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| Have you ever spoken with a designer or audio engineer Right you are knghifi. Roger offers wire (either speaker or inter-connect, I don't remember which), so that he must "believe" in. | |
| Have you ever spoken with a designer or audio engineer Mark Levinson, the man, thought enough of the Quad to use a pair mounted very high in stands, augmented with a 24" Hartley woofer and Decca ribbon tweeter, to create his HQD loudspeaker in the 70's. He could have used any speaker in it's place, bu... | |
| Best Jazz pianist Understood Charles, and completely agreed with. I find the lyricism in the playing of guitarist Ry Cooder much more musically relevant and satisfying than mere virtuosity. Too many musicians approach the playing of their instrument as if it were s... | |
| Subwoofer pairing with new Magnepan .7's All right beernut, I wasn't going to go here, but georgelofi's post above changed my mind. I earlier recommended the Rythmik subs, which feature designer/owner Brian Ding's patented Direct Servo Feedback circuit and a number of different woofer an... | |
| Best Jazz pianist I find the polarization in opinion of Art Tatum's playing interesting, as there is a corollary amongst guitarists. It was either Basie or Ellington who uttered this quote about music: "It's not the notes you play....it's the ones you don't". Some ... | |
| Have you ever spoken with a designer or audio engineer No sooner had I posted the directly above, than I realized my comments about Bill Johnson and ARC might well bring out the knee-jerk ARC defenders. I in no way meant to denigrade Bill's design talents (he is single-handedly responsible for high en... | |
| Have you ever spoken with a designer or audio engineer oregonpapa---Bill Johnson, though a "progressive" engineer (listening tests playing a large role in the development and evaluation of a new design/product), was also pretty traditional/conservative, being more of an EE type than a lot of high end ... | |
| Evening Classical Music; listening for relaxation I recently saw a video of Ringo Starr and David Lynch together discussing TM, both of them proponents of the practice. | |
| Neil Young Trademarks New Audio Format How does being "anti-establishment" preclude one from being entrepreneurial? Those are not diametrically opposed, are they? | |
| Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers When I hear the beginning of "After Bathing at Baxters", I am immediately transported back to Lincoln's birthday in the Spring of '68. That album had just began as I was reaching lift-off on my last "flight" ;-). Unlike I, Skip Spence, drummer on ... | |
| Have you ever spoken with a designer or audio engineer Bill Johnson (Audio Research) was a good engineer who used and recommended Shunyata cords for his electronics. Roger Modjeski (Music Reference) is also a good engineer, and is a power cord skeptic. Roger's electronics are very transparent, and is ... | |
| Mass Loaded Vinyl (MLV) Acoustic Treatments - A Question MLV has been used for soundproofing cars for years. It's put between the carpeting and the floor boards in the cabin, in the doors and the trunk. It's very effective at that task; effectiveness as acoustic treatment of a room I can't say. | |
| Best Component Ever, for the money That's IT Schubert! That's the table and exact cartridge (mine was a 91e, though, no d) I bought my self in 1969. I think it was a little more than $65 by then, but not much. It replaced a Garrard SL55, my first table. My amp was a Fisher X-100c, ... | |
| If you could have only one Christmas album/CD, which one? For Pop, it's "A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector", an album of Spector's Phillies Records singers (Darlene Love, The Ronettes, The Crystals, Bob B. Soxx & The Blue Jeans) doing classic Christmas songs plus a newly written (by the lege... | |
| sleeving AudioNote tonearm wiring Here is something worth knowing: Geoffrey Owens of Helius Designs (U.K. pick-up arm designer/maker) offers his arms wired with copper, silver, and cryo-treated silver. He told me the cryo treatment not only improves the sound of the silver wire, b... |