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| Processor Loop A processor input on a lot of pre-amps just passes the signal directly from the input jacks to the pre-amp's outputs. ARC's in particular are wired that way. That arrangement is the very rational for the input! But Swampwalker is right---the inclu... | |
| SACD with LFD/ Harbeth Esoteric DV-50s, around $1200 used. | |
| Cleaning records. How often really? Another thing about the desert air (at least the low desert here in S. California) is the amount of dirt in it, blown around by the winds. Since there is little ground cover, there are actual dust storms when it gets windy. Even with all the windo... | |
| Processor Loop The processor input does not provide any gain, however, so your cassette deck will need enough output voltage to power your amp. | |
| Sgt. Pepper's. remastered Mobile Fidelity The mono Beatles I'm talking about are CD's, released in 2009. It was a big deal at the time, Capitol having spent a lot of time getting it right. The boxset was a limited edition, but there are plenty of them around. Careful though, it was counte... | |
| Sgt. Pepper's. remastered Mobile Fidelity The Beatles albums up through the white album are available in newly-remastered mono versions (the preferred mode for purists), and everyone likes them a lot (the first versions about which that can be said). There is a boxset containing all those... | |
| Oregon Audiophiles... The 3-bedroom tract house my parents bought in Cupertino California (now home to Apple and ebay) in 1959 for $12,000 has risen in value to.....a lot. The house across the street sold last year for $1.4 million. Too bad my dad sold ours in '66! | |
| Squeeze Concert including one odd tidbit Good analogy Tostadosunidos. I also like that of a book versus a short story to a Classical composition versus a song. IMO the Brian Wilson songs in the Smile album are at least as "good" as anything Copland wrote, capturing "Americana" very succe... | |
| What's a contender to an Audio Reference 5 SE? Oregonpapa, your second paragraph directly above puts it perfectly!J. Gordon Holt's first priority in music reproduction was lack of "vowel" colorations, followed by degree of transparency (concepts borrowed from photography---vowel colorations eq... | |
| MRA : Myth or Menace? I believe Mike Fremer has written about the subject on numerous occasions over the past thirty or so years, but can't provide any specific TAS, Sterophile, or Tracking Angle issues in which he has done so.I also think Walter Davies has included th... | |
| Magnepan 1.7 crossover capacitor improvement? Shahir---Danny Richie at GR Research is well known and respected for his cross-over work (including measuring speakers), and may be able to build you one for the 1.7. | |
| What vintage speaker might you use today Right Jim, the transmission line loading of the woofers in the ESS "Trans" series speakers made for unusually deep and tight bass for the time. The dome tweeter in the lesser ESS' was okay, but those RTR ESL's in the Trans-Static were SOTA. Fulton... | |
| Folk/Rock choices that are well recorded I hadn't thought of The Everly Brothers as Folk-Rock, but their 50's and 60's recordings feature great sound. I have the British Ace label reissue and collection LP's, which sound better than the Rhino LP's. Great, great music. They had the best s... | |
| Evening Classical Music; listening for relaxation IMO the Romantic and Impressionistic periods are good for that. Debussy sure puts me to sleep ;-). | |
| Squeeze Concert including one odd tidbit I've known only one genius in my life. I met him when we were both starting 4th grade at a new Elementary School that was just opening in Cupertino California. He had already been put ahead ("skipped") two grades, and the school wanted to do a thi... |