murphbass
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| Appreciation @edgyhassle Nice listening choices. I was on a trip to Ghana with around ten musicians in 2011. We recorded an album with local musicians, studied dance and learned West African drumming with a master. I had never met Bonnie Paine (singer/percu... | |
| Favorite Guitar Solo Or, is it 'Peg' as played by Jay Graydon after a handful of session cats attempted takes?Frank Zappa on 'Inca Roads' (Ink Erodes...) from One Size Fits All. Solo is imported from the Helsinki '74 show documented on You Can't Do That On Stage An... | |
| Favorite Guitar Solo Denny Dias on 'Your Gold Teeth II' by Steely Dan | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear @jb1I thought that the McLaughlin Trio was CD as well. Thankfully, it was released in ’90 and reissued on 180g (German-Optimal) in 2015. That album was a huge inspiration as I’m a bassist. Kai Eckhardt went from Berklee School of Music to landing ... | |
| High Output Preamp for First Watt SIT-3? Thanks for adding to the thread, @eugene81 . That's useful information. I suspect that most of my listening centers around 85db, or at least that's were it sat on the day I checked. I listen in a nearfield position because of the size of my roo... | |
| High Output Preamp for First Watt SIT-3? To keep distortion down though and yet still make reasonable power, I'd be looking at an 8 ohm speaker rather than 4 ohms. I wasn't aware that distortion could be a function of a speaker's impedance. Or, at least, I assumed a lower impedance spea... | |
| High Output Preamp for First Watt SIT-3? Mglik-Great info. Quads have always been on the 'list.' There's a lengthy thread on the Hoffman forums about which amps make them 'sing' that I bookmarked yesterday but have yet to read. Does 'sand' refer to silicon and transistors, the grainin... | |
| High Output Preamp for First Watt SIT-3? Al- I appreciate you running calculations on my setup. The cartridge is a MOFI Mastertracker. 3mv output. That's substantial, no? https://www.mofielectronics.com/mastertracker-cartridgeI was curious if the amp was seeing the full potential ... | |
| High Output Preamp for First Watt SIT-3? Thanks for all of your input. I purchased the SIT-3 first because I was intrigued by early reviews and wanted to purchase one before the limited supply ran out. I've always wanted planar speakers and was aware of the low sensitivity of the Maggie... |