terraplane8bob
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| Do you agree with John Atkinson (and me)? I think that it's wonderful that so many people embrace streaming and the endless catalogue of available music online. I suspect that if that had been the case when I was becoming an audiophile, I might have embraced it myself ---- but it wasn't ... | |
| Does anyone listen to the radio anymore? To "guscreek", my compliments to your Farnsworth ancestor for the fine radios and phonographs that bear the Farnsworth name. Having had a career as a professional musician, I still hear something every day on Baltimore's WBJC [91.5] that I've n... | |
| The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse!! I blame the proliferation of affordable electronic gear that made it possible for a bunch of "No Talent Bums" to be able to put their "product" into the mainstream ! People gravitate towards whatever is convenient but not necessarily valuable. A... | |
| Who is Roon? It might be a good exercise for those who contemplate streamlining their listening experience by subscribing to a "streaming" entity to consider this, instead.. If you are one of the many who relish the process of cueing up a vinyl recording, or ... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers My-O-My ! I never expected to kick up so much "dust" with my re-telling of the story of when my audio dealer dusted his turntable dust cover and created enough magnetism to alter the stylus force ! Perhaps we can end it all simply by turning our... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers I haven't seen it addressed so far in this discussion so I'll relate an experience I had back in the late 60s / early 70s when visiting my favorite audio emporium. The owner kept a very orderly showroom and a regular dusting of the display compon... | |
| There Is Nothing Like the Real Thing - Our State of the Art 25 years as a symphony musician and 25 years as a recording engineer settled my mind as to realistic sound. Acoustic instruments playing in an acoustical environment is about as real as it gets and attempts to replicate it are exactly that -------... | |
| Can anyone tell me when XLR connections were first used on stereo equipment. (what years)? I have a Burmester 838 phono preamp and an 868 preamp/DA convertor and two 878 amps, all of which have XLR connections. Burmester used a system to identify his components : 838 [ August of 1983 ] 868 [August of 1986 ] 878 [August of 1987]. Year f... | |
| Holy Holostages!! Has anyone noticed that "Holostages" is just two letters away from being "Hostages" ? | |
| Physical degradation of CD's I owned a small recording business and would routinely furnish my clients with copies of their performances that were burned with a pro level CD recorder. On rare occasion I would get a complaint of "drop-outs" on the disc. At first I attributed ... | |
| Physically Comfortable Headphones I am surprised to not have seen STAX "ear speakers" mentioned. They are light, open back and sonically speaking are extremely accurate. I worked as an audio engineer and used Sennheiser 600 earphones for convenience during the recording sessions... | |
| Open baffle speakers I had the good fortune to be good friends with Don Barringer who worked with Siegfried Linkwitz on the Linkwitz "Orion" speaker design. Don and I were both professional musicians. Don worked for a number of years as the recording engineer for the... | |
| Garrard 301 - Project As a point of reference : Has anyone here ever heard a Garrard 301 in its original plinth ? You know ---- the one that the designers of this marvelous TT chose as its companion plinth ? | |
| How do you add remote control to a preamp, here's how. Clio09 posted : " I have seen situations where people wanted to use a passive as a remote and the Placette passive remote was one of the best to accomplish this." I could not agree more. The Placette uses Vishay resistors with very tight toleran... | |
| Speakers that disappear Linkwitz "ORION" open baffle speakers. Truly amazing ! |