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| What to do with old inner sleevs after cleaning? Overhang, I do more or less what Kurt tank does, except that if I'm dealing with an older record, I put the record in a new inner sleeve AND outer sleeve, then put that, along with the original outer sleeve, into one of the clear plastic sleeves, ... | |
| No CD with works by Alexander N. Skrjabin I like Scriabin quite a bit, and strongly recommend the following piano CD by pianist Pascal Amoyel: Intergrales des Poems, on Calliope, CAL9353. Calliope is a French label (not surprisingly). Scriabin wrote a number of pieces he called Poems, whi... | |
| "British sound", Daedalus, Tyler Though I have been a pretty serious Harbeth fan (M30's and new Compact 7's), not long ago I got a pair of Spendor 1/2e's and I may, in the end, like them better. A little bit softer top, and really good at hanging on to a rich orchestral sound as ... | |
| more power for Spendor S8e? I drove a pair of Spendor 1/2e's with my BAT VK75. I've read that the Spendors respond differently to tube than transister amplification. With the BAT, they were quite lovely. Easily driven, and very rich midrange, especially. In fact, cranking th... | |
| Mozart P. Conc 17 Ashkenazy Philharmonia Orch Mozart piano concertos are, in general, hard to beat, and often fill me with a sort of peaceful enjoyment of the moment. And I've responded to a number of different performers in that repertoire. It's just great, great stuff, for which we should a... | |
| Digital Remastering: Last 5 years..... In the classical world, it's still spotty. I did some comparisons between Lps and their corresponding CDs about 6-8 months ago (all analog material, obviously digitally remastered in the case of the CDs) and a few of the CDs sounded impressively c... | |
| Weights on top of equipment to dampen vibration I still have a couple of VPI magic bricks. They are very well made, and look kind of sexy. I remember when they came out, a buddy and I were trying to tell by AB comparisons whether they made any difference. We decided it was important to be able ... | |
| Emm Labs CDSA-old version vs new tray version? The EMM people told me there would be no notable difference. The dealer and I both heard a notable difference. I went from being fairly satisfied to being really, really satisfied. Is it all psychological? Beats me. | |
| RMAF.....Meet & Greet I will one evening, anyway. (After I reach the 20 drink limit, I guess I'll go somewhere else...probably with the rest of the crowd...) | |
| Short report on EAR Acute CD player Coffeey - I believe you're right...Arcam, not Adcom. I misspoke... | |
| Advice requested on speakers 77jovian - Just a suggestion from another serious classical listener who owned Vandy 3A's. In my room, with my equipment (which included an ARC VT100) I eventually became dissatisfied with the way the 3A's handled strings. They tended to be a litt... | |
| How can we settle for digital? I'd like to address a point made by Bogartgl...namely, the EMM CDSA SE. I had the CDSA non-SE version only briefly, and thought it was good--in fact, better than anything I'd heard in that price range, and better than the Linn CD12 (against which ... | |
| How can we settle for digital? I don't think everyone in the music business agrees that digital can only go so far. There seem to be plenty of people interested in pushing it further, and it does indeed make important leaps every few years.I got back into vinyl about a year ago... | |
| How many use Vintage Hi-Fi systems? I have a CJ PV5 and MV75 "in process" now, that I hope to receive by the end of the month. I also have an ARC SP8 that had some "upgrades" done, but I decided to push it a little further, and don't have it back yet. My turntable is a 25-year old L... | |
| poor source material Tobias has got it right. I think what happens to a lot of folks relatively new to the audiophile game is that they get seduced by the detailed sound of a few of the best CDs through a very detailed system, and then are horrified to discover (over ... |