bdp24
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| Drying time after a VPI record cleaner? I’m just pleased to see so many responses to a question about source material, an indicator that it is the music we care most about!I got my VPI HW-17F precisely because I was not satisfied with the drying abilities of the Nitty Gritty I had previ... | |
| Hostility from manufacturers As everyone has been saying, it depends on the company owner, or in bigger companies, their policies. Everyone is pretty happy with ARC in the latter. In the former, Bruce Thigpen of Eminent Technology is great to deal with, as is Roger Modjeski o... | |
| What makes a good Hi Fi rack improve your system. If you employ good isolation devices (roller bearing, air bearing, springs), the nature of the underlying surface is of far less significance. | |
| Full Manual Turntable-What to do I believe it was Linn (of course ;-) who first recommended leaving the platter spinning. No problem on the Sondek, as it had a felt mat. But who uses those anymore?! If the platter is acrylic, it obviously could damage the LP surface if spinning d... | |
| Audio Research is launching new products, "The Foundation Series" I, for one, like the new styling. Kind of reminiscent of the old Quad faceplates, and a little of the ARC SP-3. | |
| best integrated amp. The nicest integrated I've heard is a Jadis, but I don't know if it's a good match with the 1.7's. Give Brooks Berdan Ltd., long time Jadis dealer, a call for advice. | |
| Has there been any inexpensive item that enhanced your system's sound? Actually Jerry, she was asking because of the age-related regulations regarding drivers licenses. It was the shock of being called elderly, and the realization that I apparently am, I guess! I still think of my self as a 39 year old, ya know? | |
| Need advice on adding subs I understand your trepidation regarding a new-to-you design (open baffle subs), cjk. But consider this: More than a few people consider one particular type of loudspeaker still the best overall of any yet devised: The Planar, one type of OB; Elect... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? I started today with a collection by Chris Hillman & The Desert Rose Band. Chris was the bassist in The Byrds of course, and then went on to have a solo career, putting out a number of great Bluegrass (what he was playing before being recruite... | |
| Who remembers the Dahlquist DQ-10's? Yeah yeah, Accurate Audio. Back when all those little appointment-only one-man shops sprung up everywhere, selling budget high-end lines. Brooks Berdan left GNP in Pasadena and worked out of his house for a couple of years before getting his store... | |
| The Beach Boys I too have pondered that very scenario, Marty. Of course, there WERE people who were hearing the Smile recordings as they transpired, creating an intense buzz via the underground reporting on the album (as chronicled at the time by Paul Williams i... | |
| The Beach Boys Ha! I got the boxset of Smile and, as much of a fan of Smile as I am, for me it was a listen-to-once kinda thing. Listening to every partial take, every snippet of every rehearsal of every part of every song, is not something I want to do again. I... | |
| Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ? No strawman argument from me Ralph, at least not intentionally. I’m with ya, man! But in the different executions of a solid plinth offered by a multitude of turntable makers, all attempting to advance, or at least equal, the State Of The Art, the... | |
| Cartridge loading question That’s the way Harvey Rosenberg taught me to tune Decca cartridges, also a moving iron (actually, variable reluctance) design; loading resistance and capacitance to critically damp the particular specimen of the cartridge one owned (back then ever... | |
| Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ? True, a suspended-subchassis table will always have a plinth common to the platter bearing and arm pillar (at least as far as I know!), while a non-suspended doesn't have to, the later fact the impetus for this discussion. When I was said I would ... |