petaluman
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| The streaming revolution. Unfortunately, it totally sucks for all those out there creating music for a living & selling their CDs. Please go to concerts. If you like someone's music, please buy their CDs. Preferably at the concert, but even 1 CD at a store will prob... | |
| What blues are you listening to today? @ezwind Thanks for the shout out! Mark Naftalin hosted a weekly concert/dance in Marin County for several years (late 70s-early 80s?), called Mark Naftalin's Blue Monday Party. There were a lot of fine blues musicians in the area in those da... | |
| Brands That Died FWIW, Threshold Audio still exists, but without Nelson Pass. After founding Pass Labs, he sold Threshold. The company is now based in Texas. They're using STASIS kind of like a product line name (also applying the term to their preamps), but it... | |
| Dead. Where Is Thy Sting? That's the nature of improvised music. Oftentimes, different members of the audience found the same songs to be terrible or spectacular. Meanwhile, here's some audiophile-approved content regarding the Dead "sound": John Curl and the history o... | |
| Kef 107 Crossover Rebuild I'm no expert in the choice of caps based on sound for speaker crossovers. Polys do seem to be preferred in amplifiers, though. However, electrolytics are known to degrade over time: https://specap.com/resources/blog/electrolytic-capacitor-deg... | |
| Best concert you've attended I was going to list all the performers I've seen that were already mentioned by other respondents here but that list got too long ... I'll just go with the original premise: Best concert I've attended was my favorite group's farewell concert - Th... | |
| What blues are you listening to today? Lot’s of great artists & recordings listed here. I’m taking a slightly different tack. For about a decade beginning in the mid-late 70s, I moved or hung out in many places for varying lengths of time. Most of these were along the west coast... | |
| Amp longevity, if well taken care of --the risks of purchasing used equip. I don't know that we have even an approximate answer to that yet for class D amps in general. Both the method of amplification and the power supply design are quite different from traditional SS amplifiers. The current generation of class D amps... | |
| How Do You Convert Cassettes? The most modern way is to store them as computer files, as most everyone has indicated. However, if you prefer to retain physical media, you can also convert them to CDs. There are decks like the HHB CDR-830 which operate much like old cassette ... | |
| How old were you when audio gear first caught your interest? @zavato I can't even remember NOT being interested in sound reproduction. My sister's first radio was transistor. Mine was tube. One of the first things I looked up at the university library was the Thiele-Small papers. My first serious spea... | |
| The “Off The Shelf” Lie @chayro But are in-house drivers or FPGA digital converters really “better” than the best drivers from Scanspeak or Vifa? Possibly Is an in-house ladder dac automatically superior to the best chips from Analog Devices, Texas Instruments or ot... | |
| Seeking CD Player with Digital Inputs At that price range, any CD player is probably not going to be worth fixing when it breaks. Being mechanical as well, it's also likely to fail earlier than purely electrical components. I'd probably play the craigslist/local thrift store/friend'... | |
| Adjusting for Tweeter height with monitors Be careful if you do choose to tilt the speakers. Most of the weight is on the front baffle so aiming them downwards could make them tippy. | |
| What do you like about your integrated amp? Putting the preamp & amp in one chassis isn't going to help your weight problem. I concur with some of the others here - find a way to audition some class D amps. Atma-Sphere, a well-respected tube amp maker, now includes one in their line. ... | |
| Why not acoustic suspension? Bass reflex (ported) relies on the port resonance to extend bass response. Done optimally, this results in an undamped 3 db boost at the system resonance and 24 db/octave roll-off below. The lack of damping results in the boominess mentioned by ... |