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| Mono recordings - two questions... The London cartridges can be made mono, and for a very good reason: their design is sum and difference. | |
| Turntable and Rack vibration control For any turntable without a spring suspension, the Townshend Audio Seismic Pod is a great way to isolate the table from whatever structure it sits upon. Even better are the MinusK and Newport microscope platforms, but at a cost of over $2k, more t... | |
| Room treatments GIK superior to ASC Tube Traps? Au contraire! | |
| Tube Preamp Recommendations please to partner with Parasound JC-1's.... EAR-Yoshino 868. | |
| Townshend Elite Rock Mk III / Rega RB300 tonearm question Audio Origami in England is well-respected for their Rega arm rewires. They offer Cardas copper and both Kondo and Ikeda silver. | |
| "Is that a record??? " There is a vintage furniture/clothes/knickknack shop in Vancouver, WA (across the Columbia River from Portland, OR) I visit about once a month. When I was there this week I noticed a lot more vendors (each of whom has an area on the floor) offerin... | |
| Most "Accurate/Realistic" Sounding Speakers? Actually kosst and soundsreal, binaural recordings are an attempt to do exactly that. Many of them sound amazing on headphones, the only correct way to listen to them. | |
| Mono recordings - two questions... Three Pop/Rock groups and one solo artist whose early LP's (pre-1968 or so) are better in mono than stereo are The Kinks, Beach Boys, Beatles, and Dylan. The Kinks and Beach Boys because their "stereo" LP's (with the exception of The BB's Surfer G... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Great album reubent, their last with original organist Matthew Fisher. Matthew came up with the great quote from J.S. Bach in his "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" organ part. After he left PH, guitarist Robin Trower became the featured musician, to the de... | |
| Tonearm microphonics To clarify, the relationship between warp and eccentricity demands on the ability of the arm to follow them, and the frequencies involved in those demands, are a matter of the time it takes the arm's headshell to traverse a warp or eccentricity. I... | |
| Tonearm microphonics In his original review of the Well Tempered arm, and in Bill Firebaugh’s literature on his arm, Gordon Holt discussed the viscosity of the arm’s "bearing" well damping fluid, and how it allows the arm to freely move at very low frequencies (those ... | |
| New Ikea storage unit great for LP's! I assembled the six 4-cubicle EKET's I bought, in two stacks of three cabinets. Each group of three cabs are fastened together on the back, and screwed onto the 4" high, 4-legged base with adjustable feet (for leveling) that IKEA offers for the EK... | |
| Thoughts on Aimee Mann.... Aimee's voice and melodies are just so delicious and irresistible! | |
| How many LP's I recently bought a VPI HW-19 specifically to mount a Trans-Fi on. Can't do that with my Townshend Rock table ;-) . | |
| Flat vinyl records... Please chip-in to insite! At the price of the Vinyl Flat, why bother with sunlight or an oven?! |