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Roger Alan Modjeski (RAM) 1951 - 2019

It is with great sadness that I announce Roger A. Modjeski passed away peacefully in his home in San Pablo, CA after an 12 month battle with cancer. Roger started Music Reference in 1981 and later RAM Tubes, The Tube Audio Store, and The Berkeley HiFi School. For more than 38 years he tirelessly ran his business and designed some of the most unique and well received audio components in the industry. Right until the near end Roger was working, designing, and teaching until he physically was unable to continue.

The link below will take you my playground where I have posted my tribute to Roger (click ENTER after the page loads):

http://www.electrafidelity.com/

Fare thee well my friend.
clio09
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artemus_5
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@bdp24 My best friend died this year. I knew him since 2nd grade. We were twin brothers from different mothers literally. Run the roads, raised a ruckus, had a mess of fun with lots of stories. I have a few others that go back a long way too. But the years are getting fewer. Most of my family live til 90. Some days I see that as a blessing...some days a curse. Life has been good. I was in the music scene too (drums& vocals) . I’d love to play some more but don’t have time for the egos and prima donnas. Love to play though. Yes I’ve looked at the amp on Us audiomart. . Only thing that c=scared me a little is that one review mentions its not for R&R. I’m a classic rocker. But then I don’t believe there are rock amps and rock speakers. I have Silverline sonata speakers which are very revealing and love my music from them. Love Neil Young’s grunge guitar too.. but want it portrayed good. Any input on the amp is welcome
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@artemus_5, I'm guessing the review to which you are referring to is from 6moons? If I remember correctly, that was the sound of the amp compared to, say, the RM-200, when used with loudspeakers of lower impedance/sensitivity/large woofers. I can't say, as I don't use the RM-10 with a speaker of that sort (I have an RM-200 for them ;-). Does that describe your Silverlines?

I know atmasphere is insistent that there are no Rock/Jazz/Classical speakers, and in theory that should be and is true. But I find that the limitations of some speakers makes them less good choices for some music that are other speakers. For instance, the original Quad would not be my first choice for Hard Rock played back at concert SPL.

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@bdp24 , IIRC my speakers were supposedly not be good R@R speakers. And maybe they weren’t cause they lacked bass. But I fixed that with 2 Sumiko S-10 subs (RelS-5 clones) But I like the clean mids and highs. I think the RM-10  review was at audio review. Supposedly, it's  lacking PRaT. Who knows? one review does not make for good research. I’ll figure it out. I did like RM’s approach. The 6 moons spends too much time talking about Roger and not the speakers. Been pretty busy but I’ll look again and find the actual listening results. Anyway, thanks for the heads up on this. I have a Bob Latino ST-70 which is totally outclassed by the rest of my system at this point. Yet it seems to pull its weight in spite of the fact that everything in the system costs 4 times (and more) than it did BTW it replaced an amp  4x the cost. I know the ST-70 can be bettered. But living in fly over country, there is no one or place to listen to better. But I am curious as to what my system can sound like with a better amp.OK, I’m ramblin’ now. Thanks

clio09 OP
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The notion that the RM-10 is an amp that can't play rock music is just plain silly.
dhcod
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What a wonderful man. I had numerous encounters with him right about the time in 2008 that ARC was up for sale and we talked a lot about how he would run that company. I still can't get the sound of his electrostatic speakers that he demoed for me at his house out of my head. Some of the most enjoyable listening I've had.
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