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| Whats on your turntable tonight? The Benny Goodman Quartet - Together Again! (RCA 1964)A Dynagroove recording. Sounds great too. Must be something to do with the: "...highly ingenious computers - electronic brains - have been introduced into audio for the first time."Little did ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Benny Goodman Trio-Quartet-Quintet - S/T [1936-8 recordings] (RCA Victor 1956 mono)While sounding of its era, it still captures the color and vitality of the live acoustic with more delicacy than many flat modern digital recordings. | |
| Youngsters these days. @bdp24 FTW. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Leonard Cohen – Songs From A Room (CBS 1969) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Leonard Cohen - Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970 (Columbia 2009) | |
| Owners of Jelco arms? Jelco JAC 501. It's clear and transparent. Around $120. Try George Merrill or here.I notice they’re getting more expensive as Jelco closed.Don’t be tempted to settle for cheaper 101 version. It is inferior. | |
| Installed bulk foil resistors in phono amp Thanks guys. @mulveling @atmasphere If my point-to-point wired Croft 25R wasn't such an insanely-tight nest of connections, I'd replace some more resistors! | |
| Are tubes really “warm”? This old adage goes back to when most amps were tube-based and used in systems with limited frequency response. Components like carbon resistors, saggy resistor voltage droppers, and tube rectifiers contributed to this ’tone’ of a rolled off upper... | |
| Installed bulk foil resistors in phono amp @gs5556 Good to hear. The only manufacturer I know of that uses bulk foil resistors is VAC in their ref or sig series at $80k! | |
| Near field listening bliss A friend put decent quality 3" drivers in 3.5" cubes and ran them from a $29 T-amp. They sounded amazing in the room and out of this world in a 3 feet equilateral. | |
| Why don’t tube amps sound like tubes anymore? I run two pairs of fully rebuilt and cap-updated 60s tube monoblocks. They are anything but tubey or mellow. Fast, liquid, spacious, colorful, and transparent, with excellent detail, black backgrounds, and no electronic haze. | |
| Why don’t tube amps sound like tubes anymore? If your tube amp sounds "warm and tubey," there is something wrong with it. | |
| What Percentage Off Would You Expect to Discount For Open Box Amp with Blemish If you go to resell, you'll have to eat the loss due to blemish. | |
| Technics or Thorens, need suggestions Of course, you could get serious and get a refurbished Garrard in a plinth... | |
| Technics or Thorens, need suggestions $2.5k for the G. Buy it. Use it. Don’t like it? Sell for what you paid at least! |