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| Dealer selling B stock doesn't tell customers Then there is this: I don't know if ARC still does this, but they did in the early 90's, and is what got me questioning their ethics. When the LS2 Mk.2 was discontinued, my local ARC dealer had a few "Factory Reconditioned" units available at the ... | |
| Proportion of expenses Agree 100% Wolf. In fact, very few (and very expensive) speakers don't benefit from a superior sub. A pair of modestly priced main speakers and sub(s) can outperform a "full"-range speaker (very few speakers actually provide low-distortion, sub-35... | |
| Proportion of expenses "a good system should be able to play all of it (music) well within its power and speaker driver limits". Well of course---"should be" is right! And if one has enough dough, the choice between, say, maximum SPL and amount of bass, versus, for inst... | |
| ARC VT100MK2 substitute cyrrix, there is an amp you may be interested in because of it's great sound and low tube cost. It is the Music Reference RM-200 (or RM-200 Mk.2). It produces 100w/ch from only two KT-88's per channel. That much power is not the result of running ... | |
| Favourite Demo and Sampler CDs, LPs and Downloads Not to be contrary, but I prefer to use music with which I am intimately familiar, which has been recorded in good sound, as demo material. | |
| Suspensions on turntable...really effective? By the way, Diamondears, a spring need not be a metal coil---air can also function as a spring. A DIY isolation platform can be made by placing a barely-inflated inner tube (the lower the pressure, the lower the spring rate/resonant frequency) bet... | |
| SVS to JL Audio A good comparison---both excellent subs. Another in their class is the Rythmik F15HP, which HAS been compared to the SB13 Ultra. I don't recall where I saw the comparison, but of course a Google search will bring it up | |
| Suspensions on turntable...really effective? Diamonddears, I'm no mechanical engineer, but a spring has a resonant frequency (it's "rate"), above which it isolates whatever is sitting on it from whatever the spring itself is sitting on, and below which it does not---the mechanical energy pas... | |
| Proportion of expenses I hate to be first, but I just happened to log on and find this, so here goes:The common wisdom is to start with the source and work your way downstream. The further upstream in a system, the more important the quality, as what is not passed on fr... | |
| What do you do when you live hours from nowhere Where ARE you located? I've wondered what it would be like to be in, say, Montana, or N. Dakota. Then again, for all I know there are thriving pockets of underground activity in unlikely places! | |
| Bob Dylan MoFi Shadows in the Night is the first Dylan album I have not bought upon release since I started buying his in '68 (John Wesley Harding), and I have no intention of ever doing so. I don't care for that style of music, or Sinatra. No offense, Sinatra l... | |
| When rap came out 30 years ago I thought it was just a fad Right nonoise, Mostel and Wilder were much better in the movie (a favorite of mine) than the two guys were in the Broadway show, imo. The show I referred to above is entitled "Hamilton", and the writer and main-character performer is Lin-Manuel Mi... | |
| R.I.P. David Bowie A Facebook "friend" (I know him from the record business) tonight posted that Bowies death is the greatest loss to music since John Lennon. Really? I responded with a list of the musical people who have died since 1980, reminding him of each of th... | |
| When rap came out 30 years ago I thought it was just a fad Just this past Sunday, the last story on 60 Minutes was a segment on a Broadway Musical that tells the story of Alexander Hamilton set to Rap/Hiphop. I understand completely if that sounds silly to you, but I'm here to tell you I dug it. Written b... | |
| Do you have a secret "guilty pleasure" recording? The "white suit" era---that's what they are pictured in on the original U.K. pressing (there was no U.S. release at the time) of the "Live In London" LP (1968). After they signed to Reprise in 1970 they put out a few good albums (Sunflower, Surf's... |