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| Your Best Tweak Lately For fans of roller bearing isolators, there is great news. Ingress Audio Engineering in Canada is making them to Barry Diament's exact specs. They are machined in 7075 aluminum, are 1.5" in diameter and 0.5" tall, and have a 2" diameter "bowl" mac... | |
| The New Audio Research Reference 6 Robert Fulton was pretty close with both Bill Johnson and Jim Winey, being located close to them in Minnesota. He made fantastic speakers in the '70's (famous for his Model 80, and Model J, Gordon Holt's favorite for awhile), and is credited with ... | |
| RCA Shorting Plugs vs Caps non-shorting ? Good move Elunkenheimer, I did the same. A dozen true shorting plugs on ebay for ten bucks I think it was, much cheaper than the price of the Cardas plugs, which do nothing but keep dust out of RCA jacks. Big deal. | |
| "All Things Must Pass"-Tower Records Documentary Oregonpapa---There were three Towers in the Valley---Sherman Oaks, Northridge (destroyed by the '94 earthquake), and Panorama City. There was a Licorice Pizza on Topanga, across the street from the Topanga Mall. Yep, used to go to Record Trader re... | |
| Your Best Tweak Lately Glenfarclas? That's a new one to me. When I'm playing a gig with an open bar (my favorite kind), I'm happy drinking Johnnie Walker Black free (all bar's have JWB). Hey, if it's good enough for Van Morrison and Richard Manuel (4% Pantomime ;-), it'... | |
| How important is bass to you? Nope, nothing missed Tostadosunidos. Just trying to clarify what people mean by "lowest bass", and make the point that many systems just barely play the lowest note of the bass, which at 42Hz is sure not the lowest bass. I asked Inna if by lowest ... | |
| Tone arm upgrade Yeah, I know Mofi, sorry. I can't even reveal WHY I can't talk about it! | |
| The New Audio Research Reference 6 Yeah Oregonpapa, I could live with (and have) any ARC, Atma-Sphere, or EAR product (let's not forget Music Reference, either)---they all make great music. Cost of ownership is a separate question.Speaking of designers who have made great recording... | |
| How important is bass to you? Onhwy61---Ha! One reason I asked Inna if by the lowest bass did he mean 20-40Hz, is that the lowest frequency produced by the standard 4-string bass (both electric and acoustic upright) is 42Hz, on the open E string. The output of many loudspeaker... | |
| Tone arm upgrade I was doing research on an arm to replace my own rewired RB300, and had narrowed it down to a couple, including the Audiomods. My cartridges (both Londons) present about as difficult a challenge to an arm as any out there. Some argue the Audiomods... | |
| The New Audio Research Reference 6 Twenty years ago at CES, Ralph Karsten asked me what pre-amp I was using with his Atma-Sphere M-60's and old Quad speakers. When I told him an ARC LS-2B MkII, he said "My MP-3 is a lot more transparent". Now, you can say he would of course say tha... | |
| recommend good T shaped dipole antenna for FM? The problem with powered indoor antennas is that they amplify the noise along with the signal, so nothing is really (heh) gained. | |
| ARC ref 5SE current or past owners A power amp with an impedance impedance of 3kOhms?! Keith Herron says that is done because lowering the input impedance of an amp improves it's test bench specs. Unfortunately there is a price to be paid for doing that. | |
| Tone arm upgrade I tried pushing the Audiomods arm here (in a thread on the subject of the best current value in an arm) awhile back Willie, and got a lot of blow back. The fools ;-)! | |
| ELAC Debut B6 speakers Danny Richie of GR Research is developing after-market cross-overs for the new ELAC speakers using premium parts. Should provide a noticeable upgrade from the budget-parts stock ones. |