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| Are You Old Enough to Remember Those Jaw-Dropping Manufacturer Demos? I saw the Dual turntable demonstration you described. It wasn't the playing upside down that was amazing to me. It was the huge up and down motion of the spring-hung table. The motion was smooth, so that is why the playing was not disturbed, bu... | |
| Hang em High and Gilligan's Island There is this famous mashup called Stairway to Gilligan's Island: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8oGz0mxwks | |
| Capital Audiofest Coming Up! Mapman, The new North American distributor for Synthesis Audio will be at the show. I don't know what amplifiers will be at the show, but, most of their lineup is both excellent in sound and reasonably priced. I hope they show the A40 and A100 ... | |
| Help Deciding On New Speakers For Small Room, $10k budget A lot of fine speakers have been recommended here, but, one of the requirements is sound that is somewhat soft on top. Some of these speakers are on the brighter side. | |
| Drinking Songs playlest... What am I missing? Merle Haggard's "Back to the Barrooms" is pretty much a whole album devoted to this subject. | |
| Seeking a Warm 12AX7 Tube for Preamp trivema, I am pretty much in agreement on your assessment of 12AX7 tubes. I currently run extremely expensive Telefunken ECC803S (the real deal) tubes in my phono stage. It is a very dynamic and vivid tube, but, it is not for someone looking fo... | |
| Help Deciding On New Speakers For Small Room, $10k budget PureAudioProject open baffle speakers are an interesting recommendation made above. The smaller models, like the Trio 15 with something like the horn midrange/tweeter module might work. I have not heard these speakers in as small a room ss you h... | |
| Help Deciding On New Speakers For Small Room, $10k budget I also forgot to say that the Spendor 3/1 recommendation above is a good one too. | |
| Help Deciding On New Speakers For Small Room, $10k budget Do you have any placement limitation; such as, the speakers need to be near a room corner or a wall, etc.? Does the speaker have to be small in size? More detail is helpful. There are some fairly large speakers that work extremely well in small... | |
| Drinking Songs playlest... What am I missing? Townes Van Zandt "Waiting Around to Die." | |
| Drinking Songs playlest... What am I missing? Leonard Cohen "Closing Time" Guy Clark "Cold Dog Soup" | |
| Cary SLP98L upgrades--yea or nay? Easily reversible upgrades, such as trying different tubes would be the best way to start your upgrade path. If ANY upgrade changes the sound, which it should, that change can be for the better or worse, depending on your system and your taste. ... | |
| Cary SLP98L upgrades--yea or nay? I like the SL98. It has been a while since I heard it, but, I like its rich and warm sound. I have no idea what the upgrade will bring to the unit. A local dealer who builds his own tube gear, mostly quite expensive units, truly HATES the sound... | |
| Calling All Tube Gurus Alvinnir2, Very good observations/advice. Some people get a bit too obsessed with matching. A local dealer has a huge collection of used tubes that still test very strong and he "matches" them by finding tubes with the same internal structure. ... | |
| Drinking Songs playlest... What am I missing? Stevie Ray Vaughn “Life by the Drop” |