harold-not-the-barrel
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| Sonic traits of high-compliance carts? SHURE ULTRA 500 and V15V-MR with 30+ cu´s on 5 g effective mass wand of SME III track 100 microns (when very accurately adjusted) at 1.0-1.2 mN VTF.IME since 1987 superlative sound quality, especially the ULTRA with nuances and dynamics to die fo... | |
| Linear arm recommendations Trans-Fi Audio air bearing arm is analog audio´s best bargain. So is the arm/deck combo as well. Been using the arm since the early days and won´t give away. Works nicely with all kinds of cartridges. Period. | |
| Linear Tracking Turntables - Best?? My Trans-Fi arm can taken away from me only over my dead body. | |
| Linear Tracking Turntables - Best?? Terminator/Salvation combo directly from the maker himself:Trans-Fi Audio, UK | |
| rush hemispheres great music Exit ...Stage Left is they best live album, of course. Great audio quality but inferior to the studio recordings. The best of compilation in fact :) This double live album made me to buy more. | |
| rush hemispheres great music Honestly 2112 & Waves are dull, bad production. To be exact, they lost their creativity after superb Moving Pictures, one of their very finest. Tom Sawyer reaches Limelight. The pinnacle is right there. Kings, Hemispheres & Pictures define... | |
| Great female voices Silvana Ida of ApoteosiAnnie Haslam of Renaissance Mk IIJane Relf of Renaissance Mk I Jane Dupoc of BacamarteMaarit´s 1st albumInga Rumph of Frumpy & AtlantisKate Bush | |
| rush hemispheres great music 1. Hemispheres 2. Farewell to Kings 3. Moving Pictures = essential Rush.It takes a book tell the best of Prog but I´ll give a clue: Alphataurus, 1973 and Banco´s Darwin! 1972, Japan Editions are superb, the original in good condition are very expe... | |
| SACD News Emerson Lake & Palmer All the original Island ELP albums sound more or less superlative. I don´t need MoFi nor any other versions, not even the latest technology, whatever it may be. Also the Cotillion and Manticore originals are probably superior, or excellent at least. | |
| Keith Emerson of ELP.....Rest in Peace! Keith Emerson is a genius, probably playing with Chris Squire now. I never saw ELP alive. My loss, really sad.Thanks, Keith & Chris for your incredible music :) | |
| Now Keith Emerson is gone... Keith Emerson turned the keyboard to the main instrument, no-one before him couldn´t do that. He became the master of the Hammond and Moog, the mightiest player of them all. He took symphonic classical music to another level, he made classical to ... | |
| Tonearm recommendation SME III´s very low mass hyper rigid titanium-nitride armtube is damped by teak strips, a small oil reservoir under linked to armtube adds extra damping if necessary. SME III is a superior performer with high compliance carts, with oil or without d... | |
| Top ten DD turntables of all time? 1. LUXMAN PD4442. GOLDMUND STUDIOin my experience. | |
| Can belt driven table mimickingdirect drive . . . A good belt drive TT sounds better than a poor direct-drive and vice versa. When you feel that a TT produces music your worries are over. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Florence, thanks for this info. According to the cost ranges and so many versions I would take the F-14 series very seriously. Yes, many have gold bodies. |