photon46
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| Stylus cleaner Home brew stylus cleaner experimentation strikes me as an endeavor ripe for future regret. As I'm sure you know, many cartridge manufacturers advise against any wet cleaning at all. That said, I've used Stylast for many years with no ill effect (G... | |
| has BAT priced itself out of the market? Many audio manufacturers are putting more resources into über high end products because that's where the market growth is. US audio enthusiasts are a shrinking market. Newly minted Asian multimillionaires (or billionaires) are driving the only gro... | |
| Need some recommendations - hard driving big band This is exactly big band, but I think you might find it an interesting musical hybrid with a lot of hard bop elements. Much of the music is played by musicians numbering between quintets and octets. Needless to say, Ginger Baker gives the music tr... | |
| Led Zepplin Mothership vs. hi-res vs. newest Really amazing how different the responses are about Mothership's sound quality. Personally, I think it sounds sterile and generally is the worst sounding Led Zep remaster of them all. Nearly unlistenable to my ears. As to vinyl recordings being r... | |
| First Table Setup: Org. VPI Scout You can spend a little and get very good results if you've got steady hands and take your time. It's not rocket science. There are at least two good free protractors I'm aware of and have used with good results. The Vacuum State protractor works v... | |
| VICOUSTIC Room Treatments...experiences? What size are Vicoustic's premium wood panels? The dimensions aren't listed either at Music Direct or on Vicoustic's webpages. | |
| Suggestions? Tubed linestage pre-amp?? Lots of good choices mentioned so far. The DeHavilland Ultraverve's not been mentioned however. It's probably gotten more positive professional reviews than any other tubed line stage at this price point. | |
| Smart Probably because plasma is a defunct technology soon destined to extinction. All manufacturers are ceasing or have ceased production of plasma televisions. | |
| Best Option To Liquidate CD Collection To answer your question, the amount you'll gain from selling your collection is directly proportional to the amount of work you put in selling it. If you want to sell in bulk you're not going to maximize your return. Why would anyone pay you top d... | |
| The best of the ECM label This is, of course, subjective judgement, but here goes. I've bought ECM for decades, one of my favorite labels. Rockadanny is right, some of their releases are boring though. Some I definitely think aren't boring: Anything by Steve Tibbetts (grea... | |
| Speaker cables to smoothen things up I'd suspect you are expecting too much from a speaker cable change. In my experience, they affect the sound of your system less than interconnects and power cables. If your listening is all via the mac mini, have you considered implementing digita... | |
| Tonearm for Acoustic Signature Challenger Mk3? I've been very happy with an Audiomods tonearm in my Acoustic Signature Final Tool, a great improvement over the stock Rega. It's a drop in replacement for the Rega (as it is a highly modifed version of the Rega that only uses the arm tube, everyt... | |
| Music Recommenation: The Art Of Martha Argerich Thanks for your impressions. I've seen that one at Arkiv Music and have it on my "to order" list. She's a great artist. | |
| Anything you can put between spikes and carpet? "I use standard spikes on carpet, Measure very carefully for perfect placement. Once I get placement just right, I stand on the base of my stand and push the spikes through the carpet."I don't know if this is the OP's exact problem, but in my case... | |
| Anything you can put between spikes and carpet? I had to deal to deal with the same issue. My Tidals don't have spikes but the footers need to couple to something solid. I ended up being very happy with squares of granite (see photos in my system description.) The bass tightened up very nicely ... |