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| What is the most challenging music to play on a stereo? A grand piano is a brutal test, especially for loudspeakers and phono cartridges. As the pianists hands descend down the keyboard, does the timbre and tonality of the instrument change? A very dynamic piano performance that has been well recorded ... | |
| Vibration isolation or absorption? Actually, Townshend Audio has been in business since 1975. Max started the company to manufacture and market a turntable design that was the end result of intense research into the playback of LP records led by Professor Jack Dinsdale at Cranfield... | |
| RIP Keith Reid I think it mattered to Richard Wagner. ;-) Remember the Kinky Friedman (himself Jewish) song "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore"? | |
| Subwoofer - thoughts on Rythmic F12 No @dabel, I’m just saying I hadn’t heard a word about a problem between TC Sounds and Rythmik. In fact, your mention of it is news to me. That doesn’t mean it’s not true, of course. But it does make me glad I got my woofers (four of the paper-co... | |
| Subwoofer - thoughts on Rythmic F12 @dabel: I hadn’t heard about recent problems at TC Sounds, though I seem to remember hearing something awhile back about their amazing LMS Ultra 15" (or was it an 18"?) woofer being no longer available. That woofer was for years considered state-o... | |
| Big orchestral sound in pop, rock etc. @chmaiwald: I got the Joanna Newsom album because of the involvement of Van Dyke Parks, and even after multiple listens haven’t been able to get into it. I’ll try again! Speaking of Van Dyke Parks, his debut album Song Cycle is another heavily or... | |
| My New Magnepan 1.7i's sound dull and lifeless on the top end...why? One difference between open baffle dipoles (such as planars) and dynamic drivers in enclosures (whether sealed or ported) is that dipoles "move" air from one side of the planar to the other---leaving the air pressure inside the room unaffected, wh... | |
| Magnepan Upgrades, Silver and New Crossovers! Take THAT, Danny Richie haters. ;-) | |
| Real world Loudspeakers what does very good cost ? Why are Vandersteens so infrequently mentioned anymore? I would much rather pay for and live with one of them than any of the Wilsons. | |
| Wayne's Audio Turntable Periphery Stabilizing Outer Ring Are outer rings not usable with some very wide-bodied pickups which ride close to the record surface (due to short or non-existent cantilevers)? The Deccas and Londons, for instance. | |
| Big orchestral sound in pop, rock etc. If you want to get very ambitious and adventurous, look for a copy of St. Giles Cripplegate, a 1972 album of modern Classical music written by Jack Nitzsche and performed by The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Measham (Reprise Records... | |
| My New Magnepan 1.7i's sound dull and lifeless on the top end...why? Not to be argumentative, but Maggies are NOT ribbon loudspeakers. Well, the tweeter in the 3.7i, 20.7i, and 30.7 is a ribbon driver, but all the rest of the Maggie line and all their drivers are planar-magnetics, not ribbons. A "ribbon" driver is ... | |
| What are the audio differences you hear with turntable Mats. For those looking for a great reflex clamp, don’t forget about the two made by BDR (Black Diamond Racing): a solid 1-pc., and a 2-pc.. Made of Carbon Fiber, with 1/4-20 threading. They show up on USAM used every once in a while for about $150. | |
| Vibration isolation or absorption? The EAR damping products mentioned by @atmasphere are available from Michael Percy Audio, a great hi-fi accessories mail order business. The sheets of EAR damping material (developed for industry) work great at absorbing the mechanical vibrations ... | |
| Subwoofer - thoughts on Rythmic F12 @gladmo makes a great point about the lower moving mass of the paper cone version of the F12, and the resulting reproduction of low frequency fine detail. I have a pair of the Rythmik Audio/GR Research OB/Dipole Subs, each of which employs a pair... |