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| Looking For High Quality Drum Music. Ginger Baker Trio: for drumming emphasis, particularly "Middle Passage", and for great jazz with Bill Frisell, "Going Back Home", and with James Carter, "Coward of the County." | |
| Looking For High Quality Drum Music. Charles Lloyd just released "Sangam" with Zakir Hussain. | |
| Merlin owners, AC or battery for BAM? Sns,The VSM-MX's I bought used were about 2 years old & came with the standard BBAM (pre-SuperBAM). The batteries were giving out after about 4-6 hrs of use in battery-only mode (vs. advertised 12 hrs.) After taking the BBAM apart, I determine... | |
| Merlin owners, AC or battery for BAM? Did you buy them new or used? If used, how many hours of play time do you have in battery-only mode before the BBAM loses power? Your problem may be weak batteries. | |
| Review: REL Acoustics Britannia B-1 Subwoofer Very nice balanced review. I read that REL's direction under Sumiko is for future products to include digital software-based EQ & xover features similar to the Velodyne DD series. Also, Velodyne has recently unbundled its microphone, spectrum ... | |
| Reimer v. Revel subwoofer Sgr,As a satisfied owner of a Velodyne DD-15 with a top-notch 2 CH system, I prefer to listen to my own ears rather than to heresay. Or perhaps to follow this month's Stereophile Recommended Components list: the Velodyne DD-18, the Revel Sub 30, a... | |
| 2-channel listening with a sub-woofer I recently added a Velodyne DD-15 to my Merlin VSM-MX 2-CH system. First I spoke with Kurt at Vel's Phoenix support, who is quite helpful. He said that the larger 15" & 18" models are faster and cleaner than the 10" & 12" models due to the... | |
| Reimer v. Revel subwoofer Can't help you with this comparison, but I am using VSM-MX with a Velodyne DD-15. The digital interface and ease-of-setup with the DD-15 is remarkable. With the BBAM you need to use line-level inputs to the sub. The crossover is centered at 30hz w... | |
| IC and speaker cable for merlin I know Bobby doesn't like silver, but I am having great results with VSM-MXs and Audio Consulting silver-wire ICs and speaker cable using natural cotton sleeves. These wires beat out hi-end MIT Oracle and Audioquest Diamond cables in my system, pa... | |
| great vinyl sound cost as much as great cd sound KarmapoliceI have OK Computer on vinyl and it sounds great.james1969I have a 1st generation Hovland phono cable w/XLRs that is very nice. I understand the newer Hovland Musicgroove is also up there. If I were doing it again, I would DIY a nice pho... | |
| Used speakers $7,000-$10,000 Used or new Merlin VSM-MX with SuperBAM+. Among the finest speakers made, easy load for medium-powered tube amp, small footprint, and at the bottom of your price range.Dave | |
| Best phono pre amp for Lyra Helikon I'm using the Helikon and a standard BAT VKP10, with cartridge loaded at 100R. Sounds great and the BAT can be acquired inexpensively in the used market.Dave | |
| great vinyl sound cost as much as great cd sound IMO opinion an expensive hi-end cartridge is wasted on a lesser arm/TT/phono stage combo. Given budget constraints it's probably better to put long money into a great arm/TT that will last in your system & start with a fairly basic cartridge. ... | |
| great vinyl sound cost as much as great cd sound I have a highly customized battery-powered Sony SCD-1 that I believe rivals EMM, and a VPI TNT/Graham/Lyra/BAT vinyl combo that's up there. I believe that RBCD playback is absolutely unforgiving of even minor flaws in the digital front end & t... | |
| Question for BAT 6H30 tube owners I spoke today with Victor Komenko of BAT about this. He mentioned that they are almost out of stock of the NOS 6H30s and would shortly be converting to new production. He stated that his NOS versions are also available in the general market, and a... |