I second this option of the 604E / Mastering Lab crossover (in a suitably voluminous cabinet). The only speaker I’ve heard that might have it beat in the midrange while maintaining that Altec effortlessness, is the @je2a3 753c Altec 2-way.
I’m also going to disagree with the ‘604E’s can’t...
Yes. We had apple trees in our yard growing up (King, Transparent, Gravenstein, etc.), and I learned to always buff off an apple on my shirt before eating.
The only tube preamp I've ever had in my system that was sufficiently quiet for my Altecs was a DIY Aikido LV. There's a reason I'm using solid state for the preamplification stages and tubes for the output.
Follow up - the toggles I bought off of eBay were...not great. However, I just decided to outright omit the 3.3R and there's the sparkle that I was missing. Allowed me to back off the 8kHz shelf a bit. Big improvement.
Sorry - was not intended as a natural disaster pissing contest. More just amusing that I've been within 50 miles of three major geologic events.
(also, I am a smidge older than you)
I was approximately the same distance (on the border between La Verne and San Dimas) from the epicenter of the Northridge quake as you were. The weird thing with Northridge was how the effects propagated - almost like there were (relative) null zones.
Ironically, I was also ~ 50 miles from...
I've been in three significant earthquakes in my life:
Spring Break Quake (5.6) - 1993
Northridge (6.7) - 1994
Nisqually (6.8) - 2001
In all three cases, I was sufficiently far enough from the epicenter to not be in imminent danger (other than books falling on me during the '93 quake), but...
I have a Record Doctor clamp that I use on my SP10 that seems to help with flattening out slightly warped records (that I haven't got around to flattening myself). My SP15 doesn't have enough spindle to grab with a Record Doctor, so I use a hockey puck as a clamp on it.
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