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Tommylion, I don’t know which release of the Heifetz/Reiner/CSO recording of the Brahms Violin Concerto you listened to, but can you or anyone else here comment on the Analog Productions/Acoustic Sounds reissue on LP?Regards,-- Al  
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Thanks Frank.  I hadn't previously known of Erica Morini.For those who may be interested in but unfamiliar with the Brahms Violin Concerto, here is a relatively recent live performance by the great Itzhak Perlman as soloist, with Daniel Barenboim ... 
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Thanks, Geoff!  I'll try to find it on vinyl, as my Tandberg 3004 cassette deck needs repair (which I've been procrastinating on, as the repair will most likely be quite expensive).Regards,-- Al   
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Tommylion 3-22-2017 Just finished listening to Jascha Heifetz playing Brahm’s Violin Concerto with Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony OrchestraAmazing! It’s moments like these where all this "audiofool" stuff really pays off. Must have been won... 
Question about weak link
Aside from the breakin possibility that has been mentioned, the one other possibility that occurs to me after looking at descriptions of all of the equipment you mentioned relates to the characteristics of the SR speaker cables. None of their basi... 
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Geoffkait 3-20-2017 I don’t think it’s correct to say it’s an open forum per se. Most other audio forums don’t allow politics, religion or other hot topics on audio forums but instead have a place where people can go and bash away at each othe... 
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Marqmike, thanks very much for the nice words.Regarding the appropriateness of political discussion at this forum, like JonD I was surprised at the controversy that resulted from his extremely polite and respectful request.  Which to Frank's credi... 
Any issues to be aware of if driving SET from a balanced source?
George, I don’t know about the adapters you suggested, but IME most XLR to RCA adapters short the signal on XLR pin 3 to ground (XLR pin 1). That will be appropriate for many XLR outputs that are transformer coupled or "cross coupled" (as well as ... 
Amps Atma-Sphere M-60 Mono blocks OTL design
Hi Bob,It is certainly possible to overdo the DEQX calibrations/corrections, resulting in unnatural sound. But as my dealer advised me (Nyal Mellor of AcousticFrontiers.com, who is wonderful), corrections should be applied conservatively. Especial... 
Ripping 700 CD's to HD using FLAC-How much space?
Has anyone ever had a solid state drive fail? I've had about 10 over the past 7-8 years and never had a failure. I have 8 of them, ranging in age from a few months to about 5 or 6 years, and in size from 128 gB to 500 gB.  All have always worked... 
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Why not just go for $0.10 if it doesn't make a difference? I have never said it won't make a difference.  In fact I have said the opposite many times, in this and other fuse-related threads.For example, see the summary of my technically based op... 
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For those considering replacing a stock fuse with an inexpensive new fuse, I suggest purchasing either a Littelfuse or an Eaton/Cooper Bussmann fuse.  A good source is industrial distributor Digikey, which has no minimum order requirement or handl... 
Any issues to be aware of if driving SET from a balanced source?
Horacio (Lewinskih01), this can certainly be made to work by means of an adapter cable, although you might obtain better results by using a Jensen transformer to convert the balanced signal pair to an unbalanced signal.See the following link:http:... 
Amps Atma-Sphere M-60 Mono blocks OTL design
Hi Bob,I don’t recall anyone reporting having used a DEQX with a time coherent speaker (e.g. Vandersteen, Thiel, Green Mountain Audio).BTW, time coherence implies phase coherence, but phase coherence does not necessarily imply time coherence. Many... 
Most Important, Unloved Cable...
Thanks, Doug.Those reading this thread may wish to also read a series of posts beginning around 2-16-2012 in the following thread:https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/shielding-components-from-emi-rfi-help-pleaseMember Bryoncunningham, who IMO i...