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1: General Asylum, RE: Bleecker Bob has passed (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2018-12-04, 05:47:38 (24.147.100.139)
This news makes me sad. I bought a lot of records from him in the '70s and '80s. Bob could be abrasive in a way that many people might have been put off by, by he was really just a classic New York Ci .......
2: General Asylum, RE: radio garden - web site of radio stations around the world to listen to (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2018-11-28, 05:39:35 (24.147.100.139)
That's very cool. Thank you for sharing the site. .......
3: General Asylum, Not completely dead yet (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2018-06-04, 05:45:06 (24.147.100.139)
Vulcan Cylinder Record Company in the UK has a catalog of about 50 new cylinder records for sale. .......
4: General Asylum, RE: He had his Bright Moments... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2017-08-21, 08:30:00 (24.147.101.89)
It's unfortunate that there are no recordings or film of a nightclub performance by Martin & Lewis from before they blew up on radio and movies. According to contemporary descriptions, their act was l .......
5: General Asylum, Too late (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2017-07-01, 12:43:43 (24.147.101.89)
Stereophile's review of the Fourier 6 was in 1984. Aczel's villainy happened four years earlier, in 1980. By 1984 everyone in the audio business was well aware of his offense. .......
6: General Asylum, Not that I know of (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2017-06-30, 18:20:01 (24.147.101.89)
It didn't take long for the truth about Aczel and Fourier to become known. I suppose that the other audio magazines didn't want to promote a competitor's product. In 1980, in addition to the two main .......
7: General Asylum, RE: I seem to recall Aczel hinting in a previous issue of the Audio Critic... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2017-06-30, 10:28:48 (24.147.101.89)
"Hints" don't constitute honest full disclosure. Aczel never clearly stated in the pages of Audio Critic that he was a part - owner of Fourier. In fact, as the quotes I cited show, he intentionally li .......
8: General Asylum, RE: Print Rag (1991-2003) came out about once/year (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2017-06-30, 04:57:04 (24.147.101.89)
>>And, oh yeah, a loudspeaker by "Fourier". Some accused him of shilling for that, since he had a financial/design interest in it. (Can anyone corroborate?) I'll be glad to. In Volume 2, Number 3, the .......
9: Critic's Corner, Honest, not disrespectful (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2017-06-28, 18:04:48 (24.147.101.89)
Aczel was a con man who perpetrated by far the worst ethical violation in the history of audio magazines, and he burned "Audio Critic" subscribers by suspending the magazine for years at a time and ne .......
10: Critic's Corner, RE: An even bigger influence... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2017-06-27, 08:07:36 (24.147.101.89)
Do you remember when Moncrieff came up with the idea that he could thoroughly test phono cartridges by dropping the stylus on a sheet of glass and then doing an FFT of the output? As I recall he thoug .......
11: General Asylum, Peter Aczel has died (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2017-06-27, 03:23:04 (24.147.101.89)
Peter Aczel, the highly controversial founder / editor of The Audio Critic magazine, died on June 22 at age 91. .......
12: General Asylum, Schoolly D and Ice - T invented gangsta rap, not Dre (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2017-05-30, 05:28:41 (24.147.101.89)
Schoolly D's eponymous 1985 LP is arguably the first gangsta rap album since he rapped about gangs and urban violence. Ice - T (yes, the guy who is now on "Law and Order SVU") was inspired by Schoolly .......
13: Critic's Corner, Oops - that should have followed mkuller's IAR post below (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2017-02-06, 14:40:40 (24.147.101.89)
Audio Critic may have been the first to try the ad - free model, before IAR. .......
14: Critic's Corner, And the villain Aczel with Audio Critic (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2017-02-05, 15:26:13 (24.147.101.89)
nt .......
15: General Asylum, RE: Little Richard...wow (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2016-11-06, 14:29:26 (24.147.101.89)
Little Richard didn't spring up out of a vacuum. There had been a circuit of black performers touring the rural areas of the south and performing in tents. Among those performers were female impersona .......
16: General Asylum, RE: Very Poor Quality (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2016-09-22, 08:59:29 (209.119.132.238)
Great content in mediocre sound beats crap content in great sound, always. Satellite radio never promised better sound quality than terrestrial radio; it's all about the content. It's just not arguabl .......
17: General Asylum, SiriusXM is your answer (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2016-09-22, 02:54:39 (209.119.132.238)
SiriusXM satellite radio offers programming that is vastly superior to anything you can get from terrestrial radio. If you like show tunes there's a channel that plays nothing but show tunes. If you l .......
18: General Asylum, RE: PRaT filter? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2016-09-20, 08:22:56 (24.147.101.89)
I wrote a short review of the original Black Cube for Listener but as far as I know none of the magazine's old issues are online. I completely hated the sound of the device and wrote so in my review. .......
19: General Asylum, PRaT = Pace, Rhythm, and Timing (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2016-09-20, 06:23:46 (24.147.101.89)
All are aspects of real music that can be screwed up in reproduced music. The original Black Cube phono preamp, to cite one especially egregious offender, was practically a PRaT filter that made all m .......
20: General Asylum, RE: A refreshed perspective on this hobby (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2016-08-02, 13:20:22 (24.147.101.89)
Back when I writing for Listener I had a pair of Lamhorn speakers on loan. They're an over 4 foot tall column with a full range driver similar to a Lowther in the front. The father of one of my daught .......
21: General Asylum, Wherehouse? Licorice Pizza? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2016-07-22, 06:16:24 (209.119.132.238)
Never heard of them, and they certainly didn't exist in New York City or elsewhere in the Northeast. Were those chains on the West Coast? At its zenith, Tower had 3 big stores within a two block radiu .......
22: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Wallyskater measures…. (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2016-07-07, 05:42:31 (209.119.132.238)
>>the antiskating force applied to the TONEARM and not the actual skating force experienced by the STYLUS Right, that's exactly what I wrote. I'm not sure why you're making such a distinction between .......
23: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Antiskate nonsense (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2016-07-06, 06:05:32 (209.119.132.238)
>>Wally's WallySkater does not measure skating force I never said it did. I wrote "As far as I know, there have only two consumer tools for measuring anti - skating force ." >>any constant percentage .......
24: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Antiskate nonsense (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2016-07-05, 11:59:10 (209.119.132.238)
That's a great find, thanks for sharing the link. Kogen stated that he measured skating force for an elliptical stylus as about .2 grams per gram of tracking force. As far as I know, there have only .......
25: Critic's Corner, RE: Reviewers and money (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2016-05-13, 06:14:38 (209.119.132.238)
Art Dudley, Listener's editor and owner, didn't accept long term equipment loans nor did he allow his writers to do them. The trade discount was less important because I deducted the cost of whatever .......
26: Critic's Corner, RE: Reviewers and money (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2016-05-05, 05:23:11 (209.119.132.238)
The real benefit of getting a small payment for writing reviews isn't the money itself. Declaring the payments as "free lance writing income" on your tax return enables you to deduct some of what you .......
27: Critic's Corner, "many reviewers ... rely on income from them to put food on their table" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2016-05-04, 06:42:30 (209.119.132.238)
No they don't. The number of people who make a full time living from writing audio reviews can be counted on the fingers of one hand. For almost all audio reviewers it's a hobby that comes with a smal .......
28: General Asylum, Me too (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2016-04-22, 06:27:20 (209.119.132.238)
Do you remember the Tower outlet store that was around the corner from the huge (6 stories, I think) Greenwich Village store? It was the size of a supermarket and filled with cut out LPs and CDs. Reco .......
29: Vinyl Asylum, One more (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2016-04-04, 10:57:55 (24.147.101.89)
Only the finest recordings are "Bozo Approved." .......
30: General Asylum, The best concert (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2016-02-19, 06:44:38 (209.119.132.238)
I've written about it here before: the best concert I ever attended was by a band you never heard of, the "Punk Rock Janitors" from Harrisburg, PA. It was a Monday "audition night" (i.e., play for fre .......
31: Critic's Corner, Stereophile women (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2016-02-15, 11:01:59 (209.119.132.238)
Teenager Julia Dudley wrote a side - bar to one of her father Art's reviews a few years ago. The kid did a good job too. .......
32: General Asylum, Photos (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2016-01-21, 09:37:20 (24.147.101.89)
Here's a close up of how the staggered studs in the walls worked: This is the finished front wall. The convex section was masonite and was stuffed with R16 cotton (shredded blue jeans, actually) i .......
33: General Asylum, RE: Building Dedicated Music Room(Questions for you pros out there) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2016-01-19, 05:48:01 (24.147.101.89)
The issue with noise leakage outside the listening room was that it shared the basement with my kids' playroom and was directly below my wife's office. A true soundproof room (like a recording studio) .......
34: General Asylum, RE: Building Dedicated Music Room(Questions for you pros out there) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2016-01-18, 08:04:44 (24.147.101.89)
I built a dedicated listening room in the basement of a former residence. The room was designed by Richard Rives Bird of Rives Audio; unfortunately he's no longer in the room design business. Anyway, .......
35: Vinyl Asylum, RE: such a useful pal....;-) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2016-01-05, 11:20:02 (209.119.132.238)
My wife has a sense of humor and allowed me to put a Nipper with gramophone salt and pepper shaker set on top of the cake at our wedding, in place of the traditional bride and groom figurines. Art Dud .......
36: Critic's Corner, RE: Art Dudley, you mean? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2016-01-04, 05:38:42 (209.119.132.238)
Sorry to disappoint you, but Art told me the young lady on the Spring '96 issue was wearing a bikini top when photographed. That magazine is almost 20 years old. The model might have a kid in high sc .......
37: General Asylum, RE: Audio Show in NY (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-12-15, 04:21:42 (24.147.101.89)
November 4 - 6, 2016, in Rye Brook, NY. That's in the northern suburbs, near the New York - Connecticut state line. .......
38: Critic's Corner, "I would say that a [sic] English major with decent writing skills.." (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-12-10, 10:30:01 (209.119.132.238)
Audio magazines are entertainment for hobbyists, nothing more. They're not peer reviewed scientific journals. The first requirement for anyone writing audio reviews should be the ability to write abou .......
39: Critic's Corner, "A reviewer can omit or minimize shortcomings or problems" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-11-23, 14:10:18 (209.119.132.238)
Sure, but how does accommodation pricing affect that? Back to my example of the Roksan Xerxes X: it had a fatal machining defect and the on / off switch broke the first time I pushed it. I could have .......
40: Critic's Corner, RE: Accomodation Pricing (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-11-23, 11:14:57 (209.119.132.238)
Obviously the worst misdeed a reviewer can commit is to give a component a review it doesn't deserve. No one has ever been able to explain how the ability to buy a lousy component at a discount is sup .......
41: General Asylum, You're a year early.Or 15 months late. (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-11-23, 09:50:59 (209.119.132.238)
According to the definitive Sex Pistols discography on the website "God Save The Sex Pistols," EMI released "Anarchy In The UK" on November 26, 1976. The Sex Pistols first live performance was on Nove .......
42: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Yeah. My favorite cart likes a heavier arm. (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-10-26, 11:34:44 (209.119.132.238)
At the introduction of the Prime at the Brooklyn audio show a couple of years ago, Matt told me that the Prime's arm's mass can be increased with the addition of some sort of rod in the middle of the .......
43: Critic's Corner, Thank you for your column in "Stereophile" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-10-22, 08:24:45 (209.119.132.238)
I always enjoyed your writing. And thank you for arranging, a few years ago, for the Connecticut Audio Society to hear and record the pipe organ at the First Baptist Church in Providence. Your short l .......
44: Critic's Corner, RE: Why doesn't the "insider" discount count as remuneration? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-09-14, 12:37:50 (209.119.132.238)
I suppose it does. .......
45: Critic's Corner, What he said (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-09-14, 07:11:52 (209.119.132.238)
The money I was paid for the reviews I wrote for Listener worked out to a lot less than a dollar an hour for the time each review required. I'm not a natural writer so I sometimes spent a couple of ho .......
46: Vinyl Asylum, Yes indeed, you young whippersnapper (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-09-10, 04:02:48 (24.147.101.89)
I had a pretty bad crash last year, flipped the sled over at the end of a turn and slammed onto the ice on my right side. Essentially I had a 50 MPH car crash without having the benefit of a car aroun .......
47: Vinyl Asylum, Hi Ken! Welcome back (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-09-08, 16:28:01 (24.147.101.89)
When you get tired of making Neuance shelves, would you consider sharing the "formula" here for DIYers? .......
48: General Asylum, But very few consumers care about that (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-09-08, 03:17:30 (24.147.101.89)
Despite the grand home theaters that the magazines love to feature, how many people world wide actually have a multi channel sound system? SACD had the bad luck to be both unwanted by average consume .......
49: General Asylum, RE: Was there ever a bigger egg laid in audio than this? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-09-07, 14:29:18 (24.147.101.89)
I would nominate SACD. It was the answer to a question consumers weren't asking: "raise your hand if you want a better sounding, more expensive CD." .......
50: General Asylum, RE: Your first Stereo (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-08-24, 11:24:04 (209.119.132.238)
If we don't count my parents' Sears Silvertone console which was the first thing on which I listened to records, the first stereo I owned was a second hand Panasonic RE7670 mini system that I bought f .......
51: Vinyl Asylum, #1: First time I've seen a turntable with an iPod charging dock (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-08-21, 17:25:54 (24.147.101.89)
nt .......
52: General Asylum, RE: Does any one realize its national radio day (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-08-21, 17:22:37 (24.147.101.89)
I'm a little surprised that no one mentioned satellite radio. SiriusXM has over 70 commercial free music channels, plus another 100 talk, news, and sports channels. All if it exempt from FCC bowdleriz .......
53: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Denon dl-103s vs dl-103d (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-08-10, 07:08:42 (209.119.132.238)
Are you looking for new cartridges? The 103D hasn't been available new from Denon for perhaps a decade, and the 103S for even longer. .......
54: General Asylum, That quote makes Hansen sound like a Linn/Naim flat earther (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-08-07, 06:39:54 (209.119.132.238)
nt .......
55: Vinyl Asylum, Stan Ricker has died (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-07-14, 17:43:17 (107.77.70.31)
Super mastering engineer and musician Stan Ricker has died. Stan had an incredible career. He mastered LPs for pretty much every audiophile label, for major labels, and even cut records for obscure pu .......
56: Critic's Corner, There's a notable omission from the downloadable old issues (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-07-04, 09:23:10 (24.147.101.89)
The old Audio Critic issues available for download don't include the one with Aczel's rave review of the Fourier speaker, in which he neglected to tell the readers who paid for his unbiased judgement .......
57: Vinyl Asylum, Sad news (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-07-01, 06:52:51 (209.119.132.238)
Mike was an entertaining writer with a big generous spirit. I met him once, at a Listener party at Art Dudley's house. Mike was the kind of guy who made you feel like you were his best friend even tho .......
58: Critic's Corner, RE: "the fact that Listener folded..." (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-06-12, 05:36:24 (24.147.101.89)
Listener didn't fold, it was killed by its owners. Art sold the magazine to a publishing company that specialized in niche magazines for the very upscale horsey set. After a couple of years, they dec .......
59: Critic's Corner, RE: Stereo Review had a darn good run. (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-05-29, 12:46:54 (209.119.132.238)
I bought A LOT of records solely due to positive reviews by Steve Simels in Stereo Review . 30+ years after reading it, I can still recall Simels' review of Elvis' Sun Sessions LP. Simels wrote that " .......
60: General Asylum, 119.49Mbps down, 12.49Mbps up on Comcast (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-05-11, 16:39:11 (24.147.101.89)
I have Comcast for internet and phone but Dish Network for TV. Dish is cheaper and has HD channels that Comcast doesn't offer in my area. .......
61: General Asylum, RE: RIP Jack Ely. (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-04-29, 05:37:55 (209.119.132.238)
Actually, the lyric is " me gotta go." Many people don't know that the FBI spent 2 1/2 years trying to determine if the lyrics to "Louie Louie" were obscene. The amusing story can be read at the link .......
62: General Asylum, Bob Reina has died (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-03-28, 11:48:15 (73.17.30.87)
Stereophile's Bob Reina has passed away from cancer. In addition to being a fine audio writer and a well - liked nice guy, Bob was a very talented musician. John Atkinson posted on Facebook that the .......
63: Vinyl Asylum, "You just have to use your cleaner to get that stuff off of it" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-03-26, 09:21:56 (209.119.132.238)
You may not be able to. The chemist who created Last told me in a phone conversation that Last chemically bonds with the vinyl. He said it can only be removed with an industrial solvent unavailable to .......
64: General Asylum, RE: Explain Amazon Prime (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-03-22, 17:19:25 (73.17.30.87)
Amazon Prime can be a spectacularly good deal if you buy a heavy item. In 2013 I bought a Panasonic plasma TV from Amazon that weighed about 100 pounds. Since I'm a Prime member, it was shipped for fr .......
65: Vinyl Asylum, Chester Group (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-03-13, 05:24:29 (209.119.132.238)
Chester Group is producing 5 audio shows this year. The Montreal Show is in 2 weeks. .......
66: Rocky Road, No (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-03-12, 06:02:35 (209.119.132.238)
Most of mankind's recorded legacy sounds like crap. The groundbreaking records by Louis Armstrong - the most important and influential musician of the 20th century - have lower fidelity than you could .......
67: General Asylum, RE: Harry Bosch's System - realistic? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-03-05, 14:39:07 (209.119.132.238)
>>a little less toe-in on the Ohms I thought the Walsh driver in Ohm speakers was omnidirectional; wouldn't that make toe - in irrelevant? .......
68: General Asylum, RE: .Question Mark & The Mysterians - 96 Tears (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-02-27, 09:56:07 (209.119.132.238)
? & the Mysterians unexpectedly turned up in New York City in the mid '90s. For a year or so you could go see them in clubs around the city, as if they were just another struggling New York group and .......
69: Critic's Corner, RE: So what? It's called industry accommodation.(nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-02-24, 09:25:00 (209.119.132.238)
No, accommodation refers to buying from the manufacturer at dealer cost. It's also sometimes called a trade discount. Manufacturers sell to each other at dealer cost all the time. A speaker manufactur .......
70: Critic's Corner, "the factory drops by to help out" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-02-22, 16:18:42 (73.17.30.87)
I'm quite sure that "tt guru Mike T" is Michael Trei who writes for Stereophile's sister publication Sound and Vision . Mike is not a Pioneer employee as far as I know. .......
71: General Asylum, Fourteen (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-02-18, 13:47:22 (209.119.132.238)
Stereophile Entertainment Weekly Model Cars Model Railroader Maximum PC National Dragster Car and Driver Railroad Model Craftsman Drag Racing Action New York Times Drag Racer Car Modeler North Shore T .......
72: General Asylum, RE: Slashgear hack can't do basic journalism (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-02-18, 08:07:49 (209.119.132.238)
Why couldn't you use a 3/4 meter cable for ethernet? My point was that the Slashgear writer was an idiot for 1) getting the cable's price wrong, then scribbling a piece complaining about the price, a .......
73: General Asylum, Slashgear hack can't do basic journalism (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-02-13, 07:34:33 (209.119.132.238)
I have no opinion on the merits of the cable, but I do have one on the merits of the linked article: it's an error - riddled piece of crap. It's not asking too much for an article bashing Audioquest f .......
74: General Asylum, RE: RIP Joseph Grado 07/05/1924-02/06/2015 (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-02-06, 09:16:40 (209.119.132.238)
I'm sorry to hear about Mr. Grado's passing. One time in the late '80s when I had a question about a Grado cartridge I had just bought, one of the inexpensive ones that came in a cardboard cylinder. I .......
75: General Asylum, B & O cartridges (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-02-03, 12:08:53 (209.119.132.238)
Cartridges for B & O turntables are still readily available. Peter Ledermann of Soundsmith either licensed or bought the rights to the B & O designs, and now makes a range of moving iron cartridges. : .......
76: Inmate Central, RE: "Where do these viruses come from?" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-01-30, 10:35:07 (209.119.132.238)
If your question is "who creates viruses and why do they do it," take a look at the article from Maximum PC linked below. If you're asking "how did this get on my PC," the answer is that computers usu .......
77: Vinyl Asylum, What he said (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-01-29, 17:59:34 (73.17.30.87)
"Bright" is just about the last of the over 1 million words in the English language that I would apply to the 103. .......
78: Inmate Central, RE: "can't you just send all important documents to an external hard drive?" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-01-29, 09:08:27 (209.119.132.238)
No. The authors of ransomware anticipated that strategy. Typically it searches for all drives connected to the PC, including external and networked drives, and encrypts them all. This could be a catas .......
79: General Asylum, Re: music on electric toothbrushes (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-01-28, 05:19:19 (73.17.30.87)
It's been a reality for a few years. .......
80: General Asylum, Allstate was spun off from Sears in 1993 (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-01-16, 12:11:36 (209.119.132.238)
nt .......
81: Vinyl Asylum, Mana Acoustics has been defunct for at least half a decade (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-01-16, 05:56:48 (209.119.132.238)
I have a Mana level as well as a bunch of their ironwork. The level has an aluminum housing and was said to weigh the same as a typical LP, so it loaded the suspension of an LP-12 (and other sprung ta .......
82: Critic's Corner, All of the reviews are discredited forever by this blunder! (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-01-14, 05:45:45 (209.119.132.238)
Someone hit the "9" key instead of than adjacent "0?" This is one of the worst catastrophes in the world! .......
83: General Asylum, I'm sorry to hear it (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2015-01-02, 08:07:53 (73.17.30.87)
Richard Rives Bird designed a basement listening room for me, for a previous home. The design was very reasonably priced and he couldn't have been easier to work with. I sent him photos of my basement .......
84: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Try Gershwin's own solo piano recording (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-12-29, 11:24:25 (73.17.30.87)
That LP is my favorite version of "Rhapsody." .......
85: General Asylum, "If a storm is coming, I just shut off breakers" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-12-22, 08:55:56 (73.17.30.87)
What happens if the storm arises while you're at work or away from home for any other reason? And you're happy to sit in the dark for hours while the power is off, and then have to go around the house .......
86: Critic's Corner, RE: "There's no such thing as bad publicity." (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-12-21, 20:56:17 (73.17.30.87)
If Stereophile was "too cozy with the manufacturers with 'pedigree'" there never would have been a review in the first place. I think Mr. Kuller has nailed the situation. The speaker is unusually idio .......
87: General Asylum, RE: In wall Cable and surge protection at the meter box (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-12-21, 20:49:06 (73.17.30.87)
I'm a fan of the Environmental Potentials EP-2050 whole house AC noise filter and surge protector. The EP-2050 is the residential version of an industrial device. I've installed them in the last 5 hou .......
88: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Actually, the best MM/HOMC phono section I ever heard was in this . . . (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-12-12, 07:03:11 (209.119.132.238)
Holman followed the Advent receiver with the Apt Holman preamp. It too was renowned for punching above its weight, especially the phono preamp. The Apt also had a unique knob that allowed one to dial .......
89: Vinyl Asylum, Here's a link to the issue (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-12-11, 18:31:27 (75.68.107.226)
An archive of old issues of B.A.S. Speaker can be found on the club's website, bostonaudiosociety.org .......
90: Vinyl Asylum, The best article on analog reproduction you'll read this year ... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-12-10, 17:05:15 (75.68.107.226)
... is from 37 years ago, in the April 1977 issue of the Boston Audio Society's newsletter, the B.A.S. Speaker . On pages 18 to 21 is a summary of a fascinating talk given at a BAS meeting by Mitch Co .......
91: General Asylum, RE: First Egg Nog of the Season (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-11-21, 10:59:21 (209.119.132.238)
In early January I stashed a half - gallon of egg nog ice cream in the back of the freezer compartment in our refrigerator so I could enjoy the flavor of egg nog on my birthday in July. .......
92: General Asylum, Thanks! (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-11-18, 10:05:28 (209.119.132.238)
I think that LP was on the Absolute Sound "Super Disks" list of reference recordings. .......
93: General Asylum, I have to ask ... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-11-17, 20:11:43 (75.68.107.226)
What is that LP with the red cover and what appear to be two scantily clad ladies, prominently displayed on the second shelf? I'm fond of Spaten Optimator. There is a German restaurant in Connecticut .......
94: General Asylum, "J Gordon being the first observational/subjective audio equipment reviewer" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-11-10, 17:57:54 (75.68.107.226)
I'm not sure that Holt deserves that credit. Julian Hirsch was reviewing audio equipment for the Audio League Report while Gordon Holt was still in college. Take a look at the 1956 issue linked below. .......
95: General Asylum, RE: Michael Fremer's HP obituary is superior, I think (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-11-08, 08:45:39 (75.68.107.226)
If you would like another reason to be wary of Valin's writing, do a search of Critic's Corner for "Valin Nordost sold". .......
96: General Asylum, Michael Fremer's HP obituary is superior, I think (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-11-07, 05:25:52 (209.119.132.238)
MF's reminiscence of Pearson is less of a hagiography than Valin's, and is more honest about HP's personality. Pearson seems to have been a more complex character than most men, and Fremer captures th .......
97: Vinyl Asylum, RE: “the trammel beam … does not intersect the platter spindle” (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-11-04, 07:42:30 (209.119.132.238)
The beam shouldn't intersect the spindle. Take a look at Figure 1 in Frank Dennesen's patent, linked below. .......
98: Vinyl Asylum, The "Par - Dee Records" sleeve is wonderful (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-10-29, 02:48:01 (75.68.107.226)
Google reveals that Par - Dee released a series of "blue" (i.e., adults only) party records by someone named Reta Rey. .......
99: General Asylum, RE: Stairway to Gilligan's Island (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-10-24, 05:24:16 (209.119.132.238)
As amusing as "Stairway To Gilligan's Island" was, what came afterward was ugly. Led Zeppelin's thug manager Peter Grant was reported to have had the members of Little Roger and the Goosebumps hunted .......
100: General Asylum, "of all the speakers known to me none equals the Linkwitz Lab LX521" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-10-16, 08:30:54 (209.119.132.238)
Is Aczel saying it's even better than the Fourier? .......
101: Vinyl Asylum, Some photos of a cartridge manufacturing facility (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-10-10, 11:27:08 (209.119.132.238)
The Connecticut Audio Society visited Peter Ledermann's Soundsmith company five years ago. I posted a report on the event with some photos; see the link below. Namiki Precision Jewel Company in Tokyo .......
102: Critic's Corner, I think you're right (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-10-10, 05:35:47 (209.119.132.238)
My copies of Listener are in a box in the basement so I can't easily double - check you, but that sounds like the review I remembered. Listener was blessed with a number of truly gifted writers. ::: .......
103: Critic's Corner, RE: Not as clever as he thinks he is (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-10-09, 08:51:18 (209.119.132.238)
As a former reviewer I can certainly understand the impulse to play around with the form. Just before Listener's owner killed the magazine, I told Art Dudley about a wacky idea I had for a review. Whe .......
104: Vinyl Asylum, Mana (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-10-09, 05:49:19 (209.119.132.238)
It's nice to see someone else who has Mana shelving. I've got two piles of their ironmongery. As much as I like the racks, I was always annoyed by John Watson's willful unhelpfulness. Getting the nuts .......
105: Critic's Corner, Not as clever as he thinks he is (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-10-09, 05:33:49 (209.119.132.238)
Merod may have amused himself by writing an audio review in a parody of James Joyce's style, but it's clear from the opinions here that the piece is an utter failure at its real purpose. ::: TOPIC:: .......
106: Vinyl Asylum, RE: C'mon, not better than the Beatles (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-10-02, 18:31:29 (75.68.107.226)
A few months ago, PBS' "Great Performances" series aired a documentary about the DC5 called "Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over" or something close to that. I'm sure it will eventually be repeated. It wa .......
107: Vinyl Asylum, VPI had the best sound at the show (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-09-27, 19:08:07 (75.68.107.226)
I thought VPI had the best sounding system at the show. The 40 year old Tannoy Guy R. Fountain Memory speakers were spectacular: effortlessly dynamic, a huge lifelike sound with powerful bass, warm an .......
108: Vinyl Asylum, Photo of VPI 299D amp (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-09-27, 18:52:07 (75.68.107.226)
It certainly didn't appear to be a cleaned up 50 year old receiver. .......
109: Vinyl Asylum, $1800 for the complete arm (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-09-27, 18:41:09 (75.68.107.226)
That number came straight from Matt himself. .......
110: Vinyl Asylum, RE: $3,500 is for table & 3D arm with VTA tower! (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-09-27, 18:37:56 (75.68.107.226)
I heard that VPI bought their own 3D printer that can make six arm wands at a time. Perhaps they had a subcontractor making the earlier wands. Matt Weisfeld told me that the complete arm used on the P .......
111: General Asylum, Me too, on Friday (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-09-24, 10:19:19 (75.68.107.226)
nt .......
112: Vinyl Asylum, RE: "its stout low compliance" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-09-23, 05:30:51 (209.119.132.238)
Take a closer look at Denon's compliance spec for the 103: it is dynamic compliance measured at 100Hz, not the static compliance that's used in the arm / cartridge resonance formula (and the resonance .......
113: General Asylum, RE: Why bitch about free music! You do not have to listen to it. nt (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-09-23, 05:15:54 (209.119.132.238)
The issue was that the album (or, more accurately, a placeholder for it) showed up unexpectedly in the music library on every IOS user's device. My teenage daughter and her friends freaked out when th .......
114: Vinyl Asylum, It's $300 from BooksAMillion.com (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-09-14, 11:18:56 (75.68.107.226)
nt .......
115: General Asylum, RE: I'm giving props to Lady Gaga... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-09-10, 07:15:31 (209.119.132.238)
Much more important that Gaga's use of Autotune is her refusal to lip sync to recorded tracks in live performances. She was quite vehement about it in her first interview with Howard Stern from a coup .......
116: Vinyl Asylum, RE:"why do the standard bios give him the credit?" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-09-06, 05:35:15 (75.68.107.226)
Lazy writers who don't bother to do any real research, I suppose. There's no question that both 33 1/3 RPM records and vinyl records existed before Columbia's LP. Goldmark's innovation was the microgr .......
117: Vinyl Asylum, Goldmark wasn't the inventor of the 33 1/3 RPM record (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-09-05, 10:12:25 (75.68.107.226)
Other companies had used 33.3 RPM (and 12" disks and vinyl too, for that matter) before Columbia introduced the LP. Dr. Peter Goldmark is usually credited as the inventor of the microgroove technology .......
118: General Asylum, A dedicated line won't do anything for surges (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-08-19, 08:53:49 (209.119.132.238)
It's just another AC circuit in your home, not magic. With all the electronics in contemporary homes, anyone who doesn't have comprehensive surge protection is a fool. .......
119: General Asylum, Environmental Potentials 2050 (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-08-15, 06:37:39 (209.119.132.238)
The manufacturer is Environmental Potentials , not Protection. I've had the devices installed on the last several homes I've owned (my job and my wife's have caused us to move frequently) and swear by .......
120: Vinyl Asylum, RE: I miss Garth Philippe! (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-08-04, 18:59:06 (75.68.107.226)
I never met him nor did I ever speak to him, but we exchanged a lot of emails. It was Garth who turned me on to the DL-103. He was such a fan of that cartridge that he approached Denon about buying th .......
121: Critic's Corner, Latency (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-08-01, 09:08:27 (209.119.132.238)
I had never heard that there is latency in human vision or hearing. That news is definitely today's "Wow!" moment and sent me to Google to research it. Thanks for sharing! .......
122: Vinyl Asylum, Watts Parostatik Disk Preener (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-07-22, 10:40:24 (209.119.132.238)
The granddaddy of all record cleaners might have been the Watts Parostatik Disk Preener, which dates to the 1960s I think. It was a velvet cylinder with a foam core that one moistened with water. The .......
123: General Asylum, 5th recommendation of Ikea Poang chair (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-07-20, 13:07:22 (75.68.107.226)
Red is nice too. The shelves along the wall are Ikea Billy shelves arranged so that, if you could view them from above, they would look like a saw blade. Putting them on an angle was Richard Rives Bir .......
124: General Asylum, RE: Cotter base (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-07-08, 11:20:07 (209.119.132.238)
As I recall, the Cotter base was made specifically for the Technics SP10 turntable and wasn't usable with other turntables. It was an entire base and plinth into which one placed the SP10 motor unit. .......
125: Vinyl Asylum, Very well done (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-07-08, 09:46:42 (209.119.132.238)
Congratulations on a well done review. And on owning a Black Widow, still one of the all time coolest tonearms, despite its idiosyncrasies. .......
126: General Asylum, It's still around (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-07-08, 09:40:03 (209.119.132.238)
The ELP laser turntable is still around; see the link below. It never caught on with audiophiles, perhaps because no review ever said that the laser turntable sounded superior to similarly priced trad .......
127: General Asylum, Right now: 95.11Mbs down, 11Mbs up (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-07-07, 15:15:45 (75.68.107.226)
It varies during the day depending on what others in the neighborhood are doing. It's slower in the evening when the Netflix streams are flowing. I've seen over 100Mbs download speed during the daytim .......
128: Vinyl Asylum, "some radio programs would be cool to hear" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-06-25, 11:04:10 (209.119.132.238)
Take a look at the link below to archive.org where you can download the complete CBS radio broadcast day from June 6, 1944. Of course that was D - Day. For a history enthusiast, it's completely grippi .......
129: Vinyl Asylum, Jack White's "Lazaretto" debuts at #1 and sets LP sales record (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-06-23, 17:07:39 (75.68.107.226)
According to USA Today , "Lazaretto" sold more copies on vinyl in a single week than any other LP since Billboard started tracking sales with SoundScan in 1991. .......
130: General Asylum, It's not the "world's first stereo record" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-06-22, 17:29:43 (75.68.107.226)
Bell Labs made stereo recordings of Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra that predate the alleged "world's first stereo record" by a quarter - century. You can hear some of them at the lin .......
131: Critic's Corner, RE: " how the hell can someone connected with a manufacturer send you a faulty sample?" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-06-18, 07:47:39 (209.119.132.238)
That's a good question. The worst example I encountered when I wrote for Listener was a Roksan turntable. The arm mount was machined so poorly that the arm couldn't pivot in a plane parallel to the re .......
132: General Asylum, RE: Stylus/Cantilever Protractor (IDK) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-06-11, 16:24:27 (75.68.107.226)
To get the best sound from your turntable, it's very important to get the cartridge(and thus the stylus) aligned correctly. The math for this was worked out before World War 2. There is a huge amount .......
133: General Asylum, RE: My friend was the original bassist for TIna Peel ... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-06-09, 07:04:01 (209.119.132.238)
I never met him, as far as I can recall. I started working with Tina Peel after they had relocated to New York from Harrisburg. Oddly, Mr. Magill's replacement was also from Harrisburg, one Jim Gordon .......
134: General Asylum, Thanks (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-06-06, 06:30:46 (209.119.132.238)
A few years ago, Rudi Protrudi of The Fuzztones put out a CD of the Janitors' New York recording session. Rudi "borrowed" an earlier version of my Asylum post for the CD's liner notes. He also took it .......
135: Critic's Corner, How about ATM SCM7 vs KEF LS50 vs GoldenEar Triton 7? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-06-03, 11:00:48 (209.119.132.238)
Two minis and a smallish floorstander in the same price range. .......
136: General Asylum, RE: The best and worst concert (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-06-02, 18:28:09 (75.68.107.226)
The best concert I ever attended was by a band you never heard of, The "Punk Rock Janitors" from Harrisburg, PA. It was a Monday "audition night" (i.e., play for free) gig at CBGB in New York in '79 o .......
137: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Help on using UNI-Protractor (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-05-29, 05:46:42 (209.119.132.238)
That's an impressive tool. May I ask what it costs? I looked through the manual and was flummoxed by this line: "Now take the magnifier from it’s etui..." Etui? That sent me to Google where I learned .......
138: Vinyl Asylum, "The sub-woofers are just reproducing sound below 50HZ" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-05-29, 05:29:34 (209.119.132.238)
Do you have some sort of crossover that completely cuts off the signal at 51Hz and above? Unless you do, your sub is reproducing frequencies above 50Hz, even though those frequencies may be very reduc .......
139: General Asylum, Paul Frees, not Fries (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-05-08, 10:40:36 (209.119.132.238)
Frees had an amazing career. If you watched movies, cartoons, or TV during the '50s through the early '80s, you heard him. A lot. .......
140: General Asylum, I forgot Clifton Fadiman (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-05-08, 05:24:39 (209.119.132.238)
The literary critic for the New Yorker and host of "Information Please," the wittiest and most erudite game show ever. Fadiman had fantastic elocution and a distinctive voice. .......
141: General Asylum, 3,140 Americans who have heard of Naim (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-05-08, 05:16:55 (209.119.132.238)
Bentley customers in the United States. .......
142: General Asylum, RE: No (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-05-08, 05:07:33 (209.119.132.238)
I moved last summer and don't have a room to set up my "big rig." Right now I'm using just my old Nait 3 in my office. .......
143: General Asylum, RE: Excellent male "speaking" voices, IYO (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-05-07, 10:44:08 (209.119.132.238)
There were dozens if not hundreds of great male voices in the golden age of radio shows: Orson Welles, William Conrad, John Dehner, Lamont Johnson, Don Wilson, Harlow Wilcox, Santos Ortega, and many m .......
144: General Asylum, No (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-05-07, 09:34:15 (209.119.132.238)
Naim won't be "easily replaced" if the firm's new owners mismanage it. Whether or not you agreed with founder Julian Vereker's philosophy on audio design and hi fi, the point is that he had one and Na .......
145: General Asylum, That was a hugely influential song (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-05-02, 06:23:07 (209.119.132.238)
"The Message" sounds crude today but at the time it was a hugely influential song. Before "The Message," rap was nothing but boasting about inconsequential subjects such as partying and the rapper's p .......
146: Vinyl Asylum, RE: The Record Changer cover!?! (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-04-10, 10:10:59 (75.68.107.226)
The cover was drawn by Gene Deitch who later won the Academy Award for best short animated film in 1961. I suspect he added the turkey because it's the November issue of the magazine. Americans celebr .......
147: General Asylum, RE: "So that precludes another Russian fellow..." (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-03-25, 17:10:22 (75.68.107.226)
That poltroon has owed me an apology for over a decade for claiming on Outside that I was rooting for the death of US Marines during the invasion of Iraq. My father was a Marine who risked his life fo .......
148: General Asylum, RE: "the right to call us all a bunch of wankers" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-03-25, 07:27:18 (209.119.132.238)
Sorry, but that's ridiculous. Romy didn't bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union, and even if he did no one has a right to be an abusive, insulting, pompous, ill - mannered asshole on a hobbyist .......
149: General Asylum, RE: "I would describe Romy as a very knowledgeable audio hobbyist/music lover" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-03-24, 17:53:33 (75.68.107.226)
I would describe Romy as a pathological narcissist. His AA posts were nothing but rants about how everyone who worked in the audio business or wrote about hi - fi were inferior morons, alternating wit .......
150: General Asylum, You can buy the stamp from USPS.com (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-03-14, 10:22:33 (209.119.132.238)
A sheet of 16 is $7.84. Buy as many as you want - they're "forever stamps" so they'll always be good for first class postage at whatever the current rate is. .......
151: Vinyl Asylum, A new Pioneer turntable? Maybe (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-03-13, 12:19:09 (75.68.107.226)
Pioneer showed a prototype of a new DJ turntable at the MusikMesse2014 music industry trade show in Frankfort today. .......
152: General Asylum, "Pono" is an incredibly stupid name for this thing (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-03-10, 09:10:53 (209.119.132.238)
99% of the people who hear the name will think it's "Porno." I can't imagine why Neil and his backers think "pono" is a great name. .......
153: Vinyl Asylum, RE: base model denon 103 (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-01-24, 08:30:30 (209.119.132.238)
There's a reason the humble DL-103 has been in continuous production for half a century: it's the single greatest "bang for the buck" component in the history of audio. The 103's high frequencies aren .......
154: General Asylum, The John E I remember was ... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-01-17, 04:25:26 (75.68.107.226)
... a completely repugnant a$$hole who had nothing of value to contribute on the subject of audio. His nadir was when he mocked a well - known audio industry figure's cancer scare and subsequent job l .......
155: Vinyl Asylum, Turn - key under $200 (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2014-01-13, 07:31:18 (209.119.132.238)
Take a look at the new Orbit turntables, made in the US and starting at under $200. Reviews have been positive. .......
156: General Asylum, The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records 1917-32 Vol. 1 box set (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-12-26, 15:25:25 (75.68.107.226)
Also known as the Wonder Box, from Jack White's Third Man label. Actually, the term "box set" doesn't really do it justice. It's not just a box with some records, it's a magnificently presented objet .......
157: Vinyl Asylum, The Paramount Wonder Cabinet box set (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-12-25, 15:55:17 (75.68.107.226)
It's an incredible package, such a special thing that you feel compelled to handle it gently like a delicate antique. It even smells nice! .......
158: General Asylum, "Pink Triangle" wasn't meant to be funny (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-12-18, 08:36:10 (75.68.107.226)
See link below for the origin of the name. The founders of the company were two gay men. .......
159: General Asylum, Try Etymotic Research's ETY plugs (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-12-10, 09:29:10 (209.119.132.238)
They have much more balanced attenuation than common foam ear plugs. They're $13 a pair. Etymotic also makes an electronic ear plug that automatically adjusts attenuation as the sound level changes. .......
160: General Asylum, "I absolutely loathe the long waiting times to get a PC to Boot Up" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-12-04, 10:31:37 (209.119.132.238)
Put Windows and your applications on a solid state drive and all your data on a disc drive. That alone will dramatically speed up your PC's boot time. Then you can further improve boot time by reducin .......
161: Critic's Corner, Read his reviews at the link (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-11-11, 15:42:22 (75.68.107.226)
NT .......
162: Critic's Corner, "That assumes he could actually hear differences between components" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-11-11, 14:36:22 (75.68.107.226)
Everybody here still bashing poor long - dead Julian Hirsch really doesn't know sh*t about the man's career. Hirsch was reviewing audio equipment for the Audio League Report while Gordon Holt was stil .......
163: Vinyl Asylum, An interesting new turntable (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-11-10, 13:02:03 (75.68.107.226)
It plays and cuts records! .......
164: General Asylum, Get a copy of the book "From Tin Foil To Stereo" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-11-03, 15:45:19 (75.68.107.226)
Written by Oliver Read and Walter Welch. It's a history of the phonograph and the companies associated with it, in staggering detail, up to the late '70s (there may be a later edition). It's the close .......
165: General Asylum, The term "high fidelity" has been around since late 1920s (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-11-03, 15:39:02 (75.68.107.226)
It was coined by English speaker designer H.A. Hartley I believe. .......
166: General Asylum, Westfield Whip Manufacturing Company (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-11-01, 05:55:52 (209.119.132.238)
Still in business in Massachusetts, and 129 years old. .......
167: Critic's Corner, RE: 634 (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-10-30, 09:18:42 (209.119.132.238)
Nice obscure IAR reference, JA! .......
168: General Asylum, Why don't you ask Mr. Hansen himself? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-09-26, 18:40:41 (75.68.107.226)
Call Ayre and ask to speak to him, or email him directly with your questions. .......
169: General Asylum, RE: Offsite back up is cheap... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-09-25, 15:04:59 (75.68.107.226)
Besides theft or failure of your back up drives, another reason for having both a local and off - site or cloud backup is in case something happens to your house and wrecks both your PC and the backup .......
170: General Asylum, One more tip (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-09-25, 05:33:40 (209.119.132.238)
If you plan to clone your existing hard drive to an SSD, the easiest way to do it is to use a USB to SATA adapter cable. Plug the USB end of the cable into your PC and the SATA end into the SSD, then .......
171: Vinyl Asylum, The cactus needle cantilever has nothing to do with being "green" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-09-24, 09:11:46 (209.119.132.238)
I had a long talk with the ever affable Peter Ledermann about the cartridge at the NY Audio Show In April of last year. He said that cactus needles have a number of advantages over the materials commo .......
172: General Asylum, RE: BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-09-24, 06:40:17 (209.119.132.238)
I don't have any experience with Corsair's solid state drives. Their 240GB Neutron SSD got a good review in Maximum PC a few months ago. I had two Crucial SSDs die on me, so that company and its produ .......
173: General Asylum, RE: BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-09-22, 13:56:45 (75.68.107.226)
After suffering a data loss on an un - backed up PC some years ago I've become quite paranoid about backing up all of my family's computers. I use Mozy.com for cloud backups and am very happy with the .......
174: General Asylum, For '20s - '30s jazz and pop, try Radio Dismuke (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-09-19, 18:22:23 (75.68.107.226)
You can find it at radiodismuke.com or on iTunes radio. For '30s and '40s jazz and swing, KCEA's web stream is great, as is Radio Swing. You can find the latter at bopradio.com .......
175: Critic's Corner, Re: "heavily influenced and inspired by the Tubes" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-09-19, 09:31:38 (209.119.132.238)
The Dolls, Stooges, VU, and MC5 unquestionably were influences on the first wave of British punk bands, but I don't think The Tubes were at all. I've never seen that band mentioned in interviews with .......
176: Critic's Corner, Re: "an offshoot of grunge" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-09-18, 08:04:40 (209.119.132.238)
Black Flag's great album Damaged predates grunge by almost a decade; it came out in 1981 when Kurt Cobain was all of 14 years old. Grunge was an early to mid 90s thing. Black Flag, The Dead Kennedys, .......
177: Vinyl Asylum, That Mick Ronson LP is great (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-09-17, 09:55:40 (209.119.132.238)
Ronson died relatively young and was under - appreciated when he was alive. The 78s are wonderful. I would listen to anything by a group with a name like "Pappy, Zeke, Ezra, and Elton." .......
178: Vinyl Asylum, RE: The best cover of "Stairway to Heaven" I've heard... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-09-04, 09:06:52 (209.119.132.238)
As amusing as "Stairway To Gilligan's Island" was, what came afterward was ugly. Led Zeppelin's manager Peter Grant was reported to have not only sued Little Roger and the Goosebumps, forcing the dest .......
179: General Asylum, SiriusXM satellite radio for me (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-08-29, 17:18:10 (75.68.107.226)
I haven't listened to even a second of terrestrial radio in my car in at least six years. Satellite radio can be heard all across the US without interruption, the dozens and dozens and dozens of music .......
180: General Asylum, "the whole problem was Sony dumped SACD" - no, that wasn't the problem (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-08-28, 05:11:10 (209.119.132.238)
The problem with SACD was that it was a product with no market. The general public either knew nothing about SACD or, if they were in the minority who had heard of it, didn't give a sh!t about it. The .......
181: Inmate Central, RE: Where's Willard Scott? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-08-23, 05:13:52 (209.119.132.238)
Willard has a summer house in Guilford, Connecticut, where I used to live, and he owns a breakfast restaurant there. It's not uncommon to see him around town in his vintage red Mercedes convertible. M .......
182: Inmate Central, RE: Recommend earplugs that are confortable (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-08-23, 05:08:57 (209.119.132.238)
As others have suggested, inexpensive foam ear plugs available at drug stores and hardware stores work well. I wear them when running the lawn mower and when spectating at the drag strip. You compress .......
183: Inmate Central, RE: Vudu HDX streaming is 1080P... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-08-22, 12:32:19 (209.119.132.238)
Netflix is probably not in any hurry to increase their streaming picture quality because the company's downloads already account for an incredible 1/3 of the internet traffic in the United States each .......
184: Inmate Central, What he said (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-08-21, 09:15:30 (209.119.132.238)
Redbox is useless to me. My Netflix queue is full of silent movies, films noirs, '50s sci - fi, and action movies from Hong Kong and Korea. .......
185: General Asylum, Why don't you just call MIT and ask them? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-08-21, 09:07:38 (209.119.132.238)
916-625-0129 .......
186: Vinyl Asylum, What 250K unorganized records look like (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-08-11, 09:31:10 (75.68.107.226)
Link below to some incredible pictures of a hoarder's house containing 250,000 records. .......
187: Critic's Corner, The past is always cooler than the present (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-08-08, 10:29:30 (209.119.132.238)
I sometimes wish I'd been born earlier too. I'd loved to have been a teenager in Southern California in the early '60s, when three guys pooling their gas station attendant salaries could field a top f .......
188: Critic's Corner, One more (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-08-06, 09:24:04 (66.162.9.208)
It's probably impossible to find in the US, but there was a short lived British magazine in the late '80s called Audiophile . It lasted a year or two as I recall. I have one or two issues in a box som .......
189: Critic's Corner, One more '90s audio magazine that might interest you ... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-08-06, 07:41:46 (66.162.9.208)
... was Audio Adventure , published by former TAS writer Tom Miiller. Audio Adventure lasted two or three years. I don't recall if it was a monthly or quarterly magazine. AA distinguished itself with .......
190: Vinyl Asylum, RE: "New York City taxpayers actually pay for this incompetence?!" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-08-01, 11:16:19 (209.119.132.238)
No, NYC taxpayers didn't pay anything for the records that will be sold. From the press release: "The records represent decades of unsolicited donations , for which we already have at least one copy i .......
191: Vinyl Asylum, Thanks (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-08-01, 04:42:07 (209.119.132.238)
The other link worked when I posted it. NYPL must have changed their web site last night. .......
192: Vinyl Asylum, NYC library to sell 20,000 LPs next week (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-07-31, 19:57:44 (75.68.107.226)
The Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will be selling 20,000 LPs on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of next week. Details at the .......
193: Critic's Corner, RE: Hi Fi Heretic? What did I miss? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-07-31, 05:25:16 (209.119.132.238)
A fellow named Kent Bransford started Hi Fi Heretic in the late '80s. It was supposed to be a quarterly magazine, although it never quite made that schedule, and lasted for maybe 4 years. Despite its .......
194: Critic's Corner, RE: "He's a long-time friend of Art Dudley " (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-07-30, 10:00:15 (209.119.132.238)
I met Art when I dated his sister almost three decades ago. At that time Art was managing editor of Absolute Sound . My relationship with Art's sister didn't last long but Art and I have stayed friend .......
195: Vinyl Asylum, RE: I'm no musicologist, but (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-06-14, 08:03:31 (98.229.154.137)
Rock 'n' roll came out of a much more complex stew of music than just R & B and country. Western Swing was just one of many influences on early rock 'n' roll, as were pop, jazz, swing, blues, jump blu .......
196: Critic's Corner, I don't think you want to see Stereophile's writers in swimsuits (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-06-14, 07:03:17 (98.229.154.137)
Unless you have a particular interest in portly middle - aged men. .......
197: General Asylum, RE: Another Ikea Media Storage Success (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-05-09, 10:56:42 (98.229.154.137)
Here's a wall of Ikea "Billy" shelving, from a listening room I had in a previous home. The room was designed by Richard Rives Bird of Rives Acoustics. It was his idea to arrange the shelves at an .......
198: Rocky Road, RE: The Jam (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-04-04, 08:02:48 (98.229.154.137)
I saw the Jam on their first US tour, at CBGB in NYC in October '77. They were a fantastic live act, very high energy. Here's a pretty good live recording of the band from that tour: ::: TOPIC: .......
199: Vinyl Asylum, RE: A.C.O.T.D. - The "W" section (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-03-13, 13:42:05 (98.229.154.137)
Wreckless Eric's eponymous first LP was a Top 50 album in the UK. He's married to singer - songwriter Amy Rigby. .......
200: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Golly ! i love The Ventures.. Playing The Colorful Ventures right now.. (blue dolpin label mono) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-03-11, 08:57:57 (98.229.154.137)
One of the best concerts I ever saw was The Ventures at the old Lonestar country music bar in New York in the early 1980s. I stood maybe 5 feet from the stage. After the show the band hung out in t .......
201: Vinyl Asylum, "The Stripper and other fun songs for the family" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-02-18, 12:20:01 (98.229.154.137)
That's a mind boggling cover. On what planet would that LP be considered a family record? I can imagine the conversation: "Fred, why is there a record with a picture of a stripper in with the Shari Le .......
202: Critic's Corner, Thank you (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-02-17, 15:35:37 (98.229.154.137)
Kevin and I were so accustomed to Rudi's moods that we had a shorthand code for referring to him. If Kevin said, "Rudi called me about his amp," I knew that Kevin had been dealing with the obnoxious c .......
203: Critic's Corner, RE: Fuzztones (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-02-17, 13:26:20 (98.229.154.137)
I haven't communicated with Rudi Protrudi in ten years. That last occasion, an email exchange, was exceedingly unpleasant. I got in touch with Rudi to tell him that our friend Kevin had died of brain .......
204: Critic's Corner, Don't forget the digital delay on the mastering lathe (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-02-16, 06:24:20 (98.229.154.137)
According to Fremer and others, most contemporary mastering lathes use a digital delay. The input signal is split, with one half going into the groove spacing computer. The other half goes into a digi .......
205: Rocky Road, Long before Link (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-01-23, 03:29:28 (98.229.154.137)
Western swing and country guitarists were using distorted guitar tones in the early to mid - 40s. Check out Bob Wills' great guitarist Junior Barnard on "Fat Boy Rag" for example. Sister Rosetta Tharp .......
206: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Not for the religious.... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-01-19, 07:45:23 (98.229.154.137)
A now - deceased friend of mine worked as a roadie and guitar technician on a couple of King Diamond's tours in the '90s. He had great stories about trying to find black dinner taper candles in Idaho .......
207: General Asylum, Look under "sponsor forums" on AA's home page (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-01-17, 11:14:16 (98.229.154.137)
nt .......
208: General Asylum, You should also post your question on Audio Asylum's Room Acoustics forum (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-01-17, 04:18:22 (98.229.154.137)
nt .......
209: General Asylum, RE: I need some help with soundproofing my new man cave (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-01-16, 09:22:20 (98.229.154.137)
My basement listening room in a previous residence was similar to yours, with two sides facing outside walls and two sides facing into spaces used by the rest of the family. The latter two walls we .......
210: Critic's Corner, RE: Boy are you right about... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-01-15, 17:21:43 (98.229.154.137)
That site had what seemed to be about half the song, and it was interrupted by a noise about every 30 seconds, but I heard enough to form an opinion about it. Interesting idea for a cover but it's a l .......
211: Critic's Corner, Robert Quine (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-01-15, 06:04:56 (98.229.154.137)
The late Robert Quine was lead guitarist in the Void-Oids. Lester Bangs once wrote that one of Quine's solo albums was one of the ten best guitar records ever. If you search YouTube for "Blank Generat .......
212: Critic's Corner, OK, so it did happen somewhere (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-01-14, 13:18:01 (98.229.154.137)
I suspect the events you saw on TV were staged for the benefit of a clueless reporter by a bunch of kids who were laughing at him or her. Or maybe not. The initial wave of punks were mostly misfit sma .......
213: Critic's Corner, Where did that happen? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2013-01-14, 08:03:00 (98.229.154.137)
I was pretty involved with the punk scene in New York in the late '70s (a close friend was co - owner of Punk magazine, I was roadie / sound engineer for punk bands, and I was at Max's Kansas City or .......
214: General Asylum, Ortofon 2M Blue cartridge (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-12-25, 21:54:33 (98.229.154.137)
Present circumstances dictate that the stereo has to share my home office. Since I don't have room for piles of Naim separates I'm using a Nait integrated amp. The Ortofon 2M Blue should be a good mat .......
215: Vinyl Asylum, Annette Hanshaw (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-12-22, 07:55:17 (98.229.154.137)
That's a great score. Annette Hanshaw is my favorite female singer of the 1920s. I have half a dozen CD compilations of her stuff. She was wonderfully expressive - her version of "My Future Just Passe .......
216: Vinyl Asylum, "An all-analog turntable for today's vinyl listener" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-12-17, 13:06:09 (98.229.154.137)
Finally, a replacement for my digital turntable! .......
217: Vinyl Asylum, And what's in those rectangular sleeves he's holding? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-12-13, 05:37:55 (98.229.154.137)
Elliptical records? .......
218: Critic's Corner, RE: Your mention of copy editing was inspirational, your lordship. (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-12-04, 12:18:52 (98.229.154.137)
"if anyone has has the copy editing job function" .......
219: Vinyl Asylum, Right, the 103D has been out of production for almost 10 years (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-11-28, 04:08:21 (98.229.154.137)
nt .......
220: Vinyl Asylum, "trying to remake himself as a Common Man's Reviewer" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-11-10, 17:49:44 (98.229.154.137)
I guess you are unfamiliar with all the reviews that Art (and others) wrote in Listener , Art's own magazine. Reviewing lower priced and vintage equipment is most definitely nothing new for him. ::: .......
221: Vinyl Asylum, "getting your prized possessions washed by a gorgeous young nurse" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-11-07, 05:51:41 (98.229.154.137)
She cleaned your records? .......
222: Vinyl Asylum, One more (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-11-01, 05:18:41 (70.192.3.177)
This one is special to me since I'm included in the "thanks" list on the back. I was roadie and live sound engineer for these guys for years. .......
223: Video Asylum, RE: Dish Network & AMC (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-10-26, 10:35:54 (98.229.154.137)
The real issue seemed to be an arcane, long - running lawsuit between Dish and AMC's former owner over a long defunct cable channel called Voom. The suit sought damages from Dish of a couple of billio .......
224: Critic's Corner, Me too (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-10-25, 06:20:06 (98.229.154.137)
I grew up listening to music on a transistor radio and my parents' Sears console system. When I got to college in 1973, my roommate had a small component system consisting of a Panasonic receiver, Gar .......
225: Critic's Corner, RE: What I found wrong with putting the Traveler on the cover... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-10-18, 06:57:35 (98.229.154.137)
I agree. The Traveler is an important product for both VPI and high end audio in general. Fremer should have been given the assignment. .......
226: General Asylum, IE10? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-10-12, 05:38:56 (98.229.154.137)
The general release of Internet Explorer 10 only runs on Windows 8. There may be a version for Windows 7 at some point but MS won't say when, and it simply won't ever run on Vista or XP. One huge pr .......
227: Vinyl Asylum, RE: What cleaning solution will clean 'Last' ? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-10-11, 09:00:14 (98.229.154.137)
Back in the early 1980s I called the Last company and was, to my great surprise, put through to the chemist who had created the stuff. I asked him what could remove Last and he said that for all pract .......
228: Vinyl Asylum, "His holier-than-thou attitude" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-10-10, 10:15:40 (98.229.154.137)
Have you ever met, or corresponded with, Mr. Fremer? In the real world he's exactly the opposite of what you've imagined him to be. .......
229: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Record collectors and fans of the Cramps will appreciate this. . . (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-10-10, 05:21:20 (98.229.154.137)
I've got most of those Lux and Ivy Favorites compilations and they're all great music. Yes, the sound isn't what one would call reference quality - after all they're MP3s of home recordings of obscure .......
230: General Asylum, RE: Who can speak about the domestic Chinese audio market? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-10-08, 04:18:43 (98.229.154.137)
If you want some idea of what the audio scene looked like in China as of 2007, take a look at my AA photo gallery. I have a bunch of pictures that I took at the immense Haiyin Electronic Market in Gua .......
231: Video Asylum, Dish Network giving away free Roku boxes (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-10-02, 08:40:13 (98.229.154.137)
With the third season of Walking Dead about to start on AMC and the Dish - AMC dispute not showing any signs of resolution, Dish is giving away free Roku XD boxes to disgruntled customers who threaten .......
232: General Asylum, RE: Car Audio 2012 Mustang (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-10-01, 10:17:49 (98.229.154.137)
>>Vista Ultimate 64 bit/e5300 Intel 45nm cpu You're still using Vista in 2012? Jeez, before you spend money on car audio you should buy a new CPU and an OS that the manufacturer still supports. ::: TO .......
233: Vinyl Asylum, New LP comes with free turntable (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-09-27, 06:54:22 (98.229.154.137)
The new album 12 Bit Blues by electronic musician Kid Koala comes with a little cardboard turntable you can assemble to play a one song flexidisc that's included with the LP. Very cool. .......
234: Critic's Corner, RE: I suspect there were... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-09-27, 06:29:58 (98.229.154.137)
I think a lot of the crap that Enid got from audiophiles was just insecure men - children outraged that a woman might have more acute perception than they did. This is an overwhelmingly male hobby, th .......
235: General Asylum, Doesn't matter. The point is ... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-09-26, 16:49:09 (98.229.154.137)
... that Gordon Holt didn't invent subjective reviewing as many audiophiles believe. .......
236: Critic's Corner, RE: Journalism Degree (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-09-26, 07:01:43 (98.229.154.137)
I'd go further and say that a journalism degree is not a requirement for writing reviews of anything. Look at the most important and influential critics in other fields, writers such as Roger Ebert (f .......
237: General Asylum, No, he wasn't (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-09-26, 04:30:15 (98.229.154.137)
Julian Hirsch was reviewing audio equipment for the Audio League Report while Gordon Holt was still in college. Take a look at the 1956 issue linked below. While the reviews are mostly measurements, t .......
238: Critic's Corner, 1. Good writing, 2. Good writing, 3. Good writing (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-09-25, 05:29:41 (98.229.154.137)
Audio magazines aren't peer - reviewed scientific journals, they're entertainment for hobbyists. Thus the first requirement for an audio writer is to be able to write in an entertaining and knowledgea .......
239: General Asylum, RE: well, how about this then? The Bryston BDP-1 (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-09-25, 05:07:33 (98.229.154.137)
The photos on Bryston's web site show an ethernet jack on the back panel of the unit, but there doesn't seem to be any mention of it in the manual. You might give Bryston a call and ask them about it. .......
240: General Asylum, RE: Audio Note's Peter Qvortrup has an interesting take (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-09-21, 08:30:10 (98.229.154.137)
I'd go even further and suggest using some music from a genre that you don't care for. If you're a 100% classical listener and the system you're auditioning can make Taylor Swift pleasurable, or at le .......
241: Vinyl Asylum, RE: I've owned six Regas over the years and I've learned one thing. (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-09-20, 10:10:18 (98.229.154.137)
Find a small machine shop in your town, take your Scout platter there, and ask them what they'd charge to copy it in aluminum or brass or whatever you like. I bet you'll be surprised at how little it .......
242: General Asylum, Or switch to Google Chrome (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-09-20, 06:33:19 (98.229.154.137)
Safer because it uses sandboxes to isolate malicious web pages from the operating, and faster too. .......
243: Critic's Corner, RE: Any support for TAS writers? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-09-18, 04:40:35 (98.229.154.137)
>>having made a boy friday of Art Dudley Art was editor of TAS . There's a big difference between editing an magazine and being a personal assistant. .......
244: General Asylum, "She's ugly", says the guy who looks like he never had a date in high school (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-09-15, 05:31:23 (98.229.154.137)
Calling her ugly is just stupid and sexist. .......
245: Critic's Corner, Fabio is a famous male model (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-09-14, 04:47:47 (98.229.154.137)
He's appeared on the covers of hundreds of romance novels, acted in movies and TV shows, and has done a lot of TV commercials. He seems to be a nice guy who doesn't take himself too seriously. Someone .......
246: Rocky Road, Where's Wanda Jackson, Siouxsie Sioux, Suzi Quatro, Pat Benatar, Debbie Harry (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-09-12, 09:16:30 (98.229.154.137)
Lita Ford, Shirley Manson, Fanny, Girlschool, Ronnie Spector, Betty Blowtorch, and dozens of others... .......
247: Critic's Corner, "Imagine if Emotiva did a print ad with Lady Gaga" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-09-11, 04:47:34 (98.229.154.137)
I wouldn't be offended; I'd applaud it as a exceptionally smart move to reach a different demographic than aging audiophiles. This is Lady Gaga performing "Hair" solo on Howard Stern's SiriusXM .......
248: Critic's Corner, "Your explanation of how Cantralls [sic] book has anything to do with Teresa's arguments" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-09-10, 15:44:21 (98.229.154.137)
WTF? Teresa hasn't posted one word in this thread. .......
249: Critic's Corner, RE: Speaking of Kim (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-09-10, 11:35:53 (98.229.154.137)
At a Stereophile show in New York about a decade ago, Levinson demonstrated his Red Rose gear with a recording he'd made in the backyard of his house, of Kim Cattrall reading a poem she had written. L .......
250: Critic's Corner, RE: Love that Emotiva ad! (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-09-10, 05:58:14 (98.229.154.137)
Fabio is an audiophile, not just a celebrity model hired to pose with a product that he knows nothing about. Stereophile interviewed him years ago. As I recall, his system had both ML speakers and Tra .......
251: Critic's Corner, Professional writer (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-08-31, 11:41:48 (98.229.154.137)
Do a search on Amazon for "Jonathan Valin." Yes, it's the same guy. .......
252: General Asylum, RE: Bored - Time for a change - New system (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-08-31, 09:53:21 (98.229.154.137)
I sympathize, brother. When Listener ended I realized I was kind of burned out on listening to music analytically. I wanted to go back to listening to music that made me feel 20 again. It occurred to .......
253: General Asylum, RE: Who remembers Joly speakers? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-08-21, 04:18:50 (98.229.154.137)
The ad copy reads like it was written by Romy the Cat. It has his bumptious incoherence. .......
254: Critic's Corner, Setright wrote about audio too (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-08-17, 08:37:58 (98.229.154.137)
He had a column in the terrific but short - lived UK magazine Audiophile . .......
255: General Asylum, RE: Maybe this thing will help (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-08-15, 11:51:49 (98.229.154.137)
I've suspected that the "image shattering" problem might have been evidence of the TV being unhappy about noise or some other problem in the AC power that was eliminated or reduced by the EP-2050. As .......
256: General Asylum, Maybe this thing will help (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-08-15, 07:26:50 (98.229.154.137)
Environmental Potentials EP-2050 whole house surge protector and AC noise filter. It's the residential version of an industrial surge protector used by companies like Pepsi. I've installed them on my .......
257: General Asylum, I've got a Zenith too (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-08-03, 18:23:01 (98.229.154.137)
I think it's a 1940 vintage model 8A02 console. I inherited it from my mother's aunt and uncle. I lusted after it all through my youth because it was such a beautiful device, and they left it to me. I .......
258: General Asylum, Thanks for the tip (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-08-02, 10:11:40 (98.229.154.137)
I'll set the DVR to record it. There are more great movies on TCM than there is time to watch them! .......
259: Vinyl Asylum, Yes, it really is a cactus needle cantilever (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-07-21, 16:58:23 (98.229.154.137)
I had a long talk with the ever affable Mr. Ledermann about this at the NY Audio Show In April. He said that cactus needles have a number of advantages over the materials commonly used for cantilevers .......
260: Vinyl Asylum, Amoeba Hollywood buys 30,000 LPs collection (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-07-11, 08:15:55 (98.229.154.137)
Here's a link to several posts on Amoeba's web site about their recent acquisition of a collection of 30,000 mostly unopened LPs. It's interesting to read about the guy who collected the records, and .......
261: General Asylum, The first sign of turning into an old fart is ... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-07-11, 03:02:55 (98.229.154.137)
... dismissing entire genres of music as "just noise." Your parents said the same thing about the music you liked as a kid. .......
262: General Asylum, Of course it was about music (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-07-10, 20:11:53 (98.229.154.137)
What were the Sex Pistols, Clash, Adverts, Ramones, Dead Boys, Damned, Suicide Commandos, Buzzcocks, Undertones? They were all bands. They were all started by kids who were sick of bloated corporate r .......
263: General Asylum, Punk, not New Wave (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-07-10, 11:32:11 (98.229.154.137)
It was mid - 70s punk rock that changed everything, not New Wave bands like Duran Duran, Flock Of Seagulls, and The B-52s. Punk challenged mainstream rock's increasing emphasis on virtuosity and disco .......
264: Whiner's Woad, "634 times" - nice subtle audio joke! (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-07-04, 08:09:44 (98.229.154.137)
nt .......
265: General Asylum, Thank you (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-06-21, 15:54:28 (98.229.154.137)
The China ones were taken during a trip there in 2006 to adopt my second daughter. .......
266: General Asylum, RE: Wireless Router Contamination of Sound? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-06-21, 10:02:28 (98.229.154.137)
I couldn't tell you if all the wi - fi broadcasting is having an effect on my system or not. It's not like I can do an A/B test with my neighbor's access point turned off, and I'm not about to disable .......
267: General Asylum, RE: Wireless Router Contamination of Sound? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-06-21, 08:55:25 (98.229.154.137)
If you have neighbors, its very likely that you already have wi-fi transmissions "leaking" into your house. I use a free utility called InSSIDer to scan for wi-fi networks. Right now I can detect one .......
268: General Asylum, RE: I guess I'm alone on this one. (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-06-20, 17:48:11 (98.229.154.137)
Sattelite radio never claimed to offer better audio quality than terrestrial radio (of course, most terrestrial stations sound awful too). What sat radio does offer is vastly superior content . Terres .......
269: General Asylum, Another Sirius fan (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-06-20, 08:00:23 (98.229.154.137)
I love Sirius satellite radio. I love how I can drive 300 miles from Connecticut to upstate New York and listen to the same uninterrupted programming the whole way. I don't have to search the FM dial .......
270: Critic's Corner, "I was just pointing out the potential 'conflict of interest'" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-06-19, 04:44:38 (98.229.154.137)
What conflict of interest? Please explain. .......
271: Vinyl Asylum, An anniversary for the LP (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-06-18, 11:28:31 (98.229.154.137)
On June 18, 1948, Columbia Records held a press conference at the Waldorf Astoria hotel to announce their new 33 1/3 RPM microgroove long playing record. The LP was presented in two formats, a 10" siz .......
272: Critic's Corner, Can you cite some examples? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-06-14, 12:34:50 (98.229.154.137)
I took a look at Hi Fi Critic's web site and the index pages for a couple of years of the magazine, and I found no mention of blind testing. A search of the forums turned up lots of arguing over DBT a .......
273: Critic's Corner, Exactly how would you make this work? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-06-13, 12:18:43 (98.229.154.137)
With a few exceptions, reviewers at Stereophile and TAS essentially write as a hobby. The few hundred bucks they get paid for an article doesn't begin to compensate for the time invested in auditionin .......
274: General Asylum, John Curl and the Wall Of Sound (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-06-11, 05:45:57 (98.229.154.137)
The "Wall of Sound" PA system built for the Grateful Dead was a lot more than just Macintosh amps. John Curl was one of 5 designers who worked on the rig. He lists his contributions to it in the post .......
275: Vinyl Asylum, Adele: most over - rated singer in human history (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-06-05, 17:14:16 (50.138.159.171)
nt .......
276: Rocky Road, RE: God Save The Queen (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-05-27, 09:13:28 (50.138.159.171)
An alternative viewpoint on her majesty: .......
277: Vinyl Asylum, RE: I missed that the first time around (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-05-18, 05:09:23 (50.138.159.171)
Peter Ledermann is a genuinely cool guy. As the CAS visit wound down I asked him if I could listen to a cut from an LP I'd brought with me. Country Negro Jam Session is late '50s Mississippi field rec .......
278: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Mc production (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-05-17, 04:17:40 (50.138.159.171)
Thanks for sharing that. Perhaps cartridges are a side business for Ortofon now! For another look at how cartridges are made, take a look at the link below. It's a posting of mine from a few years ago .......
279: Vinyl Asylum, A well - known record store closes (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-05-17, 04:06:20 (50.138.159.171)
Cutler's Music in New Haven, which served generations of Yale students since it opened in 1948, is closing. On a happy note, the owner found new jobs for all his employees. .......
280: General Asylum, RE: How's this for a listening room? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-05-13, 09:21:43 (50.138.159.171)
Do the houses in your part of the country typically have basements? If so, then perhaps you might consider building a listening room in the basement rather than converting an existing room. A dedicate .......
281: General Asylum, RE: It's easy to talk tough when you're hiding behind an alias on the internet (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-05-08, 07:49:58 (50.138.159.171)
"Audio mags censor themselves because of chilling effect tactics employed by some manufacturers" is a ridiculous exaggeration. First of all, you're making an absurd leap from one incident to a baseles .......
282: General Asylum, It's easy to talk tough when you're hiding behind an alias on the internet (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-05-07, 19:40:02 (50.138.159.171)
It's a whole other matter when your real name is on the masthead and the incorporation papers and your lawyer is advising you not to provoke a huge corporation with a history of going to war with the .......
283: General Asylum, Re: "Are you really sure you want to risk tangling with a company that's legendarily litigious?" ... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-05-07, 04:53:30 (50.138.159.171)
>>which party is the more damned? What point are you trying to make? Google "Bose vs. Consumers Union of United States." Consumer Reports is perhaps the highest circulation magazine in this country, a .......
284: General Asylum, Congratulations to Mr. Dorgay (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-05-07, 04:14:09 (50.138.159.171)
It's a clever idea to do a serious review of a speaker that is universally disdained by audiophiles. It's a great hook - I haven't read the review yet but I definitely will. It also took a certain amo .......
285: General Asylum, RE: Another engineer who's smarter than the entire audiophile community (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-05-02, 04:40:23 (50.138.159.171)
From the linked site: Peter Aczel set out many years ago to expose myths in audio with his magazine and website The Audio Critic. He had a relatively small but significant and loyal following. But, p .......
286: General Asylum, RE: Feedback Isolation issue; and (ii)/suspended v unsuspended TT design (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-04-20, 07:36:22 (50.138.159.171)
Try moving the equipment rack first. You might have placed it in a spot where there's a strong standing wave peak, and moving the rack a few feet might make a big difference. You can visualize the ai .......
287: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Analog news from the NY Audio Show (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-04-20, 07:21:34 (50.138.159.171)
>>I suspect "retipping for life" is because the thorns are so inexpensive and that they wear quickly The cactus needle is the cantilever, not the stylus. I'm not sure if cantilevers wear out, or, if t .......
288: Vinyl Asylum, SoundSmith Cartright (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-04-20, 04:40:47 (50.138.159.171)
The Cartright was displayed at the NY Audio Show too. I didn't get to ask Peter about it as someone else came in the room and started talking to him. I don't see anything on the Soundsmith website abo .......
289: Vinyl Asylum, RE: I like the suspended counter weight (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-04-19, 05:28:49 (50.138.159.171)
Hanging counterweights aren't new. Roksan arms have had them for two decades. .......
290: Critic's Corner, RE: Wonder why.. (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-04-19, 05:24:46 (50.138.159.171)
I attended the last half of the "Meet The Editors" seminar on Sunday and can testify that it didn't go off on tangents. Attendance was unimpressive (maybe 25 - 30) but that wasn't the panelists' fault .......
291: General Asylum, RE: Self powered speakers for vizio 32 " tv (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-04-19, 04:30:58 (50.138.159.171)
Take a look at the Zvox soundbars. I have one of their units under my Panasonic plasma and it's a significant upgrade over the TV's wretched built - in speakers. .......
292: Vinyl Asylum, RE: From what I've read (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-04-17, 17:50:23 (50.138.159.171)
>>they are fine fibers bonded together in a (sort of) carbon fiber configuration That's how nature makes them. .......
293: Vinyl Asylum, Analog news from the NY Audio Show (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-04-16, 16:57:56 (50.138.159.171)
I suppose the biggest news for analog fans at the NY Audio Show was the debut of VPI's new entry level model, the Traveler. It seemed to be on static display only and there wasn't any word about price .......
294: General Asylum, RE: NY Audio Show - Top 10 Favorite Rooms (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-04-16, 06:47:16 (50.138.159.171)
The Music First room with the original Rogers LS3/5s was my favorite room. I'd never heard LS3/5s before and they were amazing. There were systems at the show that cost ten times as much but didn't ma .......
295: General Asylum, Those speakers were one of the highlights of the show (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-04-16, 05:08:55 (50.138.159.171)
They're a lot of value for the money and looked very attractive in zebrawood. .......
296: General Asylum, RE: "If at first you don't succeed ............ (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-04-13, 10:04:18 (50.138.159.171)
Every generation thinks they invented sex. Check out the seduction scene starring gorgeous Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda in The Lady Eve from way back in 1941. It's simultaneously one of the hotte .......
297: Video Asylum, RE: bandwidth for NetFlix (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-03-31, 19:54:48 (50.138.159.171)
From the Netflix entry in Wikipedia: According to Netflix Tech Support, Netflix's content library is encoded into three bandwidth tiers, in a compression format based on the VC-1 video and Windows Me .......
298: General Asylum, RE: "one area where we can reduce our Federal budget" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-03-29, 13:06:52 (50.138.159.171)
Trivia question - and please answer truthfully without resorting to Google first: what percentage of the US budget do you believe goes to foreign aid? .......
299: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Strain Gauge beats 'em all... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-03-23, 07:24:23 (50.138.159.171)
Elac didn't invent the stereo cartridge, the great genius Alan Blumlein did. It's described in his 1933 British patent #394325, "Improvements in and relating to sound-transmission, sound-recording and .......
300: Critic's Corner, Art is more of a Christian than you are, I think (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-03-23, 03:25:23 (50.138.159.171)
He's not questioning anyone else's depth of faith. And being devout doesn't mean you can't sometimes make a joke about your religion, or anything else. .......
301: Critic's Corner, "Art Dudleys [sic] remark about Jesus drinking gin from a cat dish" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-03-22, 09:38:33 (50.138.159.171)
It was exaggeration for humorous effect. Also known as a joke. Lighten up. Not that it's anyone's business, but Art is quite devout. .......
302: Critic's Corner, Or, just put it in the recycle bin and get on with your life (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-03-21, 12:47:50 (50.138.159.171)
Really, getting "sick and tired" of advertising mail and scheming to punish the magazine for the "scam" of trying to sell you another year of issues is pretty silly. Life is too short to get all hot ' .......
303: Shady Lane, Call the police. Looks like you're the victim of felony fraud (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-03-20, 06:06:24 (50.138.159.171)
nt .......
304: Vinyl Asylum, How about this one? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-03-16, 10:17:24 (50.138.159.171)
The carbon - fibre Wand arm. It's made in your neighbor New Zealand and relatively inexpensive. .......
305: Vinyl Asylum, Providence rocks! (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-03-06, 11:26:29 (50.138.159.171)
I live in Connecticut and get to Providence a few times a year. The city has a lot to recommend it: excellent restaurants, very good shopping, night life, history, a lively arts community. Even the ai .......
306: Vinyl Asylum, RE: New Store - Olympic Records in Providence, RI (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-03-06, 07:29:59 (50.138.159.171)
Cool, thanks for the tip. Even better, Olympic is just down the street from the Brickway restaurant, a wonderful breakfast place. .......
307: Critic's Corner, Shorter Plantsman: "I still can't explain how trade discounts cause false reviews" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-03-03, 18:32:55 (50.138.159.171)
I've wasted enough time on you, obviously you can't defend your own illogic. Bye. .......
308: Critic's Corner, Congratulations! (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-03-02, 20:33:41 (50.138.159.171)
You've managed to dream up one improbable situation where the possibility of a trade discount might - might! - influence the content of a review. The corruption would only happen if 1) the writer in q .......
309: Critic's Corner, RE: "It is wired into their subconscious and in the air they breathe" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-03-02, 19:28:39 (50.138.159.171)
Let's see: I wrote that advertising and advertisers had no influence on anything that I wrote for Listener . Plantsman's response was that "claims that none of this, in any way, influences copy just d .......
310: General Asylum, Why don't you email George and ask him? (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-03-02, 03:21:33 (50.138.159.171)
nt .......
311: Critic's Corner, "It is wired into their subconscious and in the air they breathe" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-02-29, 16:56:39 (50.138.159.171)
It's monstrously arrogant - insulting, in fact - for you and your invisible friend to presume to know what I was thinking when I wrote my reviews for Listener . The negative reviews my fellow Listene .......
312: Speaker Asylum, RE: yup - good choice (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-02-27, 05:33:26 (50.138.159.171)
Wow, those scans take me back. I loved the catalogs from mail order hi fi dealers back in the '70s. My favorite was from Warehouse Sound in exotic - sounding (to a college student in Virgina anyway) S .......
313: Critic's Corner, "When a magazine depends almost solely on adv. dollars to survive this publication ceases to be objective" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-02-25, 17:58:05 (50.138.159.171)
Really? Let's use a real - world example. I wrote for Listener magazine for it's entire life span. I had no connection to the advertising sales person. I may have met her once at a party at Art Dudley .......
314: Vinyl Asylum, RE: "Enema of the State" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-02-25, 07:49:46 (50.138.159.171)
That's not surprising; rare punk records have become quite pricey. Remember that in some cases we're talking about records that were pressed in numbers of five hundred or less. Those make Robert Johns .......
315: Vinyl Asylum, RE: "Analog mastered" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-02-24, 11:18:04 (50.138.159.171)
The unfortunate truth is that even if the original analog master tape was fed into the cutting lathe it would likely be a digitally - processed signal that goes to the cutting head. Most mastering lat .......
316: Critic's Corner, RE: Actually the pricing was... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-02-23, 04:19:28 (50.138.159.171)
Listener had the same policy: keep it for at least a year, can't sell for more than you paid for it. All purchases were arranged through editor Art Dudley. I never heard of anyone paying just "parts .......
317: Vinyl Asylum, Sunday is the 95th anniversary of the first jazz recording (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-02-21, 14:28:01 (50.138.159.171)
Here's a link to a nice blog post noting the upcoming anniversary of the first jazz recording on February 26, 1917, by the Original Dixieland Jass Band for Victor. Amazingly, the New York City locatio .......
318: Vinyl Asylum, Thanks and another question (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-02-21, 13:26:21 (50.138.159.171)
Is it direct drive or belt drive? The description on the Helius web site is a little vague on that point. .......
319: Vinyl Asylum, Looks interesting. What's the price? (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-02-20, 17:30:31 (50.138.159.171)
nt .......
320: General Asylum, "I am shocked that so many Americans are willing to pay for what they can get free" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-02-18, 09:03:39 (50.138.159.171)
That's your problem: most of the HD channels aren't available for free. There's no OTA HD equivalent to TCM or Sundance or BBC America or Comedy Central or Speed or MSNBC or dozens of other HD channel .......
321: General Asylum, RE: "with free antenna TV we have several channels with old movies" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-02-17, 20:03:57 (50.138.159.171)
I love silent films. Which OTA channels show silent movies? Without commercials? TCM does, at least once a week. My favorite sports are drag racing and English Premier League soccer. I couldn't see .......
322: General Asylum, Somebody is lying to you (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-02-17, 12:02:52 (50.138.159.171)
I've had TCM-HD for a couple of years. Take a look at the link below. .......
323: Vinyl Asylum, RE: "I hear that Grado advises a 2 degree angle of tonearm" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-02-17, 03:35:21 (50.138.159.171)
Perhaps you should call Grado and double - check that. 718-435-5340. .......
324: General Asylum, Switch to Dish Network - they have TCM in HD (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-02-17, 03:28:57 (50.138.159.171)
TCM-HD looks great on Dish, especially the gradations of gray in old black and white movies. .......
325: Critic's Corner, RE: How are the products to be reviewed selected? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-02-14, 17:47:52 (50.138.159.171)
When I was writing for Listener , the review subjects were chosen by a negotiation between editor Art Dudley and myself. Usually I would ask for a specific component, sometimes he suggest one. His ide .......
326: General Asylum, RE: Same with me (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-02-08, 04:08:55 (50.138.159.171)
Didn't your employer have an anti - virus utility on their network? The fake Security Essentials has been around for at least 18 months; I'd think any decent AV utility would have recognized and stopp .......
327: General Asylum, Overrated (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-02-02, 04:08:27 (50.138.159.171)
She falls apart when she goes from her chest voice to her head voice - no power at all. I'm astonished by the nitwits who think Adele is a great singer in the same league as Aretha Franklin ( Entertai .......
328: General Asylum, I don't hate the company (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-01-25, 11:25:36 (50.138.159.171)
I'm no fan of Bose products but the high end audio trade could learn a few things about marketing from them. There's a chain of immense furniture stores around Boston called Jordans. The furniture isn .......
329: Critic's Corner, RE: WDR (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-01-20, 04:41:06 (50.138.159.171)
"Walk Don't Run," the song that sold a million guitars. I got my LP signed by Nokie Edwards and Bob Bogle when the band played a little club in Manhattan in the early '80s. Here's the original ve .......
330: Critic's Corner, Mr. Hansen isn't a newbie here (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-01-16, 09:10:59 (50.138.159.171)
He's written over 5,700 posts on Audio Asylum. .......
331: Rocky Road, RE: back to three chords (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-01-13, 08:06:33 (50.138.159.171)
I never saw the Ramones at CBGB but I saw a million other bands there. The club was practically my second home for a couple of years. I can testify that CBGB in the late '70s had the best sound of any .......
332: General Asylum, RE: I use the Etymotics...and they give nearly 20dB attenuation... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-01-13, 04:20:02 (50.138.159.171)
Ah, another drag racing fan! At the drag strip I use -30dB foam ear plugs, available cheap at any drug store. I also use those when mowing the lawn or running the snow blower. For concerts I take both .......
333: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Lady Gaga unplugged (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-01-07, 08:39:25 (50.138.155.208)
Hi Waxxy. You might want to search Youtube for "gaga stern" to find the other unaccompanied performance she did on that show, her single "Edge of Glory." The interview is well worth listening to as we .......
334: Vinyl Asylum, "I would like to see her do some work with some older artists" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-01-06, 17:39:37 (50.138.155.208)
She's done that. Tony Bennett: Elton John: Clarence Clemons: Brian May of Queen played on Lady Gaga's last record and performed live with her at the MTV Video Music Awards last yea .......
335: Vinyl Asylum, Lady Gaga unplugged (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-01-05, 17:23:58 (50.138.155.208)
You don't think she can do it? Then watch this: Lady Gaga is not a looks - over - ability ersatz pop idol like Nicole Scherzinger. She's been playing piano since she was 4 and won early admissi .......
336: General Asylum, one reason is ... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-01-05, 08:36:33 (50.138.155.208)
... you can put on enough layers to be comfortable in almost any cold temperature, but there's nothing you can wear that will make hot and humid pleasant. I've been outside in -40C weather in Lake Pla .......
337: Vinyl Asylum, Return to those Cold War drills... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-01-04, 09:30:21 (50.138.155.208)
If you want to revisit those long - ago days of bomb shelters, nuclear war terror, and Civil Defense messages on the radio, check out the web site below. The audio archives section has many amazing re .......
338: General Asylum, It will be recorded (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-01-04, 07:52:52 (50.138.155.208)
From Mr. Marks' post: "I will record in 24/96 and make those tracks available through Dropbox." .......
339: Critic's Corner, "how it should work for longer term success" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-01-02, 08:09:06 (50.138.155.208)
OK, why don't you explain to us your magic formula for successful magazines - a formula that ends the "dependency on advertising" business model that magazines have followed for over a century, a form .......
340: Critic's Corner, "Low cost to boost circulation guarantees dependency on advertisements" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2012-01-01, 13:57:29 (50.138.155.208)
As Homer Simpson would put it, "well, duh!" That's essentially how every mass market magazine works. Advertising pays for all or almost all of the cost of producing and distributing the magazine. Subs .......
341: General Asylum, RE: Back then... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-12-29, 11:20:28 (50.138.155.208)
Moncrieff was also known for devising new measurement techniques for audio equipment. At one point he proclaimed that dropping a cartridge's stylus onto a piece of glass and doing an FFT analysis of t .......
342: General Asylum, Julian Vereker, Harvey Rosenberg, ... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-12-29, 07:51:30 (50.138.155.208)
Touraj Moghaddam, Dick Sequerra, David Wilson, Edison Price, Peter Ledermann, and a bunch of others. I spoke on the phone with Joseph Grado, Tom Fletcher, the chemist who invented LAST and whose name .......
343: Vinyl Asylum, Try www.emachineshop.com (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-12-27, 06:38:00 (50.138.155.208)
nt .......
344: General Asylum, Squeezebox Touch (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-12-27, 05:58:35 (50.138.155.208)
A wonderful little device. .......
345: General Asylum, The Beach Boys' "Smile" box set (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-12-25, 20:10:25 (50.138.155.208)
It's got five CDs of alternate takes and outtakes (24 versions of "Good Vibrations"!), two 180 gram Lps, two 7" singles, a poster, and a 60 page book. I also got some books including The Seventh Stre .......
346: Rocky Road, RE: I saw her on the BBC's Graham Norton show and was impressed. (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-12-23, 19:51:50 (50.138.155.208)
That clip came from Lady Gaga's appearance on Howard Stern's SiriusXM show a few months ago. The interview and her performances completely changed my opinion of her. She's a lot more thoughtful than I .......
347: General Asylum, RE: Installing Separate Electric Panel for Audio (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-12-23, 14:17:00 (50.138.155.208)
The EP-2050 is around $750. Installing it is a trivial chore for an electrician. As I recall they charge a half - hour labor to do it, or don't charge anything extra if they're doing other work on the .......
348: General Asylum, RE: Installing Separate Electric Panel for Audio (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-12-23, 03:08:35 (50.138.155.208)
You might think about installing a whole house AC noise filter / surge protector as part of your electrical project. I've had an Environmental Potentials EP-2050 installed on the my previous and curre .......
349: Rocky Road, "I'd dare Lady Gaga to try something like that" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-12-22, 15:18:52 (50.138.155.208)
Like what - sing live? Here ya go: You may not care for Lady Gaga's music but there's no doubt that the woman has genuine talent. .......
350: Rocky Road, The Slits (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-12-20, 07:54:56 (71.234.55.217)
The Slits did a US tour back in '78 or '79. At the time I was working as a roadie and doing the live sound for an NYC band called The Fuzztones. We got a 3 date mini - tour (New York, Philly, and Bost .......
351: General Asylum, "Using a moniker that has anything to do with BMW, when not on a BMW forum" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-12-17, 16:49:44 (71.234.55.217)
So you don't like it when you (incorrectly) assume that someone on AA is referring to his car with his moniker, yet it's OK for you to put a picture of your car in your AA profile and claim it's your .......
352: Vinyl Asylum, A lost record collection, discovered (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-12-15, 19:08:53 (71.234.55.217)
An unusual collection of 9,000 Armed Forces Radio and Television Network LPs was recently discovered in a sealed room at the base on Wake Island. Details at the link below. .......
353: Vinyl Asylum, Nottingham Analogue once had a model with an iron platter (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-12-09, 06:43:25 (71.234.55.217)
NA's one time top o' the line Mentor Reference deck had a 75 pound cast iron platter. .......
354: Rocky Road, Pretentious cabaret music (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-12-09, 03:07:50 (71.234.55.217)
It's certainly not rock. .......
355: Vinyl Asylum, Wand tonearm follow up (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-12-07, 06:10:55 (71.234.55.217)
I emailed the manufacturer of the new Wand tonearm to ask how overhang is adjusted on the arm. The arm's designer Simon Brown replied with a nice note in which he explained that the arm uses a slid .......
356: General Asylum, Yes! (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-12-04, 18:36:04 (71.234.55.217)
I built a listening room in the basement of my former home in Connecticut. Richard Rives Bird designed a 19' x 12' room. The front corners of the room were impinged upon by the breaker box on one side .......
357: Vinyl Asylum, It depends on what you mean by "analog mastered" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-12-02, 11:18:09 (71.234.55.217)
Even if the actual recording was all - analog, there's likely to be a digital delay line on the mastering lathe. The signal from the master tape is split, with one part going into the mastering comput .......
358: Vinyl Asylum, RE: The Wand Tonearm.... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-12-02, 05:06:54 (71.234.55.217)
The arm's spec sheet says that overhang is adjustable but it isn't apparent how that might work. The arm has two holes for the cartridge bolts, not slots. Maybe the entire arm tube can be slid to and .......
359: General Asylum, RE: Me too (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-12-01, 04:51:54 (71.234.55.217)
Nice system you have, by the way. I'm Naim and NA too. .......
360: General Asylum, I love satellite radio (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-11-28, 04:36:52 (71.234.55.217)
I've had satellite radio since 2006 and love it. I'm listening to a Sirius web stream as I write this. I think the last time I listened to terrestrial radio was two years ago when I checked some AM tr .......
361: General Asylum, Sirius took over XM a few years ago (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-11-28, 04:14:52 (71.234.55.217)
The combined company is now called SiriusXM. There are still different Sirius and XM tuners because the two companies used different technologies. There is some programming that is only on Sirius (How .......
362: General Asylum, RE: Those who did not hear Victrola live (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-11-22, 05:25:36 (71.234.55.217)
You can also hear an acoustic phonograph at the little Edison Museum in Menlo Park, NJ, at the site of Edison's original laboratory. It's a startling experience if you've never heard an acoustic phono .......
363: Vinyl Asylum, Black Friday - Record Store Day (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-11-22, 05:11:09 (71.234.55.217)
Independent music stores will be offering a bunch of limited, one - day - only records and CDs this Friday, November 25, in a mini - Record Store Day event. Among the more interesting items are box se .......
364: General Asylum, Lady Gaga solo (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-11-17, 09:04:58 (71.234.55.217)
This is Gaga performing "Hair" solo on Howard Stern's SiriusXM show a few months ago. The interview and her performances completely changed my opinion of Lady Gaga. She's a lot more thoughtful t .......
365: General Asylum, RE: What is.... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-11-17, 04:28:14 (71.234.55.217)
It's a recently released album by the once great heavy metal band Metallica, collaborating with Lou Reed. The reviews have been overwhelmingly negative, and based on the excerpts I've heard "terrible" .......
366: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Fuzztones (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-11-03, 05:41:46 (71.234.55.217)
Working for the Fuzztones was certainly memorable. There was the time we were headlining at CBGB on a weekend night, a prestigious and good - paying gig. It got to be time for the band to go on and le .......
367: General Asylum, RE: satelite radio advice? (other than 'don't!') (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-11-03, 04:14:36 (71.234.55.217)
Sirius never claimed to be offering better sound than terrestrial radio. What satellite radio does offer is programming that is vastly superior to anything you can get from terrestrial radio. If you l .......
368: Vinyl Asylum, Fuzztones (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-11-01, 15:18:29 (71.234.55.217)
It looks like you've got both the '85 European version and the '86 US version of Lysergic Emanations . You posted the Euro cover 3 1/2 years ago in an ACOTD. Nice score - I'm not sure I have both vers .......
369: General Asylum, "How many $300 meals is the average guy going to splurge on?" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-10-28, 11:05:58 (71.234.55.217)
You seem to forget that CES is an industry trade show, not an audio show for hobbyists. Some audiophiles do get in but the vast majority of the attendees are in the consumer electronics business in on .......
370: Vinyl Asylum, RE: On a slightly different note... about all those magnificent (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-10-27, 09:22:00 (71.234.55.217)
They come from the same place where Fox News gets its interchangable blond news bunnies. Next door is the facility that creates the perfect golden lab puppies that appear in LL Bean catalogs. ::: TOP .......
371: Vinyl Asylum, Google is your friend (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-10-27, 09:15:09 (71.234.55.217)
Try the link below. .......
372: Critic's Corner, A book you might enjoy (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-10-25, 05:23:03 (71.234.55.217)
Nicolas Slonimsky's Lexicon of Musical Invective , an anthology of hilarious misguided criticism of composers going back to Beethoven. Among the highlights is the "Invecticon", an "index of vituperati .......
373: Critic's Corner, Ask and ye shall receive! (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-10-24, 09:49:19 (71.234.55.217)
Rockwell's "The Wonder of Radio" Rockwell's "Armchair General" .......
374: Critic's Corner, The purpose of the open door is to draw your eye to the beer bottles (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-10-21, 12:17:55 (71.234.55.217)
There are many subtle elements in the illustraton that are intended to draw your atttention to the product, the beer bottles. The top edge of the open door is one, the lamp is another. It's a slick co .......
375: Critic's Corner, Gee, you guys are really over - analyzing an ad (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-10-21, 04:32:10 (71.234.55.217)
It's a competent piece of advertising art, possibly by Al Dorne but I'm not expert enough to say for sure. It's obviously a beer ad: everything in the composition draws your eye to the tray of beer bo .......
376: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Funk Firm FXR II tonearm (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-10-20, 11:23:18 (71.234.55.217)
Blackbird Audio in San Diego carries the Funk Firm line. I'd love to hear one (and Funk's turntable too), but I'm on the opposite coast. .......
377: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Negligible, but still... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-10-19, 06:43:31 (71.234.55.217)
There's little evidence that speed change caused by stylus drag is significant. Back in 2002, AA correspondent Klaus discovered a letter in a 1967 issue of the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society .......
378: General Asylum, RE: Wall shelves - can they be as good, or better, as regular racks? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-10-12, 15:54:31 (71.234.55.217)
One problem with wall shelves: standing waves tend to "pile up" against walls, so you're putting the gear in an area with strong resonances. .......
379: Video Asylum, Netflix cancels split into seperate DVD and streaming companies (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-10-10, 06:22:21 (71.234.55.217)
Netflix appears to have heard the message that its customers loathed the idea of splitting the business into two unconnected new companies. .......
380: Vinyl Asylum, RE: we have a program here called "Hot Jazz Saturday Night".. (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-10-09, 16:39:50 (71.234.55.217)
If you like that show you should check out "The Big Broadcast" from 8PM - midnight Sunday nights on Fordham University's WFUV. It's all '20s and '30s jazz and pop. Host Rich Conaty is a veritable ency .......
381: Whiner's Woad, Do you consider yourself normal? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-10-08, 06:38:11 (71.234.55.217)
Apparently your other hobby is preying on women. Maybe you shouldn't be using yourself as a normalcy benchmark? .......
382: Vinyl Asylum, Me too! (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-10-06, 17:10:01 (71.234.55.217)
I was 15 and Steppenwolf was my first concert. One of my mother's friends took my younger brother and I to the show at the then - new Hampton Coliseum. We were mortified to be going to a concert with .......
383: Vinyl Asylum, Those are terrific photos (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-10-06, 04:43:03 (71.234.55.217)
Best pictures I've ever seen of the Technics arm! It's quite a handsome piece of engineering - to see it is to want it. .......
384: Vinyl Asylum, That's a fun record (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-10-05, 09:41:47 (71.234.55.217)
Not really punk songs of course, mostly new wave hits plus one Billy Joel song as I recall. The Chipmunks' cover of "My Sharona" is hilarious. I just wish they had done at least one real punk song, "G .......
385: General Asylum, RE: Whats the best system you've heard ? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-10-05, 06:45:43 (71.234.55.217)
A couple have been truly memorable. One was an all out Naim rig demonstrated at Accent On Music in Mount Kisco, NY. As I recall the system was the then - new DBL speaker triamped by six NAP250 power a .......
386: Vinyl Asylum, You're missing Soundsmith and Grado (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-10-01, 12:19:54 (71.234.55.217)
Soundsmith manufactures phono cartridges, electronics, and speakers in Peekskill, NY. Grado phono cartridges are made in the US too. .......
387: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Yes (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-09-21, 17:07:15 (71.234.55.217)
I have no idea. I have no experience with the RB1000. You might ask one of the rewire vendors if the wire inside an RB1000 is the same as what's in an RB300. They should know. If the two arms share th .......
388: Vinyl Asylum, Yes (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-09-21, 12:57:05 (71.234.55.217)
I reviewed the Incognito rewiring for Regas a decade ago for Listener . An RB-300 with an Incognito rewire was almost indistiguishable from the three - times - as - expensive RB-900 I owned at the tim .......
389: Vinyl Asylum, If you like those layouts... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-09-20, 10:27:02 (71.234.55.217)
... take a look at George Selio's awesome Franklin & South Manchester model railroad at the link below. How many model railroads are famous enough to merit an entry in Wikipedia? .......
390: Vinyl Asylum, RE: "Pressure to s t r e t c h the truth I suppose" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-09-20, 04:38:31 (71.234.55.217)
Not if you work for an editor with some integrity. John Atkinson has often written that he has no idea what ads will run in the magazine until after the editorial content is finished and the art depar .......
391: Critic's Corner, "he looks at things differently?" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-09-19, 04:39:29 (71.234.55.217)
What a bizarre statement! The original poster wrote this: "What's missing are products that the average reader is interested in buying. For example, let's say CD players, integrated amplifiers, booksh .......
392: Critic's Corner, RE: You might read his post before rebutting him (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-09-18, 10:25:26 (71.234.55.217)
>>let's say CD players, integrated amplifiers, bookshelf loudspeakers between $1000 and $2500. Or floorstanding loudspeakers between $2,000 and $4,000 The original poster's premise that the magazine r .......
393: Critic's Corner, You might want to read "Stereophile" before criticizing it (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-09-18, 08:33:02 (71.234.55.217)
Looking at the last three issues, I find reviews of a $150/pair bookshelf speaker, a $999 universal disc player ranked as class A+, three CD receivers under $1K, $2500/pair floorstanding speakers, $16 .......
394: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Minor rant: Implementation of digital downloads with vinyl purchase (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-09-12, 11:48:02 (71.234.55.217)
I've only had a problem with a download once, when the code didn't work. I emailed the label - Yep Roc - and got a nice reply a day or two later with an apology for my difficulty and a new code. Yeah .......
395: Critic's Corner, "On several occasions both TAS and Stereophile have had identical reviews" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-09-12, 04:08:04 (71.234.55.217)
Identical? Are you really claiming that the same article - word for word - appeared in both magazines? Can you cite an example to support your assertion? .......
396: Vinyl Asylum, The Tee Set! (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-09-02, 04:51:26 (71.234.55.217)
Geez, I haven't heard Ma Belle Amie in decades. Seeing it on your list sent me to YouTube where I found the band's amusingly awful video linked below. I wonder what the editor was thinking with the cl .......
397: Inmate Central, Here in New Haven County, CT ... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-08-30, 09:05:12 (76.204.61.140)
I live in one of the shoreline towns east of New Haven. Our power held until about 9AM Sunday and then went out. About 1000 feet down the street a tree came down on the power lines and snapped off two .......
398: General Asylum, RE: Focal buys Naim (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-08-23, 07:41:37 (71.234.55.217)
As a long time Naim devotee (I own 8 Naim components) I'm saddened to see the firm lose its independence, but I'd be a lot sadder if it ceased to exist at some point. I suppose a take - over became in .......
399: Vinyl Asylum, RE: REVIEW: Denon DL-S1 Phono Cartridge (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-08-21, 17:35:26 (71.234.55.217)
The plain 103 (no suffix) has a conical stylus. The 103D had an elliptical stylus. Denon has done dozens of variations on the 103 since it was first introduced almost half a century ago. ::: TOPIC:: .......
400: Vinyl Asylum, Parenting For Audiophiles (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-08-20, 15:00:01 (71.234.55.217)
About 15 years ago, audio dealer and genuine cool guy Gene Rubin wrote a short article for Listener titled "Parenting For Audiophiles." It remains the best advice I've ever seen on the subject. Follow .......
401: Critic's Corner, RE: "As a simplification" - no, as a grotesque distortion (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-08-19, 05:19:24 (71.234.55.217)
Do you forget that you wrote "he's one of those amusing ranters, no John Belushi mind you?" Those rants were by Belushi's characters such as Bluto and Joliet Jake Blues, not Belushi himself, a distinc .......
402: General Asylum, RE: Koch vs Soros (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-08-17, 04:52:40 (71.234.55.217)
You might want to do some fact - checking before posting. The Open Society Foundations haven't spent $5 billion in the US. Most of the OSF's work is in promoting democracy and open societies overseas. .......
403: Vinyl Asylum, Lucky man, that's a beautiful receiver (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-08-16, 16:09:04 (71.234.55.217)
All that silver face '70s Pioneer stuff has a classic elegance that will still look cool a century from now. And Pioneer always had the best tactile feel on their controls. .......
404: Critic's Corner, "As a simplification" - no, as a grotesque distortion (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-08-15, 07:09:33 (71.234.55.217)
What an amazingly ill - informed post. Most people would be embarrassed to write that they can't distinguish characters played by the late John Belushi from John Belushi the actor. You might want to .......
405: General Asylum, The US isn't much better in that regard (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-08-14, 08:59:46 (71.234.55.217)
Take a look at figure 3 in the linked document. Relative mobility - an individual's ability to change their situation compared to others - is barely better in the US than in the UK, and much worse tha .......
406: General Asylum, And the sinister Koch brothers have spent far more buying politicians than Soros has (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-08-13, 20:37:45 (71.234.55.217)
Google "American Legislative Exchange Council," for a start. .......
407: Critic's Corner, What issues do you need? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-08-11, 16:19:59 (71.234.55.217)
Maybe I have them. I'd be willing to give them to you when I've read them. .......
408: General Asylum, RE: What about tower records??? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-08-11, 10:26:25 (71.234.55.217)
Tower's gigantic store in lower Manhattan was awesome. It was four (or maybe five) floors of music. Before Tower started having financial difficulties the store had stunningly deep stock. It was easy .......
409: Critic's Corner, RE: TAS Subscription Renewal Rates (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-08-10, 09:52:14 (71.234.55.217)
Waiting to renew almost always gets the best price for a subscription. Some percentage of subscribers will get the initial offer, say to themselves "I don't want to miss an issue so I better take care .......
410: Critic's Corner, RE:"there is no reason to own that rubbish" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-08-07, 16:24:14 (71.234.55.217)
Unless you count the hundreds of thousands or even millions of titles that never were reissued on CD. .......
411: Vinyl Asylum, Depends on what you mean by "analog mastered" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-08-07, 13:23:41 (71.234.55.217)
If you mean "no A/D and D/A conversion anywhere in the entire recording and mastering process," then most contemporary records - even those that were recorded on analog gear - fail your test. I've rea .......
412: General Asylum, RE: The worst gig we ever played (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-08-05, 06:31:03 (71.234.55.217)
At least Anderson could take a shower and the unpleasantness was over. Joe Strummer of The Clash caught hepatitis from audience members spitting on him (a bizarre British form of applause called "gobb .......
413: Vinyl Asylum, Calling all 78 lovers! (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-08-05, 06:27:07 (71.234.55.217)
Rivermont Records is a cool little label that specializes in brilliant reissues of '20s jazz and pop and new recordings of contemporary bands that play music of that era. Rivermont has just issued a l .......
414: Vinyl Asylum, RE: My cousin wants to start a record pressing plant! (Yes, "really") (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-08-05, 03:01:14 (71.234.55.217)
Here are some resources for your cousin: The Secret Society Of Lathe Trolls , a forum for people who make records. Press Vinyl , a web site listing all the known record pressing plants in the US (th .......
415: Vinyl Asylum, Or this one (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-08-03, 04:58:23 (71.234.55.217)
Here's the video for Big Stick's Drag Racing single. John Peel put the song on his list of 150 singles he'd grab and run out of the house with in a fire. Even if you don't like the industrial grind mu .......
416: Vinyl Asylum, What he said (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-08-01, 07:01:17 (71.234.55.217)
The original Black Cube made everything played through it sound like the musicians were performing while submerged in Jello. I thoroughly hated it. .......
417: General Asylum, Ikea shelves (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-07-25, 14:04:43 (71.234.55.217)
Speaking of Ikea shelves, here's the arrangement of Ikea shelves from my former listening room. It's a bunch of Billy shelving units arranged at a 12 degree angle from the wall. Only the center unit w .......
418: General Asylum, RE: Where to position audio rack (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-07-25, 08:47:14 (71.234.55.217)
Since you have a turntable you need to consider acoustic feedback. It's somewhat a simplification but you can imagine the bass in your room "piling up" along the walls and in the corners. The further .......
419: General Asylum, IE9, with third party cookies disabled (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-07-24, 14:29:48 (71.234.55.217)
nt .......
420: Vinyl Asylum, RE: It goes to show ya... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-07-24, 09:41:38 (71.234.55.217)
It's worth noting that all of the well - known electrocutions by musician's gear happened in the UK where the voltage is double that in the US. The problem seems to always be bad grounding. When I was .......
421: General Asylum, Still doesn't work (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-07-23, 12:31:30 (71.234.55.217)
Here's what I'm seeing in classic view mode: 1. click on a subject from the GA page, for example Stale's "Format is fine BUT" in this thread. 2. after going to his post, use the back button to return .......
422: General Asylum, Doesn't work in Vinyl either (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-07-22, 20:08:09 (71.234.55.217)
I always use "classic" mode, if that matters. .......
423: General Asylum, RE: "even with ssd I would make sure I backed up, especially music files" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-07-20, 08:24:30 (71.234.55.217)
Excellent advice. Solid state drives are extremely reliable - no moving parts, obviously - but they're not 100% immune to crashes. The Corsair 64GB SSD in my PC failed after about 6 months of use. Sin .......
424: Critic's Corner, Take a look at Michael Fremer's musicangle.com (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-07-20, 02:38:57 (71.234.55.217)
He reviews new and reissued music with an equal emphasis on musical merit and recording quality. .......
425: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Besides Spinning Vinyl.... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-07-18, 03:23:44 (71.234.55.217)
Also: coaching my 7 year old daughter's soccer team, reading (military history, science fiction, and thrillers), watching movies especially silent films. .......
426: General Asylum, Not just $200K cars (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-07-12, 06:46:38 (71.234.55.217)
The a-holes at Acura of Boston wanted a $2500 non - refundable deposit to test drive an MDX when that car first came out in 2000. Esssentially you had to buy the damn thing before you could drive one .......
427: Rocky Road, Who are you calling "boy," cracker? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-07-07, 10:44:12 (71.234.55.217)
You might want to apologize for that slur. Fast. Your whole argument is absurd. Have you ever seen a picture of the Fonzie character? No rolled up jeans, no rolled up sleeves, no bandana. In other wor .......
428: Rocky Road, RE: Jethro Tull, Joe Cocker, Leon Russell: anyone else here (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-07-06, 04:54:29 (71.234.55.217)
Since Springsteen already had two albums released before "Happy Days" ever aired, it's absurd to claim that he is a "horrible Fonzie rip off." I guess you don't really know anything about the history .......
429: General Asylum, "No stereo magazine is worth paying ay money for" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-07-06, 03:59:05 (71.234.55.217)
No, some writing about stereo equipment is not worth paying to read. .......
430: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Stooges - Raw Power: Live In The Hands Of The Fans (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-07-05, 11:16:45 (71.234.55.217)
Here's a link to the LP on Amazon. I'm of mixed feelings about buying the record. I saw this tour in Boston last year and it had the worst live sound I've been subjected to in decades. Back in my pun .......
431: General Asylum, "his writings are least likely to get a person laughed out of physics or engineering class" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-07-03, 20:59:22 (71.234.55.217)
Does that include his rave review ("best speaker for the dollar" and "close to the best at any price") of a speaker manufactured by a company that Aczel owned, a gross conflict of interest that he wit .......
432: Vinyl Asylum, RE: It has been four years since Garth was around. (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-06-28, 03:57:58 (71.234.55.217)
I never met Garth or even spoke to him but, thanks to the email correspondence we had over the years, I considered him a friend. Garth was obviously passionate about analog audio and deeply knowledgab .......
433: General Asylum, There is (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-06-26, 02:38:22 (71.234.55.217)
See link below. .......
434: Critic's Corner, "I smell a clear conflict of interest embedded in your post" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-06-25, 09:17:12 (71.234.55.217)
You might want to have a physician check your sense of smell. I've never written for Stereophile , nor do I ever aspire to. .......
435: Critic's Corner, Or this... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-06-24, 12:20:18 (71.234.55.217)
Here's an especially repugnant example, where the editor of StereoTimes published a dealer's ridiculous whine about a Stereophile review because it might cost him money: By committing his hatchet job .......
436: Critic's Corner, Ad - free but crooked (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-06-24, 11:33:43 (71.234.55.217)
Absence of ads is no guarantee of impeccable behavior. I don't have the issue handy but my memory is that there were no ads in the infamous issue of Audio Critic that contained the loathsome "review" .......
437: General Asylum, RE: Do you have other hobbies that are not audio related (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-06-20, 13:04:21 (71.234.55.217)
Definitely not audio - related: Also reading (thrillers, science fiction, and military history), movies, coaching my daughter's soccer team. .......
438: Critic's Corner, NAD isn't what one would call "a mega corporation." (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-06-17, 03:04:13 (71.234.55.217)
They're an AV equipment company. They don't make game consoles or laptops or other non - audio / video electronics. .......
439: Vinyl Asylum, Yeah, but Peter Ledermann worked at IBM! (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-06-15, 04:47:16 (71.234.55.217)
nt .......
440: General Asylum, "not all of hp's choices were credible musically" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-06-15, 04:34:00 (71.234.55.217)
E.g., Rough Trade. .......
441: Critic's Corner, Sure (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-06-13, 03:57:15 (71.234.55.217)
There's News Haven in downtown New Haven, CT. I go there about once a month for audio, music, and British model railroad magazines. Not as good a periodical selection as the now - shuttered Tower Reco .......
442: General Asylum, Nice photos, thanks for sharing (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-06-08, 05:27:49 (71.234.55.217)
Lots of interesting components and a few "WTF is that?" things. I look forward to the captions. .......
443: Vinyl Asylum, Muzikmike collects cabooses as well as records? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-06-07, 04:36:10 (71.234.55.217)
Or is that the RR Museum of PA in Strasburg? .......
444: Critic's Corner, RE: Sorry you feel... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-06-07, 04:26:33 (71.234.55.217)
>>Listener wasn't viable either That's not correct. Listener had always been profitable and subscription numbers were steadily increasing. The magazine was on track to pass TAS in subscribers within a .......
445: Vinyl Asylum, What else is in the Z section? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-05-27, 06:51:29 (71.234.55.217)
Zamfir, Zappa, Zebra, ZZ Hill, ZZ Top ... can't think of any more Z artists. .......
446: Vinyl Asylum, Emachineshop (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-05-25, 04:29:37 (71.234.55.217)
Thanks for sharing the link, I'd never seen that site. I've hired machinists a few times to make new arm mounting collets for my Spacedeck. It was a lot cheaper than buying them from the turntable imp .......
447: Critic's Corner, RE: Have there ever been parents... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-05-18, 03:25:25 (71.234.55.217)
Some years ago I got to wondering when the notion of "young people's music" began. When did teens and yound adults start listening to different music than their parents? From my reading it appears to .......
448: Video Asylum, RE: I've heard the PQ on digital antennas are better than cable (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-05-17, 09:49:03 (71.234.55.217)
Of course I can't do a side - by - side comparison of the Comcast Xfinity digital cable service I had in New Hampshire with Dish Network here in Connecticut, but I can say that Dish's picture appears .......
449: General Asylum, Mr. Gold lives in South Africa (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-05-13, 20:19:29 (71.234.55.217)
nt .......
450: General Asylum, I think it's a pair of Interocitors from "This Island Earth" (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-05-12, 16:40:09 (71.234.55.217)
nt .......
451: General Asylum, RE: Best Designed Inmate Listening Room You Have Seen (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-05-11, 08:53:53 (71.234.55.217)
An alternative for less money - and that appears to do more than XTZ - is RPlusD from ETF Acoustic. I have an earlier version, ETF 5, and it's awesome. .......
452: General Asylum, Take a look at the rooms on Rives Audio's site (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-05-11, 04:35:08 (71.234.55.217)
Richard Rives Bird does very attractive music rooms and home theaters. He designed a basement listening room for my former home and despite my tight budget the room sounded fantastic. Mr. Bird couldn' .......
453: General Asylum, Audio show in NYC next month (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-05-10, 12:48:59 (71.234.55.217)
The promoter behind last month's Axpona audio show in Atlanta is doing a show in New York in June. Details at the link below. This seems to be kind of a stealthy event. There's nothing about it on sho .......
454: Water Cooler, RE: LOL! (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-05-08, 08:43:44 (71.234.55.217)
And Paul Ryan and the rest of the Republican party want to screw you in your old age by taking away your Medicare. Good luck finding a private company that will sell health insurance to 70 or 80 year .......
455: Vinyl Asylum, "sold 1.2 million copies, making it the first 'Gold Record'" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-05-07, 17:52:24 (71.234.55.217)
Since the phrase "gold record" is universally understood to mean "sold at least one million copies," it takes some excruciating parsing of your own words to interpret "sold 1.2 million copies, making .......
456: Vinyl Asylum, Sorry to be a spoilsport, but ... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-05-07, 10:09:43 (71.234.55.217)
... there were many records that sold in excess of 1 million copies long before 1941. There's a whole book on the subject, Million Selling Records From The 1900s To The 1980s by Joseph Murrells. Enric .......
457: General Asylum, RE: Bose has a very effective advertising campaign. (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-05-02, 09:06:04 (71.234.55.217)
I'm no fan of Bose products but the high end audio trade could learn a few things about marketing from them. There's a chain of immense furniture stores around Boston called Jordans. The furniture isn .......
458: General Asylum, The Busch family doesn't own Anheuser - Busch (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-05-01, 14:16:14 (71.234.55.217)
They sold it to Brazilian - Belgian brewing giant InBev three years ago. .......
459: Critic's Corner, You don't think a magazine about your hobby should be entertaining? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-04-28, 19:31:25 (71.234.55.217)
Stereophile is no different than Model Railroader, Golf Digest, Popular Photography , or Fine Woodworking : they're all magazines for hobbyists. Why should the articles in them be soporific? That mak .......
460: General Asylum, RE: I usually get the "Go to Hell" experience in most showrooms... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-04-27, 12:34:01 (71.234.55.217)
Back in the early 1980s I had an unfortunate experience with Mike Kaye of the infamously unfriendly Lyric Hi Fi in New York. I had over the course of half a year saved up the price of a new Fidelity R .......
461: Critic's Corner, Good writing (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-04-27, 03:08:00 (71.234.55.217)
nt .......
462: General Asylum, RE: Hifi Places in Guangzho and Beijing (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-04-21, 08:16:50 (71.234.55.217)
In Guangzhou don't miss the mind - boggling Haiyin Electronic Market. It's a huge building covering an entire city block and crammed with hundreds of little stores. The streets around the main market .......
463: Critic's Corner, "IMO, none of the objections hold up" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-04-19, 14:04:59 (71.234.55.217)
Of course, your opinion also is that audio magazines never ever have more than one reviewer judge a component for fear of offending advertisers - a claim that has no basis in reality since it was comp .......
464: Critic's Corner, RE: Interesting idea, I hadn't thought of that (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-04-19, 10:54:01 (71.234.55.217)
ABX? Count me out. If I was still a reviewer and this reviewing - high - res - files idea was proposed to me, I might consent only if I could listen to file A or file B as many times and in any order .......
465: Critic's Corner, RE: Interesting idea, I hadn't thought of that (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-04-18, 08:32:39 (71.234.55.217)
>>Ditto with having many reviewers rate the same equipment So how do you explain the fact that we routinely had multiple reviewers compare components - usually groups of similar components - at Listen .......
466: Vinyl Asylum, SSDs aren't immune to failures (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-04-18, 04:49:01 (71.234.55.217)
My PC has a 64MB Crucial SSD as the C drive. The SSD dropped dead after about six months - it was as if the C drive didn't exist. The manufacturer replaced the SSD without question and said that the f .......
467: Critic's Corner, Interesting idea, I hadn't thought of that (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-04-18, 04:36:43 (71.234.55.217)
Of course it doesn't entirely eliminate the impractical requirement for a second person to be involved in the review. Someone has to know that file A is the SME and file B is the Graham, and it can't .......
468: General Asylum, RE: Any Environmental Potentials EP-2050 users out there? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-04-17, 17:53:16 (71.234.55.217)
The frequency of the AC power line is stable at 60 Hertz over the long term but varies minutely around 60 Hz from moment to moment. A little Googling showed that the frequency variations are caused by .......
469: General Asylum, RE: Any Environmental Potentials EP-2050 users out there? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-04-17, 09:41:35 (71.234.55.217)
>> I know it is sort of apples and oranges Indeed. The EP-2050 is a whole - house surge protector and AC noise filter. It'll protect everything in the house: your computers, TV, the clock radio next t .......
470: General Asylum, RE: Any Environmental Potentials EP-2050 users out there? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-04-16, 14:54:23 (71.234.55.217)
I've had them installed on my current and two previous houses. In the first house I put one in, the most noticeable improvement was a big reduction in mysterious PC crashes (from occasional to never) .......
471: Critic's Corner, RE: "It's quite easy to conduct blind tests on everything but speakers" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-04-13, 03:08:55 (71.234.55.217)
>>It would be fairly trivial to do such a comparison blind Then please explain how you think you would do a blind tonearm test in a writer's living room. Let's give the guy three weeks to thoroughly a .......
472: Critic's Corner, "It's quite easy to conduct blind tests on everything but speakers" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-04-12, 19:56:18 (71.234.55.217)
OK, please explain exactly how you think a blind test of, for example, a tonearm will work. You're constrained by the real world fact that, with a handful of exceptions, audio writers in the US are pa .......
473: Critic's Corner, "In audio I am talking about long-term blind tests" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-04-12, 16:40:32 (71.234.55.217)
Please explain precisely how you think that would work. Will a team of audio review guards move into the writer's home for the duration of the audition period, to prevent him or her from sneaking a pe .......
474: General Asylum, RE: Audio room in real estate listing pictures (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-04-06, 07:41:01 (71.234.55.217)
>>Someone has been watching to many of those cable shows Well, I'll plead guilty to watching HGTV sometimes. On the other hand, I've sold two houses in the last year in this terrible market so I do ha .......
475: General Asylum, RE: Audio room in real estate listing pictures (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-04-06, 05:49:50 (71.234.55.217)
What you have is obviously a bonus room and doesn't look like a "WTF is that?" immediate turn - off to me. A more obvious problem is that the house looks cluttered. All the bric - a - brac makes the h .......
476: General Asylum, RE: First off, NO printed magazine is doing well. The purpose of a radically (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-04-05, 13:50:55 (71.234.55.217)
>> It doesn't take a Warren Buffett to figure out that giving ALL subscribers the special price would mean the next issue would be the last Actually, most magazines make almost all of their money from .......
477: Critic's Corner, "Your response ... suggests that you disagree that live unamplified music is fundamental to high end audio" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-03-31, 17:45:23 (71.234.55.217)
My, that's quite an illogical leap you're making there. My response actually pointed out that your misty - eyed memory of a distant golden age where every audiophile on Earth was in unanimous agreemen .......
478: Critic's Corner, "the community was united under the principles promulgated by Pearson & TAS" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-03-31, 13:31:27 (71.234.55.217)
No, it wasn't. There were always many alternative points of view both here and abroad. Not everyone thought Harry Pearson was dispensing divine truth. .......
479: General Asylum, Double drywall (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-03-30, 05:34:11 (66.87.0.157)
If you're doing double layer drywall, put a layer of Green Glue noiseproofing caulk between the layers. I used that in my former listening room and it was quite effective at reducing noise transfer th .......
480: General Asylum, RE: Big bucks... (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-03-28, 04:28:43 (66.87.8.172)
Listener paid a little less for reviews than TAS . As Mr. Kuller noted, when one divides the pay by the hours invested in writing the reviews, it works out to way below minimum wage. I'm not a natura .......
481: Video Asylum, Thanks for your help, everybody (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-03-17, 15:59:29 (75.67.101.115)
I pulled the trigger on a Dish Network contract today. .......
482: Video Asylum, Dish Network opinions? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-03-16, 07:14:55 (75.67.101.115)
I'm moving to a new house in Connecticut next week and am considering my TV choices. Basically my options are Comcast or one of the 2 satellite TV outfits. Comcast's HD selection in my new home town i .......
483: General Asylum, Exactly (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-03-13, 11:47:39 (75.67.101.115)
This demand is similar to to what happened when I went into an Acura dealer in Boston back in 2001 to take a look at the then - new MDX. The salesman handed me a list of all the "mandatory options" I .......
484: General Asylum, RE: Insurance (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-03-12, 05:22:17 (75.67.101.115)
I'm moving in two weeks so I've been investigating all these issues. The problem with moving insurance is that it is only available if you use a moving company that is approved by the insurer. Insurer .......
485: General Asylum, Take a look at www.movingscam.com (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-03-11, 06:03:43 (75.67.101.115)
Lots of excellent information there including consumer reviews of movers all over the US. If you have any small and delicate components - an expensive tonearm, for example - take it with you in your .......
486: Vinyl Asylum, Mark your calendars: Record Store Day is April 16 (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-03-09, 05:47:05 (75.67.101.115)
The annual celebration of and by independent music stores is coming on April 16. There are always a lot of cool limited edition LPs and CDs that are only available on Record Store Day. .......
487: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Here are the instructions for record care from my 1919 Victor Victrola (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-03-08, 04:37:54 (75.67.101.115)
Wow, that's great. Victor invented the Discwasher! .......
488: Vinyl Asylum, Learn to play guitar with Pat Travers (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-03-04, 19:06:08 (75.67.101.115)
He's offering private video sessons via Skype, only $250 per half hour. .......
489: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Radio shows in Wyoming (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-03-04, 04:34:18 (75.67.101.115)
Please let us know when your shows are online! In the meantime perhaps you could make it available for downloading on a free file sharing site such as Mediafire.com? I'd love to hear the stuff you're .......
490: General Asylum, Never seen it. Don't care about it. (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-03-04, 04:21:06 (75.67.101.115)
nt .......
491: Rocky Road, Either The Sonics or The Dictators (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-03-02, 10:26:51 (75.67.101.115)
nt .......
492: Vinyl Asylum, Lousy writing (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-02-28, 03:54:18 (75.67.101.115)
This part was noteworthy: On Dec. 30, Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kan., closed down and the world passed an important if little-heralded milestone: the end of Kodachrome Little - heralded, that is, i .......
493: General Asylum, What a spectacularly uninformed comment (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-02-25, 06:32:45 (75.67.101.115)
I doubt you really know anything about Warhol and his art. You probably are completely unaware that he did over 50 LP covers, for example, including several for Blue Note. .......
494: Vinyl Asylum, RE: most accurate alignment (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-02-24, 02:53:19 (75.67.101.115)
Click on the FAQ link on the top of any Audio Asylum page, or click the link below. Scroll down. You'll find a whole section of links to articles and posts about analog gear, including several "how to .......
495: Critic's Corner, RE: "Pace, Rhythm, & Dynamics" (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-02-21, 19:10:31 (75.67.101.115)
No offense to Mr. Colloms, but Art had been writing about pace and timing in Hi Fi Heretic for perhaps five years before Colloms' article was published. The subjects had been vigorously discussed in t .......
496: Critic's Corner, No (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-02-16, 08:08:42 (75.67.101.115)
The "7 Commandments" that the animals lived by were: 1.Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. 2.Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. 3.No animal shall wear clothes. 4.No animal .......
497: Vinyl Asylum, Maybe the offset angle is correct for a 1/8" outer null point? (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-02-10, 13:01:58 (75.67.101.115)
nt .......
498: Vinyl Asylum, The perfect Valentine's Day gift for the SL-1200 owner (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-02-09, 15:02:40 (75.67.101.115)
A handmade SL-1200 ring, only $550. .......
499: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Anyone remember The Record Hunter? (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-02-09, 09:50:10 (75.67.101.115)
Didn't that place sell a small range of audio gear too? I went in there once, back in the '70s, mostly out of curiousity since I'd walked past the place hundreds of times. As I recall the interior res .......
500: Films/DVD Asylum, Rubicon was cancelled back in November (0.00)
Posted by Rob Doorack on 2011-02-08, 05:00:19 (75.67.101.115)
It's a shame; I really liked the show. .......
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