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| Benz Micro Glider Stylus protection Thanks. I have a cover, it’s just a little nerve-racking handling the thing, especially with neuropathy (malaria meds 30 years ago). It’s not like a Colt 1911 sear I can drop and not worry about it bouncing off the bench onto the floor. | |
| Benz Micro Glider Stylus protection I have played Dire Straits "Calling Elvis," El Ten eleven "Fanshawe," Steven Wilson's "Lazarus," and "Drive" and Previn Plays Gerschwin, "Rhapsody in Blue". Looking forward to it warming up, opening up, breaking in. I hear stuff now I didn't im... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Jeff Beck’s Truth and Beck Ola | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Breaking in an Ortofon Cadenza Black with: King Crimson “In the Court of the Crimson King” ”In the Wake of Poseidon” Andre Previn George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue David Bowie Metrobolist | |
| Considering Towers in the $3000 range I have a pair of ohm-walsh 3’’s I bought used about 2 years ago, seller had recently bought new cans/drivers for them. After a call to John at Ohm I went for the deal, seller drove over an hour to deliver. also got a pair of OW 2’s all for a grand... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Finally got around to washing out that bit of dust/crackle from the volume pot on my ADCOM GFP-565 so, after reassembly I played David Bowie’s “Station to Station,” a recent acquisition and perennial favorite going back to high school days (1976?)... | |
| Best Examples Of Cymbal Decays On A Recording King Crimson. Un The Court of the Crimson King. The quiet part, before the calliope mellotron sound. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? David Bowie Station to Station. On 180gm, remastered. Wow. As good today as it was 46 years ago when I first heard it. Well, there wasn’t any tinnitus conflicting with the audio then, but still… Awesome. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Jethro Tull: This Was Stand Up Benefit Aqualung Leastways that’s the lineup for this evening | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Blackfield 2 Rammstein Herzeleid XXV MOGWAI Mr Beast been that kind of day | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Earlier today: steven Wilson’s remixes of Aqualung and Songs from the Wood. Just a few minutes ago, Miles Davis vol 1 re-issue mono Blue Note label. | |
| NEWS FLASH!! Listening to Music is NOT a "Distraction." For me, it’s an effective way of blocking some of the tinnitus (service-connected) I hear 24/7. Therapeutic. Maybe I can write off the cost of my audio gear as medical expenses. | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? Molly Hatchet’s “Dreams I’ll Never See” over The Allman Brothers Band’s “Dreams.” only because I’m about 5 years too young to have fully appreciated the Allman Brothers for another decade of so. | |
| Mad Scientist Graphene Contact Enhancer I’ve been back into listening to vinyl again going on three years, after about a 30 year hiatus. It was so much simpler back in the 1970’s through 1990’s. after reading, reviewing many articles about specialty wires, then this recent fad of graph... | |
| Di I really need to clean my LP's? Not entirely new to this. I’m still using a 45 year old Discwasher I bought new with a B&O Beogram TT. Lately I’ve been using an ultrasound cleaner (basic 12" inside 3 transducer model from Amazon along with a clamp-on 2-disc spinner gadget)... |