bdp24
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| What are the top 3 dream speakers you wanna buy next regardless of price? Oh, and an Eminent Technology TRW-17 Rotary Woofer (for the "real" bottom two octaves---1Hz-20Hz!). | |
| What are the top 3 dream speakers you wanna buy next regardless of price? Magneplanar MG30.7, restored Stax F-83 ESL’s, Music Reference ESL’s with dedicated Direct Drive OTL amps. | |
| Your ship just came in! time to buy new gear..? Add a 10' x 16' x 26' (or so) room with a cement floor onto the house. Folkfreak says that would cost more than $56,000, but his standards are awfully high! | |
| Audio Critic 10 lies>>>>>>>>>> I found it funny that after Aczels epiphany he dismissed as delusional all claims for component differences he didn’t "believe" in, yet before his epiphany he had "believed" he himself heard those same differences. Was he delusional before his epi... | |
| Music I would succumb to under torture What makes Pop Country popular is that it is really just Pop music---melodies, chord structure, high-gloss production---with just a hint of Country, via the cynically-calculated and contrived lyrics sung with a deliberately-hick "twang".The Countr... | |
| When the Audio Critic was subjective. Aczel was just a run-of-the-mill subjective reviewer, certainly no J. Gordon Holt, or even Harry Pearson. I don't recall what lead to his "objective" transformation, but was thereafter an obnoxious jerk. His ethics came into serious question when ... | |
| File Under Misc. Audio Musings--Do any famous/infamous people qualify as audiophiles? Henry Rollins bought his VTL/Wilson system from Brian Berdan (Audio Element in Pasadena, formerly at Brooks Berdan, Ltd. in nearby Monrovia). I think his table is an SME, but I may be mistaken. | |
| Music I would succumb to under torture @n80, "Pop" Country drives me out of the room. After being exposed to it even briefly, I need to cleanse my soul by listening to some real Country (referred to as Americana by some, though many so-considered artists are not what I myself consider ... | |
| Who makes great active preamps ? Tube or solid state or hybrid. Excellent list, @lukaske. | |
| Tight bass sub recommendations I've accompanied both electric and acoustic basses (with and without a pickup going to an amp), and reproducing an acoustic is a more demanding task that reproducing an electric. Most speakers and subs---and most importantly, rooms!, to one degree... | |
| Best Tonearm Lifter? At one time Express Machining (the company in San Jose, CA that makes the excellent aftermarket parts for Rega tables and arms) was making a real nice end-of-play tone arm lifter appropriately named The Lift. It was offered in chrome and gold orig... | |
| Tight bass sub recommendations @millercarbon, one thing to be aware of is that there may be more to the difference between a given company’s sealed and ported subs than the sealed or ported enclosure itself. Rythmik Audio offers subs with either a 15" or 18" woofer in both a se... | |
| How often do you have to service your Studer or Otari deck ? Home not pro environment. No @inna, I meant it is economically unwise to buy a Revox (and I'm assuming a Studer) that is in need of restoration rather than one that needs none. A good working condition example can probably be acquired for less than the price of a not-so-ho... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Jackson Browne is SUCH a great songwriter, and has always had a superb band. @udog, MFSL is Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs, the album reissue (LP, SACD) company. | |
| How often do you have to service your Studer or Otari deck ? Home not pro environment. Restoring Revox A77's is expensive. I sent mine to the national service center in Nashville years ago, and the restoration cost me more than the A77. It's like servicing an old BMW; there comes a time when it no longer makes economic sense. |