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| Amp for Quad ESL 57? Viggen,The stacked Quads I loved so much many years ago belonged to a friend who was using a Marantz amp -- I don't remember the model number. All his electronics were Marantz (9B tuner for instance), and he was using a Thorens with an SME 3012 (1... | |
| Amp for Quad ESL 57? A long time ago I heard stacked Quads ("57s") with Marantz tube amplification. Although nostalgia is not a particularly valid criterion for choosing an amp or system, I have never heard anything better. If you were to get a Quad tube amp to go wit... | |
| Decca cartridge experiences Well, I certainly wish I were in France; Nice would be nice. Maybe I could order some freedom fries to go with a '61 Petrus. Thank you for the links to the Decca rebuilders. | |
| Decca cartridge experiences Long ago I used a Decca London cartridge -- it has a maroon top. I really loved that cartridge, but for some reason I switched to a Denon 103D, and promptly forgot the Decca. Quite by chance I recently found it in a pile of extinct audio component... | |
| Breakthrough Evidence of the Beatle's Genius? Curiously enough, when I read the title of this post, I expected an analysis of the musical structure of the Beatles' songs, which Leonard Berstein once said reminded him of Baroque music. However that might be, for me the definitive moment in the... | |
| What are the best speakers for Mahler? Your question, as the previous poster remarked, is indeed remarkable. The easiest answer is that no speakers except perhaps the Dali Megalines, reviewed by Robert Green in the current TAS can ever hope to reproduce the complexity of a Mahler s... | |
| Recommendation - Complete Beethoven Sonatas The Beethoven Piano Sonatas are so complex, that almost any fine pianist is likely to find something interesting to "say," but, I agree with those who think very highly of Kempff. His performances are magesterial. | |
| Ground loop, cheater plugs, power cords, many ques After months of searching for the source of an interminable and annoying hum in my system, I did what I should have done first; namely, I took the power conditioner (an Audio Prism unit), out of the circuit, and simply plugged the offending compon... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? What is the story on the "Corona Power Cord"? | |
| Decca London Cartridge? Thank you all for your responses. My old Decca -- which certainly dates me! -- has a more or less "purple" case. It only has three pins, so I guess the ground leads from each channel must be connected to it. When I first got my Decca, I thought it... | |
| Amazing Solo Piano Recordings The Reference Recordings LP, "Nojima Plays Lizst," is absolutely dazzling, not only sonically, but as a musical performance. Nojima's breath taking technique is purely in the service of the music, and the recording is without peer. | |
| Living Voice Auditorium spkrs comments requested You might try communicating directly with Kevin Scott, the founder of Living Voice. He is a quite friendly, and I suspect he would answer your questions.shout@livingvoice.co.uk | |
| Analog system For vibration control there is simply nothing to rival a product made by a company called MinusK. The MinusK vibration isolation platform, which was designed for use with proudcts such as atomic force microscopes, has a natural frequency of 0.5 Hz... | |
| SACD vs. DVD-A and Audio DVDs The response by "Jtinn" conforms with my experience. SACDs are simply qualitatively better than CDs. To me, SACDs have all of the virtues of analog and none of the flaws. The sony SACD 777ES, at $1500 or so, is simply a phenomenal "bargain" by the... |