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| old AR XA with mods vs Rega RP1 Well, the Audiomods Arm is a modified Rega only if you consider the tube of an arm the one and only determiner of what constitutes an arm! Unlike other Rega "based" arms, Jeff uses only the Rega arm tube in the arm he hand machines all the other p... | |
| Great female voices Roc1444, Mary Gauthier is a recent discovery of mine, and I LOVE her! As with most great artists, her work is very personal. I gave her a listen (the Mercy Now album---fantastic!) because I saw that Buddy Miller had produced one of her albums, the... | |
| Why not accordion ? I grew up watching the Lawrence Welk Show (my Pa was from S. Dakoda), and always enjoyed Lawrence and his bandleader's playing. Then in the 70's, playing in a band whose repertoire included Hard Country, got into Flaco etc., but have never played ... | |
| old AR XA with mods vs Rega RP1 I used to have an original AR table I had modified to accept another make arm. The same as a Linn Sondek, just not as well made ;-)! I put a Formula 4 uni-pivot on it, which I wouldn't do now---the AR's suspension was very "loose", which made the ... | |
| The New Cream re-issues Yow! My DCC Fresh Cream is still sealed---I had no idea copies were going for that kinda money! | |
| Quad 2905 ESL Arcing Sparks Goofyfoot, Mobile Fidelity is now the U.S.A. distributor for Quad! | |
| Michael Fremer's record cleaning process.... Regarding the sound of Revolver: In 1970 I started buying British pressings of Groups/Bands from over there, including of course the Beatles (I got the stereo versions though, not mono). I immediately disliked the sound of Revolver, especially in ... | |
| The New Cream re-issues I believe there is also a Steve Hoffman-mastered version on DCC. | |
| A-B testing of cables The advice to start at the source assumes that the old cables further downstream are not "bottlenecking" your system. If they in fact are, any (possible) improvement upstream may be masked by them. Shunyata recommends auditioning their power cable... | |
| old AR XA with mods vs Rega RP1 Spend the money you saved on the table, and upgrade your arm to the British made Audiomods pick-up arm. It's a drop-in replacement for Rega arms (it uses the new Rega 303 arm tube). The Audiomods website has all the details, with both pro print ma... | |
| Slow adaptation of KT150 by amp mmanufacturers One guy who keeps up with developments in the wonderful world of tubes is Roger Modjeski of RAM Laps. Before I bought any KT150 amp I'd talk to him about the tube---he is obsessive about tubes and amps being, before anything else, dependable. | |
| Quad 2905 ESL Arcing Sparks I seem to recall reading that the newer Quads such as yours have a protection circuit that is sacrificed to save the panels from damage in case of severe overload, and that after the circuit has engaged it needs to be replaced. Something like that... | |
| Short speaker cable recommendation Whether or not shorter speaker cables sound better than longer ones, two facts about them are indisputable:1- They're cheaper! Especially if you're bi-wiring (one long pair of inter-connects is cheaper than two long pairs of speaker cables).2- The... | |
| Where does your user name come from? The Stones the original bad boys? Only if you don't include the 50's rockers like Jerry Lee Lewis---they would run home to mommy after spending a night partying with him. | |
| Great female voices There is one other very special woman I believe everyone should hear---Iris Dement. I learned of her from Merle Haggard, who was raving about her at the time of her 1st or 2nd album, about twenty years ago. Her music is that great blend of singer/... |