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| Universal DVD Players I have a Marantz DV8400 which plays fine with PAL or NTSC discs but will only output the signal in its native form ie PAL discs -> PAL o/p, NTSC discs -> NTSC o/p.I didn't know this when I was in Singapore (which is PAL) as my televsion was ... | |
| Older PURE CLASS-A Amplifiers I owned a pair of Mark Levinson ML3 - similar to ML2's but double mono in one chassis which I loved. Very few for sale though...The other class A amp that I really enjoyed was my Musical Fidelity A100, a higher power version of their well respecte... | |
| Attn Vinyl lovers - what CD Player do you use? I use a Rotel RCD990 I bought over 8 years ago. Still haven't found any reason to replace it! | |
| Dead Can Dance's Into the Labyrinth Those of you who are fans of Cocteau Twins ( or more precisely Liz Fraser's mesmorising voice) and Lisa Gerard of DCD should also check out the 4AD label 'Song to the Siren' 12 inch EP and 'Lonely as an Eyesore' LP which has a couple of haunting t... | |
| Are Rotel amps and preamps any good? Currently my system is based around a Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista Integrated Amplifier and I have gone through many brands including NAD, Rotel, AR Cambridge, Mission/Cyrus, ARC, Mark Levinson. As a spare system, I still have my Rotel RA-820BX whic... | |
| Any opinions on the Audio-Technica OC9ML II? For price it is unbeatable. A while back, I "upgraded" mine to a Benz Micro Glider at more than double the cost and went back to the OC9! | |
| Really basic brush question I have tried nearly all the available brushes (and still have them in a box somewhere! Here are my thoughts:1) Dry method/Carbon Fibre - Hunt, Decca, AQGoes nice and deep and good only for dusting relatively clean LPS. Have not found a satisfactor... | |
| Best live album you've ever heard? Another vote for Friday Night in San Fransisco ! | |
| Best commercial press for flattening warped LP's A dry press won't work - the vinyl has far too much 'memory' and will go back to orignal shape as soon as the record is removed from press. I tried !I also tried with two panes of glass sandwiching the LP and running under very hot water from tap ... | |
| Help in speaker choice - Monitor Audio PMC700, etc I had the PMC703 for many years and was very happy with them. I changed them a couple of year back because I moved countries and eventually went with the Sonus Faber Guarneris a very different speaker and a great dal more expensive! You need to sp... | |
| Music for the spirit and the soul Marco, I enjoy Arvo Part and have "De Profundis" with the Theater of Voices, and Hilliard Ensembles take on Miserere which is perhaps one of the grim but moving pieces of music.Don't know Gavin Bryers so will have to check it out - any disc in par... | |
| Music for the spirit and the soul Ok Howard, no more Figueras stuff except just to say you are now down the slippery slope of acquiring the entire Alia Vox back catalogue and if you include his previous labels recodings Astree/Auvidis/Harmonia Mundi etc you are in trouble as he st... | |
| Music for the spirit and the soul This thread is getting interesting and I thought I was the only one listening to this stuff !Jax2, I'll be interested to know how you got into the Sibil as this is not really mainstream.My route was quite bizzare. I have been a fan of record label... | |
| SACD on its way out? Web magazine AudioRevolution.com foten has good news articles but they tend to be DVD-Audio biased (even though they now include SACDs in their reviews). Just read some of the articles in their news archives such as the battle between OneDisc and ... | |
| Music for the spirit and the soul Yep, I fell in love with Montserrat....and yes I will never forget that experience in such an intimate environment. The whole family was three including their daughter Adrianna. Sorry all - I checked my archives and realised I made an error in my ... |