dgarretson
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| Experience w/ Trans-Fi Auio Terminator Tone Arm? I'll add my more recent impressions of Terminator. The Tpro version with the Tomahawk flat wand and uninterrupted shielded 5N silver wire harness is quite a break-through in performance. The arm also benefits from a solid brass pedestal. The most ... | |
| Top resistors Very interesting. It's been awhile since I made the comparison, but for me Caddock TF020 is a close second to TX2575. IIRC TF020 was initially strident on top, but eventually settled down. Nothing bland about TX2575-- just clean and clear. | |
| Your Favorite, Most Outstanding Guitar Solo Whistle Rhymes, yeah, a worthy side-bar to the The Who in its prime.Richard Thompson's second solo in "Shoot Out the Lights" | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Thanks, Timeltel. Rummy is just an obfuscator, IMO. Why for a time the Inn across the street from his alma mater even removed his portrait from next to the Yankee Doodle mural. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? “There are things we know we know about. There are things we know we don’t know. And there are things that are unknown unknowns. We don’t know that we don’t know.”More of Sgt. Schultz than brilliance in DM's remark, unfortunately for US history.Wh... | |
| Warmest sounding Green Mountain speaker? I've only heard GMA's top Calypso HD in an unlikely pairing with Cary 2A3SE SET monoblocks. Up to a moderate volume this combo was transparent across FR with well delineated LF. Excellent build quality and price/performance. At the demo I swapped ... | |
| Sony SCD-XA5400ES-Best SACD for under $10,000 "you want to go out for a Italian dinner on a $50 budget and are thinking of getting saltimbocca at Restaurant "Mama Sonia". Would you order their $20 pasta dish first to make sure their cooking is OK, and get the saltimbocca on a second visit? No... | |
| Lucinda Williams live This is also perhaps the best ever Don Was production. | |
| Lucinda Williams live After an evening alternating between the LP and CD versions of Blessed, it's clear that this is Lucinda at the top and an extraordinary album by any measure. | |
| does it logical to invest on expensive transport? Lokie, I have similar sentiments. Recent improvements in computer audio and availability of hi-res internet files are getting me interested. However after years of accumulating CDs and making refinements to a traditional RBCD front end, the questi... | |
| Princeton Record Exchange As far as PreX is concerned, if you want to scuba dive into the $1 bins do visit during the less crowded weekdays. On Saturdays there is cigarette and bong breath and plumber's crack afoot. | |
| Velodyne DD Plus: New King of the Jungle? Sonicray, If you get a chance it would be helpful to know the lowest programmable roll-off frequency. In later iterations of DD-15 series it was 40hz-- too high for some systems. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Timeltel, Now that's interesting. Could you suggest what's necessary for a phono stage to accommodate those higher output MM? Mine is 48db gain with 300-1500mV headroom, which should not be untypical. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul, Thanks for the reminder. I have a new wand made of ultra-lite balsa wood carbon fiber composite with several adjustable brass weights at each end to vary effective vertical mass. I'm going to remount AT20SS to this wand and see what results. | |
| When have A/B comparisons led you astray? My latest CDP modification includes an A/B switch that enables on-the-fly comparison of RBCD processed through a 13-year old DAC chip to RBCD processed through the latest 32-bit ESS9018 Sabre chip. The difference is meaningful but much subtler tha... |