tafka_steve
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| ESS Eclipse 500 Amp?? It dates back to the mid-1970's and was an early Nelson Pass design. ESS was an electrostatic loudspeaker company back then, but discontinued their use when they introduced the Heil Air Motion Transformer. An amp that old is going to require elect... | |
| Alesis ML-9600 to archive my LP's in HI-RES CD24 I own a Masterlink. The problem with archiving via the CD24 format is that you can only burn approx. 21 minutes per 700 MB CDR, not enough even for one side of most LPs. Something like a Masterlink that burns to DVD-R would permit archiving a comp... | |
| ESS 1D's? Or Monitors? Or none...? If that "Monitor" is ESS's "Rock Monitor" AMT-3, I'd avoid it at all costs, because the bass "alignment" is the boomiest I've heard at that price. | |
| Does anyone have any info on the Philips CD-80xx? I have one. U.S. retail was $800. 16 bit 4X oversampling with TD1541K 'Crown' DAC chips. Copper-shielding in the chassis. Even has a decent-sounding remote volume control for variable output. Particularly good at PRAT, as Martin Colloms noted in h... | |
| Best band of the 80's For early '80's: X--Exene Cervenka, John Doe, etc.For late '80's: Los Lobos. | |
| XLR inverted, is it OK? It's okay, but absolute signal polarity will be inverted. You can compensate by either reversing + and - speaker wire connections at your amplifier (or at your speaker, but not at both amp and speaker), or flipping a polarity inversion switch on y... | |
| What was your greatest epiphany? I injured my left hip and my femur's end cartilage was damaged. Oops, that was my greatest epiphysis. | |
| What is TFA return? TFA Return has three paralleled conductors, and is the negative lead in the Space and Time Phase II/TFA Return combo. The positive lead, Space and Time Phase II, has two conductors. | |
| song title that is memorable I have Wesley Willis' Shake Your Piggy Bank in my car's CD player right now. About a third of the tracks have memorable titles. For the song list, go to: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004TRRO/qid=1046607740/sr=1-10/ref=sr_1_10/1... | |
| The Worst Speaker you have ever heard. Zaikesman, the speaker was the Velodyne DF-661. It got panned by John Atkinson in a Stereophile review in 1994, but got praise for low distortion and accuracy by Peter Aczel in The Audio Critic. I think it is still being sold as a home theater spe... | |
| Bug Ugly Before the moderators close down this thread like they did last time, I would like to say hello to the ugly equipment manufacturers (you know who you are). Hi to Dick, Jim, John, Bob, and Dave! | |
| un-screwing acoustic zen cables These description are way too complicated. Hold the cable like you'd hold a bottle of ketchup and unscrew the barrel like you'd unscrew the lid on the bottle.BTW, these locking connectors sound best with the minimum of mechanical resistance felt d... | |
| Walker Reliability Two months ago, that "sissy boy" amplifier fell through my Arcici Suspense Rack at 4 AM with serious floor slam. Fortunately, with a system of levers, a fulcrum, and air bladders, I was able to reassemble my rack alone. Now I know how the Egyptian... | |
| Walker Reliability If you mean the Walker Proscenium turntable, then I can vouch for ease of maintenance. I bought one second-hand (inspected and packed by Lloyd and Frank) almost two years ago. After initial setup (which is time-consuming and not that easy), I've o... | |
| Your ONE all time favorite love song? "Baby I'm Yours" by Barbara Lewis (her "Hello Stranger" is even better, but not a typical love song). |