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| old AR XA with mods vs Rega RP1 Spend the money you saved on the table, and upgrade your arm to the British made Audiomods pick-up arm. It's a drop-in replacement for Rega arms (it uses the new Rega 303 arm tube). The Audiomods website has all the details, with both pro print ma... | |
| Slow adaptation of KT150 by amp mmanufacturers One guy who keeps up with developments in the wonderful world of tubes is Roger Modjeski of RAM Laps. Before I bought any KT150 amp I'd talk to him about the tube---he is obsessive about tubes and amps being, before anything else, dependable. | |
| Quad 2905 ESL Arcing Sparks I seem to recall reading that the newer Quads such as yours have a protection circuit that is sacrificed to save the panels from damage in case of severe overload, and that after the circuit has engaged it needs to be replaced. Something like that... | |
| Short speaker cable recommendation Whether or not shorter speaker cables sound better than longer ones, two facts about them are indisputable:1- They're cheaper! Especially if you're bi-wiring (one long pair of inter-connects is cheaper than two long pairs of speaker cables).2- The... | |
| Where does your user name come from? The Stones the original bad boys? Only if you don't include the 50's rockers like Jerry Lee Lewis---they would run home to mommy after spending a night partying with him. | |
| Great female voices There is one other very special woman I believe everyone should hear---Iris Dement. I learned of her from Merle Haggard, who was raving about her at the time of her 1st or 2nd album, about twenty years ago. Her music is that great blend of singer/... | |
| Short speaker cable recommendation The great thing about short speaker wire runs is you can get, if you so choose, a more-expensive-per-foot wire. For instance, when I was using a balanced-out pre and balanced-in mono power amps, I used long balanced inter-connects and one foot lon... | |
| Best Subwoofer for Quad 2805 under $5k The Finnish company Gradient made a dipole sub for the Quad 63 in the late 70's, I believe it was. it was a pair of 12" woofers in an open baffle H-Frame, the woofers facing in opposite directions and wired in opposite polarity. At least theoretic... | |
| Great female voices As a young audiophile (I got my first serious system at age 22), I briefly fell into the trap of playing records that made my system sound good---music in the service of sound. That is a shallow, empty experience. I quickly tired of it, and have e... | |
| Great female voices Actually, I just thought of one example of what some consider good Pop music with great sound---the Cat Stevens album Tea For The Tillerman, produced by Paul Samwell-Smith, bass player of The Yardbirds. But that was, what, forty years ago? And I h... | |
| Great female voices Ozzy, yep T-Bone has no audiophile sensibilities, unfortunately. My comment about him was in reference to his musical abilities, not the audio quality of the music he makes. I can't think of a single producer in Pop music who makes great music wit... | |
| best value current production tonearm Actually Peter, the Mitchell Techno Arm and the Audiomods Arm are quite dissimilar, sharing only one common denominator, and that one tenuous---a Rega arm tube. For anyone serious about investigating what I and quite a few other Vinyl Engine Forum... | |
| VPI setup 1- Have you watched the Michael Fremer tonearm set-up DVD?2- Where in the country are you? | |
| Great female voices Thanks for the reminder Jdoris. I have a Shannon McNally CD I haven't gotten to yet (I have thousands---literally---of CD's I have yet to hear). Now all I need to do is find it! | |
| Your three favorite audio dealerships? Excellent! The shop also still has a great tech in Tom, who's in on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Tom did all the diagnostic and repair work for Brooks, and does the same for Sheila. Tell him Eric says hey! |