drbond
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| Phono Preamplifier Redux .. Damn This is Getting Expensive Based on my personal experience, and as another mentioned above, you probably need to spend 20k in analog to get SQ like 10k in digital, but from what I’ve read 60-80k in analog is better than 120k in digital. So, at lower prices, it’s hard to be... | |
| Great classical pianists @esarhaddon I cannot disagree with you that many of today’s classical pianists "are too tightly bound by a rigid performance controlled by the original score". However, most of Claudio Arrau’s recordings will demonstrate quite the opposite: he i... | |
| Great classical pianists Not much finesse by your favorite Alexandra, but perhaps that’s because everyone sounds like an amateur compared to Claudio Arrau. . . I think you would do yourself a great favor by comparing this same piece performed by your favorite, then Arrau... | |
| How many plays can you get out of a good record? @cey Yes, one answer to the question "how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop?", but perhaps the answer to my question is the same; however, there were good suggestions about record and stylus preservation material... | |
| Need some help with Brandenburgs I don’t think Jordi Savall’s recording is on LP, but just CD/SACD. I don’t really like Richter’s interpretations, or rather the recordings of his performances, probably due to the poor recording capability when he was recording. I think Pinnock ... | |
| Lyra Cartridges @mglik Your statement that Lyra will upgrade the Lyra Atlas to the Lyras Atlas Lamba for no charge is false. The cost to upgrade a Lyra Atlas to a Lyra Atlas Lambda is 50% of the cost of a new Lyra Atlas Lambda, or about $6,000. There is present... | |
| How many plays can you get out of a good record? @erik_squires Aye, now I understand: Macbeth must've ruined his LP's using an old stylus, prompting this soliloquy! "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all... | |
| How many plays can you get out of a good record? @jasonbourne52 Is the Stylast lube the same thing as the Stylast stylus treatment? | |
| How many plays can you get out of a good record? @secretguy Your "cringing at 1.8g" meaning that historically you used MM cartridges that tracked at less than 1g, and 1.8g is so heavy, or that in the past you used 3g 1980's cartridge tracking, and 1.8g is too light, leading to skips, etc.? | |
| Lyra Cartridges @mijostyn Why did you opt to order to Lyra Atlas Lamba SL, instead of the regular Lyra Atlas Lambda? Here is what Lyra says about the SL model: This is a special, built-to-order, version of Atlas for expert users with very high-gain, extra l... | |
| Washington Post article on MoFi vs. Fremer vs. Esposito While I never bought any MoFi LP’s, I’ve bought quite a few newer release LP’s made years or decades after the CD, manufactured by the same company that manufactured the CD and made from the digital tapes. I play the CD and the LP in immediate su... | |
| Cartridge Loading.....Part II @lewm Congrats on the new phono stage, but I would think the Steelhead might still be a step up from the BMC MCCI, but maybe I'm wrong. . .what's your impression between the two? | |
| Your thoughts on selling As a buyer, I would suggest that the best approach is to downgrade the LP's that are not play graded. If you're selling as NM, it should be play-graded. If you're selling as VG+, then it's understood to be noisy. | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? Looks like mostly modern rockers here: how about Wimoweh, first produced in modern times (that I'm aware of by Solomon Linda), and more famously covered by the Weavers: | |
| A suitable cart and possible practical tweaks for a Rega Planar 3... Tweaks? Buy a record clamp, as it will improve the SQ dramatically on a Rega. . . And look at isolation footers of some sort. |