Month: February 2020
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The thread starts: I am just wanting to know if I’m the only one at the age of 16 that is dumping all my money into powering up my vintage Hi-Fi setup in my mancave? I’m certainly quite the odd one out in my school as the only thing I like is classic rock, anything […]
Dozens of preowned machines available HERE
Dozens of preowned machines available HERE
Robert Baird writes: Call me a hopeless romantic but I could not get “Penny Lane” out of my head as I sat in the back of a black cab whizzing across a remarkably deserted London early one morning a couple weeks ago. “On the corner is a banker with a motorcar…” I was on a […]
The musical Gospel at Colonus casts the Blind Boys of Alabama in the role of Sophocles’ tragic hero. MORE
“It’s interesting (to me) that you guys really enjoyed the Avantegarde speakers because myself and a friend (who normally loves horn speakers) were entirely underwhelmed by them. Personally, I was too aware of odd colourations and they just didn’t have the immediacy, or intimacy, that I associate with really good horns. Perhaps if they had […]
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Hi, I just was thinking that I usually listen to music with the volume pot at 9 o’clock, rarely more. And was wondering if something could be done technically to the amp to have better sound quality.I mean, if I take an amp, find a way to lower its output gain, I’ll be able to […]
I’m looking for an tube integrated amp to drive a pair of Compact 7ES-3 speakers. These are both on my short list. Has anyone tried either of them with Harbeths – any thoughts at all? Dip in and out HERE Classic Harbeth pairs for sale HERE
We are told ….. For the first time ever, all of the eras across six decades that make up the incredible career of this truly seminal British act are presented together, along with some previously unavailable material on the DVD. The full tracklisting on both can now be revealed (see below)! The 3CD collection […]
I’ve always felt like the diminutive Marantz 1060 was a special amp in the lineup. The 30wpc is enough to power a good variety of speakers, and there is just something really “right” with the way is sounds. The very first piece of gear I bought when I got into this hobby was a Marantz […]
I have been living with these early HL1s ( Serial Numbers 228 A & B ) for some time and have been surprised they aren’t mentioned more. The equivalent (?) Spendor BC1s have a much higher profile. I bought them sans grilles ( the foam ones had rotted away ) and Sid Chaplin, of Traditional […]
From scatalogical Mozart to possibly the worst music Wagner ever wrote, Tom Service unearths five pieces that rarely appear on concert programmes – perhaps for good reasons. Please click HERE to continue
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J. Gordon Holt writes ….. Bill Firebaugh’s first product, the outrageous-looking Well-Tempered (tone) Arm, established him as one of audio’s most innovative designers. At the 1985 Winter CES, he showed a prototype companion product—the Well-Tempered Turntable—and was producing production units by January 1987. He discusses here the WTT’s unusual design features. (Readers should note that, […]
Political action had always been a defining aspect of the career of Crosby, Stills and Nash. From the iconic moment that David Crosby, then of The Byrds, took to the stage at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 to accuse the US government of a cover-up in the assassination of JFK, he became cast as […]
