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Review: Lucinda Williams "Essence"
Sorry for confusion, Garfish is right "gravel" original release 1998 on Mercury label was HDCD and there is no remastered version.However "lucinda williams" CD from 1988 was remastered in 1998 by Randy LeRoy, I have this version and it comes with ... 
Review: Lucinda Williams "Essence"
JD agree with you about "gravel road" and "lucinda williams"being great CDs, haven't got a chance to hear "essence"More ways to spend money, did you notice "gravel road" hasHDCD remaster in 1998, have you compared this remaster toprevious CD? I am... 
Who is selling Musical Fidelity Now ?
Anthony Michaelson has released new high end MF CDP using nuvistors,choke regulated and looks very similar to M3 super integrated. Only 500 available and 100 are pre-sold, check out this beast:http://www.musical-fidelity.co.uk/ 
Who is selling Musical Fidelity Now ?
Thank God Galen Carol in Texas is carrying MF, I love this dealer and have bought several small things from him, he will now get the lionshare of my budget. I have owned MF gear since 1984, and will continue to buy as long as they make outstanding... 
who sings this?
Streetdaddy, please give your impressions after giving a listen. Track #2 "Blue Flower" is Mazzy's finest song ever,near the conclusion a beautiful guitar solo rises from thebackground distortion and soars to the heavens, takes you to the other si... 
who sings this?
Mazzy Star first album, "she hangs brightly" is by far herbest and most varied, following albums become somewhat bland. This album is the best example of west coast "paisly underground" a neo-psychedelic movement. Sound quality here is excellent.C... 
Armor-all
Racer I never used Armor-all on CDs but I recall reading long ago anyone who did was sorry!I would never use any waxe/polish/cleaner that is not designed specifically for CD application. These can degrade optic quality of CD surface, I vaguely rem... 
learning to listen
I think your assumption that people have equal hearing in each ear is not correct, and it is natural for people to favor one ear over the other on the phone because of this.I believe it is not uncommon to have different levels of hearing in each e... 
Flood of Good Classic Rock Remasters
Bob, "super saver" just refers to lower price level and is a fancy name record companies invented to you you think you are getting great deal, usually they put sticker on CD thatsays super saver or nice price. You can get these anywhere that sells... 
Flood of Good Classic Rock Remasters
Just listened to new 3/01 Tom Petty remasters, Dam the Torpedos/Hard Promises and they are 100% sucessful. Theseare remastered by Joe Gastwirt, same guy who did great job on Tom Petty's 2 CD Anthology. The hardness/grain present in Tom's high pitc... 
Review of HGA Silver Lace cables
I would like to give some additional insight when directly comparing HT ProSilway II (which I think was authors refernce silver IC) and HG Silver Lace. I think PS II is just "slightly" more resolving of fine detail, however the SL is slightly smoo... 
Recommended Classical CD
Also you can buy many versions of Rimsky-Korsakov "Sheherazade" which has great Cymbal clashes in the shipwreck movement, that is paired with Borodin's Polovtsian Dances, double the cymbal pleasure!If you are mainly interested in getting best poss... 
Recommended Classical CD
Borodin - Polovtsian Dances, from Prince Igor Rimsky Korsakov - Capriccio Espagnol, Scheherazade shipwreck scenceTchaikovsky - Capricio Italien (mentioned above), closing of Trepak movement (Russian dance) from NutcrackerMussorgsky - Gates of Kiev... 
Bearing Isolation "Arms Race" Begins
Onhwy61 very good idea "floating" entire rack, did you see/read about this somewhere else? When floating rackdid you get by just using 3 Pro MIBs under BDR shelf and where you aware of the tungsten ball tweak?I guess the question most budget minde... 
Bearing Isolation "Arms Race" Begins
Eric, sorry my mistake I meant stereotimes.com, here is linkhttp://www.stereotimes.com/Aurios_Pro_and_1_2_Media_Isolation_Bearings.htmMust have spaced out there.