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| Best type of Sub to consider? No surprise that Brian and Enrico at Rythmik steered you towards one of their "normal" subs (sealed or ported?), as the OB is more of Danny Richie's (GR Research) baby. No matter, a Rythmik is a Rythmik! I predict you are gonna be pleasantly surpr... | |
| What is the best OTL out there? I hope someone worked on the Futterman circuit to cure it’s well-known problems. Harvey Rosenberg and George Kaye tried for years without being entirely successful. Both Ralph Karsten (Atma-Sphere) and Roger Modjeski (Music Reference) have designe... | |
| Any thoughts on a solid hickory platform under my tt If you use isolation under your table (Townshend Seismic Pods, roller bearings, air bearing), the material of the shelf will not matter (as much?). I still have a couple of Torlyte shelves, the extremely low-mass design (hollow balsa-wood construc... | |
| Subwoofers Every Rythmik sub is hard to beat at it's price point, including the L12. Direct-Servo Feedback (at $539!) among it's highly-designed strengths. Brian Ding is not your average designer. | |
| Can the KEF LS50 rock? Whatever little speaker you decide on, it will sound much better by, as others have already said, putting a high-pass filter on the amp powering them. That will remove the bass frequencies (depending on the corner frequency of the filter) from tha... | |
| Where to get a reliable Cryo treatment service for Power cord? What does the treating of a power cord or speaker cable (or interconnect for that matter) do? Sonically, I mean. | |
| Audio Research Factory Tour The one thing missing from the tour was the most important---the circuit designer(s) and their "laboratory". I went to a number of in-store appearances by Bill Johnson, and asking him about his ARC designs was always a goldmine of information. Whe... | |
| MM/MI Phono Stages Darkstar, if you want to go SS take a look at Peter's Liberty B2B. I saw and heard it at last year's T.H.E. Show in Anaheim, and it's real nice. For tubes, Herron does some direct sales, and may occasionally take a VTPH-1mm in on trade for a -2 (m... | |
| Artists' lps that don't get the respect deserved Ah, "Loan Me a Dime", also my favorite bit of Duane's playing. The highlight of Scagg's first album. The first time I saw Boz on stage was when he was rhythm guitarist in The Steve Miller Blues Band, before the blues was dropped. | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Nick Lowe: The ConvincerMarshall Crenshaw: #447Steve Earle: EssentialThe Flamin' Groovies: Groovies Greatest Grooves (in preparation for seeing them live this coming Friday. Haven't seen them since '81, when the Group I was in opened for them in S... | |
| MM/MI Phono Stages Being a dedicated user of a very high output pickup, I like you did not want to pay for an extra gain stage (or step-up transformer) I wouldn't be using. So I gave Keith Herron a call to see if he had the long-since discontinued VTPH-1mm laying ar... | |
| how do you handle your clean records? There are two ways to remove an LP from it’s inner sleeve: with your left hand (if you’re right handed) tilt the LP in it’s sleeve and let it slide out, an edge of the LP coming to rest in the palm of your right hand.....or with that right hand re... | |
| Should Manufacturer's Tell Us More About Crossovers Bruce Thigpen, designer and maker of the high-value best-buy Eminent Technology LFT-8b loudspeaker, not only describes that speaker's crossover but puts a diagram of it on his website for all the world to see. Nothing to hide, unlike the maker of ... | |
| subs for LFT-8bs Oops! The formula is actually 1/(2 x pi x f x z), where f = desired frequency, and z = amp's input impedance. Misread my own writing! | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report The Rembrandts did the theme song for the TV show Friends, and had another hit single, I believe (but can’t for the life of me recall the song). They kinda seem to me like an American version of Squeeze. For anyone trying to follow the musical thr... |