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| Have you ever spoken with a designer or audio engineer For documentation of the Tuning Fuses causing harm to a power amp, click on the link that ct0517 provided above. In the thread Roger Modjeski not only describes the failings of the fuses, but explains the why. | |
| Your favorite BEACH BOYS LP besides PET SOUNDS The Beach Boys are a very special Group to me, as not only did I already love them ("All Summer Long" in particular), they were the first I saw live (in the Summer of '64). But Brian Wilson is even more so, being the greatest songwriter of his gen... | |
| Have you ever spoken with a designer or audio engineer Thanks Chris. I really gotta learn how to insert a link into a post! I found Roger's warning about using the Tuning Fuses on power tubes and in the amp the tubes are in very, very important. Whether a fuse sounds different/better is a question sep... | |
| Hendrix : Freedom/ATL pop festival I saw Hendrix twice, in '67 and '68. In '67 he was new out-of-the-gate, playing the "Are You Experienced" material, and real good. The following year I saw him at Winterland, and he seemed bored, just going through the motions. My taste changed dr... | |
| Any DIY stuff in your system? I have somewhat-DIY subs. Speaker/cross-over designer Danny Richie of GR Research collaborated with Brian Ding of Rythmik in the design of an OB/Dipole subwoofer. The Rythmik Direct Servo Feedback A370 plate amp is mated with either two or three 8... | |
| Have you ever spoken with a designer or audio engineer Actually knghifi, Roger in more than skeptical of boutique fuses, he warns against their use in power amps. He tested some of the Hi-Fi Tuning ones, and discussed their design with the U.S. distributor. Roger discovered that, regardless of whether... | |
| Have you ever spoken with a designer or audio engineer Right you are knghifi. Roger offers wire (either speaker or inter-connect, I don't remember which), so that he must "believe" in. | |
| Have you ever spoken with a designer or audio engineer Mark Levinson, the man, thought enough of the Quad to use a pair mounted very high in stands, augmented with a 24" Hartley woofer and Decca ribbon tweeter, to create his HQD loudspeaker in the 70's. He could have used any speaker in it's place, bu... | |
| Best Jazz pianist Understood Charles, and completely agreed with. I find the lyricism in the playing of guitarist Ry Cooder much more musically relevant and satisfying than mere virtuosity. Too many musicians approach the playing of their instrument as if it were s... | |
| Subwoofer pairing with new Magnepan .7's All right beernut, I wasn't going to go here, but georgelofi's post above changed my mind. I earlier recommended the Rythmik subs, which feature designer/owner Brian Ding's patented Direct Servo Feedback circuit and a number of different woofer an... | |
| Best Jazz pianist I find the polarization in opinion of Art Tatum's playing interesting, as there is a corollary amongst guitarists. It was either Basie or Ellington who uttered this quote about music: "It's not the notes you play....it's the ones you don't". Some ... | |
| Have you ever spoken with a designer or audio engineer No sooner had I posted the directly above, than I realized my comments about Bill Johnson and ARC might well bring out the knee-jerk ARC defenders. I in no way meant to denigrade Bill's design talents (he is single-handedly responsible for high en... | |
| Have you ever spoken with a designer or audio engineer oregonpapa---Bill Johnson, though a "progressive" engineer (listening tests playing a large role in the development and evaluation of a new design/product), was also pretty traditional/conservative, being more of an EE type than a lot of high end ... | |
| Evening Classical Music; listening for relaxation I recently saw a video of Ringo Starr and David Lynch together discussing TM, both of them proponents of the practice. | |
| Neil Young Trademarks New Audio Format How does being "anti-establishment" preclude one from being entrepreneurial? Those are not diametrically opposed, are they? |