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| Clarinet Music on vinyl or CDs David Shifrin and Carol Rosenberger recreate the Brahms/Schumann Soiree in the home of Clara Schumann and play the Brahms Clarinet Sonatas op120, no 1 and 2, as well as Schumanns Fantasiestucke op 73. Delos 3025. An absolutely delightful performan... | |
| What Silenced the Ground Loop? All hums are not from ground loops. That you hum varies with volume suggests to me that it is not a 'ground loop' hum. Your RCA's output connections themselves may be causing a hum, or the tubes in the center two positions may be inducing a hum. D... | |
| Most Influential American Musician of All Time? Tvad, FWIW I think your definition of 'musician' might be a bit narrow, especially in view of how it's defined in my dictionary, i.e. a composer or performer of music and as an alternative a performer esp of instrumental music. Re Robert Johnson's... | |
| my take on blind tests I think we aught to have a contest with a large "Randy" type award going to the person who can in a short period of time ID what is going on with two similar products over the entire bandwidth. Its relatively easy to hear broad dips or bulges spre... | |
| Do true audiophiles own Mcintosh gear I've got nothing against Mc's and their sound, but I do have a question. Would their sales suffer much if they no longer had all those pretty blue lights and VU meters?I suspect that audiophiles would recognize their quality for what it is, but th... | |
| Most Influential American Musician of All Time? Leonard Bernstein in classical music. He was aConductorComposerMusicianTeacher and a very public advocate of classical music written in America. In jazz I'd have to agree with other's nomination of Johnson, Armstrong and Ellington for their roles ... | |
| Volume issue Sorry, haven't got a clue. I doubt that they are retailed by B&M stores. | |
| Volume issue If there is a degredation in the signal from the insertion of a Rothwell 10db attenuator I really don't hear it. It is after all just a single resistor (encased in a rlug with male and female RCA's) put in the line. You place it at the amp and the... | |
| Volume issue The efficiency of your speakers may be too high for more flexibility with the output gain of the SP10. You can do two things. 1) Engage the switch on the front panel which lowers the gain of incoming signals 6db. 2)Or put in a fix attenuator, like... | |
| What makes instrument immediacy, -separation & -bo "What do you think..."I think you may not have optomized your speaker/room set up/interface with any of the speakers you have mentioned. JMHO based on your comments. | |
| Need integrated for Tyler linbrook Signature I also have the Signatures and I am using both the Raysonic 128 and the Wadia 302 as sources I have been quite happy with both a Cayin A100T and a Paragon Three/Five pre-amp/amp combo. Both are very responsive to tube changes. I've only had the Ca... | |
| Ever hear a power cable make a huge difference? Tbg, You may hate the scam police, but in doing so don't you risk treading on another's freedom of speach. It seems to me that they have as much right to express their opinion without your judgmental opinions of their thought processes as you. At ... | |
| Pass Labs XA-160 vs Levinson 33H ARC recommended the same 20k for my old ARC pre-amp which had a 600 ohm output (I assume the same output as the Ref 3). Ran it with an old Threshold with a high input impedence and another anp with a 10k input impedence. The mismatch (I'm told - I... | |
| Spare tubes? How many? Any tube can fail, especially if you don't have a spare.If you have individual biasing pots for each tube replacing the blown one and rebiasing it works fine, so long as you're not too anal. You don't need to replace the other three. Now if the tu... | |
| Do we believe in Machina Dynamics? Jea48, Thanks for the invittion but I think this thread needs to go to sleep now. If these subjects come up again I might join in. :-) |