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| Tubes for Bottlehead Foreplay Jeff:Full/rich 12au7's in the Foreplay are:RCA black plate (50's/60's)RCA gray plate (50'/60's)Sylvania BP (yellow print 50's/60's)Sylvania GP (yellow print 50's/60's)Still pretty full sounding, but with increased HF extension:Amperex Orange Globe... | |
| wnat to downgrade my cables Stuart:Don't really know your price range, but I have used 47 Labs OTA speaker cable and IC's with two SET based systems. I downgraded from an Audion 300B SET amp to Bottlehead kit SET amps and their preamp, but kept the OTA cable. It has worked w... | |
| Audiopoints vs Mapleshade brass cones Yes, look into Neuance shelving (spikes provided from what I have read) instead of cone points. I was over cone points (the multiple/variable adjustements used to drive me nuts) upon receiving/installing Neaunce shelves on my rack.I owned/used Map... | |
| Am I brushing records wrong? Patrick:The Philips Carbon brushes I use have removable grounding wires supplied with them. Never tried the wire ground, but w/o being aware of the benefit I do steady myself by placing a hand on the grounded metal equipment rack.Nice info to know... | |
| Am I brushing records wrong? PS:New LP's require two deep cleanings from my experience. Other than the first cleaning a second cleaning is needed following 3-5 plays.Not certain why this is (perhaps material lathed off by the stylus) but they can sound much better following t... | |
| Am I brushing records wrong? Matt:What are you using for a cleaning solution? I start (before a brush ever touches the LP) with warm water blasted through a Water-Pik and then follow up with an alcohol/water cleaning solution worked with a brush. I use a detergent added mix/s... | |
| Simple, Stylish Songs for Piano Skip the singing and learn to orchestrate "Over the Rainbow".My personal favorite retrospective piece anyway when done as an instrumental (leaves the rest to one's imagination). | |
| Album which you have listened to most? Drubin:No, not familiar with any redo's of "MM". Also don't usually shop by sonic's as would be evidenced by my current music collection were you to go through it.I used to buy and trade for British imports in the 70's, but it seemed to me that th... | |
| Album which you have listened to most? Quad:Just read your top ten movie soundtrack post and am certain that you will enjoy George Brassens work. My LP's are on the old Philips label, but the music is most likely available on various export labels (some of the later/thinner LP's in lig... | |
| building new system, any suggestions or comments Do you have a rug in front of the speakers? Don't see one, but figure that it may be located outside the photo frames. | |
| Album which you have listened to most? I rarely groove out anymore (an album's lucky to be played 1 to 3X a year if @ all), but in the 70's/80's I had this thing for "Marrying Maiden", It's a Beautiful Day. After my first copy was showing problems following but 3 months of play I purch... | |
| Most involving and thrilling moviemusic? Here's two:-"Such a Long Journey", Jonathan Goldsmith (Red Sky LTD)-"Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon", Tan Dun -w- Yo-Yo Ma (Sony)You should also try to rent "SALJ" on DVD/VHS.Like everything except the title track on "CTHD". | |
| Svetlana vs Mullard EL-34's Umn:There are many different versions of the Mullard el34/6ca7. I still own the xf1/double getter & the xf2/single getter versions. I recently (last 4 years) listened to/compared later XF3 & XF4 versions (can't remember the getter details ... | |
| Hello Wadia Again and Agon Have you tried the contact info @ their website? As of 5 months ago they could be contacted via the email/tel number listed. One of their engineers Jeff Brockmore, either from Wadia or the parent company, was posting in web chat rooms @ this time ... | |
| Can Woofers Be Repaired? Yes:Other than Parts Express a few full service centers are:http://www.speakerrepair.com/OCSreprc.html (Orange County, CA).decware.com (Peoria, IL)Both also sell DIY refoaming kits (supplied with instructions).I have never replaced foam surrounds ... |