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| Favourite ECM Titles New Charles Lloyd Quartet "Mirror" | |
| Velodyne DD12 or DD15 Rwwear, IME while both produce the same result, a tight bowel is preferable to a loose one... When using Vel DDs for music, it is easily appreciated that the max servo setting has better control/transient response without sacrificing authority. I ... | |
| 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. |