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| Rock: well recorded bass...60s/70s I so wish John Entwistle's live sound had been captured on tape. It was ASTOUNDING! No recording of him comes close to what he sounded like on stage. | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... Courant---Okay, you got me! I had a momentary loss of reasoning, not noticing that my nomination of The Ramones as the number one influence since The Beatles applies only to my taste, not to R & R history. I have long thought that Led Zeppelin... | |
| Magnepan 1.7 to 3.7i or Pass Labs XA60.5 to X100.5 Not many people seem to be aware that there is an Open Baffle/Dipole sub available from the two companies who developed it together, GR Research and Rythmik Audio. It has won "Best Bass at the Show" for many consecutive years at the Rocky Mountain... | |
| ARC Reference 150 Tube Biasing Issue Does anyone buy RAM tubes anymore? | |
| DAC/Preamp with Balanced Outputs $2500 new/used Peter, the Dual Core's volume control is analog, variable in 0.5dB increments via a resistor network. I use it only on my subs, not being willing to sacrifice any of the hard-earned transparency of the rest of my system! | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... Here's another thought for ya'll (I'm sure you'll let me know if I'm boring you ;-):Around the same time that Springsteen was being anointed, and The Ramones were heading to England to play (the effect of which was to ignite the whole punk movemen... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... It's a major coincidence that just as Springsteen was being touted as Rock and Roll's future, it's actual future was making it's debut---The Ramones with their first album! Far more influential to Rock n' Roll than Springsteen, or anyone else sinc... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... That "I've just seen the Rock and Roll future" (NOT "the future of Rock and Roll" as is often misquoted) was written by Jon Landau, then a reviewer at Rolling Stone. He parlayed that highly-influential review into a management gig with Bruce. My f... | |
| Well Tempered Signature turntable and arm Oregonpapa: As Elliot is within driving distance of you, that means Brooks Berdan (R.I.P.) also was. Did you prefer Elliot's work to that of Brooks, when he was alive? Brian Berdan, who trained by his father in turntable set-up (Brooks' claim to f... | |
| DAC/Preamp with Balanced Outputs $2500 new/used Another way to go is with the DSPeaker Anti-Mode 2.0 Dual Core. It is a room correction device, but also contains a D/A converter with respectable sound, and a simple pre-amp with both RCA and balanced XLR outputs. All for $1095, I believe it is. | |
| Best Used Phono preamp around $2500 Mike Sanders is a lot like Roger Modjeski---both excellent tube circuit designers whose Quicksilver Audio and Music Reference (respectively) products don't get much attention, for some reason, flying below the radar. I'll bet it sounds great Yogi,... | |
| Best Used Phono preamp around $2500 Both the Herron VTPH-2 and Allnic H-1201 have been selling for under $2500 lately. | |
| looking at upgrading my tonearm from a triplanar For anyone finding atmasphere's discussion of the bearings used in the Triplanar important in their consideration of tone arm design, or even just interesting, let me direct you to the Wikipedia entry (I don't know how to attach a link---I gotta l... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners The discussion of a musician's sense of time brings to mind a singer whose timing drives me nuts, and you hear him at many audio shows---Willie Nelson. I don't mind a singer having flexible or elastic phrasing (pulling ahead of or falling behind t... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... I like what Cyril Jordan (The Flamin' Groovies) said about the Pistols album: Every song is in the same key---now THAT'S simplicity! |