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More female vocals
Mary Stallings, Rene Marie, and Laverne Butler are excellent JAZZ singers. Each very different but they are not warmed up pop singers! :-) You should try them if you can. BTW, Etta Jones is great. If you haven't got it there is a recent compilatio... 
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Jaffeassc, "so I assume...." You know what they say about what happens when you assume........:-)Next time you talk to CJ ask them what the bias setting programed into the amp actually is. After they tell you ask them what the bias setting is in t... 
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I'm not a CJ expert (in fact I've never owned one) but as I recall the CJ Premier 12 was originally designed around a 6550 tube, not an EL34. It also has a manual bias system where you turn a pot until a LED turns on. If I'm correct so far read on... 
Why terminations on speaker cable?
Kijanki, Although some may think otherwise, I've never been a tinman myself. :-) BTW I agree. 
Cartridge upgrade, something warmer
Get a tube phono pre-amp and dial in your own tone. BTW my Glider is not thin, quite nice in fact. Not too fast, not to slow, not too hot, not too cold, like baby bear's bed it's just right. SincerelyGoldilocks 
Need help picking between 6550 and KT88 tubes
It is hard, if possible, to give you an intelligent answer. Differences between some brands of 6550's and differences between some brands of KT88's can be as great as the differences between the 6550's and KT88's. Generally speaking 6550's are mor... 
Why terminations on speaker cable?
I like bare wire connections, BUT one must be careful. Multi stranded heavy gauge wire requires some torque when tightening down the nuts. It needs more compression than is readily apparent. What appears tight can be loose the next day and fairly ... 
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Anti skating control need adjustment? 
Select Your Less Than Ideal System
Limited funds = C. Inexpensive cabling can still allow most of the signal pass thru unscathed. Your only loss in not spending more money is more often than not you can't get cabling which enables you to alter a signal you find undesirable. 
Jazz from 1957 to 1967 was the most definitive.
Orpheus10, FWIW, if your so inclined.....There is an interesting discussion on Music Lane in the AudioAsylum site which is talking about HardBop, BeBob, Miles Davis/Kind of Blue and some other aspects of music in general as well. Some of the contr... 
Center imaging problems
Often it a room/set up issue. Sometimes it an imbalance in the electronis somewhere, or as likely as that, a hearing imbalance. If when you swap cables from one speaker to the other the voice doesn't shift to the other side you may just have a hea... 
How does one get off the merry-go-round?
Shadrone, Unless GAS is an acronym for something, the only GAS I see which keeps folks going round and round originates with manufacturers, reviewers, salesmen, and a few (too many) proud owners of something they bought. The latter can be forgiven... 
Jazz from 1957 to 1967 was the most definitive.
Foster and I suspect Orpheus 10 as well. Look carefully at Aldavis' sentence. It ends with a question mark. :-) So does the dispute I think. 
Classical Music: A How-To Guide for Beginners
The music of various composers has been cobbled together to create the music in this movie. Google and you shall learn all. :-) 
Tube recomendations for a newbie
Tube rolling can be fun, and it can certainly make a meaningful difference. I do it all the time. But it is a learning process and you must start with an objective, that is, after your unit is well broken in you have to be able to identify what ab...