Recording of May 1989: Spike

Recording of May 1989: Spike

Jan 02, 2011 First Published:May 02, 1989
The ideal rock singer/songwriter? Someone who addresses adult issues with all the passion of adolescence (than which, believe me, there is none more monomaniacal—there's no righteous indignation like a teenager's). Someone who can sing about him- or herself and strike the universal; someone who can tell a story of what the swells call "the human condition," or of some social injustice, in terms of how it affects a single life in all that life's unique details. In this case, some musical near-illiterate like "The Beloved Entertainer," as it says on the little brass nameplate under the harlequin-painted face exploding from the golden Warner Brothers shield on the cover of Spike—The Little Hands of Concrete himself.

Audio Research LS8 line preamplifier

Audio Research LS8 line preamplifier

Jan 02, 2011 First Published:Mar 02, 1999
While high-priced equipment can easily acquire stature on grounds of outright performance and physical appearance, we critics have more admiration for genuine achievement at lower price levels. One such product was the all-triode SP8 preamplifier from Audio Research, launched back in 1982 and priced at $1400. This classically tasteful preamplifier came equipped with a medium-sensitivity phono equalizer and the usual tape and line inputs.

Hole found in speaker

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Submitted by vman on

I took my screen of my speaker yesterday (Dali Ikon 6) - just packing them for a move and wanted to check them out - and noticed a small hole in the rubber around the outside of one of the speakers. The speaker itself is fine, just the rubber part that makes it vibrate. I have not noticed a problem with the audio from that speaker - I found it by chance.

Is this an issue? I would imagine any air that escapes that hole is not transferring to the speaker vibration. It looks like the part is replaceable...

Any thoughts?

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