noromance

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Whats on your turntable tonight?
Doc Evans – Rx For the Blues (Concert-Disc 1959)  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Ralph Sutton, Ruby Braff, Milt Hinton, Mousey Alexander – On Sunnie’s Side Of The Street Live (The Blue Angel Jazz Club 1968) ... Sammi Smith – The Fabulous Sammi Smith (Buckboard 1977) Solid country singer and a great recording. Side 2.  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Clark Kessinger – Old-Time Music With Fiddle & Guitar (Rounder 1972) Perfect folk violin. Very good recording.   
Speaker hiss from sub
Hiss or hum?  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Alice Gerrard – Follow The Music (Tompkins Square 2014)  
HIFI Audio Shop - Dublin, Ireland
Any links? Didn't come up for me in Google.   
Yamaha m4
Doesn’t sound great, does it? Either the caps' connections are intermittent internally or the solder joints to the board are dried out.  
I have seen a lot of ideas concerning Cable lifters
Some use ceramic insulators. I use balsa wood with a piece of foam window roll insulation as a damper.  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Ytre Suløens Jass-Ensemble, Barbara Ann Shorts – A Stone For Bessie Smith (Kirkelig Kulturverksted 1987) Love Bessie Smith. Killed in a car in 1937, aged 43. Barbara Ann Shorts is just fine in the style.   
Garrard 401 record clamp or weight?
I prefer no clamp or weight. It closes down the soundstage and reduces the life of the music. I tried the SCuMat. It's very well made and looks excellent. However, I didn't like how it sounded on either of my 401s. It made the sound dry and brittle.  
One turntable with two arms, or two turntables with one each - which would you prefer?
I've one turntable with 2 arms (and another turntable with one arm.) Initially, I didn't really use the second arm much but thanks to a generous gift from @tomic601, I now have two phono stages and switch between arms all the time.  Turntable 1 &... 
Up graded power supply?
Yes. The iFi is rated 12v @ 2 amps.  
Speaker hiss from sub
Have you tried the high-level inputs from the speaker outputs on the amp instead?  
Does dose anyone see these speakers in real?
Ugly and ridiculous. No one should have enough wealth to be able to throw it away on this junk.  
First record cleaner
SpinClean. Simple but effective.