dgarretson
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| Beatles Tribute Tv special.... Agree with Lindisfarne, the Imagine Dragons completely neutered Revolution and exemplified the utter blandness of much current pop. Most of the other covers were awful-- except for the few leavened by mature artists like Walsh, Lennox, Stevie Wond... | |
| Help for a vinyl novice The LP-12 is a continuum of product bifurcations dating back a mid-70's design. I wouldn't recommend it to any self-professed novice, and certainly not at the $1K price level.http://www.high-endaudio.com/RC-Linn.htmlArthur's site can be controvers... | |
| Alt Country/Folk, American roots Rosanne Cash, The River and The Thread. This is the one where she fills her father's big shoes. | |
| Help for a vinyl novice Consider a Technics SL1200 direct drive table. Web search on the various SL1200 modification services(KAB, Zu Audio, Applied Fidelity, others.) This gives you a solid platform for future upgrades to a very high level of performance, and lots of fu... | |
| Linear tracking tonearms..... Peterayer, awhile back I queried AA on this point w/r to my Trans-Fi linear arm. Bottom line is that with a linear arm small shifts off zenith are audible at degrees of error that are well below a conventional pivot arm across the arc of an LP. ht... | |
| DAC with ESS Sabre chip, volume, XLR+RCA simult. The Exasound looks interesting, however I see nothing in the spec to suggest that it is dual mono. Moreover, subdividing a stereo Sabre chip for multichannel mode reduces its absolute performance. FWIW, I have tried the 9018 Sabre in stereo and du... | |
| DAC with ESS Sabre chip, volume, XLR+RCA simult. The Twisted Pear Buffalo IIISE does all of that, but you need to assemble the DIY kit and add a chassis. | |
| Stillpoints Ultra SS under your speakers? When used with the optional Ultra base, should the Ultra SS and Ultra 5 be tightly screwed into the base or unscrewed 1/4 turn(as is recommended when the Ultras are mounted directly into speakers)?When attached directly to an MDF speaker and unscr... | |
| Hot Tuna "S/T" It's all good. Seeing them live in January with Leon Russell. | |
| Neil Young "Live at the Cellar Door" The co-star is the 9' Steinway grand and the intimacy of the small venue. A worthwhile performance and well recorded. | |
| Neil Young "Live at the Cellar Door" I ordered Massey Hall LP yesterday and will let you know. | |
| Neil Young "Live at the Cellar Door" One pass through the LP impresses with the freshness of the performance and overall SQ. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hello all, a Technics SL-1000 MkII with original Obsidian plinth and EPA-100 tonearm is on the way to me. This may have come up earlier in the thread, but what is your opinion of the quality level of the EPA-100 relative to more modern tonearms, p... | |
| Melos MA220 tube phono stage Lew, IIRC the owner/repairman of that operation died and thereafter the customer equipment remaining on-site evaporated. I believe it was called "Melos Audio Restoration" and was unaffiliated with the original Melos. I had a nice MA333G that fortu... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Hello Harold, I hope some day to compare an ET to my Trans-Fi-- maybe when I find space to set up the VPI TNT and Kenwood L-07D side by side. Squeezing two linear arms onto one turntable wouldn't leave space for an LP... |