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| Can You Idenitfy the song whose refrain is Bless you a thousand times, Lugnut. | |
| Audiogon "RECORDINGS TO DIE FOR" list Ataulfo Argenta Edition (box set)Liszt 'Annees de Pelerinage' D.G. Lazar BermanSuzanne Vega 'Solitude Standing'Patti Smith 'Horses'Gilbert and Sullivan 'Mikado" D'Oyly Carte Opera CompanySinatra 'Come Fly With Me'Cannonball Adderly 'Mercy"Four Fav... | |
| How often to Audiophiles upgrade their equipment? Slappy, the last Slappy I knew was my history teacher and Golden Gloves champ. Slappy used to entertain us in the cafeteria by grasping a fly in front our noses with his massive fist. He would slowly open his fist to reveal the compacted fly. He t... | |
| Turntable stands I have a Sound Org for my AR (cherry base) that I passed on to my daughter, going along with twl. Perfect!For my Linn, My shelves are much higher and less rigid. I use Black Diamond shelf with their cones on the marble shelf. So the Linn sits in t... | |
| How often to Audiophiles upgrade their equipment? I hear no reason to upgrade. Urge is the curse. Spit in its eye. If you cannot articulate your goal, as Thomas Aquinas taught us, you do not know what it is. Breathe andwait for it to become a well formed goal. Meantime be in your family and let t... | |
| Advice wanted on mid range setup Can't improve on TWL, but you might have the pace of acquisition or playing to use Disc Doctor's manual system of terry cloth, purified water, miracle cleaner and brushes until you want to spend more for a machine cleaner. And dont forget the Last... | |
| Getting into analog is tough.... I was just thumbing, as it were, through the sage advice from my betters, and I noticed you had another grand. Now you'se really in Fat City. You can start at lush and luxuriate from there. Now you should have a glass of Champagne while listening ... | |
| Listening to ALL your music Forget it. At best, only one in three of my CDs were bought for more that two cuts. The rest get the ole in an out. And I have not played 60% in the last three years. | |
| Favorite Movie Soundtrack Lawrence of arabia, Patton, Zorba the greek, Smoke, the Civil War | |
| Favorite Movie Soundtrack The Big Night, Alfie, Casino Royale, Brassed Off, The Russian Ark. | |
| OK to play 78s with elliptical stylus? I have the Sure. It is very good. It has the bridges for mono. And cocobolo is poisonous, hee-hee. Just don't forget to clean your records. And finish with Last preservative. | |
| Getting into analog is tough.... Take a deep clean breath. Do it once for each decision point you mentioned. You have enough money for everything. You have enough time for them. And you don't need a needle, unless you mean for something to calm you. Needles went out with Prohibit... | |
| Is heavy vinyl worth it? Another thought. I noticed my rig is sensitive to the thickness of heavy vinyl. It has to do with the how high the arm sits on the pivot shaft. I did not get full benefit until I compensated for the teensy little bit more it needed to be raised. | |
| Three electrostat choices and my room-- need help Thanks to everybody for making my 'short' list three times bigger than when I started. I shoulda known this would backfire on me. At least a plurality has arisin for Sound Labs. Of course you'se found something more expensive than anything I start... | |
| What CDs do you use to evaluate gear, systems, etc Here is what I use...Rebecca Pidgeon's version of Spanish Harlem on Chesky album 'The Raven'.Suzanne Vega's Jim's Diner on Solitude Standing. Those are great solo voice.My acid test is Henryk Gorecki's Symphony #3 for low level resolution at the b... |