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    Stellavox SM8 Service by Jean Michel

    Arseny. Regarding "better sound between the 7/8: a few things. Stella changed heads over the course of production. Original 7's used Bogen PB and Record heads. Always used Wolke erase. Somewhere along the line they switched to Nortronics heads - first for PB and then record. Maybe a...
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    Contenders for Most Musical and Best Two-Way Mini-Monitors of All Time?

    How about the Joseph Audio Pulsars. They'd be next for me should I fall out of love with my LS50's. And have heard some great sounding small Audio Note (UK)'s
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    Linn Sondek 50th anniversary, really that good?

    Congratulations to Linn! I had one WAY back - when I had vinyl.
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    PranaFidelity Dhyana: Two-way quasi line array speaker

    Always loved and appreciated ALL of Stevens work! He's also a VERY NICE guy!
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    How about a forum for Audio in RV's?

    Campground hosts at a local NY state park for the summer. SO spend a lot of time in our 24' Class A. Forget stock system. Listen to a Cocktail Audio server/amp thru PSB Alpha P5's positioned above the cab. Had to make up a inverter to get 12v battery power up to the 24v needed for the...
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    Analog Audio Design TP-1000

    Wow and Flutter @ 15ips - per DIN 45507 Per their spec sheets - Ampex ATR-100 .03% TP-1000 .045% My Technics 1500, just measured with my Sound Technology 1500A .02%
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    Analog Audio Design TP-1000

    Ron, What is the "new production, made in USA" deck that you are referring to?
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    Analog Audio Design TP-1000

    Reading the recent responses; in the audio business, haven't we been led to believe that new is ALWAYS better. Well guess what!. I DO hope that some of the new efforts succeed. Was musing with U47 about Studer machines and which of them will be around in 10 or 20 years. We agree on our...
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    Analog Audio Design TP-1000

    Yep guys, We've been riding a 15 year wave - has it crested - who knows? The TP-1000 suggests maybe not. And as long as my inner-tube (think waistline) continues to hold air, I'm still afloat and enjoying things immensely! Right Mike?
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    Capital Audiofest 2023

    "specifically" dunno - let me try this. Normally, we'd (myself and an audio buddy) zip up to the top floor and make our way down "quickly" to hear "everything" first, try and remember what we liked (and/or take notes), then go back for an extended listen here and there. We started on the 8th...
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    Capital Audiofest 2023

    From an overall sound perspective, this was the best audio show I've attended. Charles
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    Genesis at the Capital Audiofest - Nov 10-12, 2023 - with NEW speakers!

    Gary, et al Great meeting you at the show!!!! Great bunch of folks you were there with. Thank You. Of course, LOVED the Analog Audio Design TP-1000 over your speakers. - mentioned so in the tape forum. Can't wait to do this again Charles
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    Analog Audio Design TP-1000

    Saw / operated / listened to it at the Capital Audio Fest this past weekend!. First new deck I've experienced. QUITE AN ACHIEVEMENT. VERY impressed with it's modular design. Impeccable construction. Intuitive to operate. Fascinating display that shows ALL the necessary parameters - most of...
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    Any Tapesters in the Boise Area?

    On a trip out West as far as Boise to see our new Grandson. Be there in a few days for two weeks or so. Any Tapesters in the area or one who would invite someone totally unknown into their house for a listening session!!?? Brought my Stella with a few great tapes should you NOT have any...
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    Stellavox SM8 Service by Jean Michel

    While I'm in an "eat your heart out" mood - here are two pics of a 4-track Stella I checked out for a gentleman a few years back. Probably only a handful ever made
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    Stellavox SM8 Service by Jean Michel

    Here are some pictures of the Stellavox facility taken in the mid 1990's by Jim Stempke of Studio-Sonics (West of Chicago). At the time he was importing Stellas; took a trip to the factory to see how they were made and spent a few days watching them being built while picking up "tip" along the...
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    Stellavox SM8 Service by Jean Michel

    Foxbat, From Schllin's Stellavox book, page 131, there were two versions of the AMC counter. The original AMC with a left-hand drive, and the AMC D with a right hand drive. Apparently the left-hand drive "occasionally slowed down the tape. And "at 15ips tape speed the meter reading...
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    VAC Tape Repro Amplifier?

    Have done a haphazard survey of outboard tape pre's over a few years - from those folks who would actually share numbers. Numbers TOTAL in the low, maybe mid-hundreds. And this is between maybe a dozen purveyors. So don't bother. If you have to, understand it's "a labor of love". And NEW...
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    Stellavox SM8 Service by Jean Michel

    OK, The "Mickey Mouse Ears" ABR is as good of a "solution" as you could expect considering the company's financial and developmental resources. If you look at the total number of SP/AMI/TD machines produced over its roughly 20 year life, multiply by the prices they actually got for their...
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    Stellavox SM8 Service by Jean Michel

    Just saw this thread. Where to begin? I was introduced to the Sp series of recorders by rich Brown maybe 25 years ago. As most of the units were "older" and required some kind of service, I began doing how to do that while acquiring some of the necessary spare parts. Over the years have...
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    Regarding the frequency response "flatness" of the vinyl recording medium...

    THANKS Mtemur - hadn't thought of the white noise record / spectrum analyzer approach - and thanks for the interesting results Gregm - no; only thinking about the response getting TO the record amp and FROM the phono pre.
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    Regarding the frequency response "flatness" of the vinyl recording medium...

    Has anyone ever reported the results of the WHOLE RECORD/PLAYBACK CHAIN from cutting a record using a sweep signal input to the record amp (from an impeccable audio generator) thru playing the record back and "recording" the result of the output from the phono preamplifier? Would bet that the...
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    Look at today's Doonesbury

    Enjoy
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    Why do I hate jazz ??

    Let me offer this. The thing I REALLY like about jazz is it's capability for INSTANTANEOUS improvisation. Look throughout the history of, at least, Western music. Starting with the baroque (maybe even earlier) and into the classical periods, MOST ALL of the composers were dealing with - maybe...
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    Do Quads wear out "all at once"?

    I had 63's for 15 years or so. First pair sat in two cast iron "tubs" that lifted them up in the air - don't know who supplied them but it was in the early years of their production. Then I moved, and a music friend wouldn't let me take them away and made me an offer I couldn't refuse. After...
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    Rhapsody.Audio Listening Rooms

    O yeah - and Bob CAN play reel-to reel tape. If interested, ask him.

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