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| A cry for help to Snell B owners If the speakers still operate the way you expect them to when you use your old amp, I would suspect you are somehow hooking up the biamping incorrectly. What happens when you use one of the new amps conventionally? Can you fully descibe your signa... | |
| VTF on-the-fly for OL Silver, really Far freakin' out. I have this mental picture of a tonearm with fishing weights and paper clips hanging off of it, and let me tell you, (in the immortal words of David Letterman), it couldn't look more lovely. :-) | |
| Did I damage my cartridge? Listener57, is it possible to clean the gadget itself, or does it just keep accumulating more gunk until it's totally shot? | |
| Zaikesman's Username Pronunciation Field Guide Tireguy: Five emails a week asking how to pronounce "Tireguy"?! Tim my friend, you have a very large, and very moronic, fan club.Clueless: ROTFLOL! :-) (Still don't know how to pronounce "Clueless" though...)D. Roobin: That story can be found in t... | |
| New $500 "best" phono stage? Well Twl, maybe maybe not. I think I paid $450 used for my Camelot Lancelot, and it beat the internal phonostage in my C-J PV-8a for which I paid (and which I believe still goes for) about $600 used, when that was additionally being used as my sys... | |
| Anybody hear the Von Schweikert VR-4jr at CES? I wasn't there and haven't heard them, but I spoke with a 'Goner yesterday who was and did, and he picked them as his fave find of the show... | |
| Say it aint so--- Teres quality question Yeah, my only acoustic right now is a 70's Yamaha dreadnaught that belonged to an old girlfriend (yes, she gave it me, no, I didn't steal it, or even particularly want it, but it serves OK). I like the sound of a more narrow-waisted, rounded-bout ... | |
| Say it aint so--- Teres quality question Arrgh! You pulled me back out with the Martin reference. I once had the long term loan of a '39 0-18, which had originally belonged to the grandmother in a family close to ours. I received it when I was about 14 years old (began playing at 11), an... | |
| Omnidirectional speakers. The future? Twilo: I agree with you that the Mirage bipolars, while very popular in their day, were not completely satisfying speakers. A couple of things you could potentially experiment with in an opposed/twinned set-up would be slightly shelving down the v... | |
| Omnidirectional speakers. The future? Twilo: The "RA" in RA Labs stood for Roy Allison - see my post at the top. I don't know if it was Dr. Allison himself who displayed those speakers in that back-to-back set up, but in any case, he didn't invent the configuration, as many hobbyists ... | |
| Ryan Adams-more than hype Ben - When I say originality, I mostly refer to the originality of the spirit, since very few performers can actually become true musical-form trailblazers on the order of say an Elvis Presley or James Brown. John Fogerty would be a classic exempl... | |
| What is the standard for judging a systems sound? Nrchy: The way to know the difference between the mastertape and the original event would be to listen at the mic position during the original event - except that you can never know exactly what was captured on the mastertape without putting it th... | |
| Say it aint so--- Teres quality question Enjoying my lurk immensely. If it's any consolation, Psychic and I are getting info from someone in a position to know that the platters of our beloved SL1200's (of which the platter is my least-beloved part, for its resonance) have lately begun a... | |
| Ryan Adams-more than hype Everytime I see him on TV, I think yeah, he's got some talent (also, gee, he looks totally different yet again), but doesn't really have 'it'. By which I guess I mean that I'm never as bowled over as the critics say I should be (not at all, actual... | |
| Norah's new album,,FEB 9th. Can she do it again??? Who cares? If by "it" you mean sales figures. Personally, I didn't get what any of the fuss was about anyway, song-wise (unmemorable), voice-wise (she just sounds young and generic to me), or sound-wise (this is what self-described audiophiles cra... |