palasr
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| Extraordinary recordings on vinyl Qdrone,I agree regarding "Fireball" - a relatively overlooked gem. However, I actually prefer the original US green label Warner copy to the Harvest pressing. It's a bit more immediate and has a better low end IMO. Also, the US copy contains 'Stra... | |
| Upgrade for users of 1/2" mylar belt Doug,I think the Kapton belts run truer around the pulley, resulting in better overall speed stability. In general, any splice will result in some small runout error causing the belt to slightly oscillate up and down the face of the pulley - the K... | |
| Upgrade for users of 1/2" mylar belt It appears that finding Mylar belts has become increasingly difficult. I've been using a spliceless Kapton belt (2 mil thickness, 1/2" width, 45" circumference). IMO, much better than a spliced Mylar belt - Kapton is utilized as the drive belt in ... | |
| Top 5 Hamburgers But you could check these places out nearly anywhere - they're all chains (which given the context of the thread seems antithetical). Just sayin'... | |
| worst sounding great lps "Aqualung...dreadful production."-You've obviously never heard the Classic Clarity single sided 45RPM set of Aqualung. "Anything from Queen"-Try "Jazz" and "The Game" | |
| worst sounding great lps Utopia - Adventures in UtopiaBright, thin and shrill but with great tunes. In fact, most things Rundgren mixed/mastered himself sound like crap. | |
| Metal "whiskers" on cartridge body The metal is attracted by the strong magnets in the cartridge. As to how they get there, it beats me. Since record pressing is a purely mechanical process not carried out in a clean-room, it's possible there's always a bit of metal residue from th... | |
| Upgrade for users of 1/2" mylar belt Try here:http://fjminc.com/store/tapes-and-streamers/holographic-tape/You might want to try cleaning the circumference of the platter as well as the belt itself. For the platter, distilled water with a microfiber cloth works well; for the belt, I ... | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? King Crimson @ The Egg in Albany NY a couple of nights ago. Rather amazing. | |
| "Car Wheels On A Gravel Road" on vinyl Agreed. While I'm not disappointed in owning the vinyl copy of this, I'm not as impressed as I should be - I consider it to be one of the finer if not the finest of her catalog. This is an odd LP as well (a European release from Music on Vinyl), a... | |
| Isolation disc for speaker spikes on wood floors. Mcondo,I have nothing really more to say about them, aside from the fact that they work well under my speakers, having gone through many different materials, spikes, discs, etc (Herbie's decoupling gliders being one of them - I knew within a minut... | |
| Isolation disc for speaker spikes on wood floors. I like these quite a bit:http://www.viablue.de/com/spikes_discs_qtc.shtmlThey are used in combination with their matching spikes which I felt were a nice sonic improvement over the stock brass spikes that were supplied with the Coincident outrigge... | |
| Happy Birthday Lee Morgan Certainly one of my favorite trumpet players of all time. For those who have never read about it, the story of Lee Morgan's death makes for a fascinating story:http://jasonpalmerjazz.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/the-story-of-helen-morgan-if-you-didnt-... | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? "Living Colour @ the Empire State Plaza 6/4/14. Nothing better than live music."I was there as well. Great show from a band that shows no diminution of skill even after all these years. Last I saw them was close to thirty years ago at a club in Al... | |
| Problems with a Vortexbox Power Supply Going Bad? Given what I've seen after a brief Google, it looks like the PSU is 12 VDC at 25 watts. Since the unit uses a switch mode power supply, any generic unit with the appropriate specifications should work without a problem - they're easily obtained fr... |