zaikesman
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| Analog a dying breed Eldartford: Since the material being played might well have predated not only the vinyl long-player but also magnetic tape, that rumble (did you hear it or see it?) could have been an artifact from the original transcription disks and not the LP's... | |
| Analog a dying breed "Do you think this dealer is correct?" No, but he's not totally wrong either. Vinyl intrinsically will continue to have collectability and archival value to an extent not shared by other formats, regardless of whether its audiophile worth becomes ... | |
| Renting out your audio room I think they have something similar already. It's called being a dealer. (Hi Viggen ;^) | |
| Turntable suggestions To integrate one of your tube preamps' phono stages with your pre/pro, run your turntable into that tube preamp's phono inputs, with its input selector (or record selector if it has one) left set to phono, and then take the "TAPE OUT" outputs (als... | |
| Done and did it again Yeah but how much of that Outkast is primo and how much filler? | |
| Theta Dreams Viggen - OK, now I think I understand why there's no Theta in your rig (or your refrigerator): 1] Gyros don't have hummus (made from chick-peas) on them, they have tahini (made from sesame seeds), and 2] 'humus' is decayed organic matter that has ... | |
| What to do with Acrylic Platter? Just as a point of interest, I noticed in the new Music Direct catalog that a company called Sheer Audio is making an acrylic Rega replacement platter they sell for $100. | |
| Theta Dreams Just looked downstairs. Must've been someone else's house, because mine is still there. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go eat my Gyro. | |
| Help me to tame brightness I'd assume it has to be the speakers, and what I would do is continue to allow them to break-in. I think you may have broken in the tweeters, but not yet the mid and LF drivers. Give 'em a couple of hundred hours before starting to worry. | |
| The Flaming Lips are Go Manifesto My brother, also a Lips fan, is into Merc Rev, and I've heard some of their stuff, but wasn't moved to get it for myself as I am with the Lips. Maybe it's because I actually enjoy Wayne's vocal stylings?... :-) BTW, some delayed leftovers from the... | |
| Difference between Class a and a/b Richingoth: I think that covers everthing except class-T (a catagory describing a kind of digital switching amp, and discretion being the better part of valor, I won't pretend to go there...) But please clarify for us, who authored that post origi... | |
| Difference between Class a and a/b I have long thought that Soundstage reviewer Greg Weaver's concise explanation regarding this question, taken from his 1997 review of the Clayton S-70 amplifier, was one of the most easily digestible for the technically innocent that I've read.Thi... | |
| True Fully Balanced Amplifiers Onhwy61: I thought all Alephs employed single-ended circuits. | |
| Julian Hirsch dies You could tell where Julian stood with speakers if you knew how to read him between the lines. Many models just received what amounted to a perfunctory two-sentence-long 'acceptable' rating, with maybe one or two minor reservations obliquely noted... | |
| What bugs you most about sound quality? I have to agree with Onhwy61 about the limitations of attempting to restore dynamic fidelity upon playback in lieu of some formal encode/decode protocol.(Of course, this doesn't matter if you're listening to Raaaaaaaammmmsteiiiiiiiiinnnnnn!! :-)St... |