johnnyb53
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| Shure Dynamic Stabilizer on/off experimentation The brush works as a damper, which is handy in an undamped tonearm to navigate warped records and diminish the amplitude of the tonearm/cartridge resonant frequency. In most cases, it improves trackability and tames resonances, but if you have a t... | |
| BOB DYLAN DEBUT LP STEREO ??? It's a case in point for those old-fashioned preamps that had a Mono button. | |
| In the Air tonight DRUMS - phil collins on LP Buddy may have been acerbic, moody, unpredictable, self-confident, and volatile, but pompous he was not. He also toured his band tirelessly, playing at least 60% of his gigs at high schools to expose the next generation to jazz. He also threw a pa... | |
| BOB DYLAN DEBUT LP STEREO ??? I remember that era very well. The early "serious" music knew what stereo was and used it well. Examples include Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, the Dave Brubeck albums, and all that great classical and light classical music on RCA Living Stereo, Mercu... | |
| In the Air tonight DRUMS - phil collins on LP I don't think it's any accident that Buddy Rich's daughter Cathy and Phil Collins are fast friends. If Collins weren't a serious drummer, I doubt Buddy would have posed for this picture. | |
| SME 20/2 sound problem. Remedy suggestions needed I have heard Lyra cartridges on the SMEs that sounded fantastic.As for the DL-103, it famously has a short, stiff cantilever and wants an effective mass around 18 g. With arms with detachable headshells, this is easily remedied with a heavier head... | |
| Size matters Smaller that is Nocaster, I think you have great taste. The Sonus Faber loudspeakers have always managed to defy (up to a point) the conventional wisdom about pistonic area vs. inner detail and dynamic range. Their first salvo, the Extrema in the early '90s, was ... | |
| Modern twist on 70's speaker design? Both Absolute Sound and Soundstage did favorable reviews on the 51" tall 115-lb. Cerwin-Vega CLS-215. It has two 15" woofers, a 6-1/2" horn-loaded cone midrange, and a horn-loaded dome tweeter. Claimed sensitivity is 97 dB, but Soundstage's tests ... | |
| Help with bi-wirable efficient floorstanding 2.5K If the Zu Druid is anywhere near its claimed 101 dB sensitivity, then you shouldn't need to biamp. | |
| stereo reciever for sonus faber grand piano Home Sorry, I was confusing the KW 500 integrated with the MF kw550 monoblocks which are made to sit next to the speakers they're supercharging.I think the latest version of the NuForce integrated would give you just what you're looking for. If you hav... | |
| stereo reciever for sonus faber grand piano Home Why don't you keep the MF kw500s and replace your receiver with a good integrated or preamp? My son has the HK 3380 (identical to the HK 3480 minus a few watts), and although it's pretty fast and transparent in the mid-band (at the expense of ever... | |
| Help with bi-wirable efficient floorstanding 2.5K That's right. With SET amps, frequency extension drops like a stone when the impedance gets much below 6-8 ohms. What you REALLY need if you keep your current amplification is a speaker made to work well with SETs such as the Zu Druid. They claim ... | |
| My system is getting worse - now what? 05-08-09: CleaneduphippyI believe Tweeters has gone out of business. I know the one in my town closed down about the same time Circuit City did. Oops. Missed out by just a few months.Looks like the former ADS headquarters is occupied by American F... | |
| stereo reciever for sonus faber grand piano Home For that size listening area I think you're shooting 'way too low with the Outlaw. I have a similar-sized listening area, and I'm real familiar with the "voice" of the Concerto Grand Piano. I had an Outlaw RR2150 and sent it back. It was lacking c... | |
| My system is getting worse - now what? Check with Tweeter, etc. They used to be a big ADS dealer. Maybe somebody still has some contacts. About a dozen years ago I blew out a pair of woofers in my 1987-era ADS 1090s (one generation after the 810), and my local repair shop (in Seattle) ... |