Thanks Bill. Always nice to see vinyl ‘gifts’ awaiting me at any time 👍🏼
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@bkeske It’s good to hear you’re both back to your homes, safe and sound. Finding a couple LPs when you get back has to feel good. Cheers to you both. |
@bkeske no, been out of town mostly and leaving again for a week. I’m also this week making some other changes/additions to the basement setup (runs off the same vinyl front end) and want to establish a benchmark with my Hana SL before changing it out for The Voice. Exciting prospects for me all around. |
Thanks guys, really appreciate it. I feel like I’ve been gone for a year. Perhaps one nice thing; having a break like that from my system may allow me to appreciate it even more. @spiritofradio You get the Voice installed yet? (Have not scrolled back though all the posts yet). |
Welcome back Brian, was wondering what might have happened. @bkeske Holding good thoughts for your Mom. Glad she’s ok. ————————
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Hey guys, I’m back. Unfortunately had to unexpectedly leave town to care for my mom who wound up in the hospital late last Saturday. But, brought her home yesterday, and came back home today…..so that’s step one. She isn’t getting any younger, but that was a real scare. Glad she is OK, especially at Christmas time, her favorite time of the year. Got a couple LP’s in the mail while away, so really looking forward to spinning some vinyl this evening. Hope everyone is well! |
Indeed they were Tim. Both shows were at small venues. The musicians, including Fripp came and mingled with the audience asking their opinion. The California Guitar Trio were an offshoot (maybe more like successor since Guitar Craft ended a while ago) who still perform (before COVID) around Southern California. I don’t believe there was a picture in the CD of how they perform. They form a horseshoe with Fripp on one end. Anywhere from 7 to 9 other musicians form the group. Fripp leads but the others perform their parts without any cues needed. They all played the same Ovation hollow body acoustic guitar but with steel strings. That might be evident from the CD. Guitar Craft was a residential program at Claymont Court in West Virginia that Fripp held for several summers. One aphorism Fripp used with the group was “If where we are going is how we get there, then we are already where we are going.”
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@boxer12 , It’s too bad none of the craftys ended up on vinyl. I saw them perform twice and picked up the companion cassette which has many more tracks than the CD. @bkeske if you’re a Numbers Band fan (15-60-75), I received the remastered version (by Paul Hamann) of “Jimmy Bell’s Still In Town” on Exit Stencil records last week. Excellent remaster of a live recording at the Agora (the Mistake was downstairs) in Cleveland on 16 June 1975. They opened for Bob Marley and the Wailers. You can purchase directly from the Numbers Band website. The “Jackleg” LP is a Robert Kidney solo and also quite good. |
Tunehead, Welcome! So I checked out the specs of your preamp & your cartridge. The MC setting on your pre gives you 50db gain & 100 ohms load. Your cartridge output is .35mv with a 100 ohm load recommendation. That stated, your cartridge output is fairly low (not extreme) as is the preamps 50db gain. This is why it sounds "softer" compared to your prior ADC MM. So yes, a separate phono preamp (say one with at least 60db gain) will correct the "softness" you hear & probably improve the cartridges performance overall. An SUT will do that as well but if you go through the MM section of your preamp you’ll be stuck with 47K ohm load. That could make the cartridge kind of bright. Either way, you’ll be looking at spending more money so unless you’re hearing "noise or distortion" with your current set up, I wouldn’t worry about it until you are ready to upgrade. Just my 2 cents |
@boxer12 Tim, since you’re on a King Crimson roll, do you have any of Fripp’s work when he was doing The League of Crafty Guitarists? Only time for one tonight, Firesign Theatre “Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers” Columbia 1970 |
The Steve Miller Band-Book Of Dreams Side 1 Seals & Crofts-Sudan Village Side 1 Little Johnny Taylor-Open House At My House(Contempo COLP-R-1003) Side 1 The Manhattan Transfer-Coming Out Side 1 Rita Coolidge-Anytime...Anywhere Side 1 SQ Audiophile Gino Vannelli-Nightwalker Side 2 SQ Audiophile* The Moody Blues-The Present Side 1 The Doobie Brothers-Livin’ On The Fault Line Side 2 Started off with a real turkey 3x platinum nonsense! My wife even commented this album is awful! Why did I play it? Was curious about the SQ which is just average. The SQ star here was Rita Coolidge. Mastered at The Mastering Lab-Mike Reese. The sound is tight/clean/focused/direct and detailed. Gino Vannelli has a slight digital edge that’s why the*. Dynamic would be the best way to describe this recording mastered by Bernie Grundman. Yes, I’m one of the few that enjoy watered down Moody Blues recordings from the 1980’s! |
Hate to ask, but, you did change the switch from MM to MC on your phono stage to increase the gain to match the lower output of the MC cartridge? And yes, I believe all cartridges benefit from 50-100 hours of break-in. Should improve gradually over time until you get some hours on it. I haven't had an MC cartridge in a long time. The phono section in my current integrated amp only supports MM cartridges. |
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