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| recommend good T shaped dipole antenna for FM? Do you have a roof a "real" antenna (with a rotor) could be mounted on? There is no substitute! | |
| Valve/Tube Newbie Since you put your price range in Pounds, I'll assume your in the UK. You can probable get an EAR 868 pre with phono and a smaller EAR power amp used for 6K. | |
| Top 10 low gain line stages ARC will lower the gain of some of their line stages (around the LS-15 and LS-16 era, I believe) from 18dB to just 12. | |
| The New Audio Research Reference 6 Mofi, I too think of the toggle switch style as THE classic ARC look. I've kept my LS-1 not just for that, but because of it's mode switch (Stereo/Reverse/Mono/Left/Right), something I wish ARC (and everyone else) would bring back. | |
| How important is bass to you? By "except the lowest bass" do you mean the bottom octave (20-40Hz)? | |
| "All Things Must Pass"-Tower Records Documentary Oregonpapa---There was no Topanga Canyon store. You're probably thinking of the Sherman Oaks store, located at the corner of Van Nuys and Ventura Boulevards (Ventura Blvd. immortalized in Tom Petty's song "Free Falling"). The reason the Sherman Oa... | |
| "All Things Must Pass"-Tower Records Documentary I haven't seen the doc yet, so don't know if the following is covered in it. But I can tell you when I knew Tower was heading for big trouble, if not complete failure. The chain was always privately owned by Russ Soloman, the company borrowing it'... | |
| "All Things Must Pass"-Tower Records Documentary Here's a true Tower Records story that isn't in the documentary: Weezer front man Rivers Cuomo worked at the Hollywood store (the famous one on Sunset Blvd.) before they got signed. When the interviews started at the time of the first album's rele... | |
| What music do you use to assess your system? Simply mic'd vocals with accompaniment (piano is good, but acoustic guitar will do), and recordings I've made myself with a pair of good condensers and a Revox A77. | |
| Tube Watts vs. Solid State Watts - Any credence? Tim deParavicini (EAR) has said that he can tell what an amp's bass will sound like by looking at the power transformer. For bass, the larger the better. Unfortunately, the larger it is, the worse it is (all else being equal) at high frequencies. ... | |
| KT-120 tubes vs Gold Lion KT88's Not all amps that are okay with 120's are also with 150's, the Music Reference RM-200 being one. I think some parts values would need to be changed in that amp. Best check with the maker of an amp before putting in 150's. | |
| Garage Band Hangover Last time I was in Austin (I was planning on moving there to resume playing with a good guitarist I had been in a Band with in L.A., who was now in Cornell Hurd's Band, but he was dying of lung cancer by the time I got there) I went to Antone's an... | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music Tubegroover---"Don't Worry Baby" is just gorgeous! My first live concert was The Beach Boys in the Summer of '64, and when Brian sang the line "and she makes love to me" in DWB, the girls in the audience went completely insane. But I didn't really... | |
| Anyone Compared ARC Ref 75SE and 75 With KT150 Right you are. HM has some of the best of the Period/Original Instrument/Historically Informed (choose your favorite term!) musicians, singers, and conductors in the field, Nicholas McGegan, Philippe Herreweghe, William Christie, and Rene Jacobs a... | |
| Garage Band Hangover I didn't say she was born there! ;-) |