dgarretson
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| 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 ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lew, With just several hours break-in after mounting the AT15SS body, the AT20SS stylus sounds so much better than the(identical in appearance) AT15SS stylus, that I question whether my eBay-purchased AT15SS could have been NOS as advertised. The ... | |
| Review: Audio-Technica USA AUDIO TECHNICA AT-20SS. Cartridge Hi Raul, I've now spent five hours with NOS AT20SS stylus and can confirm the impressive improvement of AT20SS stylus over AT15SS stylus on AT15SS body. While waiting for AT20SS stylus I've been circling through several quite decent MCs, including... | |
| CD vs. Vinyl Shadorne I've got one of those together with a pile of steel needles and shellacs of Amos & Andy and Princeton fight songs. I assure you the Victrola is over-rated outside of Antiques Road Show. | |
| New favorite VINYL Album? Koegz sure got it right with "The Suburbs". Best of the year so far. I don't hear the gross compression that some have criticised. More like a slight softness from the vintage tube multitracking. Rich, dense, detailed mix with warm bottom end. Deb... | |
| Review: Audio-Technica USA AUDIO TECHNICA AT-20SS. Cartridge Hi Raul, I have been using only the 150pf capacitance of my phono IC. Pending arrival of AT20SS replacement stylus, today I interrupted AT15SS to retry Azden YM-P50VL-- this time with uninterrupted wiring and a prototype light arm wand made of car... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Silvio, fascinating observations to the effect that some classic high-compliance MM/MI designs were ahead of their time in terms of then-available tonearms, and may not play well on even top current tone arms conceived principally for MC. This ele... | |
| How to accomodate a balanced only phono stage ? There is a long thread with digressions on this topic athttp://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1172373006&read&keyw&balanced&&st50Gain is not lost in single-ended vs. balanced wiring of cartridge, as the voltage outp... |