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| Recording Quality and Different Studios I prefer to buy LPs in a store locally. But then I live in the desert, and for much of the year the temperature inside a delivery truck out here is insane. Luckily there are stores not too far away that actually stock and sell LPs. When I do have ... | |
| How important are speaker cables to the sound emanating from the speakers? Roger Sanders makes a speaker cable optimized specifically for Electrostatics. He explains the difference between the electrical characteristics they present to a power amp versus that presented by non-ESLs (the voltage versus current paradigm), a... | |
| What are you favorite artists and songs to listen to on your system? Of currently working artists, Iris Dement is at the top of my list. Long-time favorites also include (amongst many others) Brian Wilson (song writer par excellence), Dave Edmunds (Rock n’ Roll master), Hank Williams (Hillbilly genius), The Everly ... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? B. Dylan : "Idiot winds, I’m surprised we can even feed ourselves". Who else would include himself in such a condemnation? | |
| So how many people are using subwoofers A second for the Rythmik F12G, a sub made expressly for music reproduction. The G in the model designation is for GR Research, whose designer/owner Danny Richie collaborated with Rythmiks Brian Ding on the design of the woofer (a paper-coned versi... | |
| How important are speaker cables to the sound emanating from the speakers? rzado may be right, but the first specialty high end cable I remembering hearing of (via Gordon Holt at Stereophile) was the Fulton Brown, in '75 or so. I may be mistaken about the exact timing, but I seem to recall reading about the problems with... | |
| Advice needed: biwire speaker cables used as single wire speaker cable? Clear Day Cables offers speaker cable in a few different models, the only difference between them being the amount of wire in the cable. There is the Standard, then the Shotgun version (which doubles the wire), and the Double Shotgun (which, duh, ... | |
| 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... |