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| THE LITTLE BLACK BOX, 399.00 ABSOLUTLY NUTS I liked @dc_bruce’s posting on the substance. I know some of you like to swap or upgrade the phono cable, but for the most part, i’ve used hard wired tone arm leads, no junction box. I appreciate the benefits of balanced connections generally, but... | |
| Joule Electra preamp and Aragon 4004 mkII I had a Joule LA 150 mk II in my system for a summer while awaiting repair of my main system line stage. I seem to remember that there were jumpers inside the cabinet that could change the output impedance of the line stage, but without an owner's... | |
| THE LITTLE BLACK BOX, 399.00 ABSOLUTLY NUTS Actually, most extremely wealthy people i know are quite smart- i'm not talking about the wealth that buys a fancy house, car, vacation, and the other trappings of "success" ala the professional class. It's the kind of money that gets passed down ... | |
| New York HiFi Show: Tubes and Turntables @audiotroy Dave, leaving aside the costs and challenges of the typical hotel show, the niche nature of quality audio has long been an issue--the people who attend are typically people already engaged; the difficulty of introducing "normal citizens... | |
| New York HiFi Show: Tubes and Turntables It seems that a city like NY, which still has quite a few dealers in Manhattan, could do a traveling show among the various dealers- call it NY Audio Day. The dealers batten down the hatches, set up a couple systems, one primo, one reasonably pric... | |
| David Crosby If Only I Could Remember My Name Long a well known sonic treat- I think it was on the old HP list. | |
| Help! Tweaking My Lovan Rack for new Big A**ed Transrotor Turntable! Quick research says that this tree was resistant to Dutch Elm disease, but it does not dry flat if I’m reading this blog correctly. That, and its stability in retaining flatness would be a big issue in its use for a turntable platform as I read it... | |
| Am I an Audiophile, a music lover-or both? And, apropos the "hat" approach to the topic, there are the record collectors, often folks who don’t have particularly good playback equipment, and in many cases, are buying a record because it is rare and special (and often of considerable value,... | |
| Led Zeppelin II @notesaddict: That is the beginning of the code: S for Stereo, A for Atlantic. Then Numbers. Then a suffix. The suffix on the Atlantics, usually a two letter code, is the pressing plant, e.g. MO is Monarch. Not saying those are the best, just one ... | |
| Am I an Audiophile, a music lover-or both? @hifiman5 - music, to me, is taken in on a visceral level. Much is affected by mood. (I'm not talking about substances). I may not be in the mood for a particular piece of music, and want to listen to something else. One of the joys of having a la... | |
| Help! Tweaking My Lovan Rack for new Big A**ed Transrotor Turntable! Not nuts. Just be aware that all these materials sound different, and the theory behind the layers- constrained layer damping- is to combine different materials with different resonance characteristics to arrive at a fairly neutral solution. I’m n... | |
| Am I an Audiophile, a music lover-or both? It’s a tightrope sometimes, because you or I love music, we want it reproduced as convincingly as possible to create an illusion of reality- whatever that is- the studio, the live performance, the band in the room.Getting caught up in the machiner... | |
| Led Zeppelin II @notesaddict- it all depends on which pressing, who mastered, what plant. If you read the deadwax, that will tell you. Atlantic actually put the code for the plants on the labels themselves. The one people tend to chase is the RL mastered one, whi... | |
| RCA Caps @geoffkait - I guess subtelty is not my strong suit :) Thanks for the award.After my long time ownership and factory tweaking of the SP-10 preamp, my continued contact with ARC was mainly due to maintenance and refurbishment of my Dual 75a, which ... | |
| Led Zeppelin II Haven’t heard it -of II. My second japanese press of 1 is special, and not crazy money, but I can’t make the leap of faith from that to a japanese pressing of II. I thought the Jimmy Page sanctioned reissues from a few years ago were great for peo... |