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| Best Rock Albums in 2009, so far Slithering into December, rather than bore oneself wondering whether Dylan's Xmas album is dark or lite, proceed directly to Ryco's retrospective of unreleased Morphine "At Your Service." Live Disc 2 "Shade" puts Mark Sandman in the ring with Jim ... | |
| VPI TNT Owners A standard TNT armboard is 3 15/16" x 10 15/16". Is yours different? | |
| Best Rock Albums in 2009, so far Mekong56, Agree that AIC is among the year's best. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Livemusic, your description of Stanton dove tails with my experience of Empire 888E. My Astatic MF-100 and Andante P-76 have better control over bass and low midrange, and thus better separation and a more open soundstage. But the warm ones like E... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Consider that the choice of synthetic vs. natural materials may serve different purposes in difference applications. The natural (silk?) wrap around each filament in a Marigo cable may serve to dampen vibration, independent of the performance of t... | |
| Best Rock Albums in 2009, so far Department of Eagles "In Ear Park". The alter ego of Grizzly Bear has grown on me after learning that the band toured with Radiohead. Though operating on a smaller scale than Radiohead, Grizzly/DOE and RH have same ability to turn linear structure... | |
| Best Rock Albums in 2009, so far That Auerbach is tasty and earns a place next to old Savoy Brown.Still need to find that Sonic Youth. A great review in NYTimes last week of The Eternal in concert. | |
| Best Rock Albums in 2009, so far "Them Crooked Vultures". Fascinating cross-currents of Cream, Zep, Foo, & QOTSA. Homme's tendency toward head-banging is kept in check and surprising flights of lyricism abound. Excellent uncompressed vinyl from Bernie Grundman Mastering. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul, when you were experimenting with high load values for MM/MI, did you find that any of the cartridges preferred loading >100K? Reason is I am constructing a circuit to provide continuously variable loading and need to select a value for... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? This simile of a filtering ski goggle is interesting, as is the water analogy. Perhaps audio components are analogous to brightness and contrast controls on a TV. With such controls it is possible to vary saturation and to whiten or darken the vis... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Cbw723, I can't extend my experience of close convergence between modded analog & digital sources to downstream components. I can only report that mods to downstream components were IMO technically sound and moved the system closer to neutrali... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Incidently, in forums & industry market-speak the notion of "voicing" as representing the pure expression of a designer's original intent is probably as misapplied as "neutrality" to forgive all sorts of shortcomings. | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool, all good points. Regarding whether "convergence" on some ideal of neutrality or transparency is possible or even desireable, the question should not be what "most" audio systems fail to do(whether through shortcomings in dynamics or oth... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool, there is a remote possibility that the gradual convergence between modded analog & digital sources occurred by coincidence or was guided by a common bias operating separately through two qualitatively different mod processes. Howeve... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Bryon, so much of this is about convergence. Interesting speculation that as we move up the food chain of components, instead of arriving at a convergence of opinion, distinctions continue regarding nuances. This is understandable, as once the wor... |