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| Best SACD: Modwright OPPO vs Esoteric X03 series? I'm sure both players sound great. It's the sound of most discs that sucks! | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? "No matter how I struggle and striveI'll never get out of this world alive".Hank Williams, of course | |
| Hartley speakers--anyone heard/heard of? Exactly correct Marty. The tweeter Levinson used was the Decca ribbon, and the old Quad, a pair per side, was the midrange driver, with the 24" Hartley in a big box. The speaker came with an active cross-over designed by John Curl. The system was ... | |
| Why does most new music suck? John Lennon was blues, McCartney zippity-doo-dah. Steve Earle said Townes was a better songwriter than Bob, but try as I might, I just don't hear it. Ah well, it don't matter, there's a new Iris Dement album just out. God do I love her! | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Iris Dement has a new album, The Trackless Words. She set the words of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) to music, and the results are, as always with Iris, wonderful. If you haven't discovered her yet, you could start here. | |
| $510.00 for an Aluminum cover for the ARC Ref. 10? Mark and Mitch, it was when my '84 528e starting needing new parts every year that I decided it was time to let it go. $1500 a year for a couple of years was more than the car was worth! I did enjoy driving it for twenty-four years, though, and go... | |
| Atma Sphere M60 owners...... Why don't you just call Atma-Sphere? Ralph doesn't bite! | |
| Phono Interconnect Sam, you may not have heard of Mogami because is not a quote unquote audiophile brand, but is very well known and widely used in the Pro Sound world (recording studios, live sound reinforcement, musical instrument patch cords). Lots of other compa... | |
| Nottingham resonance control Tubehead, I've been eyeing the Segue ISO myself, for use with my Townshend Rock Elite table. But then there's also the Townshend Seismic Pod, which is also a spring isolator. Decisions, decisions! | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? Needing the space to haul around drums (to gigs and Vintage Drum shows, etc.), in 2000 I bought the last remaining new Chevy Tahoe Ltd. (the last version of the classic "square" Tahoe body style) available in California. Because of it's limited pr... | |
| Solid state power + tube pre or visa versa? The only thing I can add is that I wince whenever I read someone say they want to put a tube something (often a pre-amp, but sometimes a buffer) in their system "to add some warmth" or "to warm it up". What an un-HiFi concept! I saw that comment m... | |
| Why does most new music suck? There is the old quote attributed to Duke Ellington, I believe: "There are two kinds of music.....good, and bad". I've also seen it ending as "good, and the other kind". But that doesn't really help, as different people put the same music in the t... | |
| Ohm Acoustics introduces its 20/20k beta speakers Yeah, very politically incorrect Marty! | |
| A new player in the quality Mono cartridge game A great discussion, Lewm and Johnnyb. There is one playback scenario not mentioned, the one I use. I have a fair number of 50's and early-to-mid 60's mono LP's, and in addition to my main pre-amp I have been using one (ARC LS-1) with a mode switch... | |
| SME turntables Right you are, Rzado, the table I was referring to is the SPJ La Luce. Brooks mentioned he had consulted on the design, but didn't get specific. Brooks had a working knowledge of suspension tuning from his days in race car design, and applied it t... |