johnnyb53
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| Clueless Analog Newbie, Looking to Buy 04-28-09: JwglistaAnd about the expensive LPs, if you don't mind building your collection to include mostly used classical, jazz, and classic rock LPs, you can find them fairly cheap.Today I brought home a 2-LP album of the Oscar Peterson Trio (19... | |
| New upgrade alternatives for the Technics SL12x0 04-29-09: Edo_musicahey johnnydo you have a fluid damper on your 12x0?any pics of your tape tweak? or more detailed description of the amount of tape(single wrap, double?) and specific locations.Yes, I have the fluid damper. It helped in many ways... | |
| Turntable cones/spikes or shock absorbing feet? 04-28-09: ArtmaltmanThis might be a matter of taste. I have always loved sprung tables, LOVED them. They seem to have more depth, more imaging, more reality, to ME. By putting rubber under yours you have kind of taken a step in that direction. No ... | |
| HUGE Spacious Surrounds - The I've often felt that the Bose 901s would make good surrounds, especially with analog Dolby ProLogic, or if you can't go with 7.1. Properly set up they should definitely fill in the back half of the room. With digital you'd definitely want to use t... | |
| SOTA reel to reel players Has anybody tried using a VHS-Hi-Fi VCR just for recording analog 2-track? It's analog, flat 20-20KHz response, s/n at 90-96dB, nearly unmeasurable wow and flutter, and the tape is still manufactured, available, and inexpensive. It's the machines ... | |
| A MONSTEROUS DIY SPEAKER CABLE 76doublebass:To my ears on my 1.8 watt 84C ZEN SET Amp this cable just sounds absolutely incredible,But may sound very different on high bandwidth solid state.Given the very low output of this SET amp, SET's typically limited bandwidth, and the hi... | |
| Speaker Technology over the last 10 years 04-27-09: Chashas1Ah, you initially said woofer, mrtennis, not bass panel, so I assumed cone. They'd still have to come a long way to impress me. It also seemed the bigger they got in the old days the less I liked them.Pardon me for injecting myse... | |
| Speaker Technology over the last 10 years 04-26-09: Mrtennisi was not trying to single out the magnepans, although their latest prototype might be something special.It is. I heard 'em in February. i have not heard them, my impression is based upon reading and talking to someone who was at... | |
| Sound Dynamics 300ti specifications? I'm pretty sure that the crossover would not be as high as 3800 Hz for a 4" midrange. It would cause an in-room suckout as the midrange started beaming a half octave before the crossover point. That's what causes the so-called "cupped hands" midra... | |
| Wilson's new speaker the Sasha is coming. 04-25-09: TatersI think wilson should come out with a pink speaker for women.The Mary Kay Cosmetics model! Mary Kay should start handing out pink Sashas as bonuses instead of pink Cadillacs. | |
| Sound Dynamics 300ti specifications? It's been about a dozen years since those were discontinued. I mostly knew about them from Audio Advisor selling off the last of the production run, which went on until about 1999. I recommended them to several people who bought them and who liked... | |
| Are "good" cables needed for vintage system? Right now is a great time to get excellent cables for a song. I'm not completely sure, but I suspect Belkin is either dropping or scaling back their PureAV Silver series cables. The Silver Series (but NOT the Blue Series) are all PCOCC 99.997% pur... | |
| Need to finally replace my 8TC, but with what? Yeah, I agree with the Kimber guys here: If you like the overall sound but want more transparency and bass control, migrate to the new clear/white version with better dielectric and lower the resistance with more metal--like go to 12tc or two runs... | |
| Tell me about Athena LS 500 04-24-09: PonnieThe LS 500 and another Energy model are very similar at Audio Advisor. I think AA only has the LS300 floorstander now. Athena was doing pretty well and all of a sudden they fell off the map. That's because Klipsch bought API (paren... | |
| which - adcom, cambridge audio, outlaw, rotel I don't know if it's too slim for your aesthetic sensibilities, but I nominate the Oppo DV-980H and a Cambridge Audio V-DAC. |