frogman
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| Does the Eminent Technology 2.5 arm work well with the Transcriptors Reference turntable? I’ve invited Bruce Thigpen to offer his thoughts here. I doubt he will as my experience has been that he doesn’t like to participate in audio forums; but herhaps he will. Here’s hoping ….. | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Congratulations on your purchase, dentdog Fantastic tonearm! And welcome to the thread. With the exception of an occasional and thankfully rare bit of noise (like an annoying click or pop from a favorite lp) it is one of the most civilized and fri... | |
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| Does the Eminent Technology 2.5 arm work well with the Transcriptors Reference turntable? Another vote in favor of the ET2 and I agree with the positive comments made so far. Fantastic arm. I’ve owned Alphason MCS, Syrinx PU3, Grado, Premier MMT, SME V and a couple others and the ET2 (which I still use) is sonically superior to all of... | |
| Balance control? I experience the same issue on some of my recordings. Some simply don’t have a solid and stable center image; very frustrating. At this point I would take some of those recordings to your friends’ and see if the same thing happens on their syste... | |
| Any fans of Ken Peplowski here? | |
| Any fans of Ken Peplowski here? Monster player. A traditionalist; more to the “Swing” side of things and probably why he is not better known. I agree with your description. Glad that you have discovered him. The Deerhead Inn is a Jazz institution. The Delaware Water Gap was ho... | |
| Balance control? I feel your “pain”; I too am very sensitive to channel balance issues and one can really obsess over it. The first obvious question which you haven’t answered is have you always had this issue, or did you make an equipment change, including cablin... | |
| Interconnects - better before preamp or after preamp? “upstream” should read “downstream” 🤔 | |
| Interconnects - better before preamp or after preamp? noromance +3. Basic rule of system building that will will give you better results than most other approaches; many which simply keep us chasing our sonic tails. Every component, including cabling will degrade the signal to some degree. NO compo... | |
| Is symphonic music kind of like Phil Spector got hold of chamber music? Hey, OP, how about some follow up? Always appropriate. Personally, it always feels manipulative when someone posts something of at least some controversy or possible misunderstanding and then disappears, Btw, re **** I’m not so sure about th... | |
| Is symphonic music kind of like Phil Spector got hold of chamber music? I think some miss the point. Phil Spector took the genre R&R and (in his own words) “augmented” the more traditional size of ensemble used in R&R and through the use of larger ensembles and the exploitation of studio techniques created a s... | |
| Is symphonic music kind of like Phil Spector got hold of chamber music? I’ll abstain from personal judgment, but I think that another way of saying what I think you are trying to say is “orchestral music is to chamber music what Phil Spector (and his *wall of sound*) is to (most) Rock & Roll”. There is some truth... | |
| Mozart-Clarinet Quintet On the subject of historical instruments and a fascinating comparison of instrumental color between the modern instruments used in the above Mackeras/Orchestra of St. Luke’s and this by Zefiro Ensemble: | |
| Mozart-Clarinet Quintet Another great example of Mozart’s genius and arguably (not really, imo) the greatest work for winds ever composed is his Serenade No. 10 “Gran Partita”. It is believed to have been composed, like his Clarinet Quintet, for his clarinetist friend A... |