bdp24
Responses from bdp24
| Subwoofer Particularly if the soundstage is a large reverberant church/cathedral or concert hall, RW. The ability to play really low makes possible reproducing the huge sound (long wavelengths and very low frequency reflections between walls, floor, and cei... | |
| AUdio research ... good price? The best time to buy ARC is right when a "new/improved" model is replacing the now hardly-worth-listening-to obsolete model, which is every other year or so. Right now you should be able to pick up an LS17 or 27 or whatever (I’ve lost track) for a... | |
| Best Ways to Organize a Classical Record LP Collection ? I have far more "Classical" (the term originally identified a time period and composition form or style, approximately the mid-18th century through almost mid-19th, including Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. You can see TV clips from the 1950s, in wh... | |
| Subwoofer There are many subs with 15" drivers, all sounding a little different from each other. Which gives "a more natural sound"? The one you own, of course ;-) ! The 12" and 15" Rythmik subs, both with aluminum coned woofers, sound exactly the same---no... | |
| QUALITY AND SECURITY OF "LITTELFUSE" PRODUCTS Oh boy pehare, you have just stepped on a landmine! Roger doesn’t get much respect around these parts (ha, unintentional pun ;-). | |
| Subwoofer To add to Duke’s very informed post above, Danny Richie’s GR Research OB subs are the "fastest" I’ve ever heard. Danny chose paper as the cone material for the drivers he designed for his subs for a few reasons: He finds paper to provide greater r... | |
| LAST record preservative improves the sound As his response displays, Walter is a great, great guy. I bought my first high end system from him when he had a retail Hi-Fi shop in Livermore, CA, one of the first on the West Coast. Last Record Preservative is a fantastic product, a real gift t... | |
| Tonearm Rewiring Vendor Recommendation Also Johnnie at Audio Origami in the U.K. | |
| Performer-in-Room Quality with Speakers? Your priorities are the same as mine---above all else, the voice(s) right there in the room, standing ten feet away (if that’s what’s on the recording, of course). In addition to lifelike tonality and freedom from (to quote Gordon Holt) vowel colo... | |
| music. on vinyl I've been wondering that myself. I think it's a UK company doing mostly 60's Rock reissues, some good titles. I'm waiting for Fremer to get around to listening to them before spending any money. | |
| Magneplanar speaker terminals. is there an adapter to.... Ha! | |
| Adding mass to the Zeta counterweight The Michell and Groovetracer counterweights are underhung and wide, for the reason you state fleib. And you're right, adding mass below the bearings should provide an improvement as the Zeta is a dynamically balanced arm---hadn't thought of that, ... | |
| Adding mass to the Zeta counterweight Ah yes, I had forgotten that adding mass to the counterweight will allow it to be positioned closer to the arms bearings, thereby automatically lowering the arms effective mass. Elegant, and counter-intuitive (no pun intended)! Thanks fleib.The qu... | |
| Magneplanar speaker terminals. is there an adapter to.... If you don't mind altering your speaker cables, Cardas makes Magy Pins (which replace spades or banana plugs) specifically for the Magnepan terminals. | |
| WBT binding posts Is the design and build of the WBT along the lines of the Cardas binding posts? Gold over copper, no brass involved? |