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If they're gonna have a sophomoric name -- I'm gonna lean into it. Schiit's got a new (?) vacuum tube headphone amplifier, using an actual tube (twin triode) with actual plate voltage (100 V), actually cheap ($149). Do we know anyone who might want to test one...

An amazing and hyper-useful resource for us all. I hope it remains as a service in perpetuity. I've long wondered about the back story, because it is such a mammoth undertaking. https://tvnewscheck.com/business/article/david-gleason-builds-a-digital-archive-worth-honoring/...

Just saw mention and some positive feedback on this new (?) loudspeaker project, and wondering if anyone here knew of 'em and/or were paying any attention to this? I did a quick keyword search here & didn't see anything, so I figured I'd take a chance and just ask...

There's a current thread at the Polk forums discussing a video review (by good ol' DR, in full disclosure! :facepalm:) of the 'vintage' Polk LSi9 loudspeakers. https://forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/198948/danny-at-gr-beats-up-on-the-ole-lsi9 The following comment appeared in that thread. I...

https://www.bizquest.com/business-for-sale/custom-speaker-manufacturer-brooklyn-new-york/BW2084589/ Ohm is for sale, it appears. Pretty reasonably priced -- about the same price as a decent house on a decent sized piece of property here in 2023. ;) I actually have a pair of Ohm Walsh 2s in...

Bringing you yesterday's products tomorrow seems more and more to be the default business plan for "new" loudspeakers. https://www.mcintoshlabs.com/products/speakers/ML1?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ML1announcement Some entertaining chatter about this "new" product...

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/remembering-john-lydon-and-nora-forster-punks-greatest-love-story-once-i-make-the-commitment-its-forever-202649546.html Certainly a sweeter story than Sid & Nancy.

I realize that some of y'all are fortunate enough not to remember the 1970s. This thread topic may, or may not, be for you! ;) I was just reading a thread at audiokarma which contained a link to an "explanation" of sealed (and, by implication, acoustic suspension -- as opposed to other sealed...

So, there's been some back-corridor murmuring about vintage hifi and ASR* and, as sometimes happens, I come to this place, hat in hand, as something of a de facto spokescreature. I.e., don't kill the messenger, OK? ;) There's a moderate, persistent interest in hifi of old, even here at ASR...

https://ampapa.net/products/a1 [emphasis added] Kinda makes you wonder how many carelessly designed products they've been responsible for, doesn't it? :cool: Snark aside ;) It's cute, and it's cheap, and it has tubes. And the company has a fashionably ridiculous name. I wonder if they're...

Not sure if it is kosher to post this here*, but I just saw this at the Polk forums and I wanted to share it somewhere. :) Polk is having a "friends & family" style sale -- Polk forum members only, it says... but that's a pretty low bar (don't ask me how I know this). Ahem. :cool: As I think...

So, I'm a scientist, not a historian, but I am still fascinated by history... and I crave context. You all know that the late Sir Clive Sinclair is regarded as the purveyor of the first significant PWM amplifier products for audio. https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/showthread.php?t=81139 A...

https://www.vinshineaudio.com/product-page/denafrips-poseidon News to me. Of interest to any of you? I dunno. :) It's not terrifyingly expensive.

So... I just discovered some interesting music on an old backup portable HDD that is in the form of "SHN" files. I guess this were some sort of early lossless file format( "shorten"?). At any rate, I don't seem to have any s/w that can either convert or play them. A google search turns up...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/highlander-partners-announces-acquisition-mcintosh-090000283.html "further details as events warrant" :oops:

Posted by "SeleniumFalcon" (Ken S.) at the Polk forums today. source: https://forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/comment/2680695#Comment_2680695

We have a problem at our house in the wintertime with the large, aggressive songbirds known in the US as bluejays. They peck at the paint on our house. Why do they do that? I hear you ask. They're hungry (so to speak) for calcium. A couple of years ago, in an attempt (only semi-successful) to...

Saw this... umm... Someplace Else... :p and thought it was cute/clever/interesting enough to share. YMMV, of course. https://lensprojects.com/2022/03/03/a-tube-stereo-amp-built-in-the-style-of-classic-mcintosh/

Popped up in my inbox earlier today & thought it worthy of sharing here. https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/cc-tv/cc-video-do-you-know-how-a-manual-transmission-really-works-1936-and-2015-videos-explain-it/#more-433537 not one but two videos showing how a manual transmission... umm...

Upon reflection, ASR seems like a good place to pose this question: Why did the world's loudspeaker manufacturers (or, perhaps, more to the point, driver manufacturers) migrate, inexorably, from 8 ohm to 4 ohm nominal impedance for their products? Is there a theoretical or practical up-side to...