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| Should I build plinths or screw spikes into cabinet? The Ingress are the best deal around in roller bearings. He now offers a version made to Barry Diament’s specs: a highly-polished single cup made of 7075 aluminum, with a large diameter, shallow bowl (the result of machining the shape of the bowl ... | |
| Bass traps - too many choices!! Sand?! Sand is pretty good at absorbing physical vibrations, but not acoustical ones. Honest! There are diagrams on the net of how to build a bass trap. Get yourself some chicken wire (not a solid cardboard tube---the sound has to be able to get i... | |
| What's going on with the audio market? Real Hi-Fi has always been the providence of a discriminating extreme minority. When I discovered it (via, once again, my friend Pete C.), no one else I knew cared; but then, they were for the most part musician’s, the least caring of all, general... | |
| Obscure bands Straitjackets bassist Pete Curry was the leader/guitarist/songwriter in The Halibuts, and LS record in his home studio, a pretty nice one with a 2" 3M recorder, Manley tube mic pre-amp, and Neuman, Sennheiser, and AKG mics. Pete and I grew up toge... | |
| Bass traps - too many choices!! Everybody claims their acoustical product is a bass trap; It ain’t true. Room tunes is just cloth-covered fiberglass, a joke at the prices Michael asks for them. I still have some. Owens Corning 703 Semi-Rigid panels are far better for eliminating... | |
| VPI TNT Turntables ET designer Bruce Thigpen is one of Hi-Fi's true geniuses, and all his products serious over-achievers, very underpriced for their performance capabilities. Why isn't ET higher on the radar?! VPI's are THE table for the ET arm. | |
| AM and FM antenna systems Echo Audio in Portland Oregon had three McIntosh MR78's in their front window last week. A good tuner for those needing high selectivity. I did a search recently for a roof mount yagi antenna, and was dismayed to find the old names (Channel Master... | |
| Should I build plinths or screw spikes into cabinet? guitared---Barry Diament, the guy I heard about the roller bearings from, put his Magneplanar 3.7's on them, and uses slightly inflated bike tires between BB plywood planks for his electronics, even in his professional recording studio. Almost as ... | |
| Your favorite album cover... Blind Faith ;-) ?But seriously, Dylans' Nashville Skyline. Talk about spitting the counter-culture's eye! | |
| Top 10 Alt-country bands Gurf was Lucinda Williams' original guitarist/bandleader/producer, and is great on his own as well. He is playing and producing around Austin now.Buddy Miller, the best bandleader/guitarist/singer/producer in the world currently---a real MVP! Make... | |
| Obscure bands There were thousands of San Jose, California Bands/Groups never heard from outside the Valley. Here are the ones who made records receiving national distribution:- The Syndicate of Sound ("Hey Little Girl")- The Count V ("Psychotic Reaction", a ri... | |
| David Berning preamp..looking for suggestions EAR 868PL, either of the Atma-Sphere’s, Herron (separate phono and line). | |
| When speakers duplicate drivers If done correctly, increased power handling and greater maximum SPL. If not, phase cancellation, comb-filter effects, and erratic frequency response depending on listening angle relative to the speaker. | |
| Obscure bands Marti Jones, and her producer/husband Don Dixon, as SO good! Don may even be a better producer than T-Bone Burnette (and definitely a better songwriter and singer, not a T-Bone strength, imo). It's a shame he never progressed beyond that amateur D... | |
| Austrailian rock and roll Hoodoo Gurus. Dead Ringer Band (Kasey Chambers' family's Band---her dad, brother, and herself). |