mammothguy54
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? A bunch of albums over 2 days, evaluating an amplifier. It sounded fantastic! I wish that my speakers were a little more efficient, but a little more on the volume control and I still achieved the SPL and energizing the room as I like. And with... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw Indeed, Cafe' Blue is on my list for tonight. That album and on the 1-Step production, is sure to tell it all.@gmercer the Zeppelin album at MSG brings this to mind for me. I forget the name of the album, but it's a 3 disc set, live alb... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I was able to take home the tube amp I have been interested in (BAT VK-76SE) and connected it yesterday. Could only play a couple of albums due to relatives company coming over (with small children). My speakers are borderline capable of being d... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Eric Clapton 'Unplugged' The disc #1 (I played disc #2 on Monday)Fleetwood Mac 'Kiln House' Reissue, and it's great!Michael Franks 'Tiger In The Rain' Direct Disc Labs, Super Disc half-speed from the original analog master tape. Nice music... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I forgot to mention this. When listening to The Cars, 'Panorama' (and yes I agree, it is an underappreciated album) I found the bass guitar riffs were so easily discernable. I was able to follow the fret work and string plucks better than in the... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? A couple of '80s albums.Tears For Fears 'Songs From The Big Chair' I've had this since it was first released. A little bright, but really quite good.The Cars 'Panorama' A really good Cars album, also have had this since it was first released... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? 3 records last night.Neil Young 'Harvest" Just got this reissue, had to listen to it again. Really nice!Stevie Ray Vaughan "The Sky Is Crying' AP/QRP Stevie was such a special person and musician. Awesome music. And this issue sounds out o... | |
| When did you most enjoy the music? Music is first and foremost the driving factor. It's emotional, for sure. Also very important to me is quality playback product. As a child a countertop radio with bass & treble control was exciting compared to the lesser sounding clock rad... | |
| Do you care about car audio? I am amazed at how many people on an audio forum feel that car audio is not of good quality. Sure, the OEM systems are generally poor sounding, but don't stop there and accept it. All you need is a good source (CD is best for the car but an MP3 ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Tubes, tubes, tubes...I think that tomorrow I should play a couple Tubes albums. Man, they sure were a fun band in concert. I saw them three times in 3 years.I have a tube phono stage (Manley Chinook), a tube line stage preamp (BAT VK-33SE) and ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Steppenwolf 'Monster' I have had this for many years, ppCarol King 'Tapestry' Mobile Fidelity reissue. Fantastic!Jeff Beck 'Truth' Originally I believe this was released in 1970. I bought this in 1974 so must be a repress. It never cea... | |
| Favorite obsolete formats..... cd318 got it right. "The sound of some of those cassette car units (1980s/1990s) seemed to be a lot better than what I now hear in many car CD players. That could just be my memory but there's no doubt that there were some very good car units back... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Paul Simon 'There Goes Rhymin' Simon' NM condition, pp issue, I have had since it was first released. Excellent album!Neil Young 'Harvest' I just received this, it's the new Neil Young reissues. SQ is vastly superior to my original album. T... | |
| Favorite obsolete formats..... In my hi-fi retail days I worked at Pacific Stereo, here in Southern California. That was from 1976 to 1982. I sold some L-Cassette decks and also some of those BIC T-1 decks, mentioned above. Both sounded remarkably good, for the day. I also ... | |
| Favorite cable brand. Remember Discwasher, "Gold Ends"? That was my first foray into better cables than what came in the box with hi-fi components. And no, I don't use them any longer and haven't since about 1990. My preference is Audioquest for signal cables, power... |