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| Review: Michael Wolff power cords Carbon Gain Power cord Michael, you are becoming tediously persistent in your determination to subvert my intent here. One might think, from your defensive and somewhat accusatory responses to my posts, that I am naysaying your product or something. On the contrary, I h... | |
| Your favourite recordings that everyone else hates Wish I could go to a store like Amoeba anytime I wanted...I just discovered them when I was out in Cali last summer, and couldn't believe my eyes that a record store could have something like 10 cashiers working and still have a 5 minute line to c... | |
| Review: Michael Wolff power cords Carbon Gain Power cord I too have often found that ultimately beneficial system changes can sometimes fool you at first into thinking that you're 'losing something', which upon extended listening actually turns out to have been spurious artifacts.Changing tubes can make... | |
| Your favourite recordings that everyone else hates Jkaway: You are obviously a person of highly refined taste and discriminating judgement, not to mention a few years ahead of your time, since these guys basically schooled the Ramones before anyone had heard of either of them beyond NYC (an indign... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long Hi Basement - Your explanation seems to make good sense for a moment, but then it occurs to me: In the case of the balanced lever on a pivot, gravity is working on its mass throughout its length and in equal proportion to the distribution of that ... | |
| McCormack or Pass Labs Dan: I think that's basically true of any piece of gear - including any amp - to a greater or lesser extent. Obviously no one's going to leave their tube amp always on though. My McCormack defintitely sounds best if I don't turn it off, but the la... | |
| The Flaming Lips are Go Manifesto Yes, the 4-CD set was re-released at a budget-line price after the OOP original issue began commanding collector prices in the wake of the band's "Soft Bulletin" relative commercial break-out. At any price, however, there is still little reason to... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long Interesting. It does seem somewhat counterintuitive (in the case of a gimbal 'arm only). Obviously, the situation cannot be totally analogous to an anti-skate hanging weight arrangement, since in that case the connecting piece of line and bracket ... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long TWL: I brought this up before in my post of 8/31/03 (gad, has it really been that long? Where does the time go?!), but I will ask again since you mention it now: Why exactly must the mass be equally distributed on both sides of the (virtual) pivot... | |
| The Flaming Lips are Go Manifesto Clbeanz, I am not a particular fan of "Zaireeka" (and the nickname my username derives from predates it by a few decades:-) ; to me it's mostly an indulgent hodgepodge, with the germs of a couple of good songs on it rendered moot by the artsy-fart... | |
| The Flaming Lips are Go Manifesto I think they range pretty wide in their influences and listening tastes. This is a band that, when I saw them a couple of years ago in Philly, opened the show with a video of their singer Wayne interviewing Brian Wilson, and then covered a current... | |
| Say it aint so--- Teres quality question ...I don't imagine Patrick will be satisfied to stay away from his friend's house when Chris comes to do his thing - and well he shouldn't be. That'll be an interesting day - here's hoping that afterward, they can turn to the 'table's owner and sa... | |
| Review: Classe Audio 70 Amplifier Guess I owned the wrong speakers (hell, the wrong system) to go with my Seventy...enjoy your 'new' system! ;^)Seriously, I still find it impossible to beleive that the amp I knew could make sound to draw such raves - *unless* something was wrong w... | |
| Gilmore Audio planars revealed One thing about 'home dealers' - they may not always have much to comparitively audition in the way of competing product alternatives...(BTW Keith, I've heard the Mahlers...none too shabby a benchmark...) | |
| Stereophile confirms new gear is getting worse.... I don't even think it's a matter of which do you trust, your ears or the specs, because often the two have remarkably little relation to each other. I don't think this is because measurable performance has no bearing at all on perceived performanc... |