bdp24
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| Parity @rvpiano: No offense intended, but this is what happens when you make sound quality your first priority. I've been there myself, but now make my next musical selection based on what I'm hungering for musically. If it is also in good sound, wonderf... | |
| 5 Dumb Things Audiophiles Believes. @aquint: Great post Andy! Your point about Ron not understanding what perfect pitch actually means is one that occurred to me, but left the front of my brain soon thereafter. I've known only one person who had perfect pitch, an actual genius (Hew... | |
| Moving Iron Adventures I’m hoping against hope that someone steps in to fill John Wright’s shoes. There IS no replacement for the London Reference! Or the Jubilee, or even the Super Gold. If I were you @dogberry, I would just buy a couple/few more London’s, enough to la... | |
| A Question About Time Alignment Two other things I can add to the discussion: 1- An interesting situation exists in the case of line-source loudspeakers, a good example being the Magnepan MG3.7i. This speaker has a long, vertically-orientated ribbon tweeter (a real good one), w... | |
| Ultrasonic record cleaners If the Degritter or other $3,000+ ultrasonic is beyond your means, check out the HumminGuru, priced at around $400. | |
| A Question About Time Alignment @carlsbad (edit: and @erik_squires) has/have it exactly correct: all frequencies travel at the same speed---the well-known "speed of sound". As to time alignment of the drivers, a major objective in a multi-driver loudspeaker is to get the differ... | |
| 1992 Stereophile on speaker placement should be required reading Wow, back when Robert Harley had some reviewer credibility. I don’t blame those who find the current TAS beneath contempt, but Dick Olsher and Steven Stone---two close friends and proteges of J. Gordon Holt---remain on staff. And Robert E. Greene ... | |
| Instrumentalists you can recognize after 6 bars..? Oops, can't leave out Bill Pitcock IV, the distinctive guitarist in The Dwight Twilley Band, as well as on solo albums by Twilley and the band's drummer Phil Seymour. He got his sound by plugging a Gibson ES335 into a pair of Fender Deluxe Reverb ... | |
| Mofi Controversy In the TAS interview with Robert Harley, Jim Davis states than the MoFi engineers found that a lacquer cut from a DSD copy of the analogue master tape sounded better than a lacquer cut from the analogue master tape. Do you believe them? Here’s a ... | |
| Rock performers that play/record a different genre Andrew Gold (Ronstadt's 1970's guitarist) 's side project, The Fraternal Order Of The All, whose lone album---Greetings From Planet Love---is a Psychedelic music parody masterpiece. XTC's side project, The Dukes Of Stratosphear. Two albums. Robe... | |
| How Much Do You Love Your Magnepan LRS+ Speakers? I'll do you one better, @russ69: The Magneplanar Tympani T-IVa, which contains the same ribbon tweeter as the 3.7i, 20.7, and 30.7, but with two separate bass panels (it's an early version of the 30.7). No sub necessary! But lots and lots of power... | |
| Instrumentalists you can recognize after 6 bars..? Six bars? How did you settle on THAT number (as opposed to, say, four)? Guitar: Chuck Berry, Albert King, James Burton, Dave Edmunds, Albert Lee, Ry Cooder, Jimi Hendrix. Bass: James Jamerson, Rick Danko, Joey Spampinato, Jack Casady, Jack Bruce... | |
| New In 2022 Consumer alert! Compass Records and Red House Records are currently running a 50/60% off CD clearance sale. Lots of excellent artists and bands, many in the Singer/Songwriter, Americana, and Bluegrass genres. For instance, the Contraband Love albu... | |
| Mofi Controversy Today's TAS newsletter includes a good interview of Music Direct/MoFi owner Jim Davis by Robert Harley. Just about every issue is brought up and answered, save one: Why did he keep the DSD step secret for 15 years, lying the whole time that MoFi L... | |
| The Beatles Revolver Oh my gawd @larsman, isn’t Let It Be absolutely dreadful?! I’d almost rather have a dentist do some work without novocaine than to have to listen to that pos. Naked or fully dressed, terr-i-ble. I’m surprised it ever esca....I mean was ever releas... |