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| Long XLR Interconnect Cables Ralph Karsten of Atma-Sphere has posted some interesting and illuminating facts about balanced connections. It is Ralph’s contention that the manner in which the signal wires are connected to the electronics---which pins are hot, which is ground, ... | |
| Direction of aftermarket fuses (only for believers!) Good one jea48! When Ric Schultz was modifying the Modulus 2 pre-amp, he was offering a fuse-bypass option. On a tube pre-amp? Probably not a good idea, but I had him do it to mine anyway. Older and wiser, I wouldn’t now. | |
| BARNES & NOBLE HAS VINYL!!!!! BUT IS THE QUALITY UP TO AUDIOPHILE STANDARDS ???? Man, don't you guys have a real record store in your town?! If I had to rely on B & N as my only source for locally-bought LP's, I'd hafta move! | |
| Greatest song titles.. I got beat to the punch by a bunch of ya’ll, so I’ll nominate "Baby Let Me Bang Your Box" by Doug Clark and The Hot Nuts. How that got by the censors so my friends and I were able to listen to it in the turntable booth at our local record shop (yo... | |
| Need advice on adding subs Oh, one (I promise ;-) other thing. The Rythmik Sub is what speaker builder Jim Salk builds in to some of his models. He also offers the Rythmik Sub in his own designed and built enclosure, featuring greater internal volume (for increased efficien... | |
| Elevating subwoofer about two feet off the floor I believe the Harmon-Kardon paper on bass reproduction, the basis for the concept of subwoofer "swarms", recommends locating subs at varying distances from the floor, thinking of the room in terms of a 3-dimensional volume, not a 2-dimensional floor. | |
| ... Best Live Recordings ( other than Classical or Opera) on CD... For new fans of Cream, their Wheels of Fire double album sounds just as they did when I saw them in ’67 and ’68. A couple more of my favorite live albums are The Ventures On Stage (’65) and The Live Kinks (’67). The Kinks are just about the most f... | |
| The Beach Boys There have been more versions of Pet Sounds on LP and CD than any other album I can think of. Enough already! How much more deluxe can it get?! | |
| Has there been any inexpensive item that enhanced your system's sound? When I just applied for a drivers license in my new state, the clerk looked at my ID asked "So, you’re elderly?". Well! It’s a very progressive state with medically licensed use, and man is it big business. Dispensaries everywhere. And gee, I had ... | |
| Goldmund Cones, "Best of" in their day, still useful? under what component? The idea of cones acting as isolators has come under reconsideration. They are now considered by some engineers to be couplers, the opposite of isolators. Good for under speakers and the bases of turntables with spring suspensions, where you don’t... | |
| Shangling CD-T100 CD Player in need of repair Take it into Brooks Berdan Ltd. in Monrovia (if you haven't been there, it's about ten miles east of Pasadena on the 210 freeway). The shop's tech Tom is in on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Great guy, very competent, conversant with tube products (tho... | |
| Why some preamps does not play music? Cold? Because they're solid state, not tube? | |
| Audio Research SP9 MKII One cool thing about the SP9 is the mode control ARC was still including in their pre-amps back then. I wish they still did; I have kept my LS1, the last ARC pre to include the control I believe (the LS2 doesn’t have it), for that very reason. Whe... | |
| Manley Chinook Eva rules! I used to see her every year at CES in Vegas, and she always remembered me and treated me like an old friend. Very cool person!I have a friend with a Manley microphone pre-amp in his 16-track 2" 3M analog studio. Great company and produ... | |
| What's the most overrated or overpriced piece of equipment you own, have owned or come by? The most trouble-prone piece I ever owned was a Thorens TD-125 Mk.2 turntable. The electronics were evidently malfunctioning, causing intermittent "motorboating". I took it to the warranty service center many times, the problem never being found o... |