bdp24
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| MRA : Myth or Menace? I believe Mike Fremer has written about the subject on numerous occasions over the past thirty or so years, but can't provide any specific TAS, Sterophile, or Tracking Angle issues in which he has done so.I also think Walter Davies has included th... | |
| Magnepan 1.7 crossover capacitor improvement? Shahir---Danny Richie at GR Research is well known and respected for his cross-over work (including measuring speakers), and may be able to build you one for the 1.7. | |
| What vintage speaker might you use today Right Jim, the transmission line loading of the woofers in the ESS "Trans" series speakers made for unusually deep and tight bass for the time. The dome tweeter in the lesser ESS' was okay, but those RTR ESL's in the Trans-Static were SOTA. Fulton... | |
| Folk/Rock choices that are well recorded I hadn't thought of The Everly Brothers as Folk-Rock, but their 50's and 60's recordings feature great sound. I have the British Ace label reissue and collection LP's, which sound better than the Rhino LP's. Great, great music. They had the best s... | |
| Evening Classical Music; listening for relaxation IMO the Romantic and Impressionistic periods are good for that. Debussy sure puts me to sleep ;-). | |
| Squeeze Concert including one odd tidbit I've known only one genius in my life. I met him when we were both starting 4th grade at a new Elementary School that was just opening in Cupertino California. He had already been put ahead ("skipped") two grades, and the school wanted to do a thi... | |
| Dolby NR encoding - did it ever work I'm with Wolf---the Dolby C in my BX300 is great. The deck is great with metal tape (I've used TDK and Sony), by the way. But the BX series Nak's design has a flaw---it's transport is not the most robust. I believe the CR series Nak's may be the o... | |
| Squeeze Concert including one odd tidbit I'm a big fan of "playing in service to the song", which is one reason The Band is my all-time favorite, uh, band. George Harrison was really good at pistts, his guitar "break" (as opposed to solo) in The Beatles "Nowhere Man", as an example, is a... | |
| MRA : Myth or Menace? WARNING! Having worked at Tower Records when they were still selling LP's (late 80's), I can tell you authoritatively that an LP in "still"-sealed shrink-wrap is NOT necessarily new. Huh? Tower (and I'm assuming other retailers) stores had a shrin... | |
| Open Baffle Convert If I'm correctly informed, the closer a dipole is to the wall behind it, the higher in frequency does the out-of-phase cancellation begin. | |
| Vandersteen 4 Meles---Did you do the work on your Eagle 2a yourself? I have a 2b, and have been thinking about having it upgraded. | |
| Impressed by Pangea Audio AC-9SE Even the cord makers admit a dedicated line is the place to start in improving the power to a system, and that it will provide a bigger improvement than high-performance cords. | |
| EL34 SE as stable with complex music as EL84 PP ? You could give Roger Modjeski (Music Reference) a call. He makes both single-ended and push-pull tube amps, with EL34's and other tubes. | |
| What is the best way to add subs in my system? Oranfoster---If a shallow-sloped (6dB/octave) x/o works for you, you can make (or have made) the most transparent one possible with a simple r/c filter. Just a single resister and capacitor per speaker, installed on the inputs jacks of your loudsp... | |
| What vintage speaker might you use today Sunnyjim---To be aware of the "pre-AMT tweeter and Dr. Heil" era ESS, you are either as old as I or a Hi-Fi historian (or both)! I happen to have such a pair of loudspeakers, the ESS Trans-Static I's. I found them in L.A.'s The Recycler paper in t... |