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| Fort Wayne, IN SEAMUS is an academic organization that focuses on contemporary electro-acoustic composition; that is, compositions that are designed to be performed by an amagalm of live performers and electronic sounds, the latter are usually computer-synthesiz... | |
| Fort Wayne, IN The SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) conference is in Fort Wayne this year at the Sweetwater campus . . . so if you like this kind of stuff (as I do), you'll be right in the epicenter this April. | |
| 78 RPM turntable A suprising number of the Thorens turntables over the years have had 78rpm capability, including some of their more reasonably-priced models . . . this is true in their current line as well.Keep in mind that you will need a different stylus than y... | |
| Which amp matches best my JM Lab Mezzo Utopia ? Aleko, I would like to respectfully suggest that you're definately over-thinking this whole thing about selecting an amplifier . . . and this is coming from somebody that very much likes to understand and think about the technical aspects of audio... | |
| McIntosh MC-275, MX-110 preamp and La Scala's?? The Dyna-vs-Mac comparison is of course one that has been around for decades but it's one of my favorites!There are SO many levels to this purely in the circuit design - the Dyna uses an input pentode, the Mac has an all-triode driver design. The ... | |
| Plug n' Play, ahead of squeezing that last 1 ? For Mac integrateds . . . I can't keep the current model numbers straight, but they usually have an entry-level one without autoformers, and a higher-end one with autoformers, within a given generation. There are a number of threads here that deba... | |
| Greatful Dawg; Jerry Garcia & Dave Grisman I'll second Dan_ed's suggestions, and add three instrumental albums from The Tony Rice Unit - "Backwaters", "Still Inside", and "Unit of Measure" . . . Rice was the original guitarist for the David Grisman Quintet, and he has a similar approach in... | |
| Plug n' Play, ahead of squeezing that last 1 ? I very much agree with you in the idea that in order to be enjoyable over the long term, audio equipment must be both consistent and reliabile. I would add the Simaudio (Moon) components, and McIntosh integrated amps to your list to try . . . both... | |
| REFURBISHING MCINTOSH KNOBS Well, it depends on which Mac knobs you're referring to . . . in the mid-seventies they started using plated knobs with black-anodised centers, and if there's corrosion on these, then you pretty much need new knobs (i.e. Audio Classics).But they c... | |
| first time vinyl There's nothing at Beoworld.comOops, sorry.http://www.beoworld.org | |
| Antiskating .... The last analog secret I have never analyzed this with free body diagrams or whatever, but I'm pretty sure that the more accurately the cartridge is aligned the less those skating force magnitudes get.There's simply no way this is the case - the change in the skating fo... | |
| first time vinyl Yes I agree, you have many fewer cartridge options with B&O tables. But the B&O cartridges and the Soundsmith replacements are of very high quality, argubly at least as good as anything in the same price class. They're also a good value fo... | |
| first time vinyl I recommend the Bang & Olufsen turntables, from about the mid-1980s on, as a great starting point. No, they're not the last word in performance, but they are suprisingly good, and setup is extremely easy. Soundsmith has a variety of good cartr... | |
| Antiskating .... The last analog secret This whole "we don't listen to test records, so they don't matter" concept makes no sense to me. The reason I use test records is because when I listen to music, I DON'T want to think about turntable setup!! I want to know it's right, and enjoy th... | |
| Cleaner for volume control Eldartford, WD-40 can dissolve some plastics (see the label), and can also dissolve the carbon resistive elements on some potentiometers, I've seen it personally. It's not as harsh as some other stuff that people try, and you might try it if you d... |