tomic601
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Little Feat - Hoy Hoy ! | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Ya, Smokin OPS was more party music.... for my youth... “ points all her own, way up high” workin on mysteries without any clues.... the stuff of youth | |
| Speakers Don’t Matter As Much As We Think They Do? But, IF you understand the violent relationship between speakers and power amps, you might like to think about them as an optimized system. So to that end, in my reference system about 2/3 of the system cost ( not including wiring, room treatment,... | |
| Speakers Don’t Matter As Much As We Think They Do? Transducers have the highest distortion ( including microphones ) because they have the most difficult job to do. Spend wisely. But realize your out of phase el cheapo paper cone midrange is producing a lot of trash. Now try fixing that with a dru... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @reubent - I grew up cranking Live Bullet on my Dad’s stereo, till the tubes glowed blue :-) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Rachmaninov - Symphonic Dances - Eiji Oue - Minnesota Orchestra - Ref Recordings RM-1504dynamics and tone color to die for, perfect hall ambiance ( for me anyway) | |
| Time to upgrade my Amp @tomstruck - ya man !!!! atlas has mule kick drive and great match w Vandersteen including built in high pass! One of my three finalists when I was amp shopping when I owned 5a !!!!love my Jim White DAC, dude has ears and rock solid engineering -... | |
| Friend needs advice for $8,000 system Another possibility is a nice SP series ARC preamp with built in fet/tube phono. The last one I bought was $1250 with checkout by my favorite tech. add a stout but classic power amp - say a recapped Bryston, the Chord DAC and a Rega 3 table and yo... | |
| Friend needs advice for $8,000 system @phcollie recommended a very competent system. The odyssey integrated, while all SS would save you some coin and allow a low end tube phono stage. Ignore the ego driven personal attacks. Music is rarely about that kind of thing, or should be. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Tip of the hat to @slaw - he turned me on to this...John Fogerty - Deja Vu all over again... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Omg almost pissed myself laughing about Joe S at 33 and a third.... and thinking I have some of his stuff.... lots and lots of notes | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? On retrospection, I certainly prefer the darker RT stuff - Beeswing, tons of Charlie in the bulkhead, killed a man in a Brazzaville street fight, cooksferry Queen, Bathsheeba smiles... ya know, cheerfully Disney sort of stuff..ha all goodimagine a... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I have the Hope streaming ( Tidal )... atmosand brooding, the sideways War Dept glances are - she is wondering how much I’ve had to drink... | |
| Adjusting speaker positioning. What, if anything, to expect? But, IF you already have a room, the Fibbo placement methodology changes where you put the speakers to minimize reinforcement, both positive or negative. | |
| Adjusting speaker positioning. What, if anything, to expect? And only a massive ego would approach Jim’s great book as unworthy of a great tidbit or three, or a know it all.... |