lewm
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| Help me build up a jazz album collection. Can you suggest a must have album? This list is still fairly parochial. Pianists. No one mentioned the very late very great Chick Corea, Hank Jones; the pianist who made the young Oscar Peterson cry (Art Tatum); the guy who alternates with Bill Evans as pianist on KOB (McCoy Tyner)... | |
| Help me build up a jazz album collection. Can you suggest a must have album? I've got about 2500 jazz albums. I would wager that more than 2000 of them could be classified as "great". | |
| Record cleaning formula using Triton X-100 I totally agree with Antinn based on personal experience. When I finally adopted the practice of rinsing with distilled water after washing with the above concoction, I definitely heard an improvement compared to prior years when I did not rinse b... | |
| Re-tipping a press-fitted stylus tooblue, I bought the UNIverse with very low hours on it from Halcro, who is now departed but was a great guy. He owned at least two UNIs. I was motivated by the fact that I heard one on my neighbor's very high end system, and I thought it was fa... | |
| Analogue front end. You want more weight, scale and dynamics.Where do you start upgrading? I don't think you can aurally separate a turntable from the tonearm/cartridge, or at least very few of us can, because you would have to take the same tonearm and cartridge en bloc and move them from turntable A to turntable B, and back to A, in o... | |
| Record cleaning formula using Triton X-100 I’d been using 20% IPA and about .01 to .05% TX100 for decades before the Wizz’s post. As you know he recommended other detergents and ethanol, not IPA. | |
| Re-tipping a press-fitted stylus Folks on audio forums might know which pros to ask. That was the crux of my question. Was thinking of Joseph Long, too, after posting. i could remove one of the constraints in my question; has any one had a press-fitted stylus replaced with a pre... | |
| Analogue front end. You want more weight, scale and dynamics.Where do you start upgrading? I certainly posted a general answer. | |
| Analogue front end. You want more weight, scale and dynamics.Where do you start upgrading? Building a system that gives you what YOU want out of the system is a long term project that results from first deciding what you like. That means developing the capacity to hear in your subconscious the way you want to hear it. Then you try out ... | |
| Calculation verification please Magnets and their proximity to the coils plus core material must be how they do it. The math for such calculations is complex, and I don’t know the equations. So off the top of my head, I can’t be amazed unless I knew the math and physics involved. | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade This is the 149th post about a plinth that no one of us owns or ever heard. God bless Audiogon. | |
| Calculation verification please By normal convention "40/40" means 40 divided by 40, which is 1. Just so not to confuse anyone, you probably meant 40-squared or 40 X 40, or 1600. 600,000 divided by 1600 (or 600,000/1600) equals 375 ohms, the load that Skos desires. I know you k... | |
| Lenco tables Properly upgraded, the Lenco idler drive (I don't know whether the L78SE is an idler drive; Lenco did make some belt drives) will compete with very high end turntables. I am not going to put a dollar limit on the value of tables it competes with,... | |
| Calculation verification please My wife is a brunette and I don't have the gut that guy has, but otherwise there is some relevance. | |
| Record cleaning formula using Triton X-100 There are two huge threads on this. Probably you should read them first. |