bdp24
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| Many higher end preamps are dated and ugly, why is this? The Shindo pre-amps are very classy looking, aren’t they? Timeless, understated tasteful elegance. | |
| How best to eliminate LP warps As @petg60 and @drbond just said, The Vinyl Flat Record Flattener, $159.95 direct from Vinyl Flat. Accessory heating bag The Groovy Pouch $89.95. Both @slaw and I (and Mike Fremer, etc.) have found it to work very well. Mild/"slow" warps can some... | |
| Turntable noobie...what advice do you have? @lewm is SO right about record cleaning machines not necessarily being anti-static devices. In fact, I have found that more than two revolutions of the drying function on a VPI vacuum machine will CREATE static on an LP. Fortunately, two revolutio... | |
| Amp Recommendations for Marantz 7c c_cocobean: I haven’t seen an RM-10 for awhile either, and when I have they went fast. Of course there is also the RM-9 Mk.2, itself a great amp (at least as good as a Mac MC75). A quartet of EL34's per channel for 125 watts, plus classic styling ... | |
| Turntable noobie...what advice do you have? @mijostyn: I had a similar type "dust sweep arm" in the late-60’s (the Dust Bug, made by Cecil E. Watts of England). But your recommendation of using one in place of an anti-static device---such as the Zerostat or DeStat---is not a good one. Firs... | |
| Alright, it's too quiet around here. Let's have some fun. - "What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted" by Jimmy Ruffin. - "The Weight" by The Band. - "Nowhere Man" by The Beatles. - "Shake Some Action" by The Flamin’ Groovies. - "Shake Your Hips" by Joan Osborne. - "Like A Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan. - "... | |
| Amp Recommendations for Marantz 7c @c_cocobean: I have owned and enjoyed the Dynaco Stereo 70, a pair of the Quad 2 mono’s, an early 50w ARC (the Dual 51), and have heard (admittedly briefly) VTL’s, Jadis’, New York Audio Labs Moscodes, Conrad-Johnson’s, a modified (by Robert Fulto... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @tgilb: I came into possession of the Smiley Smile LP in early Spring of ’68 (how that came to pass is a story for another time), and put it on the turntable having no idea what to expect. I suppose my interest was piqued by having heard the amazi... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @bslon: Isn’t the sound quality of the AP Surfer Girl astounding?! Surfer Girl was the only BB album until the Friends album that Capitol Records issued in true stereo (all the others were issued in mono and duophonic (a "reprocessed" stereo simu... | |
| Amp Recommendations for Marantz 7c And of course there is no output transformer as good as none, so if you have the $ and the "right" loudspeaker (the higher and most even its’ modulus of impedance the better, and relatively sensitive) and room (small-to-medium), look into Atma-Sph... | |
| Turntable noobie...what advice do you have? An enthusiastic 2nd on the recommendation of @tomic601 and others for the reading (several times) of the encyclopedic tome on record cleaning found on Bill Hart's website. Indispensable! As for dealing with the static charge found on many used re... | |
| Need some Cart recommendations, $300 - $700 (New/Used) range…warm, full, yet great def. Oops. The impedance position on the Zesto phono stage for Decca's/London's is 15k Ohms, not Hz! | |
| Balanced Line Stage Tube Preamps Me too @phcollie! I do wish it included a balance control and mode switch, then I could get rid of my ARC LS-1. | |
| How does the VPI Aries II stand up to current mid priced tables? Okay, I changed my mind ;-) . This is of no consequence for @ozzy62, as the Aries 2 requires a platter using the inverted VPI bearing. For the rest of you, particularly those with a sense of intellectual curiosity and a burning desire to know the... | |
| Most Realistic Recordings I was present when retailer Walter Davies played Gordon Lightfoot’s great version version (my favorite) of "Me And Bobby McGee" for Bill Johnson of ARC, who was at Walter’s shop delivering and setting up a complete ARC system for his newest dealer... |