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| What was your biggest vinyl surprise for $.99 a whole slew of RCA shaded dog monos for 0.99 each from the local goodwill, including a NM, 1S/1S copy of heifetz sibelius voilin concerto that plays like a dream. | |
| May Day May Day a plastic base BSR/MacDonald deal with ADC cartridge. (hey, at least it was an idler drive so i've come full-circle there), run through an entry-level pioneer receiver to no-name speakers.the first LPs i remember playing on the console at home are... | |
| What song best describes you or your life? cat stevens "on the road to find out" | |
| How to get 100 accurate azimuth? this is just off the top of my head, but it seems like i remember reading somewhere a reference to a denon test LP that had an exacting method of setting azimuth. you may want to check it out. i may be FOS. | |
| Watts up with the Linn Majik 2100 amplifier? the original majik was 33wpc (8 ohms) if memory serves. it's all relative. depends on what speakers you plan on driving with it.i rather liked the majik i had once upon a time btw. | |
| Trends TA-10.1 optnions/input larryrx7, i have no good explanation why an upgraded amp that gives a clean 6 wpc before distortion (at 8 ohms) shoots up can sound so good with your speakers. the upgrade gives larger tank caps but the same value input caps, albeit auricap. liste... | |
| Trends TA-10.1 optnions/input thanks larryrx7, i just upgraded mine to "mardis status," although i use the trends configured as a power amp. yes, the concensus (and my experience as well) seems to be that it is indeed sensitive to speaker cables, certainly benefitting from hig... | |
| Any way to mod the TAD-803's ? in addition to mass-loading the cabinet, damping the driver basket and improving the wiring, replacing the cheap and overly padded wanna-be nautilus tweeter with a hi-vi tn-28 gives those missing highs back. use a first-order crossover at ~9kHz, p... | |
| Devendra Banhart - Anybody listening ? will oldham aka palace bros. aka bonnie prince billy aka ? | |
| Speakers to make even Raffi sound good? there's no accounting for taste! "one light, one sun" is one of my reference CDs! just kidding, but hey, you can do a lot worse than raffi. | |
| Album which you have listened to most? the band music from big pinkthe white albumwynton marsalis black codes from the undergroundelliott smith either/ordoors 1stbill evans sunday at the village vanguard lps from the riverside box setdylan the times they are a changin'dylan freewheelin... | |
| Wife/girlfriend or audio: if you had to chose? um, hello? | |
| Best lines in a song "and if it takes shit to make bliss, then i feel pretty blissfully" -modest mouse | |
| Moerch DP6 or UP 4 to my knowledge there are some that prefer one over the other, with the UP-4 being most often characterized as "lively," and the DP-6 as "refined." of course one's own results would depend on system context and synergy. there is also a significant... | |
| Moerch DP6 or UP 4 UP = unipivotDP = dual pivotall info at moerch website www.moerch.dk/ |