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| I Sold my CD Player!!! Streaming sounds so incredible!!! Here’s a true example of how musician’s are used and abused by the music biz: In the late-60’s Bill Graham held auditions at The Fillmore Auditorium on Monday nights. Numerous bands played a set, and those chosen were given an opening slot ... | |
| Electrostatics and tubes @terry9 and @sierratrails: I’m amongst friends! In the spring of 1973 I paid my first visit to one of the new high end shops that were popping up around the U.S.A. in the wake of The Absolute Sound joining J. Gordon Holt’s Stereophile (Gord... | |
| Electrostatics and tubes @hotrod6871: The first thing to do is understand that---as @fuzztone told you---Maggies are not electrostatic speakers (and visa versa of course), and the two differ in important ways. What they both are, however, is dipole planar speakers. Dip... | |
| VPI Industries---Love the Company as Much as their Turntables A great thing about some VPI models is the interchangeability and upgrade options of the turntable’s components/parts. For instance, the HW-19 came with it’s motor mounted on the table’s wooden base, but VPI later offered a 9 lb. free-standing ... | |
| Has anyone upgraded the crossovers on Spatial Hologram M4 series loudspeakers? If you send one of your M4's to Danny Richie at GR Research, he will run his full battery of tests: frequency response, cumulative spectral decay---aka waterfall plot, crossover filters and parts quality, enclosure resonances, etc. He will then... | |
| so bass traps in corners do nothing, it seems we have been fooled. or are being fooled. @asctim: Drums is my main instrument. I've personally known only one bassist who went from electric to acoustic upright bass: Todd Phillips, who has worked with a lot of the modern Bluegrass masters. Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas, David Grisman, et... | |
| so bass traps in corners do nothing, it seems we have been fooled. or are being fooled. @asctim: Hi Tim. I played in a Blues trio with a bassist who had an electric upright bass. It didn’t sound much different than a regular electric bass (the neck was fretless of course), but looked kinda cool. Hey, did you ever play music with C... | |
| 1st ordr crossover is NOT phase coherent? Linkwitz-Riley 4th Order. | |
| Want to build a rack with sandwich layered dampening Oh, and I just remembered Green Glue, which comes in a tube like caulking putty. Green Glue is made to never completely dry, so allows a minute amount of movement between the two surfaces it is applied to. I think in order to work as well as po... | |
| Want to build a rack with sandwich layered dampening For the elastomer material, look into WallDamp by ASC (Acoustic Sciences Corp.). It was developed to be installed between two layers of sheetrock when building listening rooms, but can also be used for the application you are considering. I've ... | |
| VPI Industries---Love the Company as Much as their Turntables I bought a used VPI HW-19 Mk.3 and an Aries, and each needed the ball bearing at the bottom of their bearing spindles replaced---they had developed a worn flat spot. Try as I might, I could not dislodge the ball bearing from the bottom of the s... | |
| so bass traps in corners do nothing, it seems we have been fooled. or are being fooled. Below 60Hz is sub-bass? The lowest frequency produced by a standard 4-string bass (acoustic and electric; why do people insist on calling an electric bass a bass "guitar"? That’s an oxymoron!)---the E string played "open"---is 41Hz. That’s not ... | |
| Building Resonance Free Subwoofers When I spoke with Roger Modjeski (of Music Reference) about mating subs with the old QUAD ESL loudspeaker---of which he was a huge fan and owner, he recommended employing a crossover frequency of 100Hz, with 4th-order filters in both directions... | |
| Building Resonance Free Subwoofers Great stuff @mijostyn. It is my opinion that most hi-fi’s I hear are lacking the "gravitas" of live music, the massive bass foundation of music heard in concert halls, and even smaller venues like bars and clubs. It is the bass frequencies tha... | |
| Can an owner's manual and schematic be found for an Electron Kinetics eagle 7a power amp As is the case with many smaller vs. bigger amp models from the same company, the lower-powered Eagle 2A was considered the overall best sounding Electron Kinetics model. It was particularly known for it’s unusually good reproduction of bass fr... |