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| "All Things Must Pass"-Tower Records Documentary And my apologies Oregonpapa! It never occurred to me that after having filed Chapter 11, closing under-performing stores, and cutting employee hours, Tower would then open a new store in the Valley. Topanga isn't that far from the Sherman Oaks sto... | |
| "All Things Must Pass"-Tower Records Documentary You must be right Marty. I left in 2002, and there was no Tower on Topanga then. They had actually been closing stores, so I'm surprised to hear of that new one. | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Oops, one other thing: London's put out not only a lot of mechanical energy, but electrical as well---5mV! You will need a phono stage with a pretty high overload margin, and lower than average gain, about 40dB being a good figure. | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners One aspect of the London/Decca cartridge design that influences arm choice is the differing lateral vs. vertical compliance figures, they being 10 X 10 (-6) cm/dyne Vertical and 15 Lateral. I know the ET arm has differing moving mass figures in th... | |
| SME turntables Taters---I was talking about the reference system in the main room in his shop (a great room, built in the golden ratio formula of 10' X 16' X 26', and fitted with RPG diffusers and ASC Tube Traps). The SME replaced that huge acrylic table built i... | |
| Could either amp work? One tube amp that may work particularly well with the decreasing-with-frequency impedance nature of the speaker (as shown in George's graph) is the Music Reference RM-200. Unlike normal tube amps, it's power output increases as the frequency decre... | |
| LS50 and Big Fat Dots Probably the most important consideration in locating the speakers is to have them right at the front edge of your credenza, so that you don't get a reflection off it's top surface. The isolation devices will help the speakers "disappear", the spe... | |
| SME turntables Turntable master Brooks Berdan (R.I.P.) loved the SME tables, using one in his reference system for quite a while. | |
| LS50 and Big Fat Dots Nonoise, the Ingress Audio Rollerblocks come in sets of three, each having a top and bottom cup. The provided 3/8" ball bearing is placed in the bottom cup, the top cup is placed on the ball, and the component on top of that, just as Symposium Aco... | |
| Your First Concert was..... Yep, I do. It was a local Surf Band from Santa Cruz (just over the mountains from San Jose) named The Tikis. They were outfitted in matching suits, the pants of which were cut off at the knees, making shorts! A few years later they had changed the... | |
| LS50 and Big Fat Dots Max Townshend has a 25 minute video on You Tube discussing the topic of vibration and it's effect on hi-fi (he has done a lot of research on the subject, and is considered an authority in the field). In it he covers spikes, and states as fact that... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners The Londons made since they have had four pins are better in numerous ways than the older three pin versions. Not only less noise, but different stylus profiles, improved tracking, tighter assembly standards, etc. There are now three different mod... | |
| REL505 vs SVS 2xSB13 or 1 x PB13 Rythmik F15HP (sealed) or FV15HP (ported). | |
| LS50 and Big Fat Dots TVfreak, the problem with the dots (as well as Sorbothane, etc.) is their rather high resonant frequency (see the technical info on Townshend Audio's site, where graphs of the resonant frequencies of Sorbothane, spikes, and Townshend's Seismic Pod... | |
| Your First Concert was..... The Beach Boys, Summer of '64. Second was The Beatles, Summer of '65. Not a bad way to start! |