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| Cassette Tapes..Dolby B or C? I've looked at the Nakamichi Dragon's listed for sale as if they were puppies in a pet store window, until I've been brought back to earth by reading of the service/reliability issues with this particular cassette deck. But, they sure look nice! | |
| Cassette Tapes..Dolby B or C? I own a Yamaha cassette deck with Dolby B&C, which I purchased in the mid eighties. It's a mid-fi deck...certainly not high end, but also a step above consumer (I think...).I used primarily TDK SA tape, with an occasional Maxell thrown in.Talk... | |
| Your One "Go To" Recording I'm paying attention, but I'm not following the rules. Having to select just a single disc is so 20th century. Get modern, step into the new millennium and liberate your playing habitsThis is an interesting topic that warrants a new thread. I have... | |
| Your One "Go To" Recording Tvad, did you not say "one"? Onhwy61 is not paying attention.Yea, yea, I already gently busted him on it, but I understand it's hard to narrow these things down to one choice. Yet, I believe the "one only" rule leads to some interesting choices.As... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Mmakshak, you've already completed Step 1...recognizing the problem.Post on, audio friend. | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Tvad, heck, no one understands me anyhow(Do you think it would help if I used less parentheses?).I don't get the impression people don't understand you, but writing with fewer parenthetical comments would make your posts easier to read, IMO. | |
| Your 3 favorite serious low end recordings Here are a few:The Bad Plus - "Give" - phenomenal recording with some great, deep upright bass and bass drumGreen Day - "American Idiot" - again some terrific punchy and deep bass drum sound. Actually, one of my reference recordings for rock drum ... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Mmakshak, you might need (perhaps require) a twelve step program (a self help structured system), to wean you (reduce your usage of) the parenthesis. Your posts (comments) would be much easier (simpler) to read without them (the paranthetical comm... | |
| Products for raising cables off the floor. The mention above of antique telephone pole insulators, which where I grew up were made of glass, made me recall a post on this topic that was made about a year ago. The writer told of buying glass candle bases (the kind made for wide, stubby pill... | |
| Best preamp is no preamp: always true? If CD playback is your only source then you'll just need to get an expensive CD player with high output + volume control. In this case, the "less" component is better off.I copied S23chang's post not to necessarily single him out and disagree, but... | |
| Your One "Go To" Recording Damn you, Onhwy61! (I say ala John Stewart...with a smile on my face).Which one from your list would you choose?Thank you all for your participation. What's fascinating to me is that I own almost none of the recordings mentioned, and yet they are ... | |
| Transistor Research Labs ST-225 Integrated amp And, since we are on the topic of First Sound/Presense Audio, did you know that Paul Weitzel (of Tube Research Labs and Transistor Research Labs) designed the circuit for the Presense Audio active preamp? You have likely (like TVAD) been enjoying ... | |
| Who's Your Favorite Bass Players; Why? Ain't Enlish a wacky language? Where else could the word "bass" mean both a deep-toned string instrument and a fish. | |
| Your One "Go To" Recording Folks, this is not a "desert island" thread. You can only play one disc or LP at a time...so you gotsa choose just one.Thanks for the two suggestions though, Lvk47. Which do you play when you can only play just one? | |
| New to tube: prob. with right channel of Aesthetix Here's what I did recently to trouble shoot a problem that I needed to narrow to the culpable component. It'll work for you too.1. Swap the L&R interconnects from your preamp to your amp. In other words, plug the IC coming from the preamp's L ... |