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| It's National "One Hit Wonder" Day! One more:Shivaree: "Goodnight Moon" | |
| It's National "One Hit Wonder" Day! As long as you don't count hits from members of the band, my all time favorite anthem is:Mott the Hoople--"All the Young Dudes" | |
| Transformer coupled outputs/inputs in preamplifiers. My custom-made linestage has input transformers and output transformers. In my case, the output transformers are kind of necessary because my amp has complementary input transformers and does not play well with all linestages. | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? Wow, that coax looks interesting. Now if they only made a coax with a 597 tweeter in the center. I have been sort of casually looking at an M10 and 597 combination. I also got word that someone I know is selling a pair of drivers that have neve... | |
| How many amps do you own? I have only low-powered tube amps these days. I have a pushpull 45 amp that probably does around 3 watts, a parallel single-ended 2a3 amp that is rated at 6.5 watts (I believe), and a pushpull 349 amp that is good for around 5 watts. The 349 amp... | |
| It's National "One Hit Wonder" Day! I like a lot of the songs listed above. In many cases a particular song is heavily identified with a group or individual and is clearly their biggest hit. But, does that make that song a one-hit wonder if the group or individual had other songs ... | |
| It's National "One Hit Wonder" Day! Good list so far. I would add:Suavecito-MaloVenus-Shocking BlueTubthumping-ChumbawambaIsraelites-Desmond Dekker | |
| I gre out of Be Tweeters I also like the AMT tweeter in the recent versions I've heard; they seem to integrate well with other drivers, something that is tough to do with ribbon-type tweeters. I have recently been wondering about what I really want a tweeter to do in a s... | |
| I gre out of Be Tweeters Recognizing that everything is a matter of taste, I've heard things that I thought were good and bad with ALL examples of basic speaker technology and driver materials, so I wouldn't avoid anything in particular. There are certain particular tech... | |
| Basis Turntables: Worth it or Ripoff? A unipivot does have the freedom of movement to rock from side to side. Whether this wobble actually occurs when playing a record, and the degree to which such motion will adversely affect the sound, is the subject of much debate. But, the Vecto... | |
| Basis Turntables: Worth it or Ripoff? There are many good tables on the market, and that certainly includes the Basis tables. The particular strength of Basis is very tight manufacturing tolerances. You will not see any rotational wobble, platters are carefully balanced, and one rar... | |
| GIK Room Treatment Questions and Advice for Magnepans I can't give you any specifics about what to purchase. However, I can say that I've heard rooms with GIK products in them and they work quite well.As a general observation, I've heard a lot of rooms that I think are over-treated. I think that th... | |
| Worth pursuing analog sound from digital? I think you can get really nice sound from both vinyl and digital sources, so yes, it certainly is worth pursuing the best sound you can afford/get from digital. There are many recordings that I have on LP that sound better than the digital versi... | |
| Why bookshelf type speakers are high end I've heard several speaker systems that cost well in excess of $500k, and not surprisingly, none of them came close to perfect. Really good sound? YES, but, there is no such thing as a system without compromises. Compromises are inherent, even ... | |
| $40,000: What 2-channel system would you build? i could go any number of ways, but, I would always start with high or reasonably high efficiency speakers because I tend to only like lower powered amps; even if I had an unlimited budget, it would be a low powered amp (pushpull or singled-ended t... |