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| How to get the impact of a live concert? I agree with an earlier post in this thread by Wolf Garcia that it is virtually impossible to get that explosive quality of a kick drum right over a home system. I use very efficient horn speakers which have a self-powered dynamic subwoofer system... | |
| Why does better power = better sound? I'll share a few anecdotes based on my experience in my system, for what they are worth:first, I use very efficient horn speakers and it took some doing to get the line quiet. Not 60 hz hum exactly, but you could hear a sort of hash that was reduc... | |
| Speakers to hang on to for LIFE WillemJ- I have had my pair of ESLs since 1974, but they need to be restored. I will continue to use them, and will probably add a second pair to do a stacked array. I still have my Decca ribbon tweeters, which also need to be restored. And a pair... | |
| NYC new LPs store ? I used to drive to Princeton back in the day for vinyl. Now i just buy online. Interestingly, I've have had fewer problems with used records on places like e-bay than I have had buying reissues from the usual online sources- lot's of crappy re-rep... | |
| Audio Research SP3A-1 or Conrad Johnson PV11 Rrog, you and I had the same electronics, for me this was circa 1975. I used the SP 3-a-1 and Dual 75a with a pair of Quad ESLs. What about you? | |
| Audio Research SP3A-1 or Conrad Johnson PV11 I had an SP3A-1 back when they were still made, mid 70's and it was better than just about anything else, save perhaps, for a well-tuned Marantz 7 (tube) preamp. It had a holographic quality, which was rare in preamps of that era, most of which we... | |
| help with audio resesrch d76 The D 76 is pretty old school, i have a D 75a that I bought new back in the mid-70's. It is not bloated sounding, but it doesn't have the resolution in the midrange that their later amps did. I don't know the D 90 at all. There is a database of al... | |
| Silly turntable question My apologies to Elizabeth. My reading skills are obviously going south. Mea culpa.(Although I admit to having projects, like getting my old Quads restored, that have just languished). And Doug, thank you for the kind correction. | |
| TW Raven Owners: Set Up Questions I use an HRS platform for my table- a big Kuzma that weighs about 160lbs. It will not isolate footfalls from a springy floor (which required more work including isolating the big antique table on which the whole affair sits). I would have preferre... | |
| Silly turntable question But Elizabeth, isn't this part of what we do as hobbyists- consider changes and enjoy the process, from conception to implementation? I didn't read the OP as someone who deserved thrashing for failure to implement after years of kicking around the... | |
| Silly turntable question You might ask Albert Porter here for some thoughts, he has marketed a custom plinth for the SP-10 (I'm not shilling for him, just making it clear that he does business in this space) and has fooled around with a number of different arms, including... | |
| Blackness - how quiet does it need to be? Ralph, i was summarizing what was said in that Hoffman article that Nonoise posted a link to. Perhaps I summarized it inaccurately, to the extent that the limits placed by the engineers were solely due to playback limitations, not to limits in wha... | |
| The Best Compliment You've Gotten On Your Rig? Years ago, using a far different system than I do now (a pair of old Quad ESLs, driven by ARC electronics and of course a vinyl source, cheating a little by using a small set of rear speakers on a delay line), my dear, late audio friend Chuck Lamo... | |
| Best blues guitarist, Clapton or Green I have loved the blues since I was a kid and straddled the classic players like T-Bone Walker with the rock-oriented guys like Clapton, Page and Duane Allman when they were at their peak, in the late 60's. (Well, Duane died young, so we'll never k... | |
| What is approx. percentage of your total Moon- in the process of moving, and relocating, my plan is to organize the LPs properly. It is at best controlled chaos right now, i have a general section of jazz and a few of the labels are grouped together, e.g. older EMIs, Lyritas, but I do in... |