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| Your favorite recent discovery Absolutely, Fourwnds! That LP has been in my collection since the 70's, and is not only great musically, but is also of audiophile recorded sound quality. | |
| Your ONE all time favorite love song? It used to be "God Only Knows" by Brian Wilson/The Beach Boys, but winning by a nose now is "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted", either in it's original recording by Jimmy Ruffin or the more recent live recording by Joan Osborne with the Motown ho... | |
| Tom Cruise The celebrity, if you can call him that, most into hi-fi is a musical performer/writer, the sound of who's whose work would seem to make him an unlikely candidate for a high-end system (no snobbery here, just sayin';-): Henry Rollins. He has a pai... | |
| Audio Research VT100 MKII retubing blew resistors Milimetr---After your VT-100 is repaired, you could consider replacing it with an amp that has protection against this sort of self-destruction built in, such as Jwm's VAC PHI 300, or a Music Reference RM-200. Something called a "fuse"---what a co... | |
| Anyone compared after-market, Before putting one in a power amp, better read what Roger Modjeski discovered about them. Check the Music Reference/RAM Labs forum for the details. | |
| RIP Jillian Johnson The Figs The last murder of a rocker I heard about was quite a while back: After their heyday in the 80's, one of the two members of Los Angeles' House Of Freaks moved back to N. Carolina, bought a house, and had a couple of kids with his wife. One day a c... | |
| stereo preamp $2-5K suggestions Something to keep in mind is that you will hear the depth a given pre-amp is capable of reproducing ONLY if your Emotiva power amp also possesses that capability. I'm not saying ut doesn't, as I don't know. | |
| RIP Jillian Johnson The Figs From "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield, January 1967: "There's a man with a gun over there Telling me I got to beware" "Paranoia strikes deep Into your life it will creep It starts when you're always afraid You step out of line, the men... | |
| Blue Circle bc21 preamp output caps replacement??? Give Tom at Brooks Berdan Ltd. a call (he's the shop's tech, and is in on Wednesdays and Saturdays). The Blue Circle was the pre-amp in Brooks' reference system for years when he was alive. | |
| RIP Jillian Johnson The Figs Isn't that just like a paranoid? Everything is about them. | |
| Tossed between the horns Maggie 3A/PSB Gold I I neglected to say that I find music reproduced via the two basic loudspeaker designs (planars and boxes, or line-source and point-source) to be two very different experiences. That, I understand, is not universal. | |
| Does a Good 20 amp cable Make a Difference Since you find the Shunyata power cords improve the sound of your system, it stands to reason that you think Shunyata knows what they are doing. If so, their advice is to put the best cord you have between your wall receptacle and their filter/con... | |
| Audio Rack Opinions Though you want six shelves and your turntable up high, I'm with Mitch. Two 3-shelf racks side-by-side is the better way to go (get rid of the damn cats!). Here's a question: If you've been happy with your table wall-mounted, why not wall mount at... | |
| Joule Electra Elliot Midwood at Acoustic Image in Studio City California is a long-time Joule-Electra dealer (the brand is still listed and pictured on his website). You could give him a call. | |
| Tossed between the horns Maggie 3A/PSB Gold I Loudspeakers are the most personal of all the links in the Hi-Fi chain, and change the sound of music in the most profound way, IMO. My first great speaker was the original Tympani I-U (I've never learned what the U designated, other than to diffe... |