bdp24
Responses from bdp24
| 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 ;-). | |
| Speakers for Rock - up to 1kusd True in theory Ralph, but in practice for a speaker to, say, be appropriate for Rock music I would say it has to be able to play LOT louder than it does to be able to play solo harpsichord music. I have Quad 57's for Baroque, but they are unsuitab... | |
| Dynamics In A Speaker Isn't sensitivity/efficiency a huge factor in a speaker's perceived dynamicism (is that a word ;-?)? | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? I believe I already offered this one, but it bears repeating, especially as my bother-in-law has just been diagnosed with stage four liver cancer, with six months to live.From the hillbilly genius Hank Williams:"No matter how I struggle and strive... |