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| The "young people' music thread - Artists younger than 40 years old People who like the Singer/Songwriter, "Hard" (traditional) Country, and Bluegrass genres (three included in the term Americana) are in luck, as those styles of music have a new generation of practitioners making records and touring. @slaw has ... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. For those whose taste runs to Gothic Horror, I heartily recommend The Others. It stars Nicole Kidman as a mother with two children suffering from an odd malady (an aversion to sunlight), living in an old Southern mansion, waiting for her husban... | |
| Danny Richie of GR Research describes and explains how he designs loudspeakers. Agreed @grannyring. That's Danny's greatest field of expertise, and the most overlooked and undervalued in loudspeaker design (Richard Vandersteen and Siegfried Linkwitz being notable exceptions). For those not wanting to watch the entire v... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. @aewarren: I've lost count of how many times I've watched Casablanca, but when I see it coming up on TCM I watch it again every time. A top 10 movie of all time for sure. Same with Sunset Blvd., The Apartment, Dr. Strangelove, Chinatown, The La... | |
| Devialet , the best bass of any speaker @gdaddy1: For a woofer system to be dual opposed, the two drivers need to share a common air space (the interior of a single enclosure), not each having it’s own, separate air space. At least that’s my understanding. I'm sure I could be mistake... | |
| Devialet , the best bass of any speaker I have't yet watched the video, but there are a number of subs employing dual-opposed drivers, if that's all there is to this speaker's design. | |
| Movie/film suggestions. @mylogic: To be perfectly honest, my original motive for the thread was to make a joke about the current head of the U.S. government, my choice of The Madness Of King George being made for the obvious reason. Plus I do actually like the movie. ... | |
| Rythmik Audio on The Intellectual People Podcast Brian Ding of Rythmik Audio has a business and design relationship with Danny Richie of GR Research. Danny has long been a proponent of open baffle loudspeakers, including woofers. His business caters to the DIY market, offering loudspeaker kit... | |
| Treating the ceiling and floor, who else has had great results? One benefit of tall, narrow dipole planar loudspeakers is no ceiling reflections. And very little sidewall. But of course then there is the 50% backwave to deal with. | |
| My Esoteric DV-50S died. Where do I go next? When the CD tray on my Theta Data transport stopped opening, I took off the top lid and had a look. I could see the problem was simply that the round rubber belt that ran between the plastic wheel that moved the belt and the tray was stretched ... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade Like @lewm, the AR XA was my first good table. But the arm wasn't so hot. I replaced the AR with a Thorens TD-150, which had a suspension, platter, and bearing very similar to the AR, but with a much better arm. I then got a TD-125 (with an SM... | |
| Rythmik Audio on The Intellectual People Podcast Great, thanks @jtwrace. I've spoken on the phone with Mr. Ding on numerous occasions, and putting a face on the voice is always interesting. He's a brilliant guy, his subwoofers excellent products (I own four). | |
| Any piece of equipment you currently dream of ? A McIntosh MR-71 tuner, and a pair of BEL 1001 Mk.V power amps. | |
| New In 2025 I find this news pretty surprising: Sire Records (a Warner Brothers subsidiary) is getting into the One-Step business with their March 21st release of K.D. Lang’s Ingenue album. At least it’s retailing for less than everyone else’s One-Steps, ... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. @flash56: For another great music mockumentary, check out The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash. It's a 1978 spoof on The Beatles, written and directed by Eric Idle of Monty Python. Idle plays McCartney, Neil Innes of The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band play... |