oregonpapa
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| How do you sort your LPs? Classical by composer. Jazz by instrument. Vocals by female/male/jazz/folk/rock/era. Classical guitar by artist. Separate area for audiophile and demo stuff.If I want to listen to Chet Baker, I go to the trumpet section. If I want to listen to Cal... | |
| When Did Your System Disappear? ^^^ Yes, it is truly amazing when the speakers not only disappear, but when your room morphs into the recording venue. Frank | |
| When Did Your System Disappear? I thought my system was there ... and then I wired the Perfect Path Technologies "The Gate" to a breaker in the circuit breaker box. That, and other PPT products like TC and the Omega "Plus" Mats have completed the job. The system is uncanny. Ev... | |
| VPI is bringing back the Magic Brick! "Theres a low-level hum from the output transformer of a SET that I just bought and putting my hand on the transformer with some force eliminates the hum but after a while, the transformer gets quite hot. Before I get one, I want to find out if i... | |
| VPI is bringing back the Magic Brick! No pun intended, but can you use the VPI magic brick on a hot tranny? I don't know any hot trannies. I can't imagine how one would use a VPI Magic Brick on one either. Frank | |
| VPI is bringing back the Magic Brick! A friend gave me a VPI Magic Brick years ago. The weight dampens chassis vibrations. Just go to a fishing tackle store and buy some heavy lead "sinkers" used for bottom fishing. I think they weigh three pounds or so. I have some and they do the sa... | |
| Group Challenge - Home lighting, who is in? I have a floor lamp right next to the listening chair. One bulb is normal. The other bulb is blue. When I'm listening to the system, I turn on the blue light only and it casts a lovely subtle blue glow throughout the room. Trippy, Rippy, Dippy. H... | |
| What do you do with your old LP's that don't meet your quality standards. mijostyn ... "I have some very old albums that are not in the best shape and I have some very new albums which are not great pressings. Whether I keep them or not depends on how much I like the music." I can relate. My collection consists of th... | |
| Help me understand John Coltrane .... seriously. "Madame Butterfly" is the most moving piece ever written.In any genre." It surely is among the best ever. I have a number of renditions, including my favorite which happens to be on an old London mono LP that I found at a thrift store many years... | |
| Synergistic Research Cable Risers? ^^^ f208frank ...And, SR gives a 30-day trial on all of their products. Therefore, if they don't work out for you in your situation, you get a full refund with no questions asked. You only pay for the return shipping. What a scam, right? Frank | |
| Help me understand John Coltrane .... seriously. gdnrbob ...A friend of mine is an ex-studio musician (guitar). He loves opera. I couldn’t stand opera and I told him that it sounded like an old fat lady singing. He told me to buy a tape of a Puccini opera and play it in my car constantly. He sai... | |
| Help me understand John Coltrane .... seriously. Gaining an appreciation for Coltrane is like gaining an appreciation for Charles Mingus, Yusef Lateef, Charlie Parker or Puccini operas. Set the CD to "play," sit back and listen over and over, and soon the understanding will click in. Frank | |
| Best smooth vocal jazz albums with flugelhorn/ trumpet/ saxophone accompaniment Forget the Kenny G's of this world with their electronic gyrations. Pick up some good Chet Baker albums instead.Frank | |
| What cassettes do peaple like these days .... I like to record some of my favorite LPs onto cassette tape and play them in the car on it’s Mark Levinson sound system. The best place to buy tapes, is like tonykay said above ... at thrift stores. Look for the good quality ones like Maxell, TDK... | |
| When you’re not here who will inherit your system? Who is going to inherit my audio system? No one. I am going to live forever. I mean ... so far, so good, right?Frank |