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| Best Ways to Organize a Classical Record LP Collection ? Man ct, it's gonna take you years to listen to them all! A nice problem to have. I was getting so many promos and other free albums when I was a Tower buyer that I couldn't listen to them all before the next batch came in (weekly). I finally now a... | |
| What used speaker would you buy with $20,000-$35,000 and why? If you decide on planars, you have some great choices. As others have said, you should if possible hear the Sound Lab ESL's. Also the Sanders ESL's, and a new entry--- the ESL with direct drive (no transformer in the speaker) tube amp by Music Ref... | |
| Bob Dylan MoFi Bob's 60's recordings are much better sounding than almost all of his subsequent ones (one notable exception being Planet Waves, recorded in late '73 with The Band at Village Recorders in Los Angeles, released in early '74. It has just been releas... | |
| Vintage Crown D 150A II Amp -- How good was it? Working Crowns are fine for powering passive subs, but are somewhat too dry, coarse, grainy, and 2-dimensional for use with very transparent loudspeakers. But that's just for those with audiophile sensitivities, poor darlings. Picky, picky, picky! | |
| The Sad State of Movie Theater Sound Systems Theaters are often too cold, as well ;-). | |
| Subwoofer Particularly if the soundstage is a large reverberant church/cathedral or concert hall, RW. The ability to play really low makes possible reproducing the huge sound (long wavelengths and very low frequency reflections between walls, floor, and cei... | |
| AUdio research ... good price? The best time to buy ARC is right when a "new/improved" model is replacing the now hardly-worth-listening-to obsolete model, which is every other year or so. Right now you should be able to pick up an LS17 or 27 or whatever (I’ve lost track) for a... | |
| Best Ways to Organize a Classical Record LP Collection ? I have far more "Classical" (the term originally identified a time period and composition form or style, approximately the mid-18th century through almost mid-19th, including Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. You can see TV clips from the 1950s, in wh... | |
| Subwoofer There are many subs with 15" drivers, all sounding a little different from each other. Which gives "a more natural sound"? The one you own, of course ;-) ! The 12" and 15" Rythmik subs, both with aluminum coned woofers, sound exactly the same---no... | |
| QUALITY AND SECURITY OF "LITTELFUSE" PRODUCTS Oh boy pehare, you have just stepped on a landmine! Roger doesn’t get much respect around these parts (ha, unintentional pun ;-). | |
| Subwoofer To add to Duke’s very informed post above, Danny Richie’s GR Research OB subs are the "fastest" I’ve ever heard. Danny chose paper as the cone material for the drivers he designed for his subs for a few reasons: He finds paper to provide greater r... | |
| LAST record preservative improves the sound As his response displays, Walter is a great, great guy. I bought my first high end system from him when he had a retail Hi-Fi shop in Livermore, CA, one of the first on the West Coast. Last Record Preservative is a fantastic product, a real gift t... | |
| Tonearm Rewiring Vendor Recommendation Also Johnnie at Audio Origami in the U.K. | |
| Performer-in-Room Quality with Speakers? Your priorities are the same as mine---above all else, the voice(s) right there in the room, standing ten feet away (if that’s what’s on the recording, of course). In addition to lifelike tonality and freedom from (to quote Gordon Holt) vowel colo... | |
| music. on vinyl I've been wondering that myself. I think it's a UK company doing mostly 60's Rock reissues, some good titles. I'm waiting for Fremer to get around to listening to them before spending any money. |