harrylavo
Responses from harrylavo
| How old are you? 80 years. I became a budding audiophile in 1956 when I built an Eico HF20 integrated amplifer. Hooked a cheapo Garrard turntable with GE cartridge to it, and fed it to an Electrovoice 12B loudspeaker that I installed in an Argus bass reflex cabi... | |
| Thiel Owners prof - I've settled on VTL tube amps versus any solid state amp I've had on the 3.5's, for the very reasons you cite. I had an ARC D90 when I first bought the 3.5's and liked it very much, except it's soundstaging was nowhere. I tried CJ solid s... | |
| Thiel Owners bonedog -I feel your pain, waiting for that once (maybe) in a lifetime combination of lust and price. But if you run across a used ST85, don't turn up your nose. With luck you may find one around $1k. After all, you can ride the bus when the ca... | |
| Thiel Owners Hi, y'all. Been away from the thread for awhile, but not from the subject. I'll explain in a minute.About a year ago, warjarrett ("Sandy") wrote back to Tom and myself about both the Amber amp I had suggested for Thiels, and on the subject of tu... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Thanks acman and pjw81563. I've known him through his music and bands but books about these guys are always informative and increase appreciation for the times ... I'll add this one to my list.Currently reading Ricci Ricardi's latest book on Loui... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Forgive me if this has been discussed here, but I’ve searched the thread and not turned this up ...... Jammin’ at Condon’s ..... a jazz "(semi-) jam session" put together by George Avakian featuring Eddie Condon’s Club’s house band, along with gue... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world I can tell you this ..... for years I had a surround system with Thiel 3.5s C/FL/FR and 2.2's RL and RR. Five speakers, three flat to near 20hz and two flat to about 35hz. The bass was incredible .... as low as any recording I had (including the... | |
| ls FM radio even listenable any more? WFCR 88.5 in Western Massachusetts plays locally-hosted classical all day, punctuated only by NPR news and then in the evening from 8:00 to 11:00 produces a show hosted by Tom Reney, a nationally recognized jazz expert. Nothing better for a jazz f... | |
| For anyone who moved from tubes to solid state — a question +1 What decooney says. On the nose! | |
| "Bridge Over Trouble Water" sounds artificial This could be a longshot, but I had it happen to me. If you are using a video receiver or a multi-disk player that does its own decoding, it could be an obscure problem like this.I recently reset the settings on my Oppo 105 universal disk player.... | |
| Jazz vocalists which may not be as real as we think/imagine If you want clean vocals, get some of the Sheffield Direct-to-Disk recordings ...... Amanda McBroom. Or Confederation. Or an Opus disk ... Bert Deivert. Or even the original Columbia Bob Dylan recording, where they just stuck him in front of a ... | |
| What are we listening to tonight? Double4 you've got my vote. Superb list. | |
| Camp designations MonotheistsThe Spo(u)toffsDirect-to-ListernersMetallurgistsAnglophiliacsThe Dewey Selfer Tribe | |
| WHat did Audiophiles hear during Tape deck era? Reel-to-reel tapes really took hold in audiophile-land in the mid-late '50's, when stereo was introduced and it took an R2R recorder to buy and play stereo. R2R decks stayed in many audiophile decks right up into the mid-to-late '70's, when stere... | |
| Loudness - Why has the industry stopped producing amplifiers with this feature any longer? So long as you have a variable loudness and variable volume control, this is a very useful control to have. I'm afraid it was sacrificed to the "less is more" philosophy, along with (in come occassions) balance controls. Purist, perhaps, but con... |