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    Full range speakers or not and how loud

    My unconfirmed answer - 90-95 dB - louder after the 4th martini. "Confirmation" possibly not required - see below. Over the years I've been a "good guesser" estimating "peak" SPL's on home audio systems. WTH does that MEAN, Ghalt??? It MEANS, that, with relatively low dynamic range rock and...
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    SET amp owners thread

    The gold unit looks like Fostex (I have a pair of Fostex super-tweeters). The down-facing charcol-gray - cropped at left - TAD
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    SET amp owners thread

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    SET amp owners thread

    Single-ended amps are Quicksilver prototypes - never “commercial”, therefore likely to use output transformers wound at Quicksilver (once deemed “production/commercial ready”, Sanders contracts a transformer shop to wind a “commercial quantity”) Output tube is the long-defunct 8417 (I have lots...
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    Let's Do the First Analog Poll Tonight

    Lavigne said (04-27-2010): "what are the odds someone could connect with a bunch of digital files like that?" (you asked, even if rhetorically) Well, I know a guy..... He started around 2001-02 with a friends 3000 CD Classical Collection - after much testing decided MP3 was acceptable at...
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    Let's Do the First Analog Poll Tonight

    @ Lavigne ca. 2010 - 2000 LP's is a mere 30(ft^3) (cubic feet) - a row 30-ft long. Pack them in "one-fives" (mover lingo for 12"x12"x18" boxes), and they fit in a pickup truck bed - only need stack a few. The one-fives prevent warps.
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    new Beatles analog sourced mono pressings

    I see Mike L already started a thread (perhaps the moderators will delete the one I started with this:) I found no thread regarding last week's release of the Beatles All-Analog Mono LP Box - so I announce it here. Details can be found as to the AAA nature of this reissue on Analog...
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    Beatles All-Analog Mono LP Box

    I found no thread regarding last week's release of the Beatles All-Analog Mono LP Box - so I announce it here. Details can be found as to the AAA nature of this reissue on Analog Planet: http://www.analogplanet.com/content/beatles-get-back-mono-and-aaa-vinyl Reviews in progress here...
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    Readers Digest Introduction

    That Linn/ARC/Quad system: I believe Linn had only the LP-12 (arm/pickup completely up for grabs). There was only one Quad Loudspeaker (according to High Fidelity - I didn't yet know about TAS and Holt's journal) the "57" appelation didn't come around until the ESL-63 became commercial. As a...
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    Let's Do the First Analog Poll Tonight

    A question: what sorts of stories do the jackets tell? Do you refer to liner notes? The condition of the jackets? Annotations? (the latter I have found when picking up radio station LP's at flea markets, etc.). I actually have access to a collection of files that started with 3,000 classical...
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    The blackest black material ever created

    Sonex (half) Deafness "Must be mentally bizarre staring at that block of Vantablack" - reminds me of that stuff they use in recording studios (forget the name) - and which was once fashionable to use in live-end, dead-end listening rooms. (Sonex!!) I once stuck my (one) ear up against a...
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    Advice on new room

    What are the objections to isolation transformers? I can think of only one - regulation issues if the transformer is under-sized. I first became aware of their use when I corresponded with a recording engineer who said he was partly responsible for getting balanced power into the National...
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    JS

    Two lovely spaces and nice audio systems. Let us know when you have established your "horn and tube room"! A "warning" about the Sony 777 - two friends have retired there's due to lack of parts (Sony does not stock them).
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