harrylavo
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| Just an observation here, but???????? Get a good wall mount rack, and you can handle either with little trouble. | |
| Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's? If I remember correctly, the first Denon direct drive turntable from the late ’70’s was a stunner in looks and briefly was on the Absolute Sound’s top turntable list. The later Denon's were almost all semi-automatic .... the armless ones are rare. | |
| For those of us over 60.. Judy Collins, Joan Baez, and Dylan (I'm 79). :-) | |
| In search for speakers of "natural" sound Take a listen to speakers by Vanderstein or Thiel (used). Both built only with first order crossovers which provides phase coherence through the crossover regions. And since both had "music-loving" rather than "hi-fi" sensibilities they tended ... | |
| What were your humble beginnings on the path to high end audio? Summer of 1956 as a soon-to-be senior in high school, I built a system starting with a modest Electro-Voice SP-12B in an Argus bass reflex cabinet. A Garrard RC121 with a Norelco moving magnet cartridge and an Eico HF-20 amp (built from a kit) co... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? erik....squires - the tube revival started with William Zane Johnson, but also with the review of his SP-3 in The Abso!ute Sound, which also started publishing at that time. It was TAS and its reviewers who re-discovered the pleasures of tubes an... | |
| How do you store and catalog your vinyl? I organize first by a few categories ..... symphonies, chamber music, other orchestra, and then by composer within each group. Then jazz, singer-songwriters, early rock, test/demo records, and misc other. Within these I arrange alphabetically by... | |
| Thiel CS2.4 to what? As the owner of six Thiel speakers, I will add my vote for keeping the Thiels and adding a sub. Just make sure that you add one that 1) has lots of options as to phase and crossover frequency, and 2) is "quick and tight" to match the Thiels. Fla... | |
| Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid? Glad you guys found it useful. It is the difficult path, but it lets you make relative judgements to the music, not to other gear. | |
| Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid? I'm a 79 year old life-long audiophile (I grew up with a state-of-the-art mono system in my fathers house) and built my own system as a junior in high school. Later while in my first job out of college I took a two year course in sound engineerin... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? *Judy Collins "Judith"*Bob Brookmeyer and Friends (Brookmeyer, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Gary Burton, Elvin Jones.) | |
| Which Nakamichi to choose? Even the lowly CR-1A is not to be sneezed at. | |
| Budget/value SS power amp recommendation A couple of Outlaw M-200 monoblocks would do nicely, and should cost about $400 on the used market. Plenty of power, transparent, and neutral.The later Adcom amps (5300, 5400, etc) are also very good and can be purchase for perhaps half of that. | |
| Speakers under $5000 maintained a reputation for quality sound over the last 15 years. Almost any Thiel up through the 3.6. | |
| circle of confusion But it doesn't change the fact that that "porthole" view was silly to begin with, and UGLY! |