Racer X
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Relatively flat downward tilt with a bass bump...?
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Per Cowboy Junkies Trinity Sessions: Travis had an interesting relation of this last year:
Also, the wikipedia entry has a lot of detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trinity_Session
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^^^ What he said ^^^
Out of the roughly 1,000 albums I collected over the years, only two very early pressings (purchased first hand) really stand out as exceptional. Japanese pressings were usually very nice.
Not really missing the records now....
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I've found the old glass insulators are very cool looking and also make good door stops as well as cable risers. Plus they come in a variety of shapes and sizes, I favor the classic clear squat round ones, also some neat looking green ones.
Not suggesting my system is so well resolved that cable risers make any difference, but one can hope.
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Spoiler Alert: Danny of GR Research suggests the color of the insulation also has an effect.
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29 minutes ago, Islander said:
What the hell is the problem over here?
Perhaps an allocation of resources towards very large firecrackers pointed towards the moon ?
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Probably more for self identification purposes....
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3 minutes ago, henry4841 said:
Turn it off when not in use.
I usually just turn it on and start using it. Warm up probably does help some.
No, if I decide to turn a tube amp back on I do not hesitate.
A coat of wax will be all it will need to preserve the wood.
Stick with 6Y6, and 6SJ7 tubes. I honestly do not think you are going to find any better 6SJ7 tubes than you already have. The tubes in it now should last a very long time. Those old tubes were made to last.
Second all comments above. My tube amps sound pretty nice just turned on and believe after 10 minutes or 3 songs they are pretty much fully warmed up. Not much experience with the transistor amps these days, but they seem to take much, much longer to warm up. Like hours.
Johnson's Floor Wax was all the maintenance I provided to my self stained LaScalas, very easy and durable.
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My computer fears nothing. The external link is a review of the Forte III.
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Heard it's much easier to pop a tweeter, you have to work at blowing a woofer
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Yes. Call it sour grapes if you want....
I hope I've been clear just my experience with a few transistor Class A amps ( Pioneer M22, Krell at the store ).
Anxious to try a low powered SET amp on my Heresy.
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1 hour ago, Travis In Austin said:
I agree with that premise 100%, but I don't know why. Can you help a neophyte understand why this is true? Does it add distortion?
Is this the same premise for the no tone controls debate on preamps? (Which was a marketing thing started by Mark Levinson when he ran the company with his name. He removed tone controls from all of his designs. When he lost his company, and his name, and started Cello, he went back to "you have to have a good equalizer" and developed the Pallet).
Boy, for a moderator, you sure do ask a lot of questions.
Believe your answer is in your excellent Mark Levinson example: In Audio, one likes to have it both ways, sometimes at the same time.
One would think there are examples of components with few active devices in the signal path with more distortion than others with more....
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With price adjustment
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Labor Day Sale
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Labor Day Sale
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Appreciate your relation of impressions of the speakers cycled through, very interesting.
No idea why Klipsch was not well considered in the audiophile press (ad revenue feedback cycle ?), but things seem to be slowly coming around.
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I've always found the Altec A7 to be a speaker system of interest simply because it was contemporary of Klipsch and because of their niche: Theater ( Voice of the Theater....) and PA, one would see these often in the garage band.
The Altec A7 has a very enthusiastic following and adherents just as the Klipsch Heritage do.
I found this article to be a good read: https://audioxpress.com/article/altec-lansing-s-voice-of-the-theatre-speakers-what-you-need-to-know
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Yes, there is a compromise between imaging and bass response dependent upon distance from the walls.
In my room, about 4 feet from the front wall, toed in 45 degrees provides the balance I seek.
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Hmm, not quite sure how one would ascertain "What percentage of..." or how this is relevant.
One of my favored Japanese idol groups consists entirely of synthesized electronic music with the front idols vocals heavily processed via autotune. The result is very artistic and impressive. As a listener I do not discriminate between "known" timbre of the performance, I'm only interested in the end result and how it sounds. And yes, this type of music can be very challenging to reproduce well and find a nice high fidelity system recreation greatly enhances one's enjoyment.
To me, this distinction of a live performance with known timbre is kind of odd, but to each his own.
Side note: Several of this group's compositions are covered by an acoustic guitarist who arranges himself playing all parts, harmony, lead, melody, usually via 3 or 4 multi tracked live performances. I find these arrangements a nice alternative, but not really equal to the original "performance".
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"How often does the train go by ?"
"So often you won't even notice."
What movie...?
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But they have nice caps in Russia....
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It's all about the location with these speakers. Condition matters too, of course, but like the real estate, it's location, location, location.
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Jeans are for kids, it's all khakis for me now.
But in my youth recall fondly getting a few pairs of jeans at the beginning of each school year. Real jeans were impossible to wear for the first month or so unless one washed them 10X, and then the invariable customization as holes and wear patterns emerged ( Skoal, brother ? ).
Still have my family heirloom Levi hip hugger bell bottoms, the early 70s were the jean heyday. Kind of preferred the jean that beat the dress code: Corduroys
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6 hours ago, Islander said:
It seemed like over-engineering to me.
What, German over-engineering ? Never heard of such a thing....
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'Should you tune your sound system FLAT'?
in Technical/Restorations
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The juicy part of the video is 3:45 to 5:45, his target trace or curve, which has relatively flat downward tilt, about 1.5 db hinged on 1 K, with a prominent bass bump at 300 downward.
Thanks, Schu, for posting yet another video of interest....