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| Who are the most underground high-end companies Hey, how do I get my posts here to single space? When I hit the enter button, my curser automatically drops two lines. | |
| Who are the most underground high-end companies Some good ones already mentioned. Here are some more (okay, I own them all ;-):Clear Day CablesEAR-YoshinoEminent TechnologyGR ResearchHelius DesignsLondonMusic ReferenceRythmik AudioTownshend Audio | |
| Should we use ridiculously priced cables to listen to Rap? Since most RCA jacks, spade lugs, and banana plugs are gold plated these days, cables are inherently bling. But Anti-Cables adds gold into copper for the wire in their cables! | |
| What are you favorite artists and songs to listen to on your system? Marty, if you haven't already, give Danny Gatton a listen. He's a well-kept secret, a guitarists guitarist, Telecaster master. | |
| What are you favorite artists and songs to listen to on your system? Thanks Tostadosunidos, I'll do that. | |
| Recording Quality and Different Studios I prefer to buy LPs in a store locally. But then I live in the desert, and for much of the year the temperature inside a delivery truck out here is insane. Luckily there are stores not too far away that actually stock and sell LPs. When I do have ... | |
| How important are speaker cables to the sound emanating from the speakers? Roger Sanders makes a speaker cable optimized specifically for Electrostatics. He explains the difference between the electrical characteristics they present to a power amp versus that presented by non-ESLs (the voltage versus current paradigm), a... | |
| What are you favorite artists and songs to listen to on your system? Of currently working artists, Iris Dement is at the top of my list. Long-time favorites also include (amongst many others) Brian Wilson (song writer par excellence), Dave Edmunds (Rock n’ Roll master), Hank Williams (Hillbilly genius), The Everly ... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? B. Dylan : "Idiot winds, I’m surprised we can even feed ourselves". Who else would include himself in such a condemnation? | |
| So how many people are using subwoofers A second for the Rythmik F12G, a sub made expressly for music reproduction. The G in the model designation is for GR Research, whose designer/owner Danny Richie collaborated with Rythmiks Brian Ding on the design of the woofer (a paper-coned versi... | |
| How important are speaker cables to the sound emanating from the speakers? rzado may be right, but the first specialty high end cable I remembering hearing of (via Gordon Holt at Stereophile) was the Fulton Brown, in '75 or so. I may be mistaken about the exact timing, but I seem to recall reading about the problems with... | |
| Advice needed: biwire speaker cables used as single wire speaker cable? Clear Day Cables offers speaker cable in a few different models, the only difference between them being the amount of wire in the cable. There is the Standard, then the Shotgun version (which doubles the wire), and the Double Shotgun (which, duh, ... | |
| Jimmy Fallon has a Mcintosh turntable Right you are, taters. It was at Brooks Berdan Ltd. that Henry bought his system, but it was Brian who demoed, assembled, and installed the system in Henry’s home. Brooks was already ill with the Crohns disease which eventually killed him, and Bri... | |
| Jimmy Fallon has a Mcintosh turntable One interesting "celebrity" audiophile is Henry Rollins, of all people. He has a pair of the big Wilsons ($200,000!) powered by VTL tubes. I don't recall, but I believe he has a VPI table. Brian Berdan (yes, son of Brooks) at Audio Elements in Pas... | |
| Can a name make you or break you in the Audio World The Schiit phono amp has an input for high output (like 5mV) mm/mi cartridges, which provides 30dB of gain. Great idea! |