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| The History of Recorded Music: The Re-emergence of the vinyl Record The technology and artistry go hand in hand. Before the LP, recordings were "short." All the significant blues records were singles; yes, you can now get them as compilations. Les Paul was cutting overdubs direct to disc before he had access to a ... | |
| Quandry +1 on Mike Trei. When I lived in NY, he was my go to for turntable set up and cartridge mounting/alignment. Sure, I knew how to do it, but Mike made it look easy and dialed everything in with no travails. When I moved to Texas, there was no set up... | |
| Steely Dan UHQR I had already moved on from Steely Dan by the time Aja was released but it got radio play and was a demo record back in the day. I always found it dry sounding, and the Cisco cut even more arid. Does the horn on Deacon Blues really wail like it sh... | |
| Tube amplifier - tube bias and time to warm up Maybe somebody with real technical chops can correct me, but I don't even bother to check bias when I first turn my main system amps on-- Lamm ML2s. I run them for 45 minutes to warm them up and may check bias at that point, using a Fluke meter, b... | |
| Looking for a budget Step-up Transformer Look up N or Ned Clayton on E-Bay. He makes a wide array of relatively cheap step ups- I bought one using Cinemag Blue transformers which has switchable loading- I use it in my vintage system where I didn’t want to get spendy. Good product, good c... | |
| OPPO repair I just worked with Oppo support today, after sending them an email this morning. They wanted to trouble shoot, rather than have me send the unit in. Turns out, a firmware upgrade and a factory reset solved the problem-- no audio from either the hd... | |
| Sansui? Sansui was big for the military at the PX during Nam. They made a few good pieces back in the day but SS has improved considerably since then. | |
| Looking for info and opinions on electronic industries dual 100a You might enjoy this, including the "article" that is embedded: https://www.arcdb.ws/model/DUAL100 | |
| Horns with good timbre and tonality? I was an electrostatic owner for decades, made the switch to horns (Avantgarde Duo) for my main system in 2006. What upped the game in terms of timbre/tonality was the upstream components (Lamm ML2- such a good sounding amp), different phono stage... | |
| At what price is one considered an Audiophile. It's a mindset. I was fiddling with a suitcase record player jacked into a musical instrument amp and PA speaker when I was a teen. I have progressed since then. There's a darker view of self-professed audiophiles for whom "source material" is m... | |
| REF5SE tubes I owned older ARC, before the 6h30, but run a line stage, the Veloce Lithio, which does use that tube. I had a NOS quad of the DR Reflektor which sounded better, and when I was "fettling," thought those might be past prime time; tried a set of new... | |
| Velodyne DD15 - worth repairing the plate amp? I had some really old Velodynes- one was an 18" bottom firing coffin with a separate control box, another circa the mid 90's - was a front facing 15". While both were servo woofers, neither had any DSP. I used them for home theatre back in the day... | |
| Thank You Fumihiko Sugano and Koetsu Thanks for the info, @mulveling. Sorry to hear of his passing. I too hope the company continues. | |
| Moving Soon - Should I Pack Up Everything Now?? I left my system standing while our last house was on the market. The horns needed to be custom crated--and the crates would not have fit through the door of the room. And where was I going to stash all the gear and records- at the time I had arou... | |
| 100 Albums You Would wish for...from a Genie Last night we went to an ACL Live (taped for eventual broadcast) performance by FLOR DE TOLOACHE, a Latin based duo with an extremely deft band. Trumpet, several guitars and two lead singers who switched off between violin and flute, among other i... |