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| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? In 1969 I went to a show at The Pavillion in Flushing Meadows, NYC (site of the Worlds Fair), to hear the Charley Musselwhite Blues Band and Savoy Brown. An opening act went on and blew the roof off the place…which was an open-air venue…a new ban... | |
| McIntosh DS200 Mahler, “Mac customers tend not to want all in one solutions as much as customers of a certain audio company whose name starts with “B”.” How do you square that thought with the enduring popularity of McIntosh integrated amps, preamps with DACs ... | |
| Dumb question......why do you need a preamp? My understanding is that source components with variable outputs typically have a higher impedance and lower maximum voltage than would be the case with a good preamp or line stage, so the latter “drive” the amp input stage with more authority, no... | |
| Removing stylus from Shure V15 Type III Enough, but no more! | |
| 3k budget for Turntable and Phono Noob- do I need external power supplies? I tried a balanced connection with a Thorens TD1600, an AT-OC9XML, and Pro-Ject PhonoBox DS3. I didn’t find it to be superior in any way. When I switched to a Technics SL100C with unbalanced connections, I got lower noise with all my cartridges.... | |
| 3k budget for Turntable and Phono Noob- do I need external power supplies? Music Hall Stealth DD table with universal mount tonearm, VTA adjust and 2M Blue cart. Add a Schiit Mani2 And some interconnects all for under $2K. Buy a spare headshell and a Sumiko Bluepoint 3 LOMC for an option…$2500.00. Then, listen to music.... | |
| Favorite Album Cover (picture or art on the cover) The cover of Muddy Waters’ Fathers & Sons, with a Black Jehovah touching the finger of a white man wearing wraparound shades, parodying Michelangelo’s Sistine chapel ceiling. | |
| Marantz model 8 California provenance suggests the Tushinsky brothers’ outfit, Superscope, got involved as contract manufacturers before they bought Marantz. Marantz Japan also made 7s and 8s decades later. | |
| DIY Spekon Cable For Rel If you have the SpeakON cables and need more length, why not splice on more wire? 18 ga. is all you need. A good Western Union splice on each conductor, some shrink tubing, voila! | |
| WHY DO SOME AUDIOPHILES TRY TO TELL OTHERS WHAT THEY CAN OR CAN’T HEAR IN A SYSTEM? It’s always been a matter of defining what “the threshold of audibility” is. The experimental psychologists have run double blind studies with samples of normal subjects, and come up with answers we audiophiles accept in principle, like a 3dB diff... | |
| Is a Fluance RT 85 turntable worthy of a moderately priced moving coil cartridge? The only Fluance turntable that has crossed my path had noticeably loose arm bearings. This might be a peculiarity of the sample and not common to other units. Check yours for any play in the bearings, and if found, investigate whether it can be ... | |
| A great has died Saw The Band live twice, first In Central Park at a Wollman Rink concert. Garth’s extended intro to Chest Fever went on and on, to universal delight. Next at Watkins Glen with The Allmans and The Dead. Absolutely love their music! The Brown albu... | |
| So I Just Bought a Cassette Deck So what deck did you buy? | |
| Favorite scream in rock? Let’s not forget Janis Joplin on Take A Little Bit of My Heart, Cry Baby and others. | |
| Identify, repair or replace mid range speaker in B139 based setup If repair is not possible, check with Madisound for near equivalent replacement. You may need to re-create the closed back chamber somewhow. |