BillD

Anyone have favorites to scare the little kiddies that come trick-or-treating? Of course, the classic is Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, a great piece of music, and it deserves to be heard. It's become associated with Halloween as the ultimate example of spooky music mostly because it was used in all those old movies that featured mad organists playing their subterranean instruments beneath old opera buildings in the middle of the night. Another great album I play on Halloween is Witches Brew with Alexander Gibson conducting the New Symphony Orchestra of London.

Over in the Dark Tower, there has been some discussion about how computers were not fit to rip CDs. If you still go over there, you might want to read the thread, and the beginnings of this thread too, especially the excellent article by Robert Harley. Anyway, the discussions over there prompted me to post what has become known to some over there as "The Post"

I listened to some at the RMAF, and they sound nice. Compared to a lot of other speakers I listened to, they were a bargain, too. Consider, if you want to sell hardware, you need a reference speaker to compare it to. It seemed that those were Wilson Sophia (budget) speakers at only $12,000 a pair. When you're selling speakers, the sky's the limit . I saw plenty of 6-digit speakers.

Welcome, Bob. I know your posts will be of great interest to all of us here. Many followed the building of the CarverFest amps.

He's kind of an unusual guy, I understand, but he knows his stuff.

Welcome to the show.

My point is that bad music can be produced on any medium.

If it's on vinyl doesn't make it good.

Glad you decided to take the plunge.

I would have thought that the XM26 would be more your style, Rod. XM26

I swear by Rane's. The company was formed by Phase Linear guys. Another choice might be a Marchand.

I believe Scott (dyeraudio) and Mike (Rainman) on the other site have Linns. Scott has Keilidhs and Mike has Kabers.

Well, I know a little about isobaric hookups. You use two speakers in the same enclosure, either cone to magnet (stacked) in-phase, or magnet to magnet (back to back) out of phase. It keeps the chamber between the two speakers at the "same pressure" or isobaric. If they weren't, distortions would arise. Purportedly, you can double the output in the same size enclosure with this method (especially used in bass configurations. Here's some more info. http://forums.linn.co.uk/bb/printthread.php?tid=21

. You can probably get a used copy somewhere like Amazon

I have one (from the '70s) that I think is expired. Doesn't light a neon bulb.