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| Audio companies in the mirror Rectilinear Fisher H H Scott Realistic Lafayette Eico Heathkit | |
| Shipping speakers from West Coast to East Coast Should we read "moving store" as actually "going out of business"? And "going out of business" as "bankrupt" and "get in line with the other creditors"? Hope not. | |
| The Insane World of High End Audio! Is it All a Scam? When I first started out in this hobby, I was sure all cables sounded alike and cable marketing was all a scam. As my ears got better, I could hear the difference and realized it was important to me, so I bought into pricey cables. And I have ne... | |
| Help me build up a jazz album collection. Can you suggest a must have album? The Japanese label Three Blind Mice has some super performances that were recorded exceptionally well. Try Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio: "Midnight Sugar" and "Misty" Isao Suzuki Trio: "Blow Up" and "Black Orpheus" | |
| Help me build up a jazz album collection. Can you suggest a must have album? Another Bill Evans LP. Great performance and great sound. Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival | |
| I am sad Sounds like a special amp with a distinctive special sound. Might be worth an audition if we knew brand and model. | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? Has VPI dropped away from consideration here? | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Just enjoyed record 2 of Eagles Hell Freezes Over, original Geffen release. Great performances, great sound. Especially "I Can't Tell You Why," "Take It Easy," "Life in the Fast Lane," and "Desperado." | |
| Krell Moves to new location The delays have greatly diminished the value of the business, thus minimizing any inheritance taxes. However, while it isn't worth much as a standalone business, it could be sold for significantly more to a deep pocketed high end company who coul... | |
| The Krell mystery Or if Kristopher still does not want to run the business himself, he is in a position to sell his controlling interest, either to Bicking, or Bose, or Harmon (Samsung), or etc. | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? I enjoyed a live solo performance today by jazz pianist Sabine Pothier with an intimate group in a spacious venue. She interpreted jazz standards with intellectual flair and masterful execution. And I appreciated hearing live music directly, witho... | |
| Do you agree with John Atkinson (and me)? No, I do not agree. The expenditures are both independent variables, subject to uncorrelated pricing structures. I am tempted to sneer at your Tower Records store manager who I assume is listening to the garbage put out by a poor man's shitty lo... | |
| Does anyone listen to the radio anymore? I listen to KJazz 88.1 and KUSC 91.5 for background while reading etc. I look forward to learning about music and performers I haven't known about -- helps direct me toward what discs to buy. For sound quality, in my AV system my Etude competes ... | |
| Beware: Magnum Dynalab are not "doing repairs, upgrades or service right now"!! I contacted Magnum Dynalab to request a replacement center tune meter for my Etude in November 2023. (Swapping meters is easy enough to do myself.) I was aware that I was asking for an old part for an old product, and I would not have been surpris... | |
| what is more popular silver or black face plates I had an old system for my parents’ living room back in the ’70s. Its components sat on a shiny whitish marble coffee table in front of the front windows. It replaced a brown Magnavox wood console furniture unit, and I very much wanted it to look ... |