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| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? Over at the Planar Speaker Asylum forum there is a lot of discussion of room acoustics and treatment, understandable because of the nature of planar speaker's interactions with rooms. | |
| XLR-Balanced Hybrid Hi-End Cable The Kimber Kable Silver Streak XLR Balanced interconnect uses silver for both the positive and return leg, and copper for the ground. The RCA Single-Ended version on the other hand uses silver for the positive leg only, copper for both return and ... | |
| Best Country/Rock - Poll My second trip to Austin was courtesy of Junior Brown. I went to his show in L.A., and MCA had a lottery from the ticket stub numbers. My ticket had the winning number (and I hadn't even paid for the ticket!), so I got an all-expense paid---air fa... | |
| 5751 tubes in Herron phono I’ve also been thinking about trying 5751’s in my VTPH-1. Frank Van Alstine used them in his PAS-3 mod, citing it’s superiority to the 12AX7. The 5751 is a little lower in gain and a little quieter, in general, than the 12AX7.The EAR 324 is not th... | |
| Sain line system cables a hidden giant killer. "One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor". I don’t recall where I heard that (Paul Simon?), but it applies. lustformusic, I’ll bet you have a component or two that costs more than the entire "Home Theater System" someone you know has. What’s the ... | |
| Best Country/Rock - Poll Austin’s amazing, Tostado. Last time I was there, my pal and I stopped in at a neighborhood bar for a beer, and Redd Volkaert, Merle Haggard’s guitarist, mosied up on stage and starting playing. Only in Austin! | |
| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? Couldn't agree more, Dracule. | |
| Herron VTPH-2 I myself don't know Lew, but I do know he worked on it for years, trying different RIAA circuits and gain topologies, before calling it "finished" and offering it for sale. If he has some spare time, I'll bet he wouldn't mind telling you all about... | |
| Oracle Delphi MK 1 advice please Give Brian Berdan a call at his shop (Audio Elements) in Pasadena, CA. His Dad Brooks is the guy who designed the mod for the table which Oracle ended up incorporating into it. Brooks taught Brian all about the table before dying a few years back. | |
| Good CDs Bad Recording For those who know Emitt Rhodes, get this: When I recorded with him engineering in his studio, he had me do three takes in a row (on drums), playing to a click-track, each of which he recorded on a separate Alesis 8 track. He then synched the thre... | |
| Who makes the Tone arm with swing out damping trough that the head shell sits in????? The damping trough is actually part of the Townshend Rock turntable, not the arm. Townshend makes an arm with the "outrigger" headshell built on, but the outrigger comes with the table, and you can use any arm you want with it (other than an ET, o... | |
| Etiquette for a listening session? jmc, I love you! I was slightly exaggerating to make my point; I will of course have another person in my music room to play something for---a person I know, or even think, will appreciate the greatness of. Usually another musician, or at least mu... | |
| For Old Timers who experienced the "Golden Age" of Audio of the 60s and 70s. Right bifwynne, it was a cardboard tube as a "transmission-line" in the 2000A. I heard them at Sound Systems in Palo Alto, CA, hooked up to early SAE electronics, which were the hot amps until ARC made it to the West Coast. They also had the speak... | |
| Best Country/Rock - Poll I envy you. Buddy never seems to come out West. | |
| Bass traps - too many choices!! That's a very interesting review, George. I wonder though why the trap needs to be priced at two grand. |