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| Review: Morrow Audio 300B1 SET Monoblock Tube amp Sorry, I was talking about this one. | |
| Review: Morrow Audio 300B1 SET Monoblock Tube amp That was a different review, posted by Mr. Morrow himself, something which elicited a bit of controversy (he said it was written by one of his customers). We would seem to be witnessing a concerted campaign here, since Cheungben has no other Audio... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I love finding still-sealed older records. The other day I broke the seal on Ravi Shankar's "Improvisations" in stereo on World-Pacific from 1962, found for $2 in a bargain bin. It really feels like a privilege to be the first one to spin pristine... | |
| Longer Power Cords Sound better? Tplavas: Please forgive me when I note that you seem like you're coming from about 6 different places at once with your arguments. I glean from your posts that you feel: A) measurements will show that shorter is better; B) we cannot measure the ef... | |
| Longer Power Cords Sound better? Nobody here has posited a reasonable argument for why a shorter power cord would ever sound better (kinda like the phallic analogy, no?). Although I don't think "longer is better" can hold true without limit (ditto!), and obviously for the vast ma... | |
| Bloated speakers/weight wise I guess I look at going from 1/2" to 1" or 3/4" to 1 1/2" MDF a little differently than simply saying it's adding mass. Yes, of course it is adding mass. But more to the point, I think, is that it's changing the ratio of dimensions by doubling the... | |
| Bloated speakers/weight wise Onhwy61 wrote:"The easiest way to limit the cabinet's output is to make it massive and less likely to be sympathetically excited. There are other ways to make the cabinet highly rigid and inflexible, but they are expensive (contrained layer, exoti... | |
| Bloated speakers/weight wise Macrojack: What you're essentially saying is that if you turn down the volume, the cabinet will move less. D'oh! :-)Seriously though, if you want to achieve the same lower-frequency SPL in-room, you have to move the same amount of air. Can be done... | |
| Bloated speakers/weight wise I might admire some bigger speakers, but I definitely limit myself to something I can move around on my own.Fatparrot, yes mass does inhibit speaker movement in the "for every action, an equal and opposite reaction" way, which is to say that a woo... | |
| Review: Morrow Audio 300B1 Monoblocks Tube amp "But it is up to the critics to decide"Considering who some of the "critics" are these days, and the sheer numbers of them out there, a new company can probably be almost assured of getting at least one positive review (maybe from someone without ... | |
| Do Cables Wear Out? Spl: Oops, I also forgot to mention -- as long as we're mentioning at all, we might as well be comprehensive about it -- that vdH (and possibly only one or two other brands) offers wires made from amorphous metals, another manufacturing process (d... | |
| Nina Simone Remastered Tobias: If Nina's recorded catalog makes a big noise, I can assure you it's not due to carelessness on my part ;^) | |
| Billy Preston Dies Jalanc42069: You're thinking of either Billy Cox (bass) or Buddy Miles (drums, both still alive BTW), not Billy Preston (keys), who reportedly jammed with Hendrix but was never a member of the Band Of Gypsys or his other groups. | |
| Nina Simone Remastered Which titles/labels are you referring to? There must be over 50 titles available, many of which are different repackagings and collections that overlap. Nina herself recorded some material on multiple occasions, and then there are sometimes live a... | |
| Do Cables Wear Out? Spl: I use vdH carbon cables and am pretty familiar with the claims they make for them. FWIW, the info you quote from their site isn't about what you asked, i.e., that cables might somehow "wear out" due to conduction of electricity over time. (Pe... |