bdp24
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| Phoenix Engineering Roadrunner The tiny magnet that attaches to the bottom of the platter is being sold on ebay by a Phoenix Engineering dealer who has some left. | |
| Is there any equipment that can do this? J. Gordon Holt wrote about this subject a lot years ago in Stereophile (surround sound for music was a passion of his). The Hafler/Dynaco system sought to provide a cheap, easy way to simulate discrete 4-channel sound from 2-channel recordings, us... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? @tostadosunidos, thanks for the reminder of why Dylan is the most revolutionary lyricist in Pop music history. "A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall" was recorded about a year before The Beatles recorded their original boy/girl love songs like "I Wanna Hold... | |
| RIAA, Questions only please Thanks @imhififan. Wasn't the author Gary A. Galo involved with Audio Amateur magazine? | |
| Why do some manufacturers reverse preamp polarity in the first place? There is a book on the sole subject of absolute polarity, The Wood Effect by Clark Johnson. | |
| RIAA, Questions only please Roger, as the filter that goes out to 20Khz takes only two resistors and two capacitors to create, and the value of those parts in well known, why do we see variations from perfect RIAA eq on the order of anywhere from 0.1 to 1.0 dB or more amongs... | |
| Why do some manufacturers reverse preamp polarity in the first place? And in some pre-amps that contain a phono stage (or in a separate phono amp), that stage (or amp) may be of inverted polarity while the line stage is not (or visa versa). What are you gonna do, reverse your speaker leads depending on whether you a... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Ah yeah @uberwaltz, The Flamin’ Groovies---one of my all-time fave bands! Their Shake Some Action album is my favorite of theirs, produced by Dave Edmunds. I shared the stage with them in ’82, and we hung out for a few hours. Cyril and I talked ab... | |
| Anyone Know What's Up With Townshend Audio? Odd that the websites of two of my favorite h-fi companies (Townshend Audio and Eminent Technology) both went down at the same time. | |
| Soundproofing The op is asking about soundproofing materials, and for the space between the joists and behind the new ceiling I would 2nd the suggestion of Roxul Safe ’n’ Sound (instead of the more common fiberglass insulation such as Corning 703). Using the AS... | |
| Does any one know a cable that is able to compete with clear day double shotgun? Paul recommended the regular (single) cable for high sensitivity speakers, the Shotgun for medium, and the Double Shotgun for low. | |
| Soundproofing Folkfreak knows of what he speaks. His room is the best constructed I have ever been in, and is proof of the effectiveness of the ASC Wall Damp constrained layer damping product. I rapped on one of the walls in his room, and the sound produced was... | |
| RIP Peter Tork Nesmith toured some in the 1990’s. I went to a show of his in L.A. because the opening band was The Hellecasters (a trio of great Telecaster players: John Jorgenson---who was in The Desert Rose Band with Chris Hillman, Will Ray---who has worked wi... | |
| Vinyl***What If*** Regardless of genre, if music is being performed by a human standing on a stage (or a floor, or the back of a flatbed truck) the music is "live". If the human is playing an unamplified acoustic guitar, violin, mandolin, piano, or upright bass, and... | |
| Vinyl***What If*** I have an old San Jose bandmate (Todd Philips, who has worked with David Grisman, Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas, Ricky Skaggs, Stephane Grapelli, Joan Baez, and many others, and also as a member of PsychoGrass and The New South) with whom I jammed agai... |