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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

    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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    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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    Cello Rhapsody Amp? Acoustic Research affiliation?

    This was an interesting amp. 200w/8ohms; 400w/4ohms. Available in two OR THREE channels. Development seems to have started on the late 90's around the time Levinson sold the company to a dot-com zillionaire. Assume that Tom Coelangelo did the design - before the company folded and he went...
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    Cello Audio Sales Information

    Based on info I garnered from their files 10 years after they closed, below are the approximate number of units produced, by (certain) product, over the companys 1985-2000 lifetime; Performance Amps 750 Duet 350 875 Encore 150 120 Encore 50...
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    Selling a refurbished Studer A812 with built-in K/C Playback Electronics

    Ebay item # 141870362259 Charles
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    "All-in-one" A812

    Close to finishing up my own version of a "plug and play" tape deck. Picked up two A812's at a radio station 6 months back. With the considerable help of Ki Choi, refurbished/refinished both. Per RB's suggestion, decided to try and add an "outboard" K/C pre to it. Pics show the result. The...
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    Pics of trip to JRF Magnetics

    Edited a past posting - http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showthread.php?12554-Reference-tapemachine/page5 - Scroll down Probably should have started a new post. Anyway... Charles Here's the pic of Joe hard at work in his relapping area
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    Any (other) tape at next weeks RMAF 2014?

    Steve Norber of PranaFidelity will potentially have 3 tape listening "options" in room 517: His Technics 1500 with a Nortronics PB headblock wired-out to my K/C preamp; a second "wired-out" Flux Magnetics PB headblock, and a separate "stock" 1500 from J-corder. After hours "games are...
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    Tape at next week's RMAF?!

    Anything going on? Any interest in getting together to talk / discuss "the latest / whatever"? I could ask Marjorie for a room if anyone is interested - Friday PM / Sat AM?? I'll be spinning some tape in Dave Cope's Audio Note room from 5:30 to 6:30 Fri and Sat - stop by. Then across the...
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    RMAF 2013 - carrentals.com has a Denver airport $10/day car special right now

    Advantage - certain sizes - no idea for how long. CU at the bar!
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    Everything you need to know about Hi-End Audio

    By THE expert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOR-8vMz4DI Charles
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    (cello) palette commemorative equalizer and preamplifier

    I am offering for sale my own, one-off version of the Cello Palette Preamplifier. A few years back, a friend discovered a number of Cello parts and sub-assemblies in a Southern CT warehouse. These included 2 sets of complete printed circuit boards for their Palette Preamplifier along with a...
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    The Plangent Process

    During a visit earlier this week, U47 alerted me to a fascinating article in issue 94 of Tape OP magazine. It's describes a new process to improve/restore audio recorded on (old?) analog tapes and film. Called the Plangent Process (http://www.plangentprocesses.com) it was pioneered by Jamie...
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    Here is the link to Peter Lederman's GREAT Axpona Cartridge Seminar

    http://www.axpona.com/Section_Home.asp?SID=1052 Along with a few other items of possible interest. Charles
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    Merry Christmas to all

    Enjoy your "pleasure machine", in whatever state you find it.
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    Jazzbo's - a Book to top your Christmas List

    "The Jazz Standards" (A Guide to the Repertoire) - By Ted Gioia - Oxford University Press. Just out. Over 500 pages of meticulously-researched information on 250+ of the greatest Jazz standards. Roughly 2 pages is devoted to each (alphabetically arranged) tune with fascinating insight into...
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    Just when I thought I had it "right"......

    Was "auditioning" a new playback head in a Technics 1500 headbock. A/B'ing IT versus the stock Bogen in my MCI. Using a dub of the Four Seasons (Handel vs Frankie Valli) that I knew had very good imaging, especially depth. Imaging on the "new" head was definitely "restricted" front to back...
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    Anyone know what's up with the

    absence of the Tape Project forum?
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    Anyone up for a reel to reel "tape forum" at RMAF

    two months from now? We could try something "formal" and get a room for an hour or so - to discuss what?? Ideas?? Two years ago I gave a presentation on reel tape - for "newbies". Don't think we need that now - but?? Charles
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    A New Equalizer - sort of

    Besides tape preamps and the like, I've been working on my own version of the Cello Palette Preamp (PP) and have "arrived" at the version shown in the attached pic. The Cello "trove" of parts a friend discovered yielded a complete two-board set for the PP and so I built it up. A problem I...
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    Tape at the NY Audio and AV show - this weekend (Apr 13-15)

    Hi All, Will be spinning tapes in the Robyatt Audio Room (1524) - Waldorf Hotel, 301 Park Ave. Including two Tape Project sampler tapes graciously supplied by Paul S. Please stop by. Charles
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    Movie Tape Alert!!!

    Check out the tubed Mac stuff in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" movie. Can't place the reel tape machine tho. O yeah, its in the torture chamber scene. IMHO, Heroine CERTAINLY deserves Best Actress. AND; If you like WWII airplanes, dogfights et.al. go see "Red Tails"; Hollywood's version...
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    Great Christmas present: "Perfecting Sound Forever"

    Working my way through this wonderful book by Greg Milner (Faber and Faber, Inc - 2009) It is the best description of recording history and the the development of the recording process, from Edison onwards, that I've come across. Milner does a fine job of elucidating fairly technical concepts...
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    RMAF 2011 Tape "Buzz"

    Well, Since no one has made any noise yet, I might as well start! Guess a number of What's Best'ers will be at the show and may be going to dinner on Saturday night. Hope to see you all there if not before. Maybe tapesters so moved could meet at the bar, say Friday around 6P? Balance a 10...
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    Gentlemen start your engines

    http://www.ebay.de/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemnext&item=180714225851.html
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    Anyone have a Levinson JC-2 that we could borrow (Connecticut)

    Earlier in then year, a friend who is also a reviewer for 6moons came across a trove of older Mark Levinson equipment including most of the products up thru the ML12. I suggested, and he is considering doing a "mini-review" which compares all the preamps amongst (between?) themselves and his...
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    Levinson LNP-2

    FYI: Classic piece of gear and a great description on my friend's site: http://sites.google.com/site/mpbarney/home/levinson-lnp-2 In process of cloning my own - more to follow; Charles

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