bdp24
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| 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... | |
| Phono Interconnect A maker of electronics recommending a competitors product! I applaud you Bill!! | |
| Oregon Audiophiles... Thanks Bwalso, I'll be in touch. I'm aware that the housing situation in Portland is getting insane, so I may end up in the outskirts, Gresham perhaps. I don't want to be too far from Music Millenium, my favorite Portland record store! | |
| Impressed by Pangea Audio AC-9SE Caelin Gabriel, Shunyata's designer, warns that you might well not hear a difference if installing a single cord of his in a system, that the whole system needs to outfitted with his cords to hear the improvement they afford. Speaking of afford, t... | |
| Proper Room Acoustics/Designs I'll look Foley up. J. Gordon Holt specified that 1:1.6:2.3 ratio long ago, which I took as Gospel for years. Then everyone (Cardas, etc.) starting recommending 2.6 for the last figure. 2.3 seems better to me, being a prime number. I would gladly ... | |
| What is the best way to add subs in my system? There are a pair of Rythmik F12's new on Audiogon this morning, $1000 the pair. The F12 is a great, great sub. | |
| Squeeze Concert including one odd tidbit I love that you guys aren't afraid of challenging the common wisdom---that The damn Beatles are IT, nobody can touch them. I've never felt that way, and continually marvel at how their hardcore fans (I know a few) can be so blindly uncritical of t... | |
| Who can service Bedini amps? Excellent! | |
| Squeeze Concert including one odd tidbit Great, great story Marty. I loved Squeeze in their heyday (still have all their LP's, but just sold the CD's), and even saw them live in England in December of '82. Difford & Tillbrook were probably the best songwriters of their generation, I ... | |
| What vintage speaker might you use today I have no doubt that I will be the first of many to name the obvious first choice, the original Quad ESL. | |
| Cleaning records. How often really? Oh, wait a minute Bill. The Last Preservative is not designed or intended to remove the mold release agent (allegedly, if you prefer) found on new LP's. Nitty Gritty at one time offered a product named First for that purpose, but it's no longer av... | |
| Cleaning records. How often really? Stop scrubbing Bill! According to Last, the preservative bonds to the vinyl of the LP at the molecular level. Scrubbing won't reverse that permanent bond. | |
| $510.00 for an Aluminum cover for the ARC Ref. 10? I was in the LAOCAS in the 90's, and attended all the shows in California. I also accompanied Brooks to CES every January for years, but dropped out of Hi-Fi for awhile, visiting Brooks only occasionally. He became a customer of mine, buying a bun... |