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| Favorite guitar players not named...... I would add Jim Stafford to the list.Also recently saw a perhaps lesser-known but hugely talented touring guitarist named Ed Berghoff in a backyard venue. He could play everything from Hendrix to Lindsay Buckingham. Very impressed. Check him ou... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Yes, I also agree with atmasphere as I once had some Wilson Sophia speakers, 4 ohms nominal impedance, and a pair of Fourier Panthere OTL amps whose output impedance was around an ohm or so. Adding a pair of autoformers made a huge difference in ... | |
| MBL omnidirectional speakers. How do they sound ? Heard them several times at the Newport Beach Audio Show.The smaller 116s in a small room were nothing remarkable.The 101s, however, are perhaps the best-sounding speaker I have ever heard by a long shot. They were set up in a double hotel room, ... | |
| Tube for a Noob ??? I agree with the others that if you are not committed to vinyl, I would stick with either CD's or digital downloads and get some tubes in there somewhere. To make vinyl really effective you need a decent turntable/arm/cartridge combination, vibra... | |
| If I'm looking for "Tube Sound", why would I put a Tube Pre in front of a SS amp? Another rationale for using a tubed preamp is that tubes work better than solid-state in amplifying voltages since tubes work at hundreds of volts while SS works at tens of volts. Solid-state work better at amplifying current since they have much... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz I use HFC Ultimate Reference cables from my turntable to my phono stage since my turntable has DIN-to-RCA connectors and my Steelhead phono stage has RCA inputs. Rick Schultz told me early on that all of the cables are of identical build (at any ... | |
| Dark Side of the Moon - Is MFSL really all that? Never liked the MFSL versions, particularly the UHQR. Too compressed, thin, and lightweight. I like the original UK and German pressings. I have also tried a number of reissues and don't like them either.Found this in Wikipedia: An obi (帯?) is... | |
| Will changing gain affect frequency response? In addition to how changing the gain of a preamp can change sound due to nonlinearity of the gain control, another thing to consider is where you achieve the gain. For instance, I can change the gain on my phono preamp as well as on my main pream... | |
| LP: Left Channel Drops In and Out I saw on Audioasylum Vinyl Asylum that someone else noticed this problem. Surprising that WB never found it. Since the recording was in 1990 at the end of the vinyl heyday, I seriously doubt that more than one mastering or pressing was done of t... | |
| LP: Left Channel Drops In and Out As an update on this Bob James LP, I bought a sealed copy and it displays the exact same phenomenon of the missing left channel on the first two songs on side 2 and fading in and out on the third cut before correcting for the rest of the LP side. ... | |
| Looking to buy floor standing speakers in $1000 per speaker range. A few years ago I changed from expensive multi-way speakers to single-driver speakers in inexpensive cabinets and am amazed at how long it took me to find these things. I bought a pair of 8" alnico drivers on commonsenseaudio.com (Audio Nirvana) ... | |
| Top five live Rock And Roll Albums I am generally not a fan of live rock and roll albums but would go with Supertramp's Paris. | |
| Why do I keep torturing myself with remasters? oleschool, I feel your pain. I also have somewhere near 8000 LPs and have always feared their loss in a fire or earthquake here in parched CA, along with pictures and tapes of my family when they were younger. I do have all of the original Germa... | |
| Single driver loudspeakers What a number of single-drivers incorporate to improve treble performance is a whizzer cone and phase plug. Recently there have been developments that preclude such a design. | |
| Single driver loudspeakers I have had some very expensive multi-way speakers and when starting to design my own I saw some single driver speakers, so I bought a pair of 8 inch alnico Audio Nirvana drivers and had a cabinet builder make cabinets using the design shown on the... |