paul_frumkin
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| Album which you have listened to most? Supertramp, "Crime of the Century"Fleetwood Mac, "Then Play On"Jeff Beck, "Truth"EmmyLou Harris, "Wrecking Ball"Liszt, "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" | |
| Spindle oil Ummm ... I use Wet Platinum. It's a silicone based "personal" lubricant. The stuff is hard to wash off even with hot water and soap ... and it's the most slippery stuff I've ever touched. Millenium ID also works well. And with what you've got left... | |
| Anything You'll Likely Never Listen to Again? Good point, Ken. Kindly ship donated CDs, DVDs and VHS tapes to Leslie's trial lawyer in Michigan, who is assisting me with this project, collecting the gear, and sharing the cost of the widescreen with me. His name, address and phone are:David Gh... | |
| New $500 "best" phono stage? ... and thus is the danger of too much egg nog revealed. | |
| Record-playing Rituals? I'm surprised there's no mention of the Zerostat anti-static gun. I use it first, and then use a carbon fiber brush. Once the dust is gathered into a straight line on the record, I vacuum it up. Then I wet scrub using home made brew, and then vacu... | |
| Brush/scrubbing ideas for VPI 16.5 record cleaner. For $25 or less, give this a shot. Find and buy the absolute finest nylon bristle paint brush you can find (3.5" width, if possible; if not, then either 3" or 4" width). Try to find a brush with the smallest, finest bristles you can. Then, with a ... | |
| Best live album you've ever heard? Little Feat ... "Waiting For Columbus." | |
| Clash of the Titans Tim ... the 901s? Nahhh ... old design. Get the newer Bose "Wave" ... yeah, that great radio/alarm clock/high-end player. Be sure to play it in your garage for all that nice reverb, too. *groan* | |
| Silver Speaker Wire Recommendations? Bear Labs is good and reasonably priced. You may also want to consider the Lieder cables made by Jaap Gunter in the Netherlands. Jaap is THE guy who put Siltech "on the map." Later, after he had designed all their best and most popular cables, the... | |
| MFSL Beatles CDs It is also my understanding that there are no "real" MFSL Beatles CDs. However, I have bought several of the Japanese "MFSL" Beatles CDs, and I have several real MFSL Beatles LPs. They are so different sounding, there's no way the CDs were copied ... | |
| What are you trying to tweak improve? Mdomnick ... I'm far from the most technically-able guy here ... but it seems to me that dampening a component's chasis through mass is a time-honored method of increasing its stability and resistance to movement through vibration. This is half of... | |
| What are you trying to tweak improve? Turntable base for isolation. I see commercial ones available for $1250 ... and more ... and I nearly faint. I'm working on a prototype, with assistance from engineers at Sorbothane. This is a granite slab (1.25" or 2.50"), on an air bladder, in a... | |
| New Grado Phono Stage My Grado The Statement is of the low output variety. The prototype Grado phono stage I demo'd had a single switch for high gain or low gain (obviously I used high gain). The final Grado phono stage, I was told, will have a beefier power supply tha... | |
| Which phono preamp? I can't comment on the Rogue internal phono preamp, never having heard it. But in your price range you can get the new Grado phono preamp (which should be available in a month or so), or a used Plinius Jarrah phono stage. Both are better than the ... | |
| The Big Boys vs. the Little Guys I hope to hear more comments in this thread -- I find this fascinating and enlightening. But I promised to weigh-in with my experience, and I'll do so now.With interconnects, I had an all-Nordost system; Blue Heaven ver.2 everywhere except in the ... |