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| Amps on top? @rodman99999: Love the chrome! EAR-Yoshino also builds their electronics with lots of chrome. Their 868L pre-amp and CD player have chrome faceplates, many of their power amps chrome transformer covers and tube cages. Fancy schmancy ;-) . | |
| Why are People Dumping their Audio Research Gear and What Does it Say about them? @mbmi: One of them being UK-based EAR-Yoshino, electronics featuring the design genius of the late Tim de Paravicini (Pink Floyd Studios, Water Lily Records, The Mastering Lab---where Doug Sax did his work, Mobile Fidelity). | |
| There's No Question @boxcarman: Do yourself a favour and look into the open baffle/dipole servo-feedback sub offered by Rythmik Audio in collaboration with GR Research. THE sub for dipole planars such as Maggies. Magnepan itself will soon be offering their own dipole... | |
| What became of schubert, more recently aka jim5559? The problem with schubert was (?) he had (?) no sense of humour. Ya know, being filled with joy is a very Christian thing (and self-righteousness a very un-Christian one). That joy can be accessed through ANY kind of music. | |
| Get 'em while you can! @tylermunns: A cheap way to get one of the best pressings of Pet Sounds is in the Reprise Records original issue of The Beach Boys (jokingly called Carl & The Passions) So Tough album from 1972, which was a double: the new album and a reissue ... | |
| The best speaker cables you’ve had When I had Atma-Sphere M60 mono amps sitting directly behind Quad ESLs I had Kimber make me up a pair of 1' long 4AG (pure silver) cables with Postmaster spades. When moving on to stereo amps I did like @dill and got myself a set of 8' Clear Day D... | |
| Amps on top? Right @rodman99999, but those tubes are not mounted on circuit boards inside an amp enclosure, where the heat would flow past circuit components. The Wavestream V8 is one cool (no pun intended ;-) looking amplifier! So is the Atma-Sphere M60. | |
| What became of schubert, more recently aka jim5559? Yes indeed @roxy54. The early Bluesmen and Rock ’n’ Rollers were denounced for singing the "Devil’s Music", and the 1950’s and 60’s Soul singers were denounced from the pulpit in the same Baptist churches whose choirs they had once sang in. Those ... | |
| Are carbon fiber speaker cabinets inherently better than wood or metal ones @sounds_real_audio: Incorrect. The primary and most important reasons for and benefits of bracing is to: 1- Minimize the ability of the enclosure to expand (like a balloon being blown up)---thereby propagating sound---in reaction to the internal ... | |
| What became of schubert, more recently aka jim5559? I shared with schubert a love of J.S. Bach, but his penchant for insisting music be made solely in glory to God was a gulf too wide to bridge. That’s akin to saying sex must be engaged in solely to procreate. Lighten up, dude ;-) . | |
| Songbirds Documentary My favorite scene is the one in which Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives sing a Gospel song in 4-part harmony to the dying 16 year old girl. As the song concludes, Marty leans over and hugs the girl. If that doesn’t bring you to tears, che... | |
| Why are People Dumping their Audio Research Gear and What Does it Say about them? While some (many? most?) ARC owners never have a problem with any of their products, their designs are well known to have a couple of design weaknesses, at least in terms of product reliability: 1- ARC doesn’t fuse the output tubes in their power... | |
| New to Preamp - Preamp suggestion around 10k @mulveling: David Manley was also active in the Pro Audio sector, as was Tim de Paravicini (Pink Floyd’s studio, Kav Alexander’s Water Lily Records fantastic tape recorder, on which was recorded A Meeting By The River album). I have an old friend ... | |
| New to Preamp - Preamp suggestion around 10k @cming0038: I don't believe there is a line-stage only version of the EAR 912, so the 868L would be the EAR to get. It has hookup connections you might like for your Stax-based system: a balanced input (via Tim de Paravicini's renown transformers,... | |
| Top two most important sound qualities Amen @noodlyarm. J. Gordon Holt used a term I like a lot, one I think you are getting at: "immediacy". I hear it in the sound of direct-to-disk LP’s, Decca/London pickups, and electrostatic loudspeakers. Horns as well, but they are too colored for... |