bdp24
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| Dolby NR encoding - did it ever work I'm with Wolf---the Dolby C in my BX300 is great. The deck is great with metal tape (I've used TDK and Sony), by the way. But the BX series Nak's design has a flaw---it's transport is not the most robust. I believe the CR series Nak's may be the o... | |
| Squeeze Concert including one odd tidbit I'm a big fan of "playing in service to the song", which is one reason The Band is my all-time favorite, uh, band. George Harrison was really good at pistts, his guitar "break" (as opposed to solo) in The Beatles "Nowhere Man", as an example, is a... | |
| MRA : Myth or Menace? WARNING! Having worked at Tower Records when they were still selling LP's (late 80's), I can tell you authoritatively that an LP in "still"-sealed shrink-wrap is NOT necessarily new. Huh? Tower (and I'm assuming other retailers) stores had a shrin... | |
| Open Baffle Convert If I'm correctly informed, the closer a dipole is to the wall behind it, the higher in frequency does the out-of-phase cancellation begin. | |
| Vandersteen 4 Meles---Did you do the work on your Eagle 2a yourself? I have a 2b, and have been thinking about having it upgraded. | |
| Impressed by Pangea Audio AC-9SE Even the cord makers admit a dedicated line is the place to start in improving the power to a system, and that it will provide a bigger improvement than high-performance cords. | |
| 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... |