whart
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| Do you put as much effort into your Car Audio? Short answer: No., but I don't spend a lot of time in cars anymore.Long answer: Yes, I put a lot of effort (or at least money) into it at one point.One system was pretty elaborate, and since it was my first oh,la-la sport car from that company in ... | |
| Most overrated audio manufacturers? Hype alone is not the evil. This reminds me of a book called "Bad, or The Dumbing of America" (Paul Fussell) published in 1991, where he describes the real sin being the 'delta' between the hype and the reality. So many of the products mentioned a... | |
| Sloped baffle Wasn't Jon Dalqhuist's DQ-10 an early attempt at time coherence? And, ditto, Wilson's Franken-speaker, the Whamm?It's been so long since I heard either speaker I couldn't say how either stands up today. My concern, in theory, would be that multipl... | |
| Back on Black: LED ZEP 1-3 Low, sorry, I've been on an iPad and those aren't really hyperlinks. You'd have to copy and paste the whole data set in to get to the threads. But, if you do a couple searches on the Hoffman site itself, with respect to LZ CDs and remasters, I thi... | |
| Back on Black: LED ZEP 1-3 Low- this may just add to the confusion, and since I never focused on the various CD versions of Zep, I can't really comment. But, apparently there have been a number of remasters on CD over the years, and post #41 in the first link below addresse... | |
| Back on Black: LED ZEP 1-3 I thought Page's whole pitch was that a (digital) remaster hadn't been done in 20 years. I suspect Mothership (which I did buy on vinyl when it came out) was probably derived from those older digital masters. I haven't compared CDs of Mothership (... | |
| Taralabs cables Calvin- I have the line stage (the 2.0 version) and it sounds terrific in my system. The guys behind the company are also good people. | |
| Paint that helps diffuse sound? Stealth paint- iron balls, nano-tech, etc. to make aircraft invisible to radar. I think it absorbs, rather than diffuses. To paraphrase Michael, the thing i find incredulous is the line about building a house to 'house his own organ.' But, I'll le... | |
| Thinking of putting to rest ESL63 for Harbeth M30. I still have my original pair of Quad 57's, which I bought used back in the early 70's, as well as a pair of Crosby Quad 63's, which I bought circa 1990. Although I switched to horns in around 2006 (and love what they bring to the proceedings), I ... | |
| Phase inverting problem Lacee- I'm not able to answer your technical question about whether the number of stages causes some sort of phase inversion, but I can tell you, based on my experience running a Steelhead for a number of years that:1. It sounds better if power is... | |
| My LED ZEP 2 pressing anything special Fjn- the George Piros (GP in the deadwax) copies should be pretty good- his remaster of LZ1 from the mid-70's is really excellent. Short of finding a clean, unmolested copy of the 'RL' of II (which is expensive even for VG +or- copies and not easy... | |
| My LED ZEP 2 pressing anything special PS- probably a late 70's reissue Specialty Records. Scroll down in the Discogs release info on the album and you'll see it, I think. Note that in the comments re 'pulling' the RL from the market due to tracking concerns, discogs says the replaceme... | |
| My LED ZEP 2 pressing anything special First press in the U.S. should probably be a Sterling with interlocking small 'ss'- that's what you typically see on the 'RL' cuts, and presumably on the issues that came out after the RL got pulled. I think Czarivey is right about the catalog num... | |
| Led Zep Reissue on vinyl Act, no not yet. The releases are in batches, the first, released at the beginning of June 2014, was the first three albums in various formats and combination packages with optional extras, bonus tracks, etc. Page had announced all this over a yea... | |
| Phase Linear 700 & 400 series II I had the original 700, and it did zap out, sent back to the factory- this was circa 1973 or so, and worked ok after that and sold it to go to tube stuff. My recollection was that the 400 (original version, i don't know about the series II) sounde... |