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| Tubes and less sensitive speakers Regarding the poet by @blisshifi: Mating subs with Maggies (in fact any and all dipole loudspeakers) is indeed a challenge. The solution is a dipole subwoofer, which Magnepan has been working on a for a few years now. There is already a real g... | |
| A great, great talk by Robbie Robertson on all things The Band. Everything you say is true @stuartk, except for your final sentence. I only recently learned of Levon, Rick, and Richard’s use of hard narcotics. Clapton recently talked about the breakup of The Band, and mentioned how those three members h... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? No problem @billpete, you confusion is quite understandable. I’ll look through YouTube videos and see if I can find the ones wherein Chad Kassem, Bernie Grundman, Michael Fremer, and Kassem’s QRP (Quality Record Production) production manager s... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? @flash56: Yes, the misapplied Dolby playback equalization decreased the percussive attack of the drumstick tip striking the snare drum and tom tom drumheads, and of the felt bass drum beater striking the kick drum batter head. With my sunray Is... | |
| Tubes and less sensitive speakers One thing to consider is installing a high pass filter on the input jacks of the power amp (inside the amp)---or in a little box containing the filter plugged into the input jacks (as the video below will explain)---feeding the Maggies, to remo... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? According to Bernie Grundman---who has been mastering since the 1960’s---analogue masters tapes are relatively hearty, and suffer no degradation from sitting on a shelf unplayed (assuming the shelf is in a climate controlled environment, which ... | |
| Jesse Colin Young has passed away. This decade has been brutal, and it's not even halfway over. I can't help but wonder who'll be next. Dylan will be the monumental one, for me at least. | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? A good question to ask @flash56, as I don’t think @billpete fully absorbed the somewhat complicated and confusing chain of events. Before I answer you, let me correct one mistake I inadvertently made in my long post above: In the next to the la... | |
| New In 2025 Also available on RSD is Ry Cooder Live At The Main Point 1972. I have a friend who saw Ry and his band (which included Jim Keltner on drums) in the 1970’s in Santa Cruz, I don’t know why I wasn’t there. I didn’t see and hear Ry live until I wa... | |
| Joan Baez-"I Am A Noise" Documentary Always nice to hear from you. While I’m here: A little over ten years ago we had a reunion-of-the-old-gang get together at another drummer’s house in San Jose (he was in a band with Dave Shogren after Dave "left" The Doobie Brothers, but i... | |
| New In 2025 On the upcoming Record Store Day (April 12th), the new album by Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives comes out. My current favorite band in the world! The album is all instrumental, 20 songs free of those annoying vocals. | |
| Loudspeaker designer/manufacturer John DeVore shows reviewer Ken Micallef his system. @tomic601: Right you are, pal o' mine! | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? @billpete: If you're going to look for a UK Island copy of Tea For The Tillerman, make sure to find the original version, with the Pink center paper label. I had the second version, with the "sunray" Island label, which I found to sound very od... | |
| Loudspeaker designer/manufacturer John DeVore shows reviewer Ken Micallef his system. @jasonbourne71: While doubting a pair of EL84’s can produce 35 watts, you failed to question a pair of KT88’s producing 125 watts. And yet Modjeski did just that in his RM-200 amplifier. For proof, read the test bench results John Atkinson got ... | |
| Loudspeaker designer/manufacturer John DeVore shows reviewer Ken Micallef his system. That’s the common wisdom @jasonbourne71, but one of Modjeski’s goals in designing the RM-10 was to prove that it is not a fact but rather a fallacy. Modjeski and David Manley got into a heated debate in the pages of Stereophile on this very sub... |