whart
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| Has Your Hobby Changed? Congrats on retirement @mikelavigne. If your experience is anything like mine, you'll find yourself just as busy, but hopefully spending more of that time on the things you care about. I started in this hobby as an audiophile with audiophile gea... | |
| Original Quads (57) - the perfect amp I ran super tweets with my 57s back in the day-- Deccas, which I still have and Sequerras, which were a good substitute (also used ribbons). It gave the Quad a broader sweet spot, given how beamy the original tweeter panel is- but it wasn’t a sub... | |
| Original Quads (57) - the perfect amp @noromance -+1. | |
| Original Quads (57) - the perfect amp Quad II with quality glass. I’m running real GEC KT 66s. I did a piece on the web which has links on amps for the 57. I’ve owned mine since 1974 (they’ve been restored by Electrostatic Solutions-- there are several other amps mentioned). When I us... | |
| My Sonic Lab Platinum v Gold Signature @wrm57 - I’d have to look at the unit or a drawing of it to tell you but with the Airtight Supreme I think the setting was roughly 82 ohms [oops, I checked the drawing I think it was 70 ohms] on the "primary" side (if that is the correct way to de... | |
| My Sonic Lab Platinum v Gold Signature @wrm57 - you and I remain doppelgängers in so many respects. I have never used the MSL though had a few Airtights back in the day. When I finally visited Albert in person-- long overdue- he had two 14 inch Kuzma 4 Pts set up on his tweaked out SP-... | |
| 6DJ8 vs. 6922? I rolled these in a Steelhead and preferred the sound of old Telefunkens to the Siemens b/c they were more 3d though the Siemens were probably more linear. It may depend on the circuit and the overall voicing of the system. At the time I was buyin... | |
| "But it sounds better at night...." I addressed power at the meter. Made sure everything was optimal without buying into fancy audio conditioners or the like. I do have whole house surge but after making sure the main service panel had no issues, set up a subsystem, tied to the main... | |
| Turntable Isolation Journey Duck, if the image is already on the web (in my case the above from a web site I control), you simply capture the image address and use the tool that looks like a panorama, open and paste in the image address. I don’t know if A-gon supports image... | |
| Turntable Isolation Journey I certainly don’t advocate getting all spendy on a Minus K if you can solve a footfall problem less expensively. I couldn’t for a couple reasons- one, the structure of the house- it is an 1880s landmark that was painstakingly rebuilt from the orig... | |
| Advice on how to liquidate system I’d hold off before you jump. Judging by your user name, you are in NY? SkyFi through Dave Wasserman (ex-Stereo Exchange) buys high end, but there are all kinds of things you can do to try and recover some of your hearing. I’m really big on integr... | |
| Why do almost all women today hate home audio? @tylermunns--There is so much I'm interested in; audio preservation and digital standards, film preservation and ephemera; I just finished helping out somebody at UCLA on the history of music for early TV; the law stuff gives me certain advantages... | |
| Why do almost all women today hate home audio? @tylermunns- I generally don't get into the substance of active cases here but I think the Led Zep case helped push back some of Blurred Lines. A friend's firm handled the Sheeran case. I'm occasionally pulled in to cases as an expert on U.S. law... | |
| Why do almost all women today hate home audio? This is a little offbeat, but I actually started dating my wife as a result of an audio connection. We had met in Brooklyn Heights decades ago, when both of us lived there. After a couple of different nights out, she visited my apartment, walked i... | |
| Turntable Isolation Journey The Kuzma, like the Herzan, are active units and based on my discussions with Franc Kuzma and Mike Lavigne, respectively, neither product is designed to deal with footfalls, which the Minus K is capable of absorbing. Instead, those active units ma... |