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| Will Vincent "Dynaco" Amps A testament to the quality of Dynaco's original circuits is that their products were made using low tolerance, inexpensive parts (with the exception of the transformers, of course) and they were often built by complete amateurs (most people don't ... | |
| Words From the Wise 1) Learn what real music sounds like. Attend live, un-amplified musical performances in order to hear what instruments and voices sound like in real acoustic spaces. If you don't have access to a world class ensemble, you can still hear some quali... | |
| The Hub: Here's some GOOD NEWS from the audio biz Why are there no high end stereos shown in the photos in Architectural Digest? Certainly the people who build those showplace homes can afford to listen to music through a quality system.Whenever an audio system is seen on a TV show like "MTV Crib... | |
| The Hub: Here's some GOOD NEWS from the audio biz Youths today who attend live concerts do know what good sound is because large scale sound reinforcement systems have improved greatly in the last decade. They just need to be shown that they can enjoy good sound on an every day basis.Often, all i... | |
| Philadelphia Audio Society Peter,I am interested. Please count me in.Chris Gately Ardmore, PA 19003 | |
| The Hub: In Defense of Audiophilia "... in addition musical appreciation in the school may not do a very good job and may not focus on the value of generating "good" sound."What music appreciation classes in the schools? Arts and music were the first things to go when school boards... | |
| The Hub: In Defense of Audiophilia The high end audio press has not been doing the industry any favors. It treats the hobby as if it were a competitive sport, endlessly placing one component ahead of another, all the while bragging about all of the cool, expensive toys that regular... | |
| The Hub: Just call it UBANGI ! Almarg, Because you seem to be a stickler for details, I would prefer that you abbreviate my screen name properly. In the engineering world, the word "Decibel" is abbreviated as dB, so my name would be shortened to dBcat. However, the real Decibel... | |
| The Hub: Just call it UBANGI ! RCA was run by David Sarnoff, who was notorious for being incredibly arrogant. It has been said that Sarnoff's blatant theft of Major Armstrong's FM patents led to Armstrong's suicide. Sarnoff awarded similar treatment to television's inventor, Ph... | |
| The Hub: Just call it UBANGI ! If you view the credits in any of the thousands of Hollywood movies made from the late 1920's through the mid 1960's you will see either the Westrex or RCA logos prominently displayed in them. As far as film sound was concerned, they were the "onl... | |
| The Hub: Just call it UBANGI ! A-1 Audio in Las Vegas, NV used arrays of these bass bins in their concert PA systems from the late 1970's through the '80's. At the time, A-1 was the main audio contractor for the Vegas casinos and sent systems out on tour with entertainers such ... | |
| Designer Hall of Fame Major Armstrong, the inventor of FM radio. Alan Dower Blumlein, who devised a practical way to record and play back stereo in the late 1930's while working for EMI. Blumlein came up with the idea of the 45/45 method of cutting stereo records and h... | |
| The Hub: History of Dynaco part 1 The greatness of the original Dynaco designs are proven by the fact that a great majority of their kits were assembled by first time builders and most of those kits worked when plugged in for the very first time. This becomes more amazing when one... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? I'm sorry that i didn't comment on this thread at an earlier date but I just now found it. One thing that was not mentioned in any of the comments about the ET 2 arm is that the counterweight is decoupled via a leaf spring so its effective mass is... | |
| Just Purchased Infinity RS2B / RSIIb owned RS 2.5 I have a had a pair of RS-2B's for over fifteen years and I do not anticipate their replacement as they sound as good as anything else I have heard costing less than $15K. I think your level problems are related to amplifier sensitivity and not sp... |