dgarretson
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| THE BEST $2000 TURNTABLE - NEW OR USED ?????? Right now on Audiogon there are used Nottinghams, VPI Scout, and Oracle Delphi, all w/arms, in the $1K-$2K range. Another option around $2K would be a replinthed Lenco idler drive(check Jean Nantais's website). There is a lunatic following for the... | |
| THE BEST $2000 TURNTABLE - NEW OR USED ?????? Comparing TTs is one of the more difficult exercises. There's no shortage of strong opinions on the subject, but I doubt many opinions are based on comparing TTs with all variables fixed (e.g. same arm, same cartridge, same phono stage, same platf... | |
| Are spare parts for the Sony SCD-1 becoming rare? Sony's standard practice is to begin discontinuing parts availability around seven years from original product introduction. The SCD-1/777ES has reached this horizon. The last I checked in the US the sled motor assembly was unavailable, but other ... | |
| APL NWO-2.5T A Review of a Classic CD Player Over the long haul of modifying my CDP I've found that as the unit approaches perfection, even minor modifications can make large differences. Small smudges are easily noticed on a very clean window.I don't know whether APL's history has been to o... | |
| APL NWO-2.5T A Review of a Classic CD Player Nice review. This reconstituted Esoteric appears to be the one to beat. It's time for the major audio mags to recognize in print that there is important work going on at the periphery of mainstream manufacturing. Of course this would expose weakne... | |
| Possibly the best pre-amp one can have I agree that op amps can take on great character-- possibly surpassing tubes-- when powered by an optimal power source. The AD744 is a particularly good one (also used in the Merlin BBAM). Unfortunately in most commercial gear op amps are powered ... | |
| What makes instrument immediacy, -separation & -bo I would add that the same improvements to circuits that reveal low-level information required for spacial cues, also reveal textural details & corrected pitch & timbre in voices & instruments. So it's not just about uncovering deep bac... | |
| What makes instrument immediacy, -separation & -bo Interesting points about reverberant fields in the original performance, the relative contribution of first arrival vs. reflected sound, and hearing realistic piano sounds in the next room. However, after fixing the variables of room treatment &am... | |
| What makes instrument immediacy, -separation & -bo Shadorne, I'm not convinced that recording in an actual performance hall is necessary to create a sensation of live performance in playback.In any case, there are certainly many recordings that are made live-in-the-studio & combine a sense of ... | |
| What makes instrument immediacy, -separation & -bo Having recently progressed through stages of mods to a BAT VK tube amp, I've heard the qualities of which you speak all improve together in the same amplifier driving the same speakers. It's particularly interesting to me that soundstage size &... | |
| Best Band That Never Was John Fahey's Blind Joe Death. | |
| Lyra Helikon and Phd owners please Mark, My mistake as well! I see now that the Installation Instructions that came with my standard Helikon states .5mV output. | |
| Lee Hazlewood Funny you say psychedelic: there are patches on "Cake or Death" that sound like Sgt. Pepper with stretches of freaked-out classical music alongside country & pop. Hazelwood may have posed as a red neck, but he was really a high culture/low cul... | |
| Lyra Helikon and Phd owners please The published spec for the Helikon is .6mv gain. This would be considered a medium-gain MC cartridge. | |
| Lee Hazlewood I'll leave it to others to assess his long & productive career. I'll only say that his last album "Cake and Death", made after his terminal diagnosis, is the best swan song since Warren Zevon's "The Wind." Hazelwood just did his thing & di... |