jond
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| Best Grateful Dead recording? For those recommending acoustic stuff, Garcia and Grisman, Old and In the Way, etc., I have to say that "The Pizza Tapes" with Garcia, Grisman, and Tony Rice is not only great music, but one of the most alive and realistic sounding recordings I ow... | |
| Best Grateful Dead recording? Ericd74,50 bucks for 5/8/77 on cd? Ouch! That's a very common and uniformly great sounding tape/cd, if my burner weren't currently on the fritz I'd burn the person who started this thread a copy right now. A note to all, there are two many ways to... | |
| Amazing XRCD I just purchased.... Hdm,That's exactly what I was looking for, thank you very much! Just as I suspected the mastering chain is almost identical. That definitely makes K2's the way to go, as if I didn't know that already from the sound quality. In fact I'm listening t... | |
| Amazing XRCD I just purchased.... Curbach,Could you please elaborate on the manufacturing process being different? Are you referring to the mastering chain or something else? Either way what specific differences are there? Sorry to pepper you with questions but you are getting to ... | |
| Amazing XRCD I just purchased.... Mikes,Try going to www.fantasyrecords.com. They produce k2's and you can buy direct from them. Somewhere on the website is a list of all currently available k2's, I can remember the exact link but if you cruise the site you can figure it out. Good... | |
| Help Smoke rising from 300B amp When you look at the pins at the bottom of the 300B tubes not that two are larger and two are smaller. Make sure the pins are plugged into the right sockets based on their size. This is a very common mistake. However at this point I wouldn't mess ... | |
| Amazing XRCD I just purchased.... Well I guess I'm a cheap audiophile then! I've been loading up on K2's but still have yet to buy an XRCD. I'm pretty sure the difference is mostly price and marketing. On the other hand the difference between K2's and regular cd's is staggering. I... | |
| Best Grateful Dead recording? Kevins,Go buy it! I'm right now listening to the slice from 4/28, Dark Star>St. Stephen>NFA>Goin' Down the Road>NFA, that St Stephen is in my opinion the best ever! | |
| Best Grateful Dead recording? Any recording from 1971-4, in my opinion and many others the absolute peak for the band. Many of these are available as Dick's Pick's as stated above. A personal favorite of mine is the recent release of a run of shows documenting the closing of t... | |
| Amp recommendation for Alon Circe? Great speakers! I have the Alon Lotus SE MKIII and I love them, they're the last speakers I think I'll own. They are quite a bit more efficient than the Circe's, I run them on Cary 300B monos at 12 watts per side. You can't get away with that, but... | |
| A personal challenge Way to go Jeff! My girlfriend quit last year and I know exactly how hard it can be. Addictions are brutal, I overcame one of my own recently that I'd rather not get into, but cigarettes are the worst addictive substance known to man. To beat somet... | |
| Krell ksa 100 shuts off It's probably dc offset from your preamp. I've heard of this happening with bat preamps and solid state amps. I'd contact bat and see what they suggest. Good luck! | |
| Mastercard A new cd burner. But that's only 'cause my old one died! | |
| What's the oldest piece of gear in your system? Wow,This is kind of embarassing, I guess it's my Rega Planar 3 which I've had for 3 1/2 years. But I'm pretty young and that's when I first got into this, prior to that I just had a proccesion of boom boxes. | |
| Hiss and Hum in a system newly put together Also, don't forget to chech the tubes on the Unison, sometimes tubes can sort of spit and squeak at the end of their lives or if they've become microphonic. As far as hum, the grounding ideas above sound good, cheater plugs are an inexpensive way ... |