rlawry
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| Why do I keep torturing myself with remasters? oleschool, I feel your pain. I also have somewhere near 8000 LPs and have always feared their loss in a fire or earthquake here in parched CA, along with pictures and tapes of my family when they were younger. I do have all of the original Germa... | |
| Single driver loudspeakers What a number of single-drivers incorporate to improve treble performance is a whizzer cone and phase plug. Recently there have been developments that preclude such a design. | |
| Single driver loudspeakers I have had some very expensive multi-way speakers and when starting to design my own I saw some single driver speakers, so I bought a pair of 8 inch alnico Audio Nirvana drivers and had a cabinet builder make cabinets using the design shown on the... | |
| Retooling the system upward?? What speakers would be a major upgrade over GET model 7's? Agreed with Erik Squires above. I lived on the speaker merry-go-round for many years, owning a number of expensive multi-way speakers. Then I got a book called Speaker Design 101 and ordered drivers, crossover components, and had a friend build ... | |
| RVG RIP Wow! I was not aware of his recent passing. Funny thing is that I just recently began adding to my CTI collection where many of the recordings were done by RVG at his studio. He will be missed. | |
| my speakers hum I agree Bill above--you probably some type of ground loop and your current (no pun intended) speakers may be more sensitive and letting you hear the resultant hum. Does the hum level stay constant with volume or does it increase with volume? Hav... | |
| Does the heat an amp puts out have any effect on the sound quality ? I think heat is a byproduct of the amp design. With a Class A amp each output device conducts both half waves, so it runs full out all of the time, dissipating what current is not sent to the speakers as heat. The higher the speaker output, the ... | |
| LP Cleaning Back on track here, hopefully, I can relate some LP cleaning experiences. I started way back when using a mild dishwashing soap solution and rinsing with tap water followed by towel wiping, then going to a Discwasher brush onto which a cleaning f... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Has anyone seen and/or tried the Surreal Acoustic Lens shown on the HFC website? What is this thingabob doodad? It looks as if it attaches to the dustcap or phase plug of a speaker driver but a paucity of other information. I wonder how it woul... | |
| The most transparent speaker cable tbg, I wish you had said that earlier. Been a slippery slope since I heard HF Cables. Most amazing improvement in 40 years of audio. | |
| Any modern band that comes close to Mahavishnu Orchestra ? I think the type of fusion band typified by Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Return to Forever, Passport, Caldera, Isotope, Al DiMeola, Billy Cobham, and other 70s fusion band is that this type of jazz was supplanted by more accessible (read:... | |
| Does a sub need to be on the floor? There are a few things to remember about subs. First, bass is largely a matter of moving air, i.e. pressurization and depressurization of the room. Listen to a car stereo to prove this idea with the car's relatively low air volume. Second, most ... | |
| Who's absorbing the cost? Agreed with JMcGrogan2. Ultimately the consumer pays for costs as they are passed down. So perhaps the record store will replace the defective product but will eventually raise prices to cover refunds/exchanges. Kind of like how politicians lik... | |
| Mobile Fidelity Introduces UD1S Analog I don't think you are lost. I have found very very few remasters that sound as good as the original, including those dreadful half-speed remasterings. There has been endless speculation on why this is, but IMO the problem lies not only with dete... | |
| Do they make a quiet great sounding phono pre amp?? I agree with the others that your problem probably lies elsewhere. I have used the phono stage in my previous CAT preamp, a Michael Yee (designer of the Musical Surroundings Phenomena) Audio solid-state phono stage, an Aesthetix Rhea (very import... |