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| Music with Titles that get you to think Oops, I shoulda pulled out my McGarrigle sisters albums (s/t, Dancer With Bruised Knees, and French Record) and looked at their first names. | |
| "New" model VPI? Right @mofimadness, the biggest difference being that the HW-19’s floating subchassis was isolated from the base and plinth with a 4-spring suspension. Also, the HW-19's top plate was a sheet of aluminum (stainless steel in the Mk.4 iteration) ... | |
| Holy cow: Ringo produced by T Bone Burnett! You go Sina! Not to be overly-critical---she is very young---but you can clearly hear her tendency to "rush"---play ahead of the "pocket", very common in young drummers. This is more severe when she gets to the "bridge" section of the song. O... | |
| Holy cow: Ringo produced by T Bone Burnett! Ringo did more than just provide the necessary backbeat, as important as that is. Young drummers---who have yet to learn the wisdom of not "over-playing"---are quick to dismiss "feel" type drummers like Ringo (and Charlie Watts). But get them i... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL I share with @lewm and @mijostyn admiration for the Magnepan ribbon tweeter, which is found in the Tympani T-IVa’s. The planar-magnetic midrange driver of the T-IVa (unfortunately single-ended), however, is somewhat veiled, especially in compa... | |
| Oldies that stick in your head... Here’s The Travelling Wilburys’ great recreation of Del Shannon’s "Runaway": https://youtu.be/qEPx9bkpkh8?si=WRxDIVZcSLV9QbTl | |
| Tune of the Day "West" by Lucinda Williams is one of my very favorite songs of the past few decades, and while just listening to it I finally realized what song it somewhat reminds me of: "Moon River" by Henry Mancini. Especially the chord progression in the b... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @lewm: Like you, transmissionline loading of woofers for bass reproduction holds a special place in my heart. In 1971 my hi-fi education took a giant leap upward when I was first exposed to: 1- ESL loudspeakers, and 2- TL woofers. The ESL was ... | |
| In the sand box There is a thread started on 3-27-2020 by @soma70 entitled "Sandbox Design Advice". In it I recommended silica sand, a non-organic, man-made material used in sandblasting. Silica sand is superior to play sand for this application in that it doe... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @lewm: If you want, take a look at the dipole woofer system in the Linkwitz LX521, or go onto the GR Research website, where you can see the dipole sub Danny Richie and Brian Ding of Rythmik Audio co-designed. Siegfried’s dipole woofer is a W ... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL I spoke with Roger Modjeski about using subs with the QUAD ESL. He recommended a crossover point of 100hz with a 4th-order filter (24dB/octave). In his own ESL speakers, he used those figures and an 8" sealed woofer. He also made a direct-drive... | |
| What is your top sexy song? Dang @immathewj, another great one! In "Right In Time" Lu is very direct in her expressing her desires, ain’t she?! And hearing "Hot Blood" always brings me back to those early shows I saw, with Gurf Morlix on guitar, Donald Lindley on drums (... | |
| Does anyone on AG truly care anymore about objectivity & sincerity of Magazine reviews? Discovering J. Gordon Holt and his Stereophile magazine in 1972 changed my life. Bye bye Stereo Review and High Fidelity, but I kept reading Audio Magazine for it’s entire history. Gordon provided me with the basis tenants of high fidelity musi... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL The Finnish company Gradient made ob/dipole subs for both the QUAD ESL and QUAD 63 back in the 1980’s/90’s, but they were not built to perfectionist standards. They were somewhat similar to the ob/dipole woofer system Siegfried Linkwitz used in... | |
| What is your top sexy song? @immatthewj: Thanks for the reminder of Lucinda's "Essence", a fantastic pick. Her singing on the song is absolutely salacious (on the entire song, but especially when she sings "Please come find me and help me.....get f*cked up"), with lots of... |