bdp24
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| Home grown turntable platform/base? Good point had2be, one that had not occurred to me. I have Solid Steel racks, which unfortunately have 3/4" MDF shelves (yuck!). I bought extra top shelves to double the thickness (for my fairly heavy turntables), as well as ASC Wall Damp cut to t... | |
| Simon and Garfunkel "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" MOFI UD1S Great comparative review folkfreak! I prefer Paul solo (his first two, especially. He lost me on Graceland; not great songwriting imo), Garfunkel's voice being too lightweight for me. I prefer Baritones to Countertenors ;-) . Garfunkel has a "bett... | |
| Home grown turntable platform/base? Regarding has2be's statement that screwing the two pieces of birch ply together will defeat the isolation provided by the constrained layer damping placed between them, that layer of damping material is put there not to provide isolation for the t... | |
| Home grown turntable platform/base? Buy a sheet of 3/4" Baltic Birch plywood (about fifty bucks), and cut (or have cut at a cabinet building shop) two pieces to size. Put Green Glue, EAR Isodamp, ASC Wall Damp, or other constrained layer damping between the two pieces, and screw the... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Iris Dement: "Living In The Wasteland Of The Free"Roger McGuinn and Marty Stuart: "My Back Pages" (on You Tube)Marty Stuart: "Country Boy Rock & Roll" (live on Letterman) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Great question slaw. A few I can name off the top of my head that are as close to perfect as any I’ve heard (excluding The Band’s first two albums, which go without saying ;-) :Bob Dylan: Blonde On Blonde, John Wesley Harding, Planet Waves, a few ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @6t5-gto, I too prefer Son Volt to Wilco, and Jay Farrar to Jeff Tweedy as both a songwriter and a singer. I’ve been following them from their Uncle Tupelo (great band name!) days, and have always wondered why Tweedy gets all the accolades. | |
| Thorens TD 166 mk2 I would look into replacing the European voltage motor with a U.S. voltage one. Don't worry, it's not too difficult or expensive. Do you have a local turntable technician who can do the job? | |
| Remember your fellow audiophiles in NC Oops slaw, shoulda posted my best wishes here instead of on the other thread. Again, hope the storm passes with minimal damage inflicted. | |
| 50 years on---the brilliance of The Band and their astounding debut album. slaw, Rachel Maddow just showed how the storm was hovering over the Carolinas, moving only 3 miles an hour, dumping lots of rain on ya’ll. Hope your house (and especially your music collection and hi-fi!) and family are okay, and the damage is min... | |
| Autoformers, The Benefits in matching amp to speaker @partroysound---Yeah, at Pass Labs. Or Reno Hi-Fi, First Watt and Pass Labs' primary retailer. atmasphere’s Marchand suggestion is worth looking into, though their x/o’s contain Opamps (if that bothers you) and are known to have occasional reliabi... | |
| 50 years on---the brilliance of The Band and their astounding debut album. Could be slaw. I don’t imagine RR would own two studios, but it’s possible. If it’s located in Malibu, I’m sure it is. My favorite studio in L.A. is Ocean Way, where Ry Cooder records. GREAT sounding albums come out of there, including John Hiatt’... | |
| Neutral or Detailed. You can't have both The first really good tweeters I heard---the RTR ESL's---used by Dave Wilson in his WAMM and ESS in their pre-Heil AMT Transtatic---had the combination of detail, nature timbre, and liquid transparency that the best ESL's are known for. Current ES... | |
| Pieces of music that digital can't get right Really good cymbals---Paiste 602's, old Zildjian's made in Turkey (played the best Jazz drummers in the 1950's and 60's), and modern Turkish-made Bosphorus---all of which I own and play---can sound too "splashy" after sub-par digitization. | |
| 50 years on---the brilliance of The Band and their astounding debut album. Country Fair; seems perfect! When The Band took the stage at Woodstock, Levon Helm said to the audience: "Hope ya'll like Country music". I can only imagine how out-of-place they felt at that celebration of the Counter Culture, with which they sha... |