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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Has anyone bought and heard the new Renaissance Records reissue of the debut album of Pentangle? I’m having no luck finding a clean original. | |
| Referent point @noromance: And a well recorded vocal through the QUAD ESL. Or acoustic guitar, or harpsichord. For acoustic bass, piano, and drumset, it’s a magnetic-planar loudspeaker (Magneplanar Tympani, Eminent Technology LFT-8b, GR Research OB speaker---inc... | |
| Record Cleaning Machines Great post, Neil. Thanks for all the filter info, not to mention your LP cleaning "article" that @whart published on his site. As I consider vacuuming off the water after cavitation a must, I came to the conclusion that the Degritter---nice as it ... | |
| Magnepan Mylar Repair A lot of info on this subject can be found on the Planar Speaker Asylum site. Magnepan is by far the most-covered planar brand there. | |
| Demos - To Charge a Fee or to Not Charge a Fee? Demoing equipment and giving advice is how the retailer earns his 40 (or so) points.Brooks Berdan charged list price for the cartridges he sold, but that also bought the customer cartridge "run in" (playing the cartridge for 20 hours or so, to rel... | |
| Townshend Springs under Speakers Great, great post, @prof!The list of hi-fi engineers who operate(d) via the design with measurements/verify with listening methodology is a long one, including a couple of my favorites: Roger Modjeski (Music Reference, electronics) and Danny Richi... | |
| My Experience With Tekton @dtrandall: Talk about a lack of self-awareness, ay? As another Audiogon member said to me in a pm, it’s projection. Hey, it works for the great orange blowhard, right? ;-) | |
| Are all amps being built wrong? I seem to remember Modejeski discussing that Futterman 60dB feedback figure in one of the threads on the Music Reference AudioCircle Forum (though dormant, all posts are still viewable), and maybe in one of his three seminars at The Burning Amp Fe... | |
| Referent point Actually, it is J.S. Bach. | |
| The birth of a new thread dedicated to sharing our newly-acquired "old" LP's. Just back from dinner out with the sisters, where I had my first Old Fashioned, a drink I saw ordered in that recent TV show Michael Douglas has been in (I forget the name). My first OF, and my last. Too sweet!Alrighty, here’s what I brought home ... | |
| The "variant" press? Those musicians (along with some others, such as drummer Russ Kunkel and guitarist/singers Danny Kortchmar and Andrew Gold) formed the 1970’s Los Angeles Rock ’n’ Roll equivalent of the 1960’s Wrecking Crew. Musicians bought the albums they played... | |
| Favorite Platform for Linn LP12 In the 1980's and 90's a lot of UK Linn dealers sold the Torlyte shelf as a platform for the table. Torlyte is an extremely low mass, honeycomb-like structure, made of balsa wood. It has fallen out of fashion, but is I believe still available from... | |
| How is the decision made to produce a vinyl record on different It astounds me me that an "audiophile" LP and SACD label owner who has invested as much as has Chad Kassem (who started in business buying and selling original pressings of rare and/or out-of-print LP's) in advancing the state-of-the-art in LP pro... | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope Good Modjeski quote, @three_easy_payments. Roger wasn't alone in his opinion, Tim De Paracicini (EAR-Yoshino, Pink Floyd Studios, the electonics of the Mobile Fidelity mastering chain) sharing many of them (as well how to make a superior transform... | |
| How is the decision made to produce a vinyl record on different Both Michael Hobson (Classic Records) and Chad Kassem (Analogue Productions) discovered that 200 grams is too much PVC for the presses, 180 grams a good maximum figure. The only scientific way to ascertain the benefits vs. liabilities of different... |