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| Notes on Harbeth, Vandersteen, Avalon & Spendor Glai - I respect your comments about ceramic drivers -- I was very concerned about that with the Eidelons. With the wrong electronics, I think, quite as you say, pianos can sound brittle and violins too metallic. That's why I would characterize th... | |
| Notes on Harbeth, Vandersteen, Avalon & Spendor Blindjim - I've recorded in 4 studios (only one very fancy). I think the Harbeth M30's would generally qualify as "more articulate" than the monitors in those studios (going mainly by memory) -- meaning they seem quite articulate to me. My underst... | |
| Isolation suggestions for amplifer Uh-oh, sounds like a race to the patent office is taking shape... | |
| Isolation suggestions for amplifer I think the best isolation from airborne vibration is to pour concrete over the amplifier. This can, however, create some maintenance issues.I am currently experimenting with an airborne isolation system involving helium-filled balloons tied to ea... | |
| Isolation suggestions for amplifer Isolation devices can make you crazy. They make me crazy. One of my audio gurus said of them, "they often impart to the gear something of the sound of whatever they're made of." And, indeed, some of the devices made out of various metals can lend ... | |
| the classic tube sound & the modern tube sound I've been struggling with this issue for several years. I like the warmth, mid-range focus, and musicality of the older gear. However, I have to admit that, stock, it has problems at either end of the frequency spectrum. Flabby bass, muddy highs. ... | |
| Two quick record cleaning methods - enough? Headsnappin - I usually don't listen to records before cleaning them, but sometimes I have, and cleaning has always improved the sound, and frequently gotten rid of some noise.Jake4357 - I respect where you're coming from, and indeed, have relucta... | |
| Two quick record cleaning methods - enough? Nope, haven't tried steam cleaning. Part of it is laziness, part of it is inherent clumsiness (which would undoubtably result in some melted records), and both of those issues attract me more toward the naysayers, I guess. You know, I haven't clea... | |
| Coltrane's A Love Supreme and Davis's Kind of Blue The Coltrane album called "Coltrane" on Impulse is often overlooked, but has some of the best really intense blowing you'll hear from him. Then his Ballads album, and his album with Johnny Hartman, show you what he can do in a completely different... | |
| Miles Davis Prestige albums... I like the early Miles, such as Dig, but you're hearing Miles in the process of figuring out who he is, and sometimes he's on, and sometimes he's not so on.I found Original Jazz Classics pressings of Dig and Green Haze somewhere for not that much ... | |
| Cable elevators - conventional wisdom wrong? Mmarvin19 - Truly brilliant summary, although I might offer a slight amendment to the last: don't even try risers if you HAVE a mother-in-law. They'll heckle you even if all they do is visit every now and then...and that will open the door to heck... | |
| How we clean records in Texas Grimace, you win, my friend...ya'll in Pittsburgh 'd be way ahead of us folks down here when it come to record cleanin' technology. Y'all've clearly harnessed the power of wild critters more'n anybody I did ever seen. | |
| VTL compact 80 amps and 5881 tube vs EL34 tube Ezaudio - You may already know about all of this, but there are various folks out there who modify the DQ 10's, and my understanding is that work on their cross-overs has quite significant effects. I bought a pair not long ago that I'm having modi... | |
| Tube Amplifier for Avalon Arcus I use a CJ Prem 11 on a pair of Avalon Ascendants, modified by Bill Thalman, and love it with a CJ Prem 14 pre-amp. However, I also bought a pair of Prem 12 monoblocks, which Bill is modifying as well. What I liked about the CJ gear over the VTL S... | |
| Please disclose your commercial affiliation Agree re: disclosure.But an interesting point one observes over time is that the emotional investment even owners have in their own favorite equipment creates some fairly foaming-at-the-mouth biases. Dealers, having heard more gear than many of th... |