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| LAST Record Preservative. Do you believe? Hey - you guys gotta learn how to check out the U.S. Patent Office - it can provide hours of aimless enjoyment and piles of useless information. For example here's a link to Last's Record Cleaner, Stylus cleaner, and Record Preservative patents:ht... | |
| Led Zeppelin Classic Records 45 series -Am I nuts? If you are looking for an audiophile experience, I'd say yes - you are nuts. These were not "audiophile" recordings in the first place. The 45 rpm would have a slight effect on low level detail - but there ISN'T ANY on most of the Zep! There is ve... | |
| The Isolator: the latest rip-off? Two pieces of steel in proximity to your $2000 moving coil cartridge? Added mass at the end of the tonearm? Foam that's similar to Dr. Scholl's shoe inserts**, while still coupling it to the headshell (since the cartridge, steel skin, and the stud... | |
| LAST Record Preservative. Do you believe? LAST definitely works. It does what they advertise by (to make a long story short) transforming the surface molecules of the lp from vinyl into Teflon. And it DOES NOT leave ANY residue on the LP. It becomes a gas almost instantly at room temp and... | |
| Transformer Hum I have had a couple of Citiaion 16's and they were both totally quiet. If all your amps are humming - it is very likely that the problem is NOT in the amps. | |
| Comments, please, on Spica TC-60 setup. Here's my theory on mating smallish ported speakers like the TC-60 with a sub(s). 1st part of the problem - if you're running the speaker level output from your receiver through the sub's crossover then into the Spicas, you have probably already s... | |
| Which Vivaldi Four Seasons CD to buy??? Here's a quote from ArkivMusic.com : Arcangelo Corelli - Concerto Grosso #5 in Bb op 6, #5 - HMU 907014 from the WGUC Playlist. That recording is out of print, but the exact same performance is available with a different catalog number and is disp... | |
| Does LAST Preservative DULL sound? I still use it on lp's that I expect to play a lot, say 8 or 10 times a year. But I'm very careful with it, and only apply it while outside the house - for reasons stated below. As far as a sonic signature - I don't hear any difference that could ... | |
| Which Vivaldi Four Seasons CD to buy??? Most courageous version - Canadian Brass! If you like the Brass Quintet sound, this is a really worthwhile listen. Someone named Arthur Frackenpohl was commissioned to transcribe this for 2 trumbets, French horn, Tuba, and Trombone - and he did a ... | |
| Which Vivaldi Four Seasons CD to buy??? I have and the number on that is Archiv 2534 003 recorded in 1982. Archiv 400045 CD is the equivalent. Here's a little review of it:http://stereotimes.com/mr1030034.shtmand BTW - here's a very interesting history of Vivaldi and Four Seasons record... | |
| Which Vivaldi Four Seasons CD to buy??? Last year I bought an LP collection that include 17 different versions of the Four Seasons. So I grabbed 6 or 7 more that I already had and spent the entire evening doing a "shootout", by listening only to the "Spring" movement for each.The Winner... | |
| Labels for classical brass? Some of the real sleepers are on Crystal Records which specializes in winds for the most part. Even though it's a small Indie label, most of the recordings are very good sonically.There are also some interesting obscurities on Golden Crest (lp onl... | |
| What Irish music will you be playing on St Pat's? James Galway and the Chieftains in Ireland, on green vinyl of course. An excellent recording. | |
| Accurate vs Musical Loudspeakers are reproducers, not "creators". At very best, they can be "accurate". The more accurate they are, the more they will produce that "air" you refer to - if it indeed exists on the recording.Calling a loudspeaker MUSICAL is not much dif... | |
| Distortion from Dahlquist DQ-20... Oops pasted in the same link twice, here's the DQ's again:http://cgi.ebay.com/DAHLQUIST-DQ-20i-DQ-20-DQ20-10-FLOORSTANDING-SPEAKERS_W0QQitemZ5877272349QQcategoryZ14993QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemAnyway - if you do want to replace yours, they come up on Eb... |