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| Put a lid on it (or not?) Well! | |
| Anyone with experience with the effectiveness of the AVA HUMDINGER? Emotiva makes a product similar to the Humdinger. Both are designed to rid the line of DC offset, I believe. | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Good info Lew. Yup, 14k is inaudible to me too now, thanks to over fifty years of performing and attending live shows, some with excruciatingly loud SPL. I had molded ear plugs made when I was in my 30’s, but the damage had been done. Youngins’, d... | |
| Tube dampeners on ARC gear ... FREE TWEAK Oh man Frank, Harmonia Mundi is SUCH a great label! Repertoire right up my alley, performed so well and in those ancient rooms, and in great recorded sound. You’re right, you can really hear the room the recording was made in, something I absolute... | |
| Polarity of speaker drivers Very important points Tim. Excellent! | |
| What tonearm will better mine? The red plastic mount wasn’t designed for damping, but merely for mounting the cartridge, and perhaps for easy switching between models---elliptical, spherical, the version for 78’s. The cartridge originated in the 1950’s, long before people were ... | |
| Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature Great posts, both dgarretson and Geoff, even if they come from divergent points of view. Though it’s true his lyrics were indeed considered almost the soundtrack for the counter-culture movement of the 1960’s, Dylan has stated (in the 60 Minutes i... | |
| Put a lid on it (or not?) It depends on the design and construction of the amp chassis (and the dust cover and base of the turntable). I imagine some amps are put together in such a way that their lid provides structural integrity to the complete chassis, the lid reinforci... | |
| Polarity of speaker drivers Full range headphones, using a single driver without a crossover for all frequencies, can tell us what a loudspeaker should sound like, at least in amplitude and temporal terms. So do some planar speakers, such as the Eminent Technology LFT-8b, wh... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. From my reading, I am aware of another consideration in these matters. The way an amplifier circuit reacts to very high frequencies presented to it, frequencies too high to be heard on their own, can affect the behavior and sound of the amp. A bar... | |
| Tube dampeners on ARC gear ... FREE TWEAK Thanks for your report oregonpapa! I've already sold off the dampers I've had for years (Top Hat Tube Dampers, Pearl Tube Coolers), and will be getting a full set of Herbie's for my phono amp, line stage, and power amp. A couple of hundred bucks w... | |
| Chuck Berry will be 90 next week. Chuck and Johnnie played clubs and bars together for a while before all those classic Chuck Berry songs were recorded. There are those who believe some of Chuck's songs actually originated with Johnnie, as they were written in "horn keys", not the... | |
| What tonearm will better mine? The old Decca's were extremely variable, each one needing to be loaded to match it's particular performance. The current London's are much more consistent, and can be loaded according to builder John Wright's recommendations.Noromance, the Decapod... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. The Music Reference RM-200 Mk.2 does itself have a 2 ohm tap. Great amp. | |
| Rolling Stones Mono Box Set (lp or cd) Halleluiah! Tostado, I am so weary of The Stones continuing to be held up as The Greatest blah blah blah long after they started sucking. Which was a long, long time ago. Why they weren’t written off after they put out a disco album is an absolute... |