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| Music for the spirit and the soul Sacred Treasures: Choral Masterworks from Russia on the Hearts of Space label is tremendous - exactly what you're looking for. The music is unbelievable beautiful and the recording and performances are absolutely first rate. | |
| Why so much???? In my case, it's because I go out every weekend to garage sales and thrift stores. At $1 each for LP's, it's a lot faster to buy them to listen to 'em. I'm trying to keep it at about 2500 records max. now that I'm married, which imposes a discipli... | |
| Amazing Solo Piano Recordings Well, since this subject has been revived - here's one:Gershwin - Fascinating Rhythms - Clive Lythgoe, piano on Tioch Digital 1006 (LP - not sure if this is issued on CD.)Beautiful recording and very, very nice interpretation - and I am by no mean... | |
| Anthony Gallo Reference 3 without sub A home audition may be warranted, since what they do right - they do very well. The dealer is willing to let me borrow them for a weekend, but ultimately I doubt they're the right ones for me. Tubes would definitely help, too. It's just a personal... | |
| Anthony Gallo Reference 3 without sub I just auditioned the Ref III's yesterday and have a mixed opinion. On the upside - they are "fast", image accurately, and produce transients quite well. They pack plenty of punch for their small size. And they look pretty cool, they will have a h... | |
| best replacement woofers for early advent speakers I have done a couple of these successfully, and it's really no big deal - it's actually rewarding to do it yourself. So here's my 2 cents:1. You cannot "just glue on new surrounds". You either have to remove the dustcaps and shim the voice coils O... | |
| Dahlquist DQ-28 Specs I have owned and heard a number of Dahlquist models - and if you can buy these in perfect shape for under $400 or so, you should. The DQ-10's have a somewhat irrational following, but the DQ-20's and up were wonderful speakers - don't worry about ... | |
| Personal speaker evolution Spica TC-50 Excellent!Ohm Walsh 1 OKOhm Walsh 3 OK+Spica TC-50 with 10" Velodyne sub - Excellent!Dahlquist DQ-10 Garage sale find, pretty good but overrated without modifications.Dahlquist DQ-20 A great budget used speaker! Smooth, unfatiguing, re... |