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| New listening room electrical design I always learn something from Jea. Question: unless the construction of the drywall/studs is already first rate, won't it be way easier to tear it out and start from scratch? Re Jea's comment about the proximity of the subpanel to the outlets, co... | |
| Speakers Corner Speakers Corner is a good reissue house; Pallas is a good pressing plant. I doubt any plant would say they use mold release compound in their production since the pvc compound, as supplied, contains various things, including thermal stabilizers an... | |
| Who is you go to for top quality vinyl servs- I have a couple of oddball Beatles records made in the Soviet era that sound pretty good. One is an early comp w/ Taste of Honey. It’s probably a 2 dollar bin record. I do have a fair number of Melodiya classical records that I acquired ove... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? @salectric --which compression driver for the Altec? And if a modern paper cone woofer, which one? And what do you do for a X-over? The WE stuff is too recherché, but doing this with a bit of Frankenstein-ing might be cost-effective. TIA,bill hart | |
| Remembering Phoebe Snow on Her Birthday July 17, 1950 Glenn- thank you for posting this. I've been playing her self-titled album since it was released, and it remains one of my favorites to this day, including "Harpo's Blues." I regret not seeing her perform- she was scheduled to appear at the Turnin... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? To me, a lot of audiophile quality double bass is too closely miked- you hear things that even the player probably doesn’t hear. I think that is intended to create an immediacy, but real bass doesn’t sound like that in a club. Piano, to me, is als... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? The epiphany for me, as regards "bandwidth" was hearing the original transcriptions of Benny Goodman's 1938 Concert at Carnegie Hall, in the process of being restored by an archivist. I listened to the flat transfer and to his cleaned up version o... | |
| New listening room electrical design Maril: Some thoughts to consider on your narrower set of questions. If you have one line feeding multiple receptacles or receptacles plus a distribution box, you have the advantage, I think, of eliminating the different grounding potential among s... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? I don't think we have lost the ability to innovate- the goals and priorities are different. When those magnificent early theatre sound systems were designed, they were addressing the needs of an entire industry transitioning to the "talkies" and t... | |
| Who is you go to for top quality vinyl Ole- for some prog reissues, reach out to Ken Golden who has a company called Laser's Edge (LP and CD). He has vast knowledge of older prog, especially the obscure Italian and German stuff, and can help you source reasonably priced reissues as an ... | |
| Who is you go to for top quality vinyl Ole-Are you asking only about Japanese pressings or pressings made in various parts of the world? And I’m assuming you are talking about older pressings, right? Or new releases as well?I buy records from all over the world, I’ve gotten UK pressing... | |
| remove tubes before moving cross town? Inadvertently banging a tube and torquing the receptacles/pin clips in the socket will give you added work- more than simply pulling and replacing the tubes, you may have to tighten or repair the tube socket. In addition, even a relatively "smooth... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? The Acapella line includes a plasma tweeter, not sure what relation it bears to the Plasmatronic. (<What a great name). | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? There's no doubt that large theatre horn systems from the '30s are impractical for most homes. And many of the improvements cited have to do with smaller size to accommodate a home environment. (I remember early implementations of Villichur's acou... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? Fabulous. Unfortunately, many of the vintage horn systems are expensive, but compared to the cost of some uber gear today, may not be so crazy. I went to a modern horn/SET implementation a decade ago. I'm intrigued by the vintage stuff. |