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| Review: Blind Faith 24BIT Reissue & Second Disk Just got this. Waaaaaay nice. Thanks for the recommendation guys. | |
| Magnepan 3.6 ribbon tweeters Interesting response from Magnapan, and consistent with a similar experience that I had. I owned several Maggies over the years, having started on the plannar path with modest SMGa's. I eventually went to Apogees and now Martin Logans but always k... | |
| Kinergetics SW200 rip-off ?? Will do, Doug. I'm not sure how accurate my recollection of the SW200 is, though. Too many thoughts about too many things running through my head these days. I've decided to take a few months off and have really been running amok with all the thin... | |
| Keeping cables off the floor Makes sense, Dekay. I wonder if a can get a stip of acrylic in a 2x4 shape and do the same thing. I just happen to have a source for acrylic fabrication here in L.A. that I'll drop by -- haven't been there in quite a while. I would think that this... | |
| Best Zappa album For non-Zappa Zappa tunes try "King Kong" by Jean Luc Ponty. Jedan Luc started playing his electric violin with Frank on "Hot Rats", I believe, and also contributed to several other titles. Like there aren't enough Zappa options out there -- we no... | |
| Kinergetics SW200 rip-off ?? I believe the SW 200 was a 10 inch downward firing sub -- pretty conventional design. THE Kinergetics sub was the SW800, twin towers with five 10 inch forward firing drivers in each enclosure. I don't recall any raves for any of their other subs. ... | |
| Wha'choo lookin' at? Elizabeth, it's a Tsuru (crane family). The national bird of Japan, official or otherwise. | |
| Keeping cables off the floor OK, I'm going to have to give this a try. Due to necessary equipment placement, things aren;t as tidy as they should be and the look has always bothered me.What I'm thinking of is getting a 2x4, cutting in a groove on the top length, then slicing ... | |
| ARC VT-100 Crackling Sound Try moving all output tubes from one channel to another (reverse them, that is). If the noise now comes from the opposite side you will have established a tube (or tubes) as the cause. I don't recall the VT100 tube layout, but move them one row at... | |
| Digital Smear??? Al, look on the sunny side. When you are "banned for life", you know that you have finally arrived. Quite an accomplishment. | |
| Best Zappa album "Hot Rats" is my favorite, mostly for "Willie The Pimp" -- my favorite Zappa tune ever. Sugarcane Harris' electric violin is sublime. The rest of the album is instrumental, showing Zappa's talent as a composer. Even if the instrumentals don't floa... | |
| Good percussion recordings Hi, Emily. It's on Tristar Music (WK35055). Tristar is a division of Sony, I believe, so not hard to find. Happy listening, all. | |
| Good percussion recordings Neither Latin nor orchestral, but give Kodo a listen when you're in the mood for wonderful percussion in an entirely different vein. These Japanese drummers live an isolated, monk-like existance on Kodo Island with their entire lives focused soley... | |
| SW-800 Subs & CLS's Thanks, guys. I think I have to take the plunge with this combo. Doug, you know I've been noodling with this for a quite a while, going back and forth on how to best intergrate the panels and the subs. The SW800 was actually designed for my speake... | |
| Favorite Cajun / Zydeco Recordings Anything from Buckwheat Zydeco is fine by me. |