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Responses from bdp24
| Looking at a new non-SACD player, but still own lots of SACDs What's your current SACD player? The Esoteric DV-50s SACD player goes for around $1500 used, and is built like a tank. It has a digital out. | |
| KT88 tubes for Monos The Genalex Gold Lion KT88 is a great tube. Kevin at Upscale Audio tests and matches pairs and quartets, and sells them at a great price. | |
| Best divorce album? The Last Waltz. | |
| What is the worst recorded CD you have? Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Great performance of course (with Robert Shaw handling the Chorus), but the sound is like that of a bootleg---terrible! There are more recent CD's of the recording... | |
| Zeta Ah, that explains the tense. I'll have to look at mine, to see if it has four or five bearings. Mine came missing one of the counterweight inserts, so I put in some lead weights in it's place. A great idea, the adjustable counterweight mass via in... | |
| LONDON Decca, Tzar DST and similar cartridges I'm green with envy, Billy. To get a Tzar (spelled it correctly this time ;-) of my own, that's what I need more of---green! | |
| Do you have a secret "guilty pleasure" recording? I love ABBA! Great songs, singing, and production. Agnetha's solo albums are swell too. She does a killer version of Jackie DeShannon's "When You Walk In The Room". Pure Pop pleasure! | |
| I'm melting!! $900 for four rubber/plastic feet?! A set of Townshend Audio Seismic Isolation Pods cost less than that, and provide real isolation, unlike rubber/plastic feet. | |
| Boulder monoblock 2150 Absolutely Erik (love it spelled with a k. Wish my parents had, instead of a c). Also important for the soul of a country imo. I'm reading a great book right now, a biography of Leonard Bernstein written by Humphrey Burton. Bernstein is quoted hea... | |
| Evaluating a system - what do you listen for? Whomever knows a guy with a real good analogue recorder---even the reasonably priced Revox A77, plus some condenser microphones, arrange for him to make you a recording of live acoustic music, the event at which you will be present. Listen attenti... | |
| Is it ok to not gush over Vanessa Fernadez?...one listener's perspective. Bill, in the 1980's Ying Tan was a dealer of rare LP's in his little apartment a block off the famous corner of Hollywood & Vine, location of the Capitol Records circular building. I went over to his place a couple of times and bought from him... | |
| How difficult to build your own cables? Western Electric wire with KLEI RCA's makes for a killer interconnect. | |
| Zeta fleib, you say "Loved my Zeta arm", past tense. Did it give out on you? The arm is a classic, isn’t it? Nice stiff tube, good bearings, massive, non-resonant design and construction. Medium-to-semi high effective moving mass, great for slightly lo... | |
| Quicksilver preamp 1 channel noise Hope Mike doesn't get too upset about the changed parts! Some engineers do, Frank Van Alstine and Mike's buddy Roger Modjeski being two such. | |
| Is it ok to not gush over Vanessa Fernadez?...one listener's perspective. dbp24? bdp24, please! The bdp is for black diamond pearl---my favorite vintage drum covering, the 24 for my favorite bass drum size, 24 inch. |