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| Can you ever go back and be happy? Thought I'd stir up some muck here - If you want box speakers to sound like planars - try two pairs with one pair facing you normally and the other pair 180 degrees, facing the REAR wall with the speaker wires on those OUT of phase.You will experi... | |
| Holst - The Planets - Jupiter If we're talking LP's, I second the vote for the Zubin Mehta version. It's on the TAS list, but is plentiful enough that you can find it at a reasonable price, if not in a thrift store eventually. | |
| pop and click filters I've done a fair bit of "restoration" on some rarer lp's that are not easily replaceable. The software packages are a good start, but if you want perfection, you have to go in and redraw the waveforms manually. So I can tell you one thing - if the... | |
| pop and click filters The best of the bunch was the Burwen Research TNE 7000A Transient Noise Eliminator, also marketed under the KLH name. This is the unit that most recording studios had in their racks. They're available on Ebay for around $120 usually. I have one, b... | |
| Nagaoka CL-152 Record Cleaner? As for the line of microdust left by the Hunt - I use a slightly wet Discwasher with a quick roll motion to remove that small line. Gets almost all of it, then I repeat the Hunt/Discwasher process again. I thought maybe the Nagaoka would be faster... | |
| Bose 901 IMHO - A lot of the new $4000 "bargain" speakers don't compete with properly set-up, tweaked, and re-tweetered Dahlquist DQ-10's either, not to mention DQ-20i's or Dq-30's.While technology does improve, a cone attached to a coil suspended inside a... | |
| Poor Man's "Super-Speaker" System On speaker combining - Living across the street from a Goodwill in San Francisco, I have been able to buy a lot of what were once upper end speakers and play with them in combination. I did a lot of this - until I got married :(Now there's no room... | |
| An Extraordinary Find Audio Revelation advertises these on Audiogon below "manufacturer's suggested retail". That's what their "$callpls" indicates. | |
| Finish Quality of Von Schweikert VR4jr's Personally I don't consider $4000 units like the VSA or Gallo III's a "bargain speaker" just because there are suckers out there paying wildly inflated prices for Watt/Puppies, Talons, JM Labs, Martin Logans, etc. It's like telling the motorcycle ... | |
| Ortofon OM-30 not Super Hi - I'm a fan of all the Ortofon MM's. At their price points especially, they are wonderful sounding cartridges. I way prefer the OM-30 to any of the Shure v15's sonically. Another thing I like about them is that their design (unlike the Shures a... | |
| Spectacular Drum Set? Bernard Purdie playing on the track: Sing Sing Sing on Bucky Pizziarelli's "Nirvana" cd - Definitely one-ups Gene Krupas original (IMHO). The drumset is presented non-realistically. taking up the entire width of the soundstage, but that's what mak... | |
| Would you buy speakers with out first listening ? Absolutely NOT. Just like Larry - I've listened to a lot of "high-end" speakers that I couldn't stand. Nor is it a good idea to make expensive judgments based on the opinions on message boards. (One look at the Audiogon "Recordings to Die For" lis... | |
| Sergio Mendez, what album title for this song? Picked up Sundown Lady today for 10 cents - Did the thrift store rounds and found a fairly beat up copy just to have a listen. It's a bit disappointing, not much like Brazil '66 at all. Some slow torchy songs, a nice version of Tiny Dancer, nothin... | |
| Sergio Mendez, what album title for this song? After doing a little research, it seems that the most desirable Lani Hall albums are in this order:1. "A Brazileira", 1981 (very rare - recently $127 on Ebay)2. "Sundown Lady", 1972 - her first solo album after Brazil '66. ($10 to $15 on Ebay, but... | |
| Sergio Mendez, what album title for this song? Lani Hall has a number of solo recordings:http://www.amcorner.com/lanihall/index.phpI don't believe Janice Hansen did anything on her own. |