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| What's the deal with idler turntables and do they have a place in modern HiFi? Vintage idler wheel drive turntable (Thorens 124, Garrard 301 and 401, Lenco) enthusiasts (including Art Dudley) cite the design's "forward momentum"/"rythmik drive" sound characteristic, supposedly a result of the high torque nature of idler whee... | |
| How to: Pack Vinyl Collection for Shipment on Boat Don't do it! Double box them, then arrange to have them shipped by air in Winter. If they sit on the deck of a boat for three weeks in Summer, they WILL be warped, very possibly no longer playable. | |
| What in the world is going on..... Wolf, couldn’t agree more with everything you said above. Sonny Landreth and David Lindley, two unfairly-overlooked guitarists. Bill Frisell’s recent Guitar in the Space Age album is a gas! Clapton’s playing just keeps getting deeper, and Beck is ... | |
| Subwoofers.... one 10" or two 8"? There is one sub using 8" drivers that breaks a lot of subwoofer rules. It is the GR Research/Rythmik OB/Dipole Subwoofer. Three 8" woofers per sub, mounted not in a sealed or ported enclosure but in an Open Baffle "H-frame". Exceptional sound qua... | |
| Recently re-discovered or newly discovered music in your current "heavy rotation" The Notorious Cherry Bombs: s/t. Super-Group whose members in the great Rodney Crowell. | |
| Should I keep or sell my modded AR XA for a Rega RP3 or comparable deck? I've had an AR-XA, an XB, the 1980's reissue AR table, as well as a Rega RB-300 arm. The problem in choosing between the original AR and a Rega is that any of the Rega arms is far, far superior to the piece of junk AR arm. If you want the suspende... | |
| Where to fix Forsell Air Reference Transport and D/A Elliot's shop is named Acoustic Image. He's located in Studio City, CA. | |
| Best Component Ever, for the money For LP owners, I'd say a VPI HW-16 cleaner. | |
| Mobile Fidelity Introduces UD1S Analog Mobile Fidelity's release choices have always eluded me. Santana Abraxas? Does anyone love that album enough to pay a hundred bucks to get an audiophile pressing of it? | |
| I can't play a recording all the way through Oh, and my excess Classical CD’s (about a thousand of them, all great stuff---Baroque through late-19th Century---on Harmonia Mundi etc.) went to Atomic Records in Burbank (Amoeba didn’t want them!), a real cool little two-brothers-owned shop spec... | |
| Best Small Floorstanding Speaker under $2K IF you are open to dipole/planar speakers, and IF you have at least 3’ (5’ is better) to move them out from the wall behind them, there is a mint pair of Eminent Technology LFT-8b’s on U.S. Audiomart right now at an asking price of $1800 (retail $... | |
| I can't play a recording all the way through Approaching, reaching, and then passing a certain landmark age, I recently set about weeded my music library on both LP and CD, getting rid of anything I viewed as non-essential. Check Amoeba Records on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood for my roughly 100... | |
| THE most sonically dissappointing (lp) you own of great music? Toscanini conducting Beethoven's 9th Symphony in a live recording from the 1950's. Great performance, dreadful sound quality. | |
| 2 prong power cable The highest gauge Pangea power cord has a ground post that can be unscrewed from the plug. | |
| Amps and Preamps has standby, but should I turn them completely off? The Deluxe was suppose to produce 28 watts, but at what percent distortion? The cream and brown tolex Deluxe had somewhat different circuitry than the later black tolex (but still blackface control panel) version, with more overdrive/tube distorti... |