dgarretson
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| Why does this old tube gear sound so good? It's been speculated that transformers continue to improve through decades of aging. | |
| Artists 'SELLING OUT' - can we discuss? Kudos to Tom Waits for suing that car company for ripping off his singing style. But in the end it's really more a question of "when" rather than "if" almost any popular song will be used to sell soap, Starbucks, or maybe botox or motorized wheelc... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Pauly,I think it's unfortunate to critique business issues that are premature and distract from consideration of the Verus motor as an engineered product that arrives at a timely moment in TT design.Recent evolution in TT design seems to have most... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Doug,Thanks for suggesting a fly fisherman's blood knot. Now the thread runs smooth & quiet. Using this type of knot it's pretty much impossible to make two threads of identical length in order to run multiple threads. But a single thread work... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Pauly,Thankfully, market forces in this cottage industry are quite different from banking, and time-value-of-money calculations are mostly irrelevant. Perhaps the hedge fund crowd would do better to maximize utility & profit margins all down t... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Doug,While waiting for Verus I am considering adapting tape drive to the VPI TNT by machining new pulleys for motor & flywheel. In order to prevent tape crawl, would cutting 1/2" channels into the pulleys be desireable? What is the best materi... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Doug,I am a VPI TNT III owner with a poorly designed & now broken PLC controller that VPI no longer supports. I've also observed that the TT sounds better on thread drive than the stock rubber belts. However, slippage of the thread on the smal... | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? Oracle, Thanks for sharing Mark Porzilli's impressive bio. Can I send my Melos preamp to him for repairs? If the prodigous power of invention was of itself sufficient, then Edison would have convinced the power utilities to adopt a DC power grid &... | |
| Personal amp evolution Principal 2CH systems:*1950s vintage Pilot tube mono receiver with RCA speaker (mid 60s)*Kenwood receiver with Altec VOTT(early 70's)*Technics receiver with ESS AMT1 (late 70's)*Nakamichi Stasis receiver with Fried floorstanders(mid 80's) *Bryston... | |
| Ars Sonum / Merlin TSM-MX??? Agreed, when value is factored in, I don't think there's any pre/amp/speaker that approaches ARS/Merlin VSM-MX. | |
| Ars Sonum / Merlin TSM-MX??? Pubul57, I've heard the ARS with Merlins, and while it's very good indeed, it's not as good as it gets, even with Merlins. What ever is? | |
| Are the online zines killing print mags in audio? Serious print journalists like Atkinson, Harley, Fremer, Pearson, etc., have experience & opinions that count and are always worth reading. There are fewer writers of similar stature on the net. Print mag reviewers have access to a wider range... | |
| Upgrade from Scoutmaster? You're premature in swapping out the Scout before resolving the problems of the sprung floors & the tall multishelf rack by putting the TT on a proper footing. A few $ spent to improve the platform will take the Scout to a much higher level &a... | |
| Best sounding VINYL labels? Mid 80's Soul Note & Black Saint are high points of late vinyl mastering & not too expensive. Great jazz on these labels by Paul Bley, Anthony Braxton, Max Roach, Jimmy Guiffre, Steve Lacy, Joe Lovano, Charlie Haden. | |
| Best guitar explosion of all time In the here & now of 2007, Marc Ribot is amazing performing John Zorn's "Asmodeus, Book of Angels, Vol.7." |