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| Vinyl presses on last leg? Pressing limitations st 2.5 million LPs sold in 2009 - w00t! That should be enough to buy spare parts to feed the analog revolution... | |
| The Great Vinyl Debate As far as new vinyl pricing is concerned, nobody is forced to buy. If the cost is prohibitive, buy used vinyl or fire up the cd player.Unfortunately, we are "forced" to buy "new" vinyl. And since we are in this unfair pricing model aka "prohibitiv... | |
| The Great Vinyl Debate US inflation is a valid point. As is operational costs of manufacture (there are less plants making LPs these days - as well as people that know how to do it well (speaks to quality)). However, indie labels like DISCORD are selling LPs from their ... | |
| do record cleaning fluids soften the treble? Just for the simple fact that your stylus will last longer when tracking cleaned vinyl than uncleaned is cause enough for me to clean every record I play. That and every one I've cleaned has noticeably sounded better without question.I've yet to h... | |
| Best way to categorize your Vinyl collection Thankfully, I don't have too many records (yet). Since the arrival of my RCM I've bought a new rack and only cleaned records go in it. This has prompted me to incorporate a new filing system - which since I now only play clean vinyl - helps me re-... | |
| New favorite VINYL Album? J. Tillman - Singing AxRecorded by: Steve AlbiniMastered by: Bob Weston^ inneresting company keeping - Tillman - is here in...An audiophile listen, treat and experience. I don't know what Albini's done but he's taken Tillman's minimalistic male vo... | |
| cable burn-in / system burn-in Yeah, curious about 200 hours of cable burn-in on a cooker as opposed to 200 hours of settle-in in a system.Less amperage in a system Vs. a cooker (Audiodharma) I realize - but it was recently suggested to me to go eight days on a cooker for a pai... | |
| cable burn-in / system burn-in Rodman99999 wrote: As long as my system's cables or electronics (new or reinserted) sound like music at the end of the 200hrs of continuous signal that I generally feed them...Dave_b wrote: A couple of hundred hours for most cables should do it wi... | |
| Best Way to Organize Audiophiles' Lives and PCs LPs all go in Gothic Furniture Record racks.CD's after I rip them (I dont want to display or shelve them as they are completely useless once the bits are on a drive) go in these Large Transparent CD/DVD Media Box and are piled up in the basement -... | |
| Cowboy Junkies: Trinity Sessions on Vinyl Fjn04, good luck with your amazon order. Ordering vinyl from amazon is not recommended as they do not - and have never - packaged LPs with any care. | |
| Goat Hair Brush Albertporter, I haven't tried a felt-type brush since back in the days of the Discwasher D4 system. The Milty Duo-Pad does look interesting. I didn't see that it came with a brush for cleaning the pads?Dougdeacon, I'm gonna give your suggestion a ... | |
| Do power cords make an audible difference? I was at an audio boutique a while ago auditioning an integrated amp and the owner was in high sales mode trying to get me to hear the "huge" difference swapping out the stock power cord with an Analysis Plus pc would make to the overall presentat... | |
| New Grateful Dead Box set...Opinions? I'll be Grateful When They're Dead... | |
| Lucinda Williams live Hm, gave up on Lucinda after Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. All that false bravado and faux warbling not my cup of tea. She's one of those legends for the sake of it type. Been around so long she deserves something. Anything....To stop a song and st... | |
| Proac response D2 or Harbeth for a Leben cs-600 OP was asking about ProAc D2 or Harbeth.Your suggestions are irrelevant. |