curiousjim
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| Learned something new today and it isn't good. I read about this years ago and now am using a Audiolab 6000CDT. Before the 6000, I was using an Oppo and never noticed anything saying something was emphasized or deemphasized, so I just ignored that about one in a hundred disks sounded a bit bri... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Manfred Mann, Greatest Hits. | |
| Tune of the Day Chicago, Saturday in the park. Chicago V | |
| Jazz for aficionados Today has been a Wynton Marsalis day. Currently playing is The Magic Hour. | |
| Best shipping companies I just used Estes to send a speaker from Missouri to New Jersey and it was $200 each way for the box on a skid (about 180 pounds) and had no problems. It might have been a corporate rate I paid. It was for some warranty work, so I can’t be sure.... | |
| Concerningly loud pops in vinyl playback I have terrible static problems in the winter, but if your pops are so loud that they are startling you, I’d guess a tube is going bad. Try to see if one is flickering or sparking at the same time. All the best. | |
| KEF's meta material gimmick? I haven’t heard the Reference 5 Meta’s yet, but There’s more going on in the new KEF Meta’s than them adding the rat maze. The spec’s are different. They are slightly less efficient and the crossover points are different. My Reference 5’s are 90d... | |
| Jazz for aficionados One of my quiet time favorites. Wynton Marsalis, Standards & Ballads. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Donald Fagen, The Nightfly | |
| Tune of the Day Donald Fagen, The Goodbye Look | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @loomisjohnson I just streamed their title album and am listening to Honor Among Thieves now. Good pick! artful dodger, "rave on"-- swansong from a great, underappreciated guitar pop band somewhere between badfinger and the small faces (the... | |
| Tune of the Day Aretha Franklin, Respect | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Mannheim Steamroller, Fresh Aire lll | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Grateful Dead, In The Dark | |
| Tune of the Day ELP, Fanfare For The Common Man |