dgarretson
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| Best Rock Album in 2010 Nick Cave's Grinderman 2 way out in front. Well above the first Grinderman project in terms of psyched-out eerieness & grandeur of Cave at his best. LP SQ is about perfect, and the included CD is uncompressed and close enough. Add to this a we... | |
| "They are here" vs. "You are there" Hello all, another interesting thread from Bryon. As a sidebar, after years of casual listening to quite decent Sennheiser HE60 electrostatics through the stock head amp, I recently had an opportunity to hear an all-out custom tube head amp drivin... | |
| Good arms for catridge swappers If you are open to a linear arm, the latest iteration of Trans-Fi Terminator has arm swaps down to a T. Separate flat wand/counterweight assemblies can be swapped in minutes, requiring only readjustment of VTA to get going. The same external wirin... | |
| VPI Scout question I've corresponded with several Agoners who replaced VPI arms with Terminator, including one who had this to say after replacing the VPI 12.5 arm on his HRX:"There's more info/details, deeper bass, more speed and overall a livelier, more vivid soun... | |
| Anyone compared BAT Rex vs. Atmasphere MP-1? Maril555, my MP-1 is a modded MkII that replaced a BAT VK5i and VKP10. The main thing about Atma is the sense of wide open bandwidth and agility, as compared to the mellower & prettier sound of BAT. However at CES BAT REX components were fast ... | |
| Anyone compared BAT Rex vs. Atmasphere MP-1? I know MP-1 well in my own system into modded BAT VK75SE and Merlins, and at CES heard BAT Rex preamp into BAT Rex monoblocks and Wilson Shashas. A minor case of penis envy. | |
| 6h30 tube This subject has been addressed several times in the archives. IME, NOS DR sounds better in VK75SE, but after 1200 hrs. an aged DR is surpassed by a fresh EH or Sovtek. There are relatively simple & inexpensive mods that can be done inside cha... | |
| Best Rock Album in 2010 Second the recommendations(especially the vinyl) of Widespread Panic "Dirty Side Down." I had lost track of this band. Very tasty/tasteful southern rock, at moments with a feel for Clapton circa '73-5. | |
| Lucinda Williams live Notec, I have a higher opinion than you do of her recent studio albums, but I generally agree with you regarding her concert persona. There is a contradiction between the allegation of perfectionism and her self-deprecating monologues and false st... | |
| Lucinda Williams live Saw her in good form open a large venue for Neil Young, and rough and tired or lazy in a small theater as described by Bizango: forgetting lyrics and restarting songs with too many self-deprecating digressions. She's lucky to have a crackerjack ba... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I've been thinking for awhile about trying a silicone damping trough, but the question is whether any additional damping is counter-productive with a high-compliance cartridge? | |
| New favorite VINYL Album? I missed the release in 2008 of the Sundazed 3-LP set of Dennis Wilson's 1977 Pacific Ocean Blue project. What an artifact of the classic rock era, drawn from the whole cloth of life and art, a no-BS vision down in the middle of his vocal range fr... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Jbo194, FYI the Trans-Fi Terminator Pro leaves my Graham 1.5tc in the dust, both with medium and high-compliance cartridges. | |
| Best caps for updating my VTL 225 mono's ? As mentioned by Jallen, be careful with PIO caps in a hot tube amp chassis. Most PIOs are rated to 65C(and some optimistically so), as compared to 85C or above for dry constructions. ClarityCap MR has a dry construction and is treated with encapsu... | |
| Review: Audio-Technica USA AUDIO TECHNICA AT-20SS. Cartridge From what I've read on the forums, you are right that the distinction between these two was QA or the like. The main difference is that the AT20SS stylus has a more refined & open treble consistent with a great cartridge. Through break-in the ... |