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| Does remote control degrade the sound of tube preamps? The remote control of the EAR-Yoshino 868 works just as @larryi describes: a motor manually moves the volume knob, affecting the sound of the pre-amp in no way. The remote's only other control is a mute button. Volume and mute are the only two fun... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @bkeske: Uh oh. Have you opened the Burrito Deluxe LP yet? (Or is it used?). 4 Men With Beards are notorious for poor sounding LP reissues (low-rez digital sources, poor mastering and pressing quality). Intervention Records has their repress of B... | |
| Advice from Audiogon family - best speaker $3k-$4k If you can wait until Sheila Berdan is up and running in her new Seattle-area location, she is an Eminent Technology dealer. The ET LFT-8b has gotten great reviews (especially in the UK, but also by Robert E. Greene in The Absolute Sound, and by H... | |
| Alright, it's too quiet around here. Let's have some fun. More fun "summertime-y" tunes: - "This Whole World" and "Marcella" by The Beach Boys. - "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry. - "Summer In The City" by The Lovin’ Spoonful. - "I Can See For Miles" by The Who. - "Wine" by The Electric Flag. - "... | |
| Speaker stand project You need to know how the listening position relates to the phase relationship of the drivers. Watch some of the GR Research YouTube videos on the subject, then find out the characteristics of the JBL's. There is likely an optimum listening height ... | |
| Gregg Allman .......I cannot believe it has been 5 years. I crossed paths with Gregg in the late-90’s. It was about 10:30 A.M., in the Tower Records on Venture Blvd. in Sherman Oaks, California (the same blvd. upon which Tom Petty saw vampires moving west ;-). From across the store’s floor I heard a rasp... | |
| New In 2022 Scheduled for release on July 29th by Rhino Records is the highly-regarded 1977 live double album of Little Feat, Waiting For Columbus. Copies of the original pressing are plentiful out there, but finding one with Near Mint LP's and cover is not e... | |
| Albums you do not get...a plea for help and understanding And a smug, self-satisfied one at that. Trying to provide evidence of just how smart he is (was). Humility is a true sign of wisdom. And then there are the guys in Steely Dan, the type who think using diminished and augmented chords (etc.) makes ... | |
| HEAVY Platters. Metal or Plastic? Your personal Experiences VPI has offered platters made of aluminum, aluminum damped with lead, lead-damped aluminum with a top layer of Delrin (yes Delrin, not Acrylic ;-), stainless steel with a top layer of Delrin, a 3-layer Delrin/stainless steel/Delrin sandwich, and f... | |
| The Good Stuff Healing Tide by The War And Treaty. TWAT (oh my ;-) are actually Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Trotter, a Gospel duo. This wonderful 2018 album was produced by another Christian, the great Buddy Miller. They will be performing at the upcoming Wat... | |
| What's the heaviest speaker you've ever owned? What's the tallest? Oh yeah @cey, I've been in a coupla bands with a bassist who owned the Ampeg SVT. Both the head and the speaker cabinet were back-breakers. When I was 20-21 I was playing with an organist whose Hammond B3 and Leslie cabinet were the same. But the ... | |
| Most Realistic Recordings I don't know in what numbers Robert Fulton (speaker and amplifier designer of Fulton Musical Industries---FMI, as well as recording engineer) pressed his ARK label LP's, but they are very special. Minimalist mic'ed, recorded in local Minnesota chu... | |
| Di I really need to clean my LP's? Here's an idea: Listen to a handful of LP's. Then clean them and listen again. You may then decide for yourself, not ask others what you should do. If you DO decide cleaner records sound better than non-cleaned ones, you can get your LP's far cl... | |
| Beware poor sounding media No offense intended @rvpiano, but I always wince when I see or hear musical recordings referred to as "media". Am I alone? | |
| What's the heaviest speaker you've ever owned? What's the tallest? Tallest and heaviest are stacked QUAD’s (7’ 10" tall frames that I built myself with three sheets of 3/4" MDF glued together), followed by the 6’ tall Magneplanar Tympani T-IVa, which are the widest (each 51", or 4’ 3". They require a wide room ;-... |