figure-of-8... | |
| The Best & Rarest of all Stereo Gear I had a pair of Braun made version of the old Quad ESL, only pair I’ve ever seen. Peter Walker allowed Braun to make them for the German market only. I sold them to Brooks Berdan---he wanted them for his Hi-Fi museum. | |
| You can only take 5 albums to a deserted Island... Though "audiophiles" are viewed as caring more about the sound of their systems than the music playing on it, ya’ll prove that is absolutely not true. Great, great music listed here. Since this is a separate post, I get to list five more ;-) :- Be... | |
| Subwoofer hunt Rythmik allows you to audition any of their models in your system, and to return them if unsatisfied, paying only shipping. I would wager you wouldn’t return the F12---it has been found to blend seamlessly with Magneplanars, Quads, BG ribbons, OB’... |