albertporter
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| Heads Up for EELS fans I played a couple of Eels albums last night during our regular Tuesday night music session. It's not just the music and lyrics, these early recordings sound quality is wonderful.We played the 45 single of "Susans House" and two LPs, "Electro Shock... | |
| Beatles Reissues on VINYL Finally I find myself agreeing very strongly with Mr. Fremer. I think this box set for the price is well worthwhile, especially for those of us that bought the USA versions on day of release and have nothing else.I do like the 1979 Blue Box set and we als... | |
| Green and Clapton I love these music topics, it's what makes all the work on the system worthwhile. | |
| Rate your QRP Doors 45's It's a "MR" in the dead wax. Pretty easy to see. Forums at Hoffman site discuss this for pages and pages. Some people are really into chasing down an exact pressing and it's dizzying how many there are in some cases.I don't know if you're a Beatle... | |
| Rate your QRP Doors 45's Fjn04,Wow Albert- you guys went to town. Thanks for sharing that. I have what I believe is a first press (Red label) Morrison Hotel. This pressing sounds great to me, which is why I passed on the QRP. I agree, the original is great and is exactly ... | |
| Rate your QRP Doors 45's I have all the original first press LP releases "Big E" Electra and also all the Steve Hoffman DCC on LP.I only bought "Morrison Hotel" (my favorite Doors album) on QRP and I think it's superb. Oddly enough we had a recent listening session where ... | |
| Green and Clapton There may be other instances but I immediately remembered the Bluesbreakers Band and found the following at Wikipedia .John Mayall BluesbreakersAfter three months with Bardens' group, Green had the opportunity to fill in for Eric Clapton in John M... | |
| Test settings on Hickok 750 for 7062/E180CC tubes Swampwalker,I have a complete test guide for Hickok 752, no chart data in standard, obsolete or euro for E180CC /7062,I was told the 6414 is electrical sub for E180CC but my GE Tube sub book does not confirm.If you wish to use 6414 test to see if ... | |
| I just had my Audiogon account hacked . . . Phishers have run that and other scams on me at least eight times in the last few months.Most recent appears to be a message from Audiogon telling me a member has started a conversation with me:New Message from AudiogoN CustomerFrom: dblsonds 11/0... | |
| Review: ZYX UNIverse II Cartridge 11-02-12: LewmHaving recently and repeatedly listened to a ZYX UNIverse (the original) in a system using a tonearm, turntable, and phono stage (Doshi) nearly identical to Doug's, I can say that his verbal description of the sound of that cartridge... | |
| New level of ridiculousness 10-31-12: ViridianYa know, I was just down at the grocery store buyin' a nice box of Carlo Rossi rose. It gets the missis in the mood, ya know? There was some moron right next to me pickin' out some Chateau Effete something or other, from 1954, he... | |
| Review: ZYX UNIverse II Cartridge Doug,There was a time when SORAsound lost representation of the ZYX line and the new importer (or whatever title) sent me multiple ZYX cartridges on three different occasions.It's possible they were not the latest version as all things in high end... | |
| Review: ZYX UNIverse II Cartridge 10-28-12: RaythaiHi everybody:I wonder any of us has an A and B comparison between ZYX Universe II and Air Tight Supreme PC1I've had them both in my system. I'm a fan of Air Tight and the Lyra Atlas so that's my vote.These two (ZYX and Air Tight) ... | |
| THE GREAT AC OUTLET SHOOTOUT. Peter, I don't want to get involved in this, but I don't show any existing order for a Porter Port. Let me know what you need unless a friend is loaning you one.Also, the Hubbell male I suggested is one I choose many, many years ago when I was exp... | |
| Micro Seiki, or TW AC-1 10-22-12: ThuchanPcosta,I never made any negative remarks about the TW designs. I know Thomas Woschnik from the very first beginning he started with his first tables in Germany and I also followed the successful landing in the US market by the act... |