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| Tube amp troubleshooting question Ralph, thanks for addt'l input. I hope I get some free time soon to do some diagnosis. | |
| Tube amp troubleshooting question Hi, Clue, thanks for your reply. No, the problem hasn't driven me crazy yet. I did, at the misguided advice of a local tech, unnecessarily purchase a new transformer, but the day I spent putting it in was very relaxing and got me more in touch wit... | |
| Music to die to If I die feeling sorry for myself, I'll have Allen Toussaint's mournful "Cruel Way To Go Down" (from Southern Night). I liked Garfish's Ry Cooder suggestion. If I'm feeling more hopeful, I'll gracefully slide out on Cooder's "Think It's Going To W... | |
| Karik problems reading CDR Thanks for your report on your older Karik, Dragan. Tells me that my Karik III should be doing better. | |
| Is digital poetry... Well, I sort of punked out on that last sentence. Maybe this is more the ticket... One nation, analog, undigital, with liquidity and NOS tubes for all. | |
| Is digital poetry... 02pete, your musings ring with musicality. They deserve a sound stage. I type on my laptop, this platform of isolation, to resonate from far field with others' musical fidelity, interconnected with mysterious brothers and sisters in a speaker caba... | |
| Cable lengths In a situation similar to yours, e-man, I hedged my bets by making the shorter wire about two-thirds the length of the longer one. That's quite a bit longer than I needed, but I didn't want to have the difference between the two be too large. (It ... | |
| Speaker Stands For the Sonus Faber Concertinos Agree that the Osiris stands are very high quality and impressive. I get 25 1/2" out of my nominal 24" pair. When I bought them from Goldman Audio last November, he also had the taller (27"?) model available, too. So if more height is needed, it m... | |
| what does "Air or a Halo around instruments" mean? I think "air around instruments" is sort of a mixed metaphor, if you will, so we end up talking about two different things here. Having a system reproduce voices clearly separated in space is a soundstaging feature, and one, IMO, that is not terri... | |
| If You Could Only Keep 3-CD's LP's , Which Ones? If catastrophe struck today, I'd take The Band - The Band; Willie Nelson - Redheaded Stranger; and one of my Lester Young albums (let me see which has the most Billie Holiday sessions on it, heh heh). By the way, none of these has great sound qual... | |
| Coupling or isolating floorstan. to the floor? How's this for a theory on why bearings might work? Speaker cabinets flex, which is a bad thing. A cabinet might flex more if speaker excursions make it want to move but one of its surfaces is tied down than if the whole speaker is floating and fr... | |
| RL Jones at Red Rock Thanks, KRV, for commiserating with me. I have the same thoughts as you. This record is a disappointing riddle. If I cared to listen to it more, I might think that, although there's a lot of energy and impressive musicianship in the performances, ... | |
| Shouldn't this be intuitive? Jeff, Are you using "Dub" rather than "Record" (dub being for tray-to-tray recording as opposed to recording from an external cdp)? You might have to tell us what you _are_ doing that's not working, and what kind of feedback, if any, the readout d... | |
| The best 5 disc CD Changer. Thanks, Onhwy, this is the second time in a matter of weeks that "jap" has shown up. It was probably used as a typing shortcut, but I don't think that's any excuse. Audiogon should send such posts back for editing before posting them. | |
| Laid back sound-ML336...is that good or bad? Otoohot, I think of "laid back" and "forward" as terms relating to whether your system plays the music so that you get the sense of being seated further away or closer to the musicians you're listening to. In this sense, it is purely a matter of t... |