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| What equipment upgrades or tweaks will improve the sound of drums? Excellent advice above.At T.H.E. Show in Long Beach in early June, I was walking around a large open space called The Market Place. It was where the less deep-pocketed vendors were hawking their wares. Amazingly, realistic drum sounds were coming ... | |
| Recordings by Elton John, Nirvana and Thousands More Lost in Fire millercarbon Granted, I never won a Pulitzer.Chances are excellent that you never will. The New York Times has won 127 - so far. Here’s a list of a few hundred more awards won by the NYT.A google search for awards won by Fox News only displayed 40... | |
| Blow dryer causes audible buzz from power amps in two audio systems... millercarbonAppears no one so far has ever wired a house or paid much attention to how its wired. Takes about 90 seconds and a flat blade screw driver to see for yourself what is going on. It’s a very good idea to understand how a house is wired. ... | |
| Storing Unused Audio Equipment @gdnrbob I’ve heard about using rice. But, for run & gun location shooting (photography), there’s too much danger of the grains getting pulverized. The tiny particles could easily find their way into the delicate camera or lens mechanisms. If ... | |
| Storing Unused Audio Equipment When working with professional camera equipment in extreme cold weather, all items would be double bagged in ziplocks before bringing back inside to room temperature. The danger to the electronics within the camera is the condensation when warming... | |
| Know about PranaFidelity? +1 markmike I heard the Fifty90’s at an audio show. Rich, full-bodied, organic sound - slightly on the warm side. Not analytical. There are toggle switches on the back for contouring the sound. You can set & forget them - or tweak them to your... | |
| How much difference does an anti-vibration audio rack make They make a big difference with turntables. Otherwise, not so much.Incorrect. Well designed racks and isolation devices provide a significant improvement with all audio components - in addition to TT’s. | |
| Ahhh--Problem solved. Adding a REL sub-bass unit... 2. A system with powered sub should use a XOver to remove the lowest frequencies from the mains and is preferrable ot trying to ’blend’. If the mains are capable of true 30Hz, IMO there is almost no need and even less probablity that adding su... | |
| My first Tube Amplifier I built a Dynaco PAS 3 from a kit in 1965. Matched it with a Dynaco Stereo 35 amp. They drove Voice of the Theater speakers - large but slim cabinets for hanging on the wall - a la early Danish Modern. That’s when walls were made of plaster, not s... | |
| The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin passes away ". . . when Atlantic Records sent her down to Muscle Shoals, Alabama to record . . . "Yup! Watch this amazing documentary! Muscle Shoals. It revisits the creation of some legendary music. Aretha, Jimmy Cliff, The Rolling Stones, Paul Simon, Traffi... | |
| Paul is Done If you get a chance, watch the documentary "Under African Skies". It’s about the making of ’Graceland’. But, the backstory demonstrates how Paul helped to bring South African music to the world. This was when apartheid and politics were formidable... | |
| Which of these tubes should I purchase for my BAT amp? 6C33C-B or 6C33C/6S33S? The 6C33C-B and the 6C33S-V is the exact same tube. Different translations of Russian. Check out this page and that page. The 6C18C is an older equivalent - not as good. Many factories made the 6C33C-B tube back in the day. I’m pretty sure that I ... | |
| Longer speaker cables or interconnects @almarg Way back when, I saw The Blues Project many times at the Cafe Au Go Go in Greenwich Village. Every year on a long Thanksgiving weekend, the Cafe hosted a blues festival called The Blues Bag - 24/7 for 4 straight days. It was some kind of w... | |
| The Difficulties in Component "Shootouts" Many years ago, I participated in a very comprehensive study by Eastman Kodak. Professional filmmakers (cinematographers, producers,directors, editors, etc) were invited to a 2 day screening for comparing different motion picture film stocks. The ... | |
| Schiit not that Good? Read this article about the Dead’s introduction to good sound - and parallel universes."At the time, live sound at rock concerts was extremely primitive. Musicians plugged their instruments into amplifiers connected to single-channel speakers. The... |