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| Stereo Separation - Turntable I would trust your ears on this one. You don't need to go moving your speakers around. Hard panning of instruments to left, right, and center was very common in the early stereo era. | |
| Stereo Separation - Turntable I mean early stereo Jazz recordings, of course. | |
| Stereo Separation - Turntable This is typical of some early Jazz recordings. The CD may have been remixed. | |
| Harshness/Distortion Question - Newbie Yeah, gotta clean that stylus. I use a dry Discwasher stylus brush before every play (let the stylus rest on the bristles and use only back to front motion), and occaisonally the Onzo Zerodust gel. No liquids.For the records, I use an Audioquest c... | |
| Lacking Soundstage - Vandersteen 2C Heavy wool drapes on that window may help. Wool army blankets are useful for experimenting.Are you sure you can't do long wall placement? Your listening position would be close to the back wall with this placement, so you'd need to treat the wall ... | |
| Harshness/Distortion Question - Newbie Vinyl is quite capable of reproducing the sound of harsh master tapes, some pressings are just harsh sounding, and some cartridges are quite capable of producing harsh sounds all on their own. Hanaleimike's advice is solid. If tweaking cartridge s... | |
| Logitech Duet vs. Dedicated Transport I have the Squeezebox Duet and run a coaxial out into one digital input on my Cambridge 840C. Since the CD player is also the DAC, it's not surprising I don't notice a difference. The server runs on an Ubuntu box in a quiet Antec case in my loft, ... | |
| Michell Tecnodec or Rega P5 I haven't heard the Technodec, but the Gyro is a great table for classical records (the bulk of my listening diet), easily satisfying all your criteria. Unless you are in the EU or can find a deal, I would suggest buying used. I see several Gyros ... | |
| Small Classical Ensemble with Double Bass? George Onslow wrote several quintets and sextets and a Nonet that include the double bass. Though forgotten for much of the 20th Century, his reputation has been undergoing a renaissance in recent years. | |
| Recommended components on Stereophile Magazine. The RCL is just a ranking according to taste of stuff they've been able to review in the previous few years. It's a very skewed list. As John Atkinson might put it, I remain puzzled by the rankings and the many omissions. You also need to pay atte... | |
| Lacking Soundstage - Vandersteen 2C Oops, I missed the distinction between 2CE and 2C. I don't know. Sounds like a question for Mr. Vandersteen. | |
| Speakers to build a $6500 system around Oh, by the way, that sounds like a very nice room. I don't know why short wall setup is the conventional wisdom. Some very smart people (e.g. John Dunlavy) preferred long wall set up in their listening tests. | |
| Speakers to build a $6500 system around In the shop, I definitely preferred the bass of the 3As to the 2CEs. The 3A bass is maybe a little loose, but this is compared to the twice as expensive Quatros. I wouldn't have considered the 3As if they smeared the bassline in Jazz (I felt this ... | |
| Lacking Soundstage - Vandersteen 2C All the Vandy floorstanders are sensitive to tilt and have a minimum listening distance (as specified in the manual). Also make sure that the speakers are level on both axes to begin with. I had to shim my Quatros to get the final tilt right. I us... | |
| Volume Control thru Duet remote or Preamp remote? Just a followup: it might be possible to convert streams to 24-bit in SqueezeCenter. Then you have 48dB of volume to play with before losing resolution becomes an issue.http://www.alekz.net/archives/86/comment-page-1I'm not going to worry about it... |