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Dec 28, 2015	Have you ever spoken with a designer or audio engineer I too would wonder why Roger elicits such animosity from some audiophiles, Chris, but your quotes from the RM-10 manual reminded me! He does not bow down at the altar of high end boutique parts. I believe it is as simple as that. In an interview, ...
Dec 28, 2015	Your favorite BEACH BOYS LP besides PET SOUNDS Excellent post, tubegroover! We must be about the same age---I'm 65. In the 60's I lived in Cupertino, just over the mountains from Santa Cruz, the beach town mentioned in "Surfin' U.S.A." The Beach Boys were HUGE amongst my friends and I, and rem...
Dec 28, 2015	Did you ever think digital and analog would exist side by side the way it is now I never considered selling my LP music library just because the CD was introduced, and wasn't about to not buy new music simply because it was offered on CD only. So yes, I knew analog and digital would co-exist side-by-side, in my home anyway.
Dec 28, 2015	Have you ever spoken with a designer or audio engineer There may be one---I'm sure Roger would prefer the owner of the Music Reference RM-9 that sent the amp in for repair (a result of the eight $49 Hi-Fi Tuning fuses the owner had installed on the output power tubes in the amp not performing as they ...
Dec 28, 2015	Recording Quality and Different Studios Certain artists are known to care a great deal about the sound quality of their recordings. Ry Cooder, for example, works very hard at getting good tone out of his guitars and amps (and succeeding magnificently!), and did the first digital Pop alb...
Dec 28, 2015	Have you ever spoken with a designer or audio engineer And thanks to ct0517 for providing the link! Taters, you have proven you are sincerely interested in hearing the truth about the Tuning Fuses, as unpopular as that truth may be here on Audiogon. And intellectually honest enough to actually conside...
Dec 28, 2015	Have you ever spoken with a designer or audio engineer For documentation of the Tuning Fuses causing harm to a power amp, click on the link that ct0517 provided above. In the thread Roger Modjeski not only describes the failings of the fuses, but explains the why.
Dec 28, 2015	Your favorite BEACH BOYS LP besides PET SOUNDS The Beach Boys are a very special Group to me, as not only did I already love them ("All Summer Long" in particular), they were the first I saw live (in the Summer of '64). But Brian Wilson is even more so, being the greatest songwriter of his gen...
Dec 27, 2015	Have you ever spoken with a designer or audio engineer Thanks Chris. I really gotta learn how to insert a link into a post! I found Roger's warning about using the Tuning Fuses on power tubes and in the amp the tubes are in very, very important. Whether a fuse sounds different/better is a question sep...
Dec 27, 2015	Hendrix : Freedom/ATL pop festival I saw Hendrix twice, in '67 and '68. In '67 he was new out-of-the-gate, playing the "Are You Experienced" material, and real good. The following year I saw him at Winterland, and he seemed bored, just going through the motions. My taste changed dr...
Dec 27, 2015	Any DIY stuff in your system? I have somewhat-DIY subs. Speaker/cross-over designer Danny Richie of GR Research collaborated with Brian Ding of Rythmik in the design of an OB/Dipole subwoofer. The Rythmik Direct Servo Feedback A370 plate amp is mated with either two or three 8...
Dec 26, 2015	Have you ever spoken with a designer or audio engineer Actually knghifi, Roger in more than skeptical of boutique fuses, he warns against their use in power amps. He tested some of the Hi-Fi Tuning ones, and discussed their design with the U.S. distributor. Roger discovered that, regardless of whether...
Dec 26, 2015	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.
Dec 25, 2015	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...
Dec 25, 2015	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...