Jeff Rowland Design Group - Factory Tour

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Submitted by dcstep on

Jeff Rowland Design Group dealer Soundings sponsored a field trip for customers and friends to visit JRDG headquarters in Colorado Springs last week. We also visited Vertec Tool, maker of Rowland's incredible chassis.

I drafted some blog entries about the trip and Soundings posted my notes along with a few of my pictures on their blog at:
Soundings' Blog

Dave

The Specter Haunting Pop Music

The Specter Haunting Pop Music

Jun 04, 2008

Sasha Frere-Jones has a fascinating <A HREF="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2008/06/09/080609crmu_mus…; in the June 9 <I>The New Yorker</I> about Antares's Auto-Tune software. In case you aren't familiar with it, Auto-Tune is pitch correction software that is used almost universally in contemporary pop recordings&mdash;sometimes just to "fix" an off note, increasingly frequently as an effect in its own right.

The Great Speakers Search, Part II

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Submitted by linden518 on

Moved into a bigger house, which means I have a basement I can use as study/listening room, away from kids. Nice. But the space is about 13 x 17, with low ceilings, smaller than I thought. So I am going to pair up Harbeth Super HL5s in the living room with Plinius 8150. Which means I'm going to start auditioning some speakers for my Leben CS600 for my basement system, which is ~ 30 wpc/8 ohms.

The Dispensable Criteria

The Dispensable Criteria

Jun 03, 2008

My copy of Peter, Paul, & Mary's <i>Album 1700</i>, which I had bought many years ago for its Bonnie and Clyde album art, wasn't nearly as dusty as <i>Santana</i>. When I inspected it beneath a lamp, however, I noticed that it was covered by a sort of dull, gray film. The vinyl wasn't black. It was sickly. Indeed, this was one of my many albums that had suffered through the dark, dirty waters of a basement flood. Maybe two or three floods. Maybe four.

Bo Diddley:1928–2008

Bo Diddley:1928–2008

Jun 03, 2008

Some musicians are remembered for a single remarkable album; some are remembered for a hit song&mdash;Bo Diddley will always be remembered for a beat. That eponymous beat&mdash;a rhumba-inflected <I>Bomp a-bomp-a-bomp, bomp, bomp</I>&mdash;may well have been "the most plagiarized rhythm in rock," as <I>Rolling Stone</I> claimed in 2005.

Lipinski Speakers

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Submitted by lannyt on

Does anyone know whether Lipinski speakers are still in business? They are made in Warsaw, they are fabulous for the money (and beat the pants off many speakers many times their price) but the most recent information on the web is from 2007.....nothing from 2008.

Does anyone know if they are still actively in business?

Thanks for your help.

Rim job,? Drive of teh moment is best

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Submitted by CECE on

What don't this outfit "upgrade" into the best sounding this month? So now maybe the Garrard Zero 100 is the best arm next month? This company goes through upgrades, like bars of soap. Everything is a prototype, never gets it right?, and every update costs thousands.....only in audio, if this where products that need to work the best, in the first go round, he would probably have the FTC on his back. How do you justify all these rube goldberg setups, as upgrades?

Tube and SS - Noob Selection

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Submitted by dnmattisson on

Tried to post this earlier but don't see it on here...sorry if I'm double posting.

I live in China for the moment and am choosing between buying a solid state amp (likely a Dussun V8i) or a tube amp (Cayin, Jolida, Shengya?). I've auditioned a few and like several models.

Any advice for which way to lean? I listen to all types of music, jazz, classical, and some bass heavy styles like acid jazz/electronic, and even hip hop.

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