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| Recommended Pressing of Sgt Pepper's 04-08-07: Hevac1:Were you even alive when Sgt. Pepper's came out? You obviously don't know anything about it. The Sgt. Pepper's album was among the first to use multi-channel tape, and there was quite a bit of news about it at the time.http://en.w... | |
| How good can a mono cartridge be...? Here's one that certainly looks to be acceptable:http://www.musicdirect.com/products/detail.asp?sku=ALYRTITANM | |
| How good can a mono cartridge be...? 04-06-07: Viridian "Actually, there are many good mono cartridges available. Shure, Grado, Lyra, Benz, the Denon 102 mentioned above. I am sure that there are more, they can be found at the Needle Doctor website, among other places." Really? I'm s... | |
| How good can a mono cartridge be...? I don't know where you would find a good mono cartridge today. They don't exist. | |
| Recommended Pressing of Sgt Pepper's Sgt Peppers was quite innovative in its stereo effecrs. | |
| Recommended Pressing of Sgt Pepper's Mono? Sgt Peppers was intended as a stereo recording, released on mono only to accommodate those who did not yet have stereo equipment. | |
| Recommended Pressing of Sgt Pepper's The original UK pressing was very good. I owned a copy. German pressing and Dutch pressings were OK. | |
| Monitors vs. Floorstanders - What an eye opener The amplifier I heard most recently may have been one of these:http://www.vtl.com/pages/stereo_amplifiers.html#common | |
| One speaker is louder than the other I would contact the mfr for service. | |
| What sounds best integrated or separates? 03-27-07: Pawlowski6132 "Uraniumcommittee; I know what you mean about integrateds being low in power (so, cheaper) and thus not as good as separates. Do you mean something like these?"No, I mean typical low-cost to medium-cost integrated amps. | |
| What sounds best integrated or separates? Integrated amps are generally more limited in power (to keep down costs). Separates are of course more expenive but perform far better. | |
| Frequency range vs frequency response 'Frequency range' is simply the range, usually expressed from Hz to KHz, that a given device will produce. It tells you nothing about the amplitude variations within the range. 'Frequency response' is usually specified as having a certain amplitud... | |
| Yamaha NS-690 II Speakers?? Help Identify This should be of interest:http://www11.plala.or.jp/se_ke5583/YAMAHA/speaker/index.html | |
| Yamaha NS-690 II Speakers?? Help Identify I owned a pair for a while (1976-1981). They were decent, but had 'holes' in the response curve that I could hear. I eventually sold them and moved to the Rogers Studio 1, which was a far better speaker. After 20 years with those, I sold them and ... | |
| Why do no audio enthusiasts use McIntosh? "03-19-07: Jc51373Trying to make a McIntosh analogous to a Mercedes is actually an excellent way to describe what I think of McIntosh, if you need to know. It's an over-priced status symbol, ruined by a conglomerate. I have now heard the McIntosh... |