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| Smallish room speakers You might consider adding a pair of REL T5x to your KEF LS50 set up. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Marcy Lutes – Debut (Decca 1957 mono)These old recordings are almost lost gems. Perfect software for vintage gear. Blessed. It doesn't get much better. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Elly Stone - S/T (Columbia 1969)Revisiting this and boy does it sound so much better since I added the springs, the Lambda 25 tube PSU, and the Croft RIAA-RS phono. Such a compelling voice. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @bkeske BTW, congrats on the Comets. @reubent Nice deal. If the Fluance phono amp doesn't do it for you, try the Little Bear T7 or Schiit Mani. Both on Amazon and returnable. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Sara Watkins – Under The Pepper Tree (New West Records 2021) | |
| Tube Amp, Preamp upgrades -- what did you do that improved your units? Look at Miflex films as a competitive alternative to Jupiter/Dueland. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Been running my 1950’s NOS Western Electric cablesAs good as they promise, tinned copper can't allow all the info through compared to OCC/OFC/silver etc. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Doc Evans / Knocky Parker / Albert Nicholas / Earl Murphy / Gene Juckem – Reminiscing In Dixieland, Stomps And Blues Vol. 1 (Audiophile 1959)The color of the brass in this lovely recording puts to shame every solid state recording made since. Reco... | |
| Horn speakers are really bright? Dig Sophie Zelmani. Garage sounds better! I don't get the "too bright" thing either. Unless it's searing your ears off, or just plain messed up frequency response, you can't have enough detail. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Harold Budd, Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie, Simon Raymonde – The Moon And The Melodies (4AD 1986) | |
| Still happily using vintage gear? My older stuff in everyday use.Quad ESL loudspeakers - 1961EICO HF35 monobloc amps - 1959Garrard 401 turntable - 1965Decca Super Gold cartridge - 1987Lambda 25 power supply - 1955See here for photos. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Lionel Hampton And His Orchestra – Hamp's Big Band (Audio Fidelity 1959) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Good travels South, Jim.I’m feeling left out of the streaming DAC crowd! I tried Tidal HiFi for a year but SQ was subpar through the laptop. Earlier.Buddy Johnson And His Orchestra – Go Ahead & Rock Rock Rock (Official 1988) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Duke Ellington – Monologue (Columbia Special Products 1973) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? David Bromberg - S/T (Columbia 1971) |