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| The Tragic Decline of Music Literacy (and Quality) In my grade school in the 1960's we had musicians come in and play. I remember one classical violinist, marvelous. Everyone learned piano in the 3rd grade and there was at least one field trip to hear the Seattle Symphony Orchestra at the Opera Ho... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt CowboyGoodbye Yellow Brick Road | |
| VPI Nomad help Never throw away what you can sell.But seriously, the fact that increasing tracking force helped is a clue. How did you adjust? The correct way is with a gauge (even the inexpensive Shure works fine) measured with the stylus at record height, not ... | |
| Voltage delta between speakers Keith Herron tells me that in the double-blind testing he does he has found he is able to swing listener preference with changes of as little as three one hundredths of a dB. You're talking ten times that here. | |
| Shipping speakers The first pair of Khorus speakers Talon shipped me I got out to the truck just in time to see them dropped three feet off the tailgate, cracking the wood at the base. The second pair I got there before the truck could stop, so I was watching when ... | |
| Digital Microscope advice SRA Judge it by ear. You will never be able to see anything like what you can hear. Classic case of misapplied technology. | |
| Great New Linda Ronstadt Live A link would be nice. Translucent red vinyl? https://www.discogs.com/Linda-Ronstadt-Live-In-Hollywood/release/13156668 Mastered by Bernie Grundman. On top of her awesome chops she seems to have a good ear for recordings, or at least likes to work... | |
| Speaker Cables and Carpet While anything that raises the cables certainly will improve things, the very best solution is to use something specifically designed to prevent electric charges moving along the surface getting from the floor to your cables. There's a whole indus... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Wish You Were HereCity to CityExactly Like ThisThe WellFamous Blue Raincoat | |
| Speaker Cables and Carpet You are on the right track, they need to be up off the carpet. Or floor, whatever that happens to be. Doesn't seem to matter. Several inches will do, and you can use just about anything from paper or plastic cups to blocks of wood. Really good ele... | |
| I love my Hifi Actually I think its quite the opposite. Just 10-15 years ago not only did no one else I know have a turntable, but if even if they wanted to there were virtually zero places they could go to try or buy one. Now every stereo store I go to has a tu... | |
| Impressing friends with your rig I've done this quite a lot over the years. Its almost always much more enjoyable, with by far the better reactions, doing it for regular people than anyone even aware of the word audiophile.Not that there haven't been some notable exceptions. One ... | |
| Any advice on buying quality vinyl udog I think what most people mean by original pressings is just that they aren't reissues. Original pressings could be made over many years. There could even be reissues made during the same time the original is still being run. Original pressing... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Mel Torme Swings Shubert AlleyRhythm of the SaintsFrom the Age of Swing | |
| Any advice on buying quality vinyl No Better Records is not hype. I've got a White Hot Stamper of Fleetwood Mac. People can whine, argue, whatever about the cost being worth it. What they cannot do is find anything better. The best of what they have is so much better than ANYTHING ... |