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| 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! | |
| Do you have a secret "guilty pleasure" recording? I don't feel guilty about it, but people who hear me playing ABBA seem to think I should! | |
| Advice needed: biwire speaker cables used as single wire speaker cable? Or, wrap the terminations on one leg of the bi-wire, and just use the other. Compare that with both legs, if you like. | |
| Jimmy Fallon has a Mcintosh turntable If he was gonna have any expensive table, it figures it’s a Mac. In the 60’s and 70’s (and maybe today), it and others like it were referred to as "Carriage trade" brands. Not that there’s anything wrong with Mac---it’s good stuff. Beautiful (imo)... | |
| Can a name make you or break you in the Audio World Mike Moffat, designer of the original Theta digital products, is involved in Schiit. He has always been a rascal. | |
| Lately I have been reading more Equalizers have always been politically incorrect in high end, disapproved of. That's because the typical graphic equalizer is not very transparent, often causing a decrease in resolution and general SQ when inserted into a really good system. The... | |
| Is high end audio to snooty for its own good? I always found Jonathan Scull more than a little pretentious. Ol' Harry Pearson himself as well, at times. | |
| Amps which are Great, but either Unknown or Underpriced BEL, Music Reference. | |
| When is your Hifi good enough? A system is good enough for me (as for others who have said the same here and elsewhere) when I find myself completely absorbed, consumed, and inhabited by the music---becoming one with it, rather than thinking about the sound of it. Good equipmen... | |
| Your three favorite audio dealerships? I don't know about audio shops in Austin jafant, but Rythmik Audio, maker of great subwoofers, is. So is Cornell Hurd and his band, a Western Swing/Hard Country singer/songwriter friend of mine. Go see and hear him some time! | |
| Dealer selling B stock doesn't tell customers Then there is this: I don't know if ARC still does this, but they did in the early 90's, and is what got me questioning their ethics. When the LS2 Mk.2 was discontinued, my local ARC dealer had a few "Factory Reconditioned" units available at the ... | |
| Proportion of expenses Agree 100% Wolf. In fact, very few (and very expensive) speakers don't benefit from a superior sub. A pair of modestly priced main speakers and sub(s) can outperform a "full"-range speaker (very few speakers actually provide low-distortion, sub-35... | |
| Proportion of expenses "a good system should be able to play all of it (music) well within its power and speaker driver limits". Well of course---"should be" is right! And if one has enough dough, the choice between, say, maximum SPL and amount of bass, versus, for inst... |