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| Your single favorite component It's a tie between the original Quad ESL and the London Reference pick-up. Then the Townshend Rock turntable. | |
| Relationship of amplifier sound to transformer quality? ptss---The DIY guys who build their own amps are the ones to ask about transformers. They all have their own personal favorite(s), but you see the name Magnequest a lot. rcprince is right, the Jadis transformers are really nice, but proprietary---... | |
| speaker coupling question Max Townshend posted a great video on You Tube displaying the effect of using his Seismic Pods under speakers. Well worth watching, even if you decide not to spend the considerable sum it takes to outfit a pair of speakers with them. | |
| engineering mistakes on recordings T-Bone Burnette's Truth Decay LP was originally on a small independent label, and the last song on side one ("Driving Wheel") had a false ending; after a brief silence, the song started back up again, playing through a fade-out. When the album was... | |
| Relationship of amplifier sound to transformer quality? Two tube power amp designers/builders who say yes are Tim de Paravicini (EAR-Yoshino) and Roger Modjeski (Music Reference). Roger will personally hand wind you one for $1,000. Tim says he can tell you how an amp reproduces bass by looking at the t... | |
| What are the best subwoofers to use with Magnepan 20.1s? +1. Well said johnny, agree 100%. That continuously variable phase control is absolutely mandatory in a sub; the Rythmik plate amps have one as well. That, added to the Open Baffle/Dipole design of the GR Research/Rythmik Sub makes it a particular... | |
| FR64s & Orsonic Av-1s Effective mass ? An alternative way to get damping for the arm and/or Decca is to mount them on a Townshend Rock turntable, which has a damping trough at the headshell end of the arm. The Townshend damping system also reduces the Q of the arm/cartridge resonance. | |
| speaker coupling question A three-legged stand. | |
| What are the best subwoofers to use with Magnepan 20.1s? If you have a big enough room, there is nothing like a pair of Tympani panels, the T-IV or IVa. Make sure they have been to Magnepan to have their wires re-glued. | |
| suggestions on upgrading my system The SB13 Ultra is a real good sub. It's competition is the Rythmik F15HP. | |
| What are the best subwoofers to use with Magnepan 20.1s? The GR Research/Rythmik OB/Dipole Subwoofer. | |
| Bass traps - too many choices!! rockyboy, if you email ASC a diagram or pics of your room, they will send you a proposed treatment of that room using their products, free of charge. Start there. | |
| ( Vinyl) Your latest purchase and where? Slaw, that Them album is great! I saw Them in ’66, and they were really good live too. I don’t have the Remains LP, but I’ve heard some of their stuff, and know they were the opening act for The Beatles on their East Coast dates in ’66. Sundazed i... | |
| What's going on with the audio market? whart and fourwnds, great posts, all true. The people I see all around me are so distracted, thumbing on their smart phones while doing everything else, even in a movie theater! Sensory overload. Short attention spans, a general sense of anxiety, ... | |
| Bass traps - too many choices!! Just be aware that the efficiency of traps at absorbing bass frequencies is very low; it takes a lot of them, and the larger in diameter they are the lower in frequency are they effective to. I’m investigating the cost to build a room within a roo... |