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I can see this being useful for fabricating out of production knobs and cams and gears and other parts that are often missing from the gear that I repair from day to day.

As with last year, our B.A.S.S. Meet was a great success!
Thank you to all who attended and brought so many great food items as well!

The main audio/video demo featured my Blu-ray productions of...

T-minus 34-1/2 hours til the 2nd Annual B.A.S.S. meet kicks off!
If flying in by air, to JFK, take CT Limo up to our place. Directions available via PM.

See ya'll here Saturday!

Quite a few Jazz recordings have the bass EQ'ed up the wazzoo, really over-the-top excessive. Perhaps that's got to do with the assumption that these recordings might be played at very low levels...

Two things:

Realize that most every recording you buy today has been mixed on a pair of Yamaha NS-10s. These are cheap paper cone speakers of the quality that Lafayette used to sell up through the...

Of course I agree that the ability to reproduce music faithfully is paramount importance. I was responding to the comments that suggest it is impossible to reproduce the crack of a snare drum or the...

Difficult, but not impossible. When I got a live concert, I discover one thing overall: the experience is feeble compared to how I'm used to listening to music at home. I had this experience in...

I stopped taking Maalox when my ulcers healed when I quit the 9-5 stress lifestyle 30 years ago, so, nope. Maybe I should rework that BASS intro video to filter out the single-digit infrasonics?

Unfortunately, no, due to orchestra union restrictions. And the only copy that I've sent for evaluation went to Peter Aczel at the Audio Critic. Here's what he had to say about it:

“I played your...

I doubt there are 5,000 audiophiles in the whole world! LOL!

Commercial recordings (orchestral) are either dark and lacking in detail, flat and two-dimensional (from overhead miking), or...

We don't do drugs here. :-)

That goes double for baseball caps and toupés!

If I may be so bold as to state that 90% or more of commercial recordings aren't made by persons who understand how to capture the sound of an orchestra, that would be the fundamental point of my...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxaW2eEUvFM&list=UUtbS6c4Uq1fHlk_gD0TuFBQ&index=1

...and here it is, the promo spot for our little meetup!

Sheer volume isn't everything, of course. But without lots of headroom, recorded music can never sound 'live'. It is one of many (but a very important) aspects that play a role in realistic sound...

I realize that the 'norm' in audiophile systems means barely struggling to get to 120dB, but there are <ahem> systems out there that play louder the a jet engine and can destroy wood frame dwellings....

The major flaw in this demo video is that the recording space and the playback space are different. The second major flaw is in the fact that there are two sound sources spaced way apart versus the...

We're just doing RSVP stuff via e-mails, like last year. This isn't a major trade convention, so no registration web site. Just an informal gathering of audiophiles from the northeast (and slightly...

Yes. In fact, I was asked to work for Michael Fremer, for free, videotaping his vinyl demonstration seminar that weekend. I chose to do the other thing. Also, the 13th seems to be preferred by those...

It's been a busy month in the shop, and I realized it's almost April!!

Planning of the second B.A.S.S. meetup here at the Bass Pig's Lair is underway and we're floating Saturday April 13 as a...

I test all of my tubes on a Tektronix 576 curve tracer. It is simply impossible to get a perfect match by testing tubes at one voltage and current level, due to non linearity in the curves. When...

March 30, April 6, April 13.. these are the possible dates for the next Basspig Audiophile Society Social meeting. If anyone would like to see the legendary Bass Pig's Lair (sound system and...

LOL, Don! Good one!

Pickups, tap points and how you phase them can completely change the sound you get. I remember toward the end of last summer, a musician brought in a guitar for me to rewire...

Aren't guitar players similar to a segment of the audiophile population? Many of the same characteristics.
Tubes are a familiar world that I am completely comfortable with, as I've worked with them...

I'm going to be working on a P300 next week. Same customer sent me his P200 preamp for refurbishment and correcting a few minor problems. One of the lowest distortion phono preamps I've seen....