bdp24
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| No cartridge is good enough. If one is sincere about wanting to hear a direct-to-disc LP, they are available. Why expect someone else to send you one? Weird. | |
| Cleaning records. How often really? ct0517---Being aware of the problem of dust covers resonating, I modified the base/dust cover of my Townshend Rock Elite table. The Rock's solid/non-suspended plinth (a folded sheet of steel, filled with plaster-of-paris) has three squishy (Sorbot... | |
| No cartridge is good enough. I'm with Ralph. Direct-to-Disc LP's sound more like a "live feed" (THE ultimate test, with the sound directly from the mics in the recording room compared to the resulting recording, listened to through the studio's monitors, A/B'ed in real time) ... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz I asked Rick if the adapter was available in XLR form, and he said no but that he was working on it. | |
| Did you get your copy audio porn? Me too John, cringe more than smile! | |
| Cleaning records. How often really? Dust a lot, Chris! A turntable with a dust cover that can be in place during play is a must, and I use an old-fashioned shaving cream brush to dust my table's platter. I will face a different challenge when relocated up in Portland, that of moistu... | |
| Processor Loop A processor input on a lot of pre-amps just passes the signal directly from the input jacks to the pre-amp's outputs. ARC's in particular are wired that way. That arrangement is the very rational for the input! But Swampwalker is right---the inclu... | |
| SACD with LFD/ Harbeth Esoteric DV-50s, around $1200 used. | |
| Cleaning records. How often really? Another thing about the desert air (at least the low desert here in S. California) is the amount of dirt in it, blown around by the winds. Since there is little ground cover, there are actual dust storms when it gets windy. Even with all the windo... | |
| Processor Loop The processor input does not provide any gain, however, so your cassette deck will need enough output voltage to power your amp. | |
| Sgt. Pepper's. remastered Mobile Fidelity The mono Beatles I'm talking about are CD's, released in 2009. It was a big deal at the time, Capitol having spent a lot of time getting it right. The boxset was a limited edition, but there are plenty of them around. Careful though, it was counte... | |
| Sgt. Pepper's. remastered Mobile Fidelity The Beatles albums up through the white album are available in newly-remastered mono versions (the preferred mode for purists), and everyone likes them a lot (the first versions about which that can be said). There is a boxset containing all those... | |
| Oregon Audiophiles... The 3-bedroom tract house my parents bought in Cupertino California (now home to Apple and ebay) in 1959 for $12,000 has risen in value to.....a lot. The house across the street sold last year for $1.4 million. Too bad my dad sold ours in '66! | |
| Squeeze Concert including one odd tidbit Good analogy Tostadosunidos. I also like that of a book versus a short story to a Classical composition versus a song. IMO the Brian Wilson songs in the Smile album are at least as "good" as anything Copland wrote, capturing "Americana" very succe... | |
| What's a contender to an Audio Reference 5 SE? Oregonpapa, your second paragraph directly above puts it perfectly!J. Gordon Holt's first priority in music reproduction was lack of "vowel" colorations, followed by degree of transparency (concepts borrowed from photography---vowel colorations eq... |