terraplane8bob
Responses from terraplane8bob
| little big win To get back to your altruistic gesture ----- GOOD on You !! A little bit of proselytizing on your part will not only bring someone from outside of the hobby "in from the cold" but will provide a lifelong gift that will not be forgotten ! GOOD o... | |
| Are there any issues with connecting speaker wire in this manner? Emmetropia refers to great eyesight and hyperosmia refers to great sense of smell but if you have great sense of hearing you currently are considered to be an audiophile. If you are blessed with any or all of these conditions, exploit them to the... | |
| Tekton Open Baffle Speakers The Siegfried Linkwitz "Orion" speakers are natural sounding and superb examples of open baffle design. Check "Linkwitz Lab.com" for more info. | |
| Pictures at an Exhibition What a fabulous piece of music and a fabulous piece of orchestration by Ravel ! I agree with the assessment of the version with The Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Kubelik conducting. it is a great MONO recording on the Mercury label. I performed... | |
| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, Linkwitz "Orions". | |
| Heavy Vinyl Does it occur to anyone that a thicker LP would alter the VTA of the cartridge ? | |
| If you were serious about sound you would... 2 ears = 2 microphones = realistic sound. " I would argue that the end result most certainly CAN be better than the original equipment it was recorded on." ------- Not BETTER ----- only DIFFERENT ! | |
| Does anyone repair.... Would you pay $$$$ to have a photo of your parents restored so that you can put it in a place of prominence in YOUR home ? Would you pay $$$$ to have a recording of your child's first words so that you can listen to it years later in YOUR home ?... | |
| As A Youngster, What Unit Puqued Your Interest In All This? In 1956, as a student at The Eastman School of Music, I found that it was very convenient to pass by Craig Audio which was owned by a doublebass player in the Rochester Philharmonic, Dave Craig. It was only a block out of my way and was located i... | |
| Cable elevators It is possible in certain instances where electric lines are installed directly under the audio system cables where they can cause interference. When working as a recording engineer I always had a RF problem in a certain church and attributed it ... | |
| The damper, the tension wire and cantilever position On what planet is this discussion taking place ? | |
| Your experience of moving to two subs Ther seems to be an assumption that bass is omni-directional. It is not. There is a point of origin for the original signal and two subs can resolve that reality. It is like two ears helping locate the direction of a sound or two eyes resolving... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... I got a real chuckle out of "Mahler 123's" comment : "Hearing the spit clog a horn player's instrument is interesting, but ultimately distracting." Years ago, when my wife was still my girlfriend, I took a real chance when I pointed out to her... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... Adolf Herseth, the spectacular trumpet soloist with The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, once told a story in a radio interview with Bill [?] Russo about Fritz Reiner who, in my opinion, was the most important conductor the orchestra ever had. Apparen... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... Viber 6's comment, "If I were a sitting giraffe with my head way over people, then the 2nd row might be nice." That is a great way of articulating my previous comment about achieving a "sight line" to every instrument in an orchestra. From that v... |