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| Latest Absolute Sound It's so funny that both Gordon Holt and Harry Pearson came to strongly disapprove of the magazines they founded and ran. Of the two, TAS is far worse imo, presenting company-written copy as editorial content. | |
| Spindle Holes Anybody know what the diameter of the Clearaudio LP Drill is? I'm not paying $50 for a $2 bit! | |
| Motorized volumepoti for AR LS 25 MK 2 If there is a way for you to hear an EAR-Yoshino 868 pre, it comes standard with a remote-controlled motorized volume pot. It was found to have better sound than the ARC Reference 3 by Robert Levi, President of The Los Angeles and Orange County Au... | |
| Jadis JA30 Mk2, how great??? Brooks (R.I.P.) himself loved Jadis products, as does the Brooks Berdan Ltd. tech Tom, who very much approves of their design and build quality. | |
| Linn sondek vs sme The hardcore Linn Sondek enthusiast (not to mention dealer!) is talking about a different thing than non-Linn turntable owners/users/dealers when speaking of a table's quality. Linn's whole rational and priority is in how a table "plays the tune",... | |
| Where did you sink the most cash into? IMO, it used to be that the loudspeakers took a bigger percentage of a system's budget because good speakers cost more relative to the source and electronics that what you can get now. Loudspeaker research has really paid off, as it costs relative... | |
| Where did you sink the most cash into? My music collection! LP's, 7" 45's, CD's/SACD's, tapes. Somewhere around 10,000 of them. | |
| Your "eureka" analog moment Definitely hearing my first Decca cartridge (a Blue) in 1972, being used in a full ARC system (Magneplanar Tympani I's bi-amped with D-75 and D-51 amps, and an SP-3 pre) by Bill Johnson. Mounted in a prototype ARC pickup arm that never made it int... | |
| Help needed for isolation under the power amps Mass loading via sand dates back far more than thirty years, to the 50's, when it was used in the huge bass reflex enclosures of loudspeakers such as Wharfedale, their large unbraced plywood panels resonating like crazy if not so damped. The Briti... | |
| Speaker help under $2,500 Coming in at a buck under your upper limit is the Eminent Technology LFT-8b. Similar to the Maggie 1.7 and .7 in being a magnetic-planar dipole, but with a push-pull design and structure (magnets on both sides of the Mylar diaphragm, resulting in ... | |
| What I did to my Magnepan MG12's and I'm doing with my new 1.7's RHanson---Danny Richie at GR Research builds x/o's using premium parts for a reasonable charge. You need only provide him with the schematic.GKR---Also from Danny is a very special sub that would be incredible with your 1.7's (as well as any and a... | |
| Artists' lps that don't get the respect deserved A lot of Dylan fans reacted negatively to his 1980's "Christian period". I wasn't one of them, loving those albums. | |
| Help needed for isolation under the power amps For mass loading, nothing is better than the no-longer-made Bright Star Big Rock, a shallow (2-4", depending on model) sand filled box. I already sold mine, but they are out there somewhere! You can then use the Symposium products on top of the Bi... | |
| If you could have only one Christmas album/CD, which one? J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion | |
| Scott Weiland dead at 48. And Jerry Lee Lewis! |