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| Life As I knew in My Audio World Has Ended, Help A lot of us have very busy lives and extremely tight schedules. But only you can set your priorities. Since you've asked for advice, though, I can tell you that my own solution for music-listening time involves avoiding television in the evening a... | |
| Upgrades for Scoutmaster, In order of improvement? On my Aries II Black Knight (quite similar the Scoutmaster), I have found the SDS and a Gingko Cloud 11 platform to be excellent upgrades. | |
| Step-up transformer for Dynavector 17D3? I mean to say "Heed Audio Quasar" of course. Sorry about the spelling glitch. | |
| Step-up transformer for Dynavector 17D3? How do you like the Heed Qudio Quasar phono preamp that you are currently using? Are you planning to switch that out? | |
| VPI Aries 3 Has Arrived Are you using the SDS with your Aries 3? I found it to be a significant upgrade for my Aries 2 in terms of pace and timing. Also curious about which cartridge you've been using with the new rig?Good listening to you. | |
| Best jazz or blues female vocalist ever Another vote for Sarah Vaughan | |
| Your First Concert was..... Dizzy Gillespie, Philadelphia, 1978. | |
| The most romantic jazz ballads, nocturn or blues Miles Davis w. JOhn Coltrane: "Some Day My Prince Will Come" (MFSL CD). | |
| What is the best phono pre-amp new for 1000.00 Don't know what sort of cartridge you're using, but if like me you are using Dynavector (in my the Dyna 17d2 Karat), you might want to look into the Dynavector P75 phono stage. Around $600 or so. It's worked well for me. BTW, I'm presuming you're ... | |
| Your top 3 comedians Bill HicksRichard PryorDennis Leary | |
| Any suggestions for good obscure music? If you like jazz and good songwriting, try the Brooklyn-based group Brock Mumford, led by guitarist and vocalist Matt Munisteri. Their first cd is excellent and is called "Love Story." Check out the band at brockmumford.com. | |
| which book to get? Neither one, if you are new to the music. Get hold of the Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz. 6 lps. Also available on cd I think (if you must). It documents the early history of jazz right and continues to the modern period. Really well done.... | |
| Best object in your listening room. Open-back banjos by Kevin Enoch (fretless) and Bart Reiter (Whyte Laydie copy), Gibson A-2 mandolin, and a Martin D-28 guitar. | |
| No Audiophiles in Hollywood The new "Stepford Wives" movie has some scenes of a wealthy men's club, which is equipped with lots of dark wood paneling and leather furniture...and a couple of nice McIntosh monoblock amplfiers tucked into the bar area. | |
| Looking for moderate priced MC phono pre I've been happy with the solid-state Dynavector P-75 phono stage I got recently. I use it as follows: VPI Aries Black Knight w. SDS / JMW9 arm / Dynavector 17d2 karat / Audio Research LS-3 linestage. Price is about 650 dollars for the P-75.Jim |