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| How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre Long hair on a male is not a hippie aesthetic, it's a Native American one. I represent that remark ;-). | |
| Carbon Fiber Brush with Milty Gun? I put the back of my hand up to the LP before using the brush. If the hairs on my hand stand up, I spray the gun before brushing, then again after. But then, I wash my hands before and after urinating (eww!). | |
| using extra mat VPI 16.5? Margot---Good question, and the answer is, because the vacuum tube is self-leveling, you don't have to worry about any increased pressure. I've been adding the extra mat for dirty records on my HW-17F for years. | |
| Disturbing "Sonic Trend" showing up on SOTA audio Schubert nailed it! | |
| ARC Ref 75 vs. Ref 75 SE To me, the real crux of the ARC update/improvement matter is this: Let's say about ten years ago you had ten grand to spend on a pre-amp (must be nice!). Amongst your choices were the EAR-Yoshino 912 (designed by Tim Paravicini, a man very much li... | |
| Who is your overall favorite guitarist? Absolutely Marty! I can't believe I had never heard of it until you just educated me. | |
| ARC Ref 75 vs. Ref 75 SE Knghifi- The Music Reference stock transformer is just fine. Excellent, actually, being an original Roger Modjeski design he has manufactured to his specs. But the art of transformer design, and hand winding them especially, is a dying art. Roger ... | |
| ARC Ref 75 vs. Ref 75 SE BIF---It's great to hear that your newish ARC power amps have been trouble free. Everyone (except Tim Paravicini!) seems to feel the tubes being made now are pretty darn good, with lower rates of arcing and shorting than in the past, which is espe... | |
| Who is your overall favorite guitarist? Marty---Ha! So Chuck "borrowed" that guitar song intro part from Carl, not just songs from Johnnie Johnson, ay?! | |
| How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre The concept of isolation versus coupling is actually a pretty simple one, though you wouldn't think so from the talk here. I happened upon Barry Diament's writings on the subject on his website, Barry Diament Audio. For a no-nonsense, no-axe to gr... | |
| Some Musical Truths John Hiatt, an absolute National treasure. Good one Marty! | |
| Who is your overall favorite guitarist? Loomis, I had forgotten about "Sincerely". Double (at least!) tracked guitar, backwards tape, very creative. Marty, Louis Jordan is a lot of fun, used to play "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens" in a band in the 70's. I just boxed up the CD's of h... | |
| wired magazine and Tom Port For me, Johnny, it's not his system that gives me pause (the Townshend tweeters are fantastic. The low powered 70's receiver, not so good), but rather his opinion that tube amps make everything sound warm and snuggly. That view of how things sound... | |
| The best preamp without a doubt..in my experience Thanks Al, great explanation and info! | |
| How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre Geoff, roller bearings on top of an air bearing is exactly what Barry Diament recommends and uses himself, under his recording and playback gear. An air bearing can be as cheap as an under-inflated bike tire inner-tube under a piece of hardwood.To... |