zaikesman
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| What's your latest "Discovery" Here's 6:41 o' fun if you dig Latin jazz: Go to young pianist Alex Brown's website and check out his composition "The Wrong Jacket", a positively infectious, multi-tempoed, acoustic bass/drums+percussion/electric piano workout (you can preview it ... | |
| Single speaker wire on bi-posts with jumpers...?? As I recently wrote on another thread dedicated to this question as it applies to the tri-wire-capable Mordaunt-Short Performance 6, I tried single-wiring to both the top and bottom posts (using the stock brass jumper bars), and found the overall ... | |
| What's your latest "Discovery" Sounds like Mystery Science Theater 3000 or What's Up Tiger Lilly? for cartoons...I've heard some Marc Ribot, including some of the title you mention, and actually have a friend who knows him, but I don't own any of his albums. What I heard was go... | |
| Mordaunt Short speakers . Tri-wire vs Single wire I compared single-wiring to the bottom (woofer) and top (tweeter) binding posts on the Performance 6. Obviously the speakers work either way, but my results indicate that high-level dynamics are compromised when single-wiring to the tweeter posts,... | |
| What's your latest "Discovery" No kids, and don't really watch the Cartoon channel (with the sometime exception of early morning vintage Gigantor reruns -- love that no-fi spy-jazz, even if the dialog [such as it were] is half unintelligible). But they don't seem to show the vi... | |
| What's your latest "Discovery" Synthfreek: Unless I've seen "Space Ghost Coast To Coast" -- whatever that is -- and don't know it, I'm afraid you misoverestimate me... | |
| What's your latest "Discovery" Speaking of guitar fusion music -- a genre I'm not generally all that big on myself -- recently I got acquainted with one of the founding fathers, Sonny Sharrock, when I picked up his swan song "Ask The Ages" (Axiom '91, with Elvin Jones and Pharo... | |
| Review: Spectron Musician III Signature Edition Amplifier "I see that first of all we need to define word 'balanced'""First of all," not from anything that I in fact wrote could you "see" this supposed "need". | |
| Review: Spectron Musician III Signature Edition Amplifier Simontju wrote:"Actually very many amplifier manufacturers use balanced output configuration. Probably all class D amplifiers use it, for example."I'm sure you know more about it than me, but nothing you say appears to me to contradict my statemen... | |
| Thiel/Crutchfield Crutchfield does seem like a strange marriage with Thiel, but think: Who really believes nonaudiophiles will be ordering a $249 receiver and a $10K (or even $2K) pair of speakers? The only people who will be taking advantage of this arrangement ar... | |
| What's your latest "Discovery" Some recent CDs buys we've been digging: vintage soul packages on the British Kent label including collections of the Knight Brothers (60's singles originally on Checker) and the Ikettes (Ike recorded them in the 60's without Tina for singles on M... | |
| Mordaunt Short speakers . Tri-wire vs Single wire On the Performance 6 at least, M-S specify in the manual that single-wiring should be connected to the bottom set of binding posts out of the three, i.e., the woofers. Why they recommend this I don't know for sure. You could make the argument that... | |
| Review: Spectron Musician III Signature Edition Amplifier That bit about balanced drive constituting an "active" control over the entire driver excursion and single-ended drive depending upon elastic or "passive" driver "return" seems to correspond with McCormack's description of "push-pull" operation of... | |
| What were your own blind cable test results? I'm aware of Drubin's valid point. But I think this is usually more of a factor with speaker cables (see below). If an interconnect is used in a position where it would see an unusually low ratio between the source and load impedances, then it see... | |
| What were your own blind cable test results? Dbx: There's also another, more objective method for comparing interconnect cables, although most audiophiles don't practice it. It's called a bypass test, and unlike the conventional, subjective substitution test you employed (that mainly told yo... |