dgarretson
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| Audioquest Diamond interconnects AQ Diamond 2x XLRs were my last commercial cable before DIY copper foils. The AQs stay mostly in a drawer. They're too laid back and uninvolving for most applications. | |
| Does vinyl have a sound? Funny, it's rarely described in this way, but I too used to have a sensation of vinyl as having a "plastic" coloration. It disappeared through improvements to TT and tonearm. | |
| Reasonable not to be offered a trial on a cart? I think cartridges are an area where research on these forums can be of great help. Negotiate and buy low(the retail mark-up on new ones is high relative to electronics) and sell high(used prices are relatively high, given the perishable nature of... | |
| Remastered White Album on vinyl Interesting that Fremer found the new Hard Days Night sonically the best in the box-- likely because this is the only one with an RTI plating. This raises the question of whether the non-Rainbo Euro box may surpass the US box. I may purchase AHDN ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul: "every single improvement in my system need it that I made it a whole new subs set up but when you are " there " ( " perfect " integration)"My journey with the DD-15 sub has been along the same lines. Since last post I resolved the disj... | |
| Hovland still cuts it 7 yrs on as 2013 approaches Sounds like you're happy. IME the house brand Hovland Musicaps used in your preamp are mediocre by modern standards, and may be responsible for some of that "SS glassiness" that you are hearing. They were certainly the cause of dryness in Merlin V... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lew, with the improvement in LF performance of amplifier to main speakers that is audible down to the 30hz crossover point to the sub, I can now hear more clearly the discontinuity between mains and sub-- discontinuities of timing and of tonality.... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, Each substitution reduced congestion and improved resolution and timbral accuracy all across FR. Replacing the four DC rail fuses at 6C33C output in BAT amp is the most dramatic change by virtue of improved LF. I can see why Victor has ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, Thanks for suggesting to re-fuse the Velodyne. Over the past few weeks I've been incrementally installing Acme silver/cryo fuses and fuse holders in BAT VK75SE, Atma MP-1, and ARC PH-2, both at AC and on DC rails. This has been a small ... | |
| Static electricity: Unique to Vinyl Systems? I have this problem occasionally in winter-- sometimes culminating in a rather loud discharge pop. The solution is to occasionally discharge the record spindle to ground with a patch wire. YMMV depending on whether your turntable's spindle bearing... | |
| Best Rock Albums of 2012 Forgot Dr. John-- Locked Down. It's really a Dr.J/Dan Auerbach album. | |
| Best Rock Albums of 2012 Lots of good alt. albums this year but fairly slim pickens in rock. Soundgarden- King Animal. Keepers of the flame of Seattle grunge.Neil Young-- Psychedelic Pill. The long songs take it.Beach House-- Bloom. Best electropop.Beachwood Sparks-- Tarn... | |
| 2012 Additions to Your Music Collection Thanks, I was unaware of any Chris Whitley vinyl. What the world needs now is vinyl issues or at least good CD-remasters of his entire catalog. What an important box set that would be! Unfortunately he was not well enough known to find the profit ... | |
| Beatles Reissues on VINYL Finally The lifelessness of the digitally remastered White Album relative even to my early Capitol pressing led me on a WA quest that ended today with purchase of a clean French pressing by Pathe Marconi EMI. This one escapes the thinness of the Capitol, ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Pryso, I was chiefly interested in compliance, output, and tracking angle specs-- mostly to compare to published Grace specifications. At this level of price and performance it is reasonable to expect such info from a manufacturer of finished good... |