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| Mass Loaded Vinyl (MLV) Acoustic Treatments - A Question MLV is designed to absorb physical resonance (vibrations), not acoustic. It works well when sandwiched between two layers of MDF in a speaker enclosure, for example. | |
| Schiit Ragnarok Mike Moffat was the designer of the initial Theta products. He then had a company named Angstrom and made a good surround sound processor. | |
| If you could have only one Christmas album/CD, which one? tostadosunidos, I have four "Period Instrument/Historically Informed" versions (Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Herreweghe, Leonhardt) of St. Matthew Passion on CD, Gardiner or Herreweghe being my first choice. Yes, I like the "no vibrato" movement! On LP ... | |
| LONDON Decca, Tzar DST and similar cartridges Warren Gregoire, whom I've never met, seems to be quite a character. When I talked to him on the phone about the current Londons, he was rather brusque, coming across as someone who has had his fill of dealing with consumers, with which I can symp... | |
| LONDON Decca, Tzar DST and similar cartridges Some other arms people have found to work well with Deccas and Londons: The Arm by David Fletcher (designer of the original SOTA table); Mission Mechanic (a U.K. arm similar to The Arm); Fidelity Research FR-64/66; Keith Monks (a somewhat rare U.K... | |
| LONDON Decca, Tzar DST and similar cartridges I was wondering the same myself, halcro. I have to reread what Art wrote, and see if the answer is in there somewhere. If it is, I missed it last night. | |
| Why do some dealers Yep taters, Brooks was the dealer in numbers 2 and 3 in my posting above. He was a very opinionated, self-assured guy, but idealistic to a fault. If he sold, say, two speaker lines that both included a $10,000 model, and found one of the speakers ... | |
| LONDON Decca, Tzar DST and similar cartridges Received the January Stereophile today, and whatta ya know; in it Art Dudley reviews the Tzar DST! It seems like last months review of an old Decca was a prelude to the Tzar review. I'd love to hear one, but that's unlikely. What dealer is going t... | |
| Classical Music Compositions from 1940 and later - Vinyl only The separation of Classical and Pop musics can be indefensible in purely artist terms. A fair amount of 20th Century Classical barely qualifies as music at all, imo, and an album of the most artistically ambitious and rewarding music of the Centur... | |
| favorite independant audio dealers/designers Dealers: Any and all who have been able to keep a specialist high-end shop in business as it's older customer base dies off is to be admired and respected. Without resorting to selling Home Theater, I don't know how they do it.Designers: Max Towns... | |
| Why do some dealers 1- A dealer is expected to meet certain quarterly sales objectives by the manufacturer. If he doesn't, the company may drop the dealer and give the line to another dealer in the same sales area. I was a customer of one N. California dealer who los... | |
| Latest Absolute Sound I found it so odd that no character in the Seinfeld sitcom was ever listening to music or reading a book. The only system I saw was Jerry's, and it was just as you would expect. | |
| Subwoofer pairing with new Magnepan .7's A pair of Rythmik's are quite nice with the .7's (and 1.7's and 3.7's!). | |
| Latest Absolute Sound Is Dick Olsher still reviewing in TAS? He was the only contributor I liked, after he left Stereophile. Dick is very much from the Gordon Holt school. | |
| LONDON Decca, Tzar DST and similar cartridges The only table that is of particular appropriateness for the Decca/London is the Townshend, because of the damping trough endemic to it. One thing to be aware of is that because of the cartridge's unshielded magnets, Decca/Londons can not be used ... |