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| What happen to finishing speakers like furniture? I completely agree that the Klipsch Heritage line are gorgeous. I've owned each of the speakers you mention, as well as LaScala's and all were finished quite beautifully, and lend themselves well to refinishing. While you are refinishing them I'd ... | |
| Calling all acoustic guitar fans... If you liked Matthews and Reynolds on the bonus CD, there is a Live 2-CD set of the two of them doing an acoustic concert at Luther College that is one of the most outstanding live-performance CD's out there. I love acoustic guitar. Here are just ... | |
| CES and thank you, Albert Porter Hey Albert- Nice coverage of the show! Pretty thorough too...the next best thing to being there. If pictures could only play music!Sorry to hear the ad biz is down in Dallas too. The Pacific NW has been in a slump as well for a long time now and h... | |
| Audiophile Terms?? I need a dictonary A few examples may make some of those terms a bit more clear....Transparent: The motivations of certain manufacturers of magic tweaks and audio accessories promising a little slice of Nirvana, while delivering a desert lot on a Nevada nuclear test... | |
| Tube Cage for a Cary Rocket 88 On my 300B amps the cages are designed to be about 1 inch higher than the 300B tubes. There are only two other tubes in the amp...a 5AR4 and 12FQ7. What I'm saying is that it is not exactly an amp that runs hot in the first place. I can comfortabl... | |
| My vote for Tweak of the Week Hey Albert - Small planet indeed! I'll bet we can trace it all back to Kevin Bacon somehow! Leave it to the originator of the "Porter-Outlet" to come up with a more affordable and effective tweak. OK Albert, how much for the cat turds? I've alread... | |
| B&K ST-140 - Older vs. Newer versions? Loontoon - My EX-140 had a black faceplate, champagne handles and a pushbutton on/off switch. Purchased in 85' when they were discontinued and had already been succeeded by the ST. So there must have been more than one cosmetic version of the EX.M... | |
| My vote for Tweak of the Week For $26,000 + room, board for four days, and round trip air fare from Sweden to you, you can have former Abba bass player Rutger Gunnarsson come and cop a squat in your listening room in each of the four corners of the room. Gunnarsson's turds hav... | |
| B&K ST-140 - Older vs. Newer versions? I believe the older version had a pushbutton on/off switch, while later versions had a toggled switch. I owned a very early predecessor to the ST140 called the EX140. It is a true dual-mono version of the same amp. It was a great little SS amp and... | |
| Tube Cage for a Cary Rocket 88 I had a local metal fabricator friend build cages for my mono amps (see my system pics) using a mesh steel plate that is commonly available. These folks are high-end fabricators, and personal friends, so I could not reccommend them to do the same ... | |
| My vote for Tweak of the Week HoooHaaaa, it's those $500 wooden knobs back again. The same knobs Blue Circle manages to put on most of their gear at a seemingly amazing discount. Must be those low Canadian lumber prices. Can you just imagine the profit margin on those suckers!... | |
| Physically awkward components... Gumby dammit - I still have the bolts, and I was never so daft as to actually place them on the top of the bare neked component.....well, that is after the first time! They have both taken up prop duty and have been recently replaced by other unus... | |
| Do You Remember Your First CD Player? Yeah, we didn't use any protection and I was really excited and came right away. It didn't really work too well after that so I threw the thing out. It wasn't till much later that I discovered girls. For you younger (male, heterosexual) audiophile... | |
| Physically awkward components... You crack me up green man!! I always had the Kwai Chang Caine thing in the back of my head too! "...snatch the Shakti Stones from my hand young Gunbei and it will be time for you to leave...."I've got this isolation platform in my work system. It ... | |
| need some suggestions for Acoustics Blues Second, no third Rory Block. Surprised no one has mentioned the late GREAT John Lee Hooker (The Healer would be a great one to start with, but he's got a lot of recorded work to choose from). I like the Fat Possum artists too: R.L. Burnside and Ju... |