There are a couple of threads on here discussing Mint. One camp seems to feel that overhang is overrated. Interesting discussions. Like the divergent politics spouted on here... it seems there are differing persuasions about turntable setup and electronics. So, makes me want to get the software to show and know when it’s dialed in. And to be honest I think it would be fun to fool around with.
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This might be another thread but does anybody here supplement their setup with protractors, templates, and listening with analytical software? If so, which software? I’m seriously considering this after my recent positive experiences with my dealers’ use of software to test out and conform my setup. |
@slaw , et. al., You’re no doubt already aware but Just in case don’t want you to miss KNowing that Steve earl is doing a live broadcast today at 4 your time (est) on YouTube and facebook: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCPPWVL3JnDB1wfdviNoTPBg/featured Has anyone heard Ghost of West Virginia yet? Is it good? Does it sound good? |
Good find Uber. It’s a little heavier than most of the other Canterbury Scene records of that general era. I like it. I really would have liked to have this when I was in High School. We did what we could to find heavy music outside the more well known Sabbath and Deep Purple. So much of this early Psyc and Prog and Heavy Rock that I’m having fun finding out about lately was just completely unknown to us then. We lived a sheltered life…. |
I love Soft Machine! @reubent @Uber waltz, and the whole Canterbury scene really. Especially Caravan and Hatfield and the North. (Connections to Pink Floyd too. ) Uber is right they went through a lot of changes. Ok Musically I think the 8th album, “Bundles”, is the most interesting, It has Alan Holdsworth on guitar. I think he only joined thIs morphic collective For one album. @reubent you might actually like the later albums in that they’re way more jazz rock like I know you’re interested in. The very Different very early stuff featured this Interesting guy Robert Wyatt who was a real radical thinking and major leftist dude. His later poetic records are legendary in strange circles. |
@uber, Well then, there’s something we have in common. We could have some good times talking about the strange and wonderful albums in our respective collections dude. I searched for Axe Victim in used record stores for a long time, years probably, after hearing no trains to heaven on a college radio station in the bay area. Must have been a few years after it was issued because I had a very hard time finding it. That was a different time. Maybe more joy in the discovery crate flipping back then. Now all those wish list records are just an easy click away. But I guess my problem now is quite a few of the long coveted records on my list cost 3 or 500 bucks….. |
‘Been streaming Beethoven Violin Sonatas I like all morning and got to thinking (again) about all the CDs that I wish would have been mixed for and pressed on Vinyl. So I began a list of a few I’ve thought about lately and actually initiated a post.... https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/i-wish-these-albums-were-available-on-vinyl What’s at the top of your list For albums that need to be put on Vinyl? |
@big_greg, Thanks. Cool. Isn’t Echo Audio a great store. We’re fortunate to have them here. I got the 10 in mahogany that had been in their showroom for awhile. I believe Kurt’s was a 12 but I’m not certain about that. I remember admiring it’s aesthetic back then before he sold it and before I knew more about its technical/sonic attributes. The other parts of my system aren’t nearly as expensive as what you heard but my table sure does sound sweet. |
@slaw yeah, I don’t really like to broadcast much about any spending that I do and I almost never buy anything very expensive, my system was mostly pieced together used and would probably be viewed as mid-fi by the Audiogon gang, but as many of us audio nuts do, I looked around quite a bit for years for something different and new and I will tell you and my other friends on the thread here about it. What I did first was move my entire rig into a heavy cabinet in another room from where the big speakers are in the living room. So the table could be on solid footing with very little vibration or air movement. This requires kind of a long speaker wire run under the floor but I got good shielded stuff for the job from Transparent. This change really made a significant improvement In SQ coming from my 30+ y/o 1200. Feedback eliminated, resonances greatly reduced, less noise. Might sound crazy but putting my turntable in the next room really worked. So then, since I didn’t have to worry so much about isolation, I got my own idea (who knows if it would be considered correct to a real audiophile) that I should go with mass rather than springs. I also thought I should demonstrate to myself what a good belt drive might do. In the haze and deliberation of copious research I eventually became beguiled by the Pro-Ject xtention: https://www.project-audio.com/en/product/xtension-10-evolution/ I did not have the prejudice against this maker of value equipment that I’ve heard many do because I really don’t know enough to have that problem. This turntable is so nice to look at, especially in person, that I sometimes second guessed my own judgements as well as the good reviews about it. But I got over that and saved up for one. Then, when my favorite stereo store, Echo Audio, here in Portland offered their demo example I bought it. They also gave me a significant additional discount to take it without the packaged sumiko cartridge. So all in I got a virtually perfect tt for about half of the retail price. I put my Hana SL on it with the Origin Live enabler between the cartridge and the fixed arm. I don’t think the 1200, as much as I loved it, was quite able to show what the Hana was capable of. The dealer, who I consider a friend who helps me a lot even when I’m not buying things, put his elaborate TT software to the setup and got exceptional results. The best he had seen on the software to that point. I’m not even really sure what all the measurements mean but we agreed that it sounds very good. After a few weeks of listening here at home I remain astonished at the analogue sound I have now. I know it’s considered too easy to say things like it’s magical but I find myself wanting to say things like that. It is really astonishing. ——————————- Beethoven Symphony No. 6 in F Major Op. 68 “Pastoral” Berliner Philharmoniker Sir Simon Rattle From the 2017 Boxed Set |
slaw9,803 posts05-09-2020 8:44pm“....and it all comes back to RUSH“ Yeah, pretty much, and once in awhile you have to bring in some Steely Dan... |