lngbruno
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| b&w 803 or vr4jr, best match My friend has the 803's and they are equipment dependent. With the wrong equipment they sounded like sh!^ but with the right equipment they sound wonderful. I am very sensitive to bright and sizzle tweeters and the 803's in his current system soun... | |
| Is Golden Gramaphone in Akron going out of biz? Yes! I believe he called it "retiring" and had a great sell off of existing inventory. I missed picking up 1.6s for 30% off by minutes. | |
| Rat Shck Presidian 40-5053. Next Sonic Impact? If the midbass driver is a simple paper-cone would anyone planning on performing the inexpensive dyi upgrades mentioned above consider painting this driver with "Damar Varnish" to stiffen it up a little?? I have used it on other paper cones and fe... | |
| About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone Barb,It was nice of you to drop by and share your feelings with us. It is always an emotional roller coaster to go through the Holidays without having loved ones around who have recently passed away. It was rough for me too because my favorite unc... | |
| Ceiling treatment question Some data points to ponder.The Amstrong insulation will definitely help deaden the sound of people walking on tile.Use black ground cover (used in planting beds) stapled to joists. Then cover that with wood lattice painted to a color of your choic... | |
| About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone Hi Everybody,Since we are getting close to a 1,000 posts, I thought I would bump it up a little.My wife and I sent Barb and her family a hard copy of this thread along with six cdR copies and a memorial afghan representing our interpretation of th... | |
| How should I ship these babies? Hi WarrenH,I just had an experience of shipping a 98# amp from PA to CA and back without incident. The key is to double box it in a box that is double walled and to get it there as fast as possible, in my case it was three days.I'll send you a PM ... | |
| Review: Threshold 400a Amplifier Not a 400a response but a tilt of the hat to Jon Sonderberg for his amazing mod skills. He just moded my Threshold s450e amp and Forte 44F preamp. A truely nice update and they should last me the rest of my natural life too.Oh yeah, I am the orgin... | |
| About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone Barb and Amanda you are in our thoughts and may God bless you.As I sat here with tears running down my cheeks I remembered a poem, which seemed to described the essence of Patrick. I never meet him in person but did email and talk to him a couple ... | |
| Warm and pleasing CDP - can be biased, colored I am in the Rega camp on this one. Either the Planet or, if you can push the spend line up, go for the Jupiter. Now if you can wait, Rega will be introducing its new CDP here in the US soon. This will give you options and should lower the secondar... | |
| About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone Hi Barb,Having that puppy in you life is going to help during the grieving period for sure.My wife, Gina, suggested Cinna as a short version of Cinnamon Girl, or Aussie for her being an Australian Shephard.My suggestions are an anagram of LUGNUT -... | |
| About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone Hi Pat and everyone,I am sorry for not responding earlier but I was out of town for over a week and have just caught up on this thread.The entire thread had been copied and pasted to a word file. I have also gone through most of it and cleaned up ... | |
| Movin' up from Rega Planet 2000? What next? I too upgraded from a Planet to a Jupiter about six months ago and feel it was worth the extra money to do so. The change in my system wasn't what I would call significant but there was a noticable change in the depth and overall size of the sound... | |
| About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone Pat, you continue to amaze me on how much strength and grace you possess no matter what situation is thrown your way. My prayers are with you my friend.L | |
| What time do you wear? Wc65mustang, I have an 1968-9 Accutron (it is the one that was made out of solid 18c gold case) that stopped working about 6 years ago and I was never able to find someone who had the parts to repair it. It had something to do with the electronic ... |