bdp24
Responses from bdp24
| Wilson Sabrina X ... oh my God! and Jadis... or? Brooks Berdan Ltd. sold Jadis when Brooks was still living, as well as Wilson speakers. But he also sold Music Reference electronics, which he held in very high regard. Brooks had some customers who bought with their eyes, others with their ear... | |
| Subwoofer placement - back or front of room? Go onto internet and find one of the 3-D room mode graphs. Put in your room’s dimensions, and look on the graph for your room’s low pressure zones. Try your sub in any of those locations. That’s the way to minimize your room’s (any and all r... | |
| Issue with Audio Research 5SE Preamp I would call PS Audio and ask them what would cause the amp to shut down. Then I would have the pre-amp checked to see if it's passing DC to the inputs of the amp. As others have suggested, Audio Research tends to run their tubes hard, shorten... | |
| Songs this good don't come around every day. Yeah Stuart, Iris' basic style is melancholy (which I deeply relate to, considering it a sensible view of life). But some of her stuff is quite joyous, and on stage she is quite humorous. A great live performer, with a grand style of piano play... | |
| New In 2024 On September 13th Nick Lowe’s first new album in over a decade comes out on Yep Roc Records. Providing musical accompaniment is Los Straitjackets, his road band for quite a while now. The title is Indoor Safari. I take particular interest in t... | |
| What was the most expensive record that you ever bought ? Oh, and in contrast I bought a bunch of LP’s for 2 bucks apiece at the recent sidewalk sale Millennium Records in Portland Oregon has once or twice a year. I even found a few titles on my wants list, all in NM condition. It took me about 4 hour... | |
| Free Tip for Jumpers Where the line is separating high SQ standards from obsessiveness is an interesting (and personal) question. Nelson Pass used Mills resistors in his First Watt B4 crossover I own, because the cost of doing so (not cheap) was justified by the S... | |
| What was the most expensive record that you ever bought ? I somewhat arbitrarily set myself a limit of $100 for any and all LP’s, breaking that rule for only one title: the MoFi 1-Step of Tapestry. I care enough about the album to pay for the first really good (in relative terms: Lou Adler was not a r... | |
| Half-Speed Masters - are they worth double dipping? Half speed mastering is somewhat controversial. While it can provide some benefit in higher frequencies, some mastering engineers and audiophile producers find it does so at the cost of lower frequencies. The "best" engineers (Bernie Grundman f... | |
| Free Tip for Jumpers Most loudspeakers contain not only junk hookup wire, but junk crossover parts. Take a look inside any given speaker and see what you find. Danny Richie is not just some guy on the internet. He is a professional designer with many loudspeakers ... | |
| New In 2024 A new one (Consequences Of The Crown) from Shelby Lynne on August 16th. | |
| Developing A List Of Tonearm Candidates For A SOTA Turntable Sumiko MDC-800 The Arm, which SOTA's David Fletcher designed to partner with his table. If you can’t find (or afford) one, look for a Zeta, the workingman’s MDC-800. | |
| Free Tip for Jumpers In one of his most recent YouTube videos (well worth your time), Danny Richie of GR Research recounted his experience of years ago auditioning loudspeakers in a dealer’s showroom, in a system that including a pair of $5,000 speaker cables. He w... | |
| When was the last time when serious new instrument was invented ? The Moog synthesizer? | |
| For city apartment dweller audiophiles. Have you ever had neighbors banging on your walls? "horse-shaped"? Oops, horseshoe-shaped. |