whart
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| Electrostatic pros and cons. Is tricky though. I never solved that equation back in the day with my original Quads, but that was before 1990. I didn’t bother with the Quad 63. (I do like the bass on the original Quad and room positioning can make a difference- what’s there is... | |
| Electrostatic pros and cons. @inna- uhm, money? at the time I bought the Duo I can’t remember what the Trio sold for, but remember that it needed more woofs to make it right. I do think the Trio would probably benefit from a decent sized room, especially with those bass horns... | |
| Turntables Pre-echo or print through. Not uncommon with records and not a defect that would cause me to reject a record. 34% RH is too dry in my estimation. Don't know where you live @luvrockin but winter with central heating can do that. Can you increase t... | |
| Electrostatic pros and cons. Apart from midrange transparency at which they excel, there's an overall coherence to an all electrostatic set up (not using dynamic speakers for woofers), but my experience is no doubt dated. I bought my first pair of original Quad ESLs (a/k/a th... | |
| The Tragic Decline of Music Literacy (and Quality) Huh, @slaw, I thought they came from a school in North Texas, no? | |
| So disappointed in today's Americana That piece in the Times is actually pretty thoughtful and well written.I don't listen using ear buds but occasionally listen to something over my laptop simply to hear it, not for any serious listening-- and I'm surprised at how much difference yo... | |
| Camel – Under Age – which to choose - Italian or German pressing? @roberjerman- you do realize that a grade of VG+ in the marketplace can mean anything from clean to trashed- used records are one of the few places where "very good" often means "but problems." A "good" in that scale is a potential nightmare in co... | |
| Favorite band or artist of all time? Loved Little Feat when Lowell George was alive. I don't have one favorite at this point, over the years, I was very attached to one particular band for a period of time, from LZ1 or early Tull, to The Band or Allmans from the Duane era. Now, I lov... | |
| Best LPs to Test Turntables Apart from speed constancy, which you addressed @frogman, it is hard to isolate what the turntable is doing in a system, leaving aside variables in arms and cartridges (a subject that was recently addressed in another thread about how people can ’... | |
| Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt, on tour nice. i'll see if I already missed them. LL I heard many years ago at Radio City, I think... | |
| Spam threads gone wild... I just had a thought - that the spam may turn out to be a good thing. Any thread with the title magic or voodoo in it is likely to get deleted. We walk a narrow path here at the 'Gon. :)Warning to manufacturers- do not call your latest product "lo... | |
| The Tragic Decline of Music Literacy (and Quality) Miller- look for a band called Sammy Miller and the Congregation- record is forthcoming, but they are usually touring. Young, top tier players, big band with a sense of stage business and humor. I also got turned onto Snarky Puppy recently- they a... | |
| USED RECORD GRADING- What's the Problems? Good luck w/ that. Even play grading is subjective. In some cases, I'd prefer that the seller not play it or purport to clean it. Just spin it to tell me whether it is warped. I had one seller tell me when i asked about warps: "You'd have to be an... | |
| Any advice on buying quality vinyl Wasn’t it "Dynagroove"- Dynaflex was just thinner, right? Hans Fantel was famously touting Dynagroove back in the day. I don’t mind thinner records. A copy of this came in yesterday, on this thinnest vinyl I think I’ve ever encountered. Staggering... | |
| The Tragic Decline of Music Literacy (and Quality) I'm going to play the contrarian here, though I'm from the generation born in the mid-'50s, so had the exposure to the local symphony (Steinberg in Pittsburgh), the music lessons, theory, etc. A lot of pop music from the era- I suspect any era sin... |