jayboard
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| CDR & LP Recording:Tascam CDR-750 or Sony CDR-W66? Yes, that's the reason for these features. If your records are in very good shape, it should work fine. The question is, if a pop, tick or scrape causes the machine to miss indexing, say, just one track on a side, is this any better to you than if... | |
| CDR & LP Recording:Tascam CDR-750 or Sony CDR-W66? With the Tascam CDR-700 (not familiar with the 750), for analog input, you can set how long a break between sounds must last to trigger the machine to index a new track. You also can select how noisy this break can be and still count as a break. T... | |
| Naxos, the way to go for classical? If exploring through Naxos, one nice thing is they print a very well organized and complete catalog that includes the ratings given to their recordings by some popular publications -- Penguin guide, Gramophone, etc. Don't know how easy it is to fi... | |
| What kind of music did you/will you get married to Charles Mingus, "Duke Ellington's Sound of Love." Could have been funnier, I guess, like my marriage itself. But it was gorgeous. Nice procession music. | |
| Your own iTunes music categories You're right -- playlists are what give you the flexibility to program your own listening moods and habits into the iPod...and free yourself from artificial categories. I haven't spent much time creating playlists yet. But the fact that you can bu... | |
| Advantage of Rega Motor Upgrade I don't mean to be vague, but I think saying it doesn't take careful listening to notice the improvement is as helpful as any attempt I could make at audiophilic descriptions. Also, I'm not that much of an audiophool. If I decide I like something,... | |
| Advantage of Rega Motor Upgrade On this and a recent thread, you seem to want to believe the motor upgrade is not that worthwhile. That's OK; how can anyone but you size up how much of an improvement your tweaks have made? As far as a stock P3 motor compared to a stock Planar 3 ... | |
| P2 or P3 Nickway, I have a really old Planar 3 that I fitted with the upgraded motor some months ago. It was easily worth the money to me. Better definition, more even tonal response. I think the motor upgrade for Planars is really high value. | |
| Sistrum or Neuance or...? The empire sings a different tune! Sistrum backers are no longer repeating Star Sound's self-contradicting techno-slogans. Instead, they have started saying things like, Star Sound doesn't have to explain anything to us (I heartily agree, so I hop... | |
| Sistrum or Neuance or...? As a mostly-lurker who grew weary of Sistrum's explanations long ago, I've got to say the more I read these explanations the more self-contradictory and less credible they seem. There is such a lack of rigor in Sistrum's efforts to explain the sci... | |
| Dynaco St70 Static I fixed a scratchy, crackling sound coming through one channel by cleaning the output tube pin sockets and the biasing pot contacts with a contact cleaner. I did this all at once, but my guess is that it was the potentiometer that was the culprit.... | |
| Using Headphone amp as a Preamp ? Any good ?? I am using my Linn Majik as a preamp. I tried swapping in my Headroom Maxed Out Home to serve as a preamp (which the Headroom literature says can be used as a preamp), and the headphone amp did not come close to the Majik. This is a pretty darn se... | |
| Any Good CD Recorder/Players? Osso, I have a Tascam CDRW700 -- a very capable recorder, does a very nice job with vinyl, and a pleasure to use. It's a pretty good CD player, but probably in the class of a good mid-fi player. When I use it in place of my Linn Karik, I am initia... | |
| How to Add a Sub on a 2 Channel System? Agaffer, Could you say more about why you think one REL works better than one Vandersteen? I'm interested in both these subs. Thanks. | |
| Skipping CD's Heard from my dealer that Linn USA said there is nothing they can do to upgrade or improve my Karik... kind of disappointing. My machine's serial number is around 9400. Ajpat, did you get anywhere with your inquiry? |