bdp24
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| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report @ghosthouse, Yes! Harmony singing is almost unheard of in the vast majority of contemporary music, but it goes back much further than that. Listening again recently to mid-period Beatles (I heard them so much as a teenager, I rarely ache to hear t... | |
| Is the Acoustic Research Ax Ta ecc Really an overrated Poor mans Turntable? I can see why my post was confusing Lew. The AR XA I modified was not my first, it was one I got in the 80’s. I got my first AR new in ’69, then the Thorens TD-125 in ’72 (with an SME 3009 Mk.2 Improved mounted on it). I sold the 125 and replaced ... | |
| Is the Acoustic Research Ax Ta ecc Really an overrated Poor mans Turntable? @pryso, I too had a machine shop do the actual cutting of the subchassis, removing the AR arms bearing well and leaving a hole just the right size for the Mayware. I then took a file and enlarged the hole in the tables top plate, to accommodate th... | |
| In listening to your system(s)...what is most crucial to your enjoyment? It was when in 1972 I first heard a direct-to-disk LP (Sheffield S-10) that I got a sense of the main failing of hi-fi systems: to reproduce the startling, instantaneous "snap" of live instruments, whether a stick striking a drum head, a piano key... | |
| Small drivers vs big drivers Good point fellas. The inability of home playback systems to recreate the physical sensation of live music is one of the most serious remaining failings of the recording/playback process. Reproduced music sounds too cerebral, the brain being fed i... | |
| Audio Additives Stylus Force Gauge inconstantcy @seasoned, one thing to be aware of about the Riverstone gauge is that it is so sensitive merely breathing near it will change the reading. A ceiling fan, wind from an open window, even moving your hand can change the reading. So, set your stylus ... | |
| Why price of Tannoy speakers from online retailers in UK is cheaper than in US In the biz it's referred to as gray market buying. If you do buy that way, in the event of warranty needs you will receive no help from the U.S. distributor. | |
| Small drivers vs big drivers @shadorne raises an important point. During heavy excursions of its cone, a woofers voice coil heats up, changing the drivers electrical characteristics, and therefore its sound. One of the functions of the Servo-Feedback circuit in Rythmik subs i... | |
| Small drivers vs big drivers The ability to create a wide/big soundstage and the ability to reproduce low frequencies are two completely different matters (except that the sound of a large recording venue---cathedrals, churches, theaters---are of very, very low frequencies).T... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report @ghosthouse, I used the term hip in the sense of being hip to what makes a musician a good one, a band a good one, a song a good one. Dave, Nick, EC have real good taste, loving NRBQ and Los Lobos as well as The Morells.There are moments in every ... | |
| Is the Acoustic Research Ax Ta ecc Really an overrated Poor mans Turntable? George Merrill offered a great mod for the original XA. I cut the arm well out of the subchassis on my XA, and mounted a Formula 4 Unipivot. In the 1980’s Acoustic Research reintroduced the table as the ES-1, which included a separate arm mounting... | |
| new L100? The Yamaha NS10 was one of the most anti-hi-fi speakers I've ever heard (they are on the console in just about every recording studio in the U.S.A.); the JBL L-100 wasn't far behind. Both extremely colored, they produce a caricature of music, like... | |
| It was 50 years ago today.... Ringo's second album is really good. It's no secret he loves Country music (look at the songs he sang on the early Beatles albums), so for Beaucoups Of Blues he went to Nashville and recorded with all the guys Dylan had used for years on his album... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report I posted about this album on another thread, but it’s too good to get missed, so here it is again. It’s Walk Through Walls by Brian Capps, released on Hightone Records in 2005, when that label was amongst the best in the world (it’s now out of bus... | |
| Talk but not walk? Having owned a speaker utilizing the EMIM/EMIT drivers Elizabeth likes (the Infinity RS-1b), Magneplanars (Tympani T-I, T-Id, and currently T-IVa), and ESL’s (currently original QUADS, aka 57’s), there is a contemporary loudspeaker I suggest audit... |