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| Best recording audiophile level albums of 2010 Richard, agreed it's hard to keep up with Oldham's output. IMO this is among his best.Wyatt/Atzmon/Stephan "for the ghost within" LP is beautifully recorded chamber jazz-- original compositions and also nice takes on Monk, Strayhorn, Mercer and ot... | |
| Best recording audiophile level albums of 2010 Bonnie Prince Billy & The Cairo Gang "The Wonder Show of the World"I passed a few very pleasant hours with the LP at Highwater Sound in NYC listening through TW Acustic, Tron, and Horning. It's a first class recording and performance. | |
| Best Rock Album in 2010 Marty, perhaps you're right. My reaction on first pass was the same as with Elton John on the Leon Russell duet album. Through aging or booze, both are so down in vocal range as to be unrecognizable and drained of energy. Maybe the compression on ... | |
| If upgrades were no longer possible would you be Always something to do, but with DIY mods the recipe for satisfaction is different: 1/5 cost + 10x(time + effort)= 2-3x stock performance. | |
| Best Rock Album in 2010 Martykl, thanks I wasn't aware of Ron Wood soloing again. However notwithstanding nostalgia "I Feel Like Playing" is lackluster. Nothing from him really hits the mark since "I've Got My Own Album to Do" and "Now Look"-- IMO both of which surpass t... | |
| Debuzzing a Wheaton TriPlanar problem Dr John, each tonearm wire conductor that I use to eliminate hum is separately shielded("screened".) In a fully balanced configuration, each shield floats at the cartridge pin and is tied to preamp ground at the other end of the phono cable. In an... | |
| Debuzzing a Wheaton TriPlanar problem RFI/EMI problems at tonearm wires can tend to jump around unpredictably as you describe and vary in proximity with the human body. Grounding the tonearm or TT is sometimes not enough, and screened tonearm wire may be necessary to resolve the probl... | |
| Vandersteen 7 at Audio Connection I agree there is something about V7s that just gets out of the way of the music and passeth understanding. I've heard them at three shows with Aesthetix and ARC. I believe Richard V. mentioned in a magazine that when he first heard the new balsa l... | |
| Silver wiring for interconnects Hi Clabe, I see Parts Connexion lists Neotech 20awg silver OCC5N with teflon jacket(blue) hook-up wire. Is this what you used, or is the bare silver conductor available without the teflon jacket? If so, who sells it? | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Tom, there is no consensus of opinion among the several respected OEM designers that I have spoken with about this. One likes a single cap selected to a strict tolerance, another likes to parallel caps of roughly equal value but hand-selected to m... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Halcro, Unfortunately I have not yet found time to put a switch on my phono stage to vary capacitance. Perhaps increasing capacitance will alternatively address the tracking or resonance problem that Sonus has at lower resistive loads. In another ... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil If a small cap is necessary to pad up a base cap to precise value in crossover, consider that MR is newly in production in small values .1uf-.68uf. This would allow the "bypass" experiment to be made using like capacitors. DaveClarityCap N. Americ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Halcro, To your post of 11-16 regarding Sonus Blue Gold, what loading did you use? This very high-compliance cartridge has been an interesting experiment. Lots of potential but a challenge to set up correctly-- requiring loading of 120-150K t... | |
| Best Rock Album in 2010 Sorry, meant to say DMM vinyl. | |
| Best Rock Album in 2010 "John Cale & Band Live" MIG/WDR limited edition DDM vinyl of Rockpalast concert recorded 1984 at 3AM in Essen Germany. Fierce, corruscating performance that's much better than the mostly bland commercial release that year of "Cale Comes Alive." |