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| How does the VPI Aries II stand up to current mid priced tables? Me too. | |
| Most Realistic Recordings I wouldn't say it's exactly realistic, but it sure is exciting: Talking Book by Stevie Wonder. Stevie plays every instrument on some tracks, including drums (and blind at that!). "Superstition" rocks like mad, especially the clavinet and drums. | |
| Need some Cart recommendations, $300 - $700 (New/Used) range…warm, full, yet great def. @ml8764ag: Though I too am a Decca/London enthusiast, I refrain from recommending them as they are somewhat of a high-risk proposition. Not for the faint-of-heart! By the way, Schitt includes a Decca position on the gain control in their Mani pho... | |
| Honest Experience on Effects of Subwoofer Please One of the best features of the Rythmik Audio line of subs is the phase control included in their plate amps. It is not a phase "switch" (either zero degrees or 180 degrees), but a continuously-variable phase/delay control knob, adjustable from ze... | |
| Turntable noobie...what advice do you have? @tomic601: Yer on, buddy! I'm heading out to sea in July (a cruise to Alaska), and may be heading down to SoCal (Glendale) in a coupla weeks, where I'll be visiting Amoeba Records in Hollywood. Gawd I miss that place! | |
| Amp Recommendations for Marantz 7c Fred’s Sound Of Music in Portland Oregon has the 7C/8B combo for sale. I don’t know if they’ll separate them, but a call to them will get an answer. Roger Modjeski of Music Reference/RAM Tubes said he considered the 8B superior to the Model 9, an... | |
| How does the VPI Aries II stand up to current mid priced tables? @melm: When I used the term "solid Delrin" platter, it was in reference to not having a 2-layer construction (aluminum and Delrin, for instance). I’ve never seen the thick (2"?) black platter in person, and have suspected (but did not know for a f... | |
| Most Realistic Recordings For voice and acoustic guitar, get a copy of Tea For The Tillerman by Cat Stevens. However, make sure it is the version on Analogue Productions (available as a single disc at 33-1/3 RPM and a double disc at 45), as it is the only version on LP tha... | |
| Most Realistic Recordings Oh yeah, forgot about that one Herb! Took me years to find a copy of For Duke after HP raved about it so much. It was going for pretty big money there for awhile. | |
| Turntable noobie...what advice do you have? Last Record Preservative is a great product, which I have been suing since it was introduced. So is Stylast. Last founder Walter Davies was my first high end dealer, when he had a little shop in Livermore, CA. | |
| Most Realistic Recordings @edcyn: Damn, I'm sure then we've seen each other, as I shopped at the Classical Annex on Sunset regularly. The main guy in Weezer worked in the Pop store, and Axel Rose in the video store. One big happy family ;-) . When Weezer hit big, the main... | |
| How does the VPI Aries II stand up to current mid priced tables? @melm: Yeah, a lot of people (including reviewers, some of whom are people ;-) think all plastic platters are Acrylic. Not so! If the "plastic" part of a VPI platter is black, it is Delrin, not Acrylic. Go ahead, ask VPI ;-) . The "plinth" of the... | |
| Most Realistic Recordings @edcyn: In the mid-90’s District Supervisor Bob Fetryl offered me the Panorama City store to manage, but I had heard about the drive-by-shootings the store had experienced. No thanks! Bad neighborhood, and I loved my BMW 528e ;-) . For those who ... | |
| How does the VPI Aries II stand up to current mid priced tables? @melm: Actually, the Aries 1 came with the aluminum/lead/Delrin platter I above described. Honest, I’m looking at mine right now! By the way, the TNT-3 and -4 came with the exact same platter (the TNT-1 and -2 came with the same Delrin platter as ... | |
| Most Realistic Recordings James Boyk was (and perhaps still is) a music teacher at UCLA, and recorded himself (using a pair of ribbon mics in Blumlein-fashion into an Ampex 351 recorder) playing a Steinway piano in a recital hall at Caltech, releasing the recordings on his... |