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I believe the top paid NFL, NBA and MLB players out earn the top NFL players but all top NHL players like Crosby make multi-millions annually. I thought Gordie Howe left the NHL for Winterpeg, MB? He retired from Red Wings. Hated what he was doing for the Red Wings in retirement and then decided to come back with a chance to play with his son in a startup league that eventually merged with the NHL.

As a Nashvillian and a Preds fan I would like to point out that when the team was awarded the franchise on a provisional basis in 97 it had to sell 12,000 season tickets to make it official. Detroit transplants working in Spring Hill just south of Nashville pushed us over the finish line so Nashville got the team. First several times we played the Wings the arena was half red, but each time the red diminished. We always looked at the Wings as our big brothers in hockey. It was several years later that the first catfish appeared during a Preds Wings game and the tradition was born.

I have tried it several times while following the instructions. It just doesn't work for me. Could be my speakers or room.

That's a good idea. I had some bad results with previous versions of DBX expanders. But I guess this offers the control to get it right and not overprocess.

After considering an Apt Holman pre-amp and getting good feedback here, I ran into the Carver C4000 and bit on the Autocorrelator and Peak Unlimiter features. Those features work well in my opinion and have increased my enjoyment of my R2R listening. It also helps with records, but it makes good R2R tapes stunning. One tape that really shines using both gadgets is ELP Tarkus that I bought new and sealed 7 1/2 ips factory prerecorded. It was pretty good without any processing, but with the processing its sonic impact is enhanced by the expander with no "breathing" effects. The Autocorrelator suppresses noise very well while not reducing the sonics of quiet passages. I have run into a number of 2nd generation protection or safety copies on 2 track 15 ips that were taken from master tapes used in radio stations. (This is unverified.) My favorites so far are Genesis - Trick of the Tail and Miles Davis - Kind of Blue I have ripped to digital both of these using the processing features of the C4000 and made regular ole' CDs to play for my tech on his system. He agrees with my assessment and noticed the lack of the irritation he often gets from playing CDs. There are other features of the C4000 such as the infamous Sonic Hologram Generator and time delay with rear speakers driven directly by the pre-amp that I may never explore fully, but I have to wonder how well Bob Carver did implementing those features.

Thanks all for feedback. Went a totally different direction and bought a Carver C-4000. Because I am playing with R2R tapes I thought the bells and whistles found on this preamp may come in handy.

Yeah, I think your kitty is pretty cool. Keith Thanks! So is yours.

Thanks for posting. Would you elaborate a little further on opamps? Not an engineer.

Looking at a Apt Holman Preamp. I have gone off the analog deep end with two tapedecks and a Teac AN 180 for Barkly Crocker tapes. Now I need the two tape loops and the effect loop. Seems like $300 should get one. Thoughts?

Better than Xmas!!!

This is his main site.http://www.realhd-audio.com/?tag=mark-waldrep I love his description of remastering "Will The Circle Be Unbroken".

This site has music that has been exclussivly produced in high bandwidth digital with little to no compression. Truely better than analog, if you have the right player and soundcard setup. http://www.itrax.com/

Welcome to the forum Micheala! These guys have a lot of depth in audio, not just Klipsch speakers. Enjoy!

Very interesting. Going to have to replay it again to understand, but there are a lot of my beliefs that are going to be rethought after this. Thanks for posting Steve.

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Josh, I have recently taken the plunge as well. I also bought an Otari MX 5050 II2. It's being serviced now but my Revox B77 has enabled me to start collecting old pre-recorded titles. Some are 50 years old! The quality is all over the place but about a third of the 30 I have acquired have been really eye-opening good. I am using my Pure Vinyl setup to listen most of the time as my primary speakers rely on an active crossover control in Pure Vinyl. But I also have an all analog setup with KEF speakers, while they lack in low end, the imaging is stunning. Always looking for titles that either not found in the digital domain or if they do the mastering for CD was not too great. How are things going for you since you started this thread? Brad

I too have several DBX records with a decoder. I find the results to be pretty good, but R2R is blowing me away. Several of the tapes I have gotten off of Epray have been pretty darn good. What I have been looking for are titles not in the digital domain. Classical titles that didn't fit on LPs are intriguing.

Ok, So I am convinced that the problem with the download from rollofone is simply EQ. I use Pro EQ2 as a plugin with my PureMusic audio engine and it has a feature for using a sidechain to auto match to a reference. So just for grins I was going to try that and use my high def download of the same song as the reference and see if I could EQ rollofone's mastered version to sound the same. But PM isn't a DAW and I can't see where to configure a sidechain input. BTW Pro EQ2 lets you use different places in the song for the automatch so I put the two versions into one song. ​Of course the reason for doing this is to see if I want to try some of his other files with my EQ fix to see if they are better. And before the PROs start lecturing me, I do understand that each mastering may use a different EQ. But at least its a fix for the very nice mix of jazz songs on rollofone's http://www.rollofone.com/?product=jazz-poll-winners which is what I downloaded. Thanks for any thoughts.

He is pretty picky as to the acceptance of source materials. He explained that many tapes the left channel is damaged and too bad for the tape to be used.

BTW he will provide a DSD straight copy with no processing.

The owner mentioned rolling off the signal from 13K 20db and using the exciter to "rebuild harmonics". Whatever that means. I could also have what he said wrong as I am not an audio engineer. But I did stay at ....

Found this site today. http://www.rollofone.com/ Spoke with owner and bought a download. Great prices for digital copies of analog pre 1975 tapes and records. He uses an aural exciter when mastering the copies. Never heard of exciter tech before but it makes some sense. The download was to my ear (which isn't near golden) as being a tad bright.

I had the Forte IIs with the Crites upgrades and found that in a bigger room say larger than roughly 20 x 20 or so the Forte opened up and was exceptional. In a small room I found the Heresy to be more open and clear. Getting the Forte IIs off the wall the right amount helped a great deal so a small room just wasn't practical.

I was there and it was fantastic!

I had a similar problem with my active crossover fed jub clone with horn tweeter setup. Dang thing is so efficient the noise floor of the miniDSP crossover and amp kept coming through. I eventually tried an L pad to some satisfaction.Enjoy them.