crustycoot
Responses from crustycoot
| Bose 901 VI flat? I have sold HiFi since 1973. Whenever a Bose 901 owner asks me about electronics to drive them, the first thing I stress is that modern AV receivers generally cannot be used due to their lacking a tape monitor. You must have a tape loop or process... | |
| What's all the fuss about late 70s and earl 80s run of the mill midfi turntables? Having been around all those years, I agree with the OP that most of what was popular in the heydey of vinyl was mediocre. Thorens floaters were an exception…basically AR done better. Before Linn hit the scene German rim drives were the standard... | |
| OMG Moment Can’t you adjust the speaker rake by redialing the rear spikes to be shorter and the fronts higher? Then you can sit up with whatever posture is most comfortable and have the same OMG, no? | |
| Jim Gordon has Passed On... Greg, Mental. Illness. Not a “lifestyle choice”. The tragedy is how poorly the medical profession and our society cope with the reality that some people are unbalanced and potentially dangerous to the people in their lives. By your reckoning w... | |
| Amazon Music High Definition and Ultra High Definition Equipment Requirements The BluOS platform has Amazon Music as a native option within the app…not a casting one like Spotify or Tidal Connect. The Node N130 is the device to fulfill your objective. But if all you want is Amazon Music the Echo noted above is more econom... | |
| Class A Tube integrated amp running 100% volume It sounds as if your amp's volume control is merely an input attenuator and not a gain stage as a true integrated would have. Expected results would be different if it was a gain stage. In that case running it at full might have an unwanted effe... | |
| Fee for home audition As a dealer, a fee to listen at home for an hour seems unwarranted. When large heavy speakers or amps that require hiring manpower and a moving van, that’s a different story. And yes, repeat buyers are afforded courtesies that a new shopper may ... | |
| What can beat Wilson XVX for less money? If the room would accommodate them, I haven’t heard a more coherent and well balanced reproducer than MBL Radialstrahlers. German Physiks maybe or for old schoolers like me Ohm’s best. In principle I like the coherent cylinrical wave better than d... | |
| Hello and "THANKS IN ADVANCE" Perp, I sold all these products back in their heyday. To distill the various advice to clear instructions... 1. Your amp must have a "tape loop", "external processor loop", or pre-out/main-in jumpers in order to incorporate an EQ in the signal ... | |
| Name 3 songs where audio quality and song quality completely align Bruce Cockburn - Kit Carson from Nothing But A Burning Light Norah Jones - I’ve Go To See You Again from Come Fly Away Emmylou & Linda - For A Dancer from Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions +1 on L & M - Pathway To Glory from Full Sail ! | |
| LOUDEST Concert and Tinnitus 1968. The Village Theater on 2nd Ave, later known as The Fillmore East. Canned Heat opened, and they were deafening. In the back row of the balcony! My ears rang for the better part of a week. After the Heat, Cream played their set, maybe loud... | |
| The Mood Was Ruined I was listening to Jonathan Bliss play Sonata 31 recently after having played Gilels’ Olympia recording, Brendel’s and Serkin’s. What’s with the guy’s tempos? Robs the piece of its majesty. I also played Andrew Rangell. All great, but Gilels great... | |
| Ray Charles - "Rap is not music" I love some pretty shitty music, full of archaic sexual innuendo, played to a very predictable repetitive musical structure, but I love it anyway. That’s the Blues I’m talking about. My Swing Era parents thought Jimi Hendrix was horrendous. I p... | |
| Beatles vs. Stones 61, You have some kind of citation for that? I'm not buying it. I am a passably good blues harp player and there is no way the same player is heard on the early Beatles "Please Please Me" or "Love Me Do" (John Lennon) and on "Honest I Do" or "Kin... | |
| Full range speakers, 40"-44" max height Seek out a pair of Focal Kanta 2 to hear. They are 44” tall and except for the deepest bass frequencies, very good, especially for orchestral music, opera, etc. |