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| Upgrade from Rega P3-24 ..... Well, I love my Bottlehead Seduction. It's better than the built in Rogue phono, Cambridge 640P, Nova phonomena II and the Jasmine phono that I've tried, the Bottlehead easily beat them all. It's only downfall is it's not terribly flexible. Mine h... | |
| Upgrade from Rega P3-24 ..... I have the cronus magnum. If I were you I would seriously look at a new phono pre. A new cartridge will not be given justice running through the built in phono pre. I really wanted to elimenate the extra phono pre and ran the built in for a little... | |
| Any One using Anticables Silver Cables I'd give a strong recommendation for Clear Day speaker cables. Paul has a demo pair you can try out in your system first, you just pay the return shipping, and he's incredibly nice to deal with. I discovered them here on the audiogon forums. Hope ... | |
| Phono Preamp on a budget? I have had the Seduction and the Phonomena II at the same time. I still have and use the Seduction, it has the C4S upgrade and a pair of bugle boy tubes. The Phonomena II wasn't much different sounding than the Cambridge that I had before it if I ... | |
| Counterfeit 'Amused to Death' Vinyl lp? Discogs.com only lists one vinyl pressing from 1992 and its on Columbia and pressed in the UK, everything else is listed as being a CD. Good luck! | |
| Any punk fans care to give some band suggestions? Roscoiii has some great suggestions! I'll add a few....The Minutemen - start with double nickels and keep going Husker Du- start with zen arcadeBlack Flag - start with first 4 years (pre Rollins and arguably better)Fugazi x3The EmbarrassmentMissio... | |
| Advice on bulk record pricing? You could check out popsike.com. You can search the first 15 to 20 records for free and after that it'll prompt you to sign up for a fee. | |
| Cat-proofing your speakers... The caps you put over the claws are called "soft paws". They work but are a pain to put on a cat because you have to restrain a cat and glue caps to it's nails. Sound fun? Also, if they dont all fall off it can can be dangerous to the cat as the n... | |
| Nirvana pressings I pulled the Albini snippet below from Wikipedia so take it however you want to. I think it gives a pretty clear idea of Albini's recording philosophy and might point towards why Nirvana used him after the Nevermind recording experience if they we... | |
| "Spitting" Cartridge problem Mine did something similar recently until the right channel finally went out all together. Turned out to be a loose cartridge clip that finally came off all together. Hope this helps. | |
| Nirvana pressings I think that is what motivated them to get Steve Albini for In Utero. Of course their admiration for his band Big Black and his recording of The Pixies' Surfer Rosa amongst many other recordings was probably motivation as well though. | |
| Bottlehead Seduction Clearaudio MM cartridge Thanks for the update. I have one using NOS Amperex Bugle Boy tubes and running an AT150MLX. I love the combination but I've been curious about other cartridges to try recently, are you using the Clearaudio Arurm you mentioned in your original pos... | |
| Any Meat Puppets Fans Out There? I love a lot of that early to mid 80's SST stuff, Minutemen are one of my favorites! I saw the Meat Puppets a few years ago and was really disappointed, perhaps it was bad timing within their tour, but they seemed to just be going through the moti... | |
| Perfect Debute Albums While I agree that Nirvana's Nevermind is a perfect album, Bleach was their debut and it might count as a perfect debut as well. | |
| Perfect Debute Albums I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple of dozen but here's a few. Also, good call on Uncle Tupelo, Television and The Cars!Pixies - Surfer RosaTownes Van Zandt - For the Sake of the SongFugazi - RepeaterSmart Went Crazy - Now we're evenLeonard Cohen - S... |