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| Oracle Delphi MK 1 advice please Give Brian Berdan a call at his shop (Audio Elements) in Pasadena, CA. His Dad Brooks is the guy who designed the mod for the table which Oracle ended up incorporating into it. Brooks taught Brian all about the table before dying a few years back. | |
| Good CDs Bad Recording For those who know Emitt Rhodes, get this: When I recorded with him engineering in his studio, he had me do three takes in a row (on drums), playing to a click-track, each of which he recorded on a separate Alesis 8 track. He then synched the thre... | |
| Who makes the Tone arm with swing out damping trough that the head shell sits in????? The damping trough is actually part of the Townshend Rock turntable, not the arm. Townshend makes an arm with the "outrigger" headshell built on, but the outrigger comes with the table, and you can use any arm you want with it (other than an ET, o... | |
| Etiquette for a listening session? jmc, I love you! I was slightly exaggerating to make my point; I will of course have another person in my music room to play something for---a person I know, or even think, will appreciate the greatness of. Usually another musician, or at least mu... | |
| For Old Timers who experienced the "Golden Age" of Audio of the 60s and 70s. Right bifwynne, it was a cardboard tube as a "transmission-line" in the 2000A. I heard them at Sound Systems in Palo Alto, CA, hooked up to early SAE electronics, which were the hot amps until ARC made it to the West Coast. They also had the speak... | |
| Best Country/Rock - Poll I envy you. Buddy never seems to come out West. | |
| Bass traps - too many choices!! That's a very interesting review, George. I wonder though why the trap needs to be priced at two grand. | |
| Herron VTPH-2 Great post! Have you heard of roller bearings (or perhaps Geoffrey’s springs)? They’re good under tube phono stages---isolation from micro-vibrations. Townshend’s Seismic Pod Isolators too, but they’re a little over-priced imo. Not in terms of cos... | |
| For Old Timers who experienced the "Golden Age" of Audio of the 60s and 70s. The Infinity 2000A! They had the great RTR ESL tweeters I mentioned above, which blew my young mind. I wanted them SO bad, but had to settle for the lesser 1001 model, without the RTR's. Mel was one of the handful of early high end dealers in the ... | |
| Best Country/Rock - Poll Hell yeah pehare! Mighty fine album, produced by the great Buddy Miller. A+! Solomon’s early albums were produced by another great, Jerry Wexler, and the band on those records is the fantastic Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, the best studio band in ... | |
| Magneplanar .7 speakers. Have you heard or own them?? For the same price you can get a used pair of Eminent Technology LFT-8b’s, the best-kept secret in hi-fi. New price $2499, used maybe $1500. Better than not just the .7, but the 1.7 as well. Honest. | |
| Need to lay a portion of my high-end speakers cable under the floor ... See what the cable maker(s) say. | |
| Etiquette for a listening session? I don’t want anyone listening with me, intently or otherwise. Is that sad? I want to become one with the music, it totally inhabiting my soul. If there is anyone else in the room (which has only a single chair anyway---for me), that’s not gonna ha... | |
| Albums you can listen too all the way through and it's all good hifijones---Did you get to see Rockpile live? Oh baby!Too fun, here’s yet more:Howlin’ Wolf: Moanin’ In The MoonlightBig Joe Turner (Doc Pomus: "Rock and Roll would not have happened without him". I myself consider him the first R & R singer):... | |
| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? $100-$150 fuses ;-). |