photon46
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| Recommend: Thin spade connectors Audioquest spade connectors are quite thin, although not as thin as the foil connectors on the Silversmiths. Very inexpensive, available through www.partsconnexion and other places. | |
| Vintage preamps with stellar phono section..... Once in a blue moon, you might chance on a Music Reference RM5 for that price. The phono section is very fine for MM cartridges in my experience. Roger Modjeski says it should be ok for cartidges with .5 mv output and more. Having once owned the A... | |
| Dead Can Dance on SACD I'll be interested to hear how they sound as well. DCD albums are among the best recorded artists out there. (I'd advise going to their website and ordering a copy of their "Selections from the 2005 North American Tour" while you still can. Great ... | |
| Garrott Optim Ruby FGS cartridge - Technics SL1210 Please post your impressions of the 2M when you can. I'm using the Garrott FGS in my Scout/JMW9 and am very impressed with it's performance. However, you always wonder about the new kid on block. | |
| Amy Winehouse LP Sound Quality You know, I got a really odd vinyl purchase recently, Crowded Houses' new release "Time on Earth." LP #1 was ordinary, no better or worse than the cd sounds. Plus it has the dreaded snap, crackle, & pop background groove noise on side one. LP ... | |
| Tube lovers....CAT POWER.. Go see her live.. If you get a chance to see it, her show on Austin City Limits was pretty smokin' hot IMO. All the musicians in the Memphis Rhythm Band were obviously enjoying playing with her. I agree that her recorded performances don't rise to level of her live... | |
| Tube lovers....CAT POWER.. Go see her live.. You were lucky to hear her in a venue with good sound. When she was here in the Tampa Bay area recently, she played in a crappy sounding old theater which really diminshed the enjoyment. | |
| Help. My system is shouting at me I think you've stumbled upon one of the caveats mentioned about this amp. You have to be careful with source components as you've got a passive preamp section in the Exposure 2010. Cambridge cd players sound a bit analytical and lean in my opinion... | |
| Musty Smelling Records I should also mention that should anyone do this, another reason to do it outside or in the garage is because thymol is not exactly a benign chemical. In years past, restorers could sometimes be cavalier about chemical dangers which we are now mor... | |
| Musty Smelling Records The wondeful smell of mold & mildew from records stored in a damp place is noxious for sure. Curatorial means are available to eradicate it, but it's a bit of a pain. The chemical thymol is used to eliminate fungus from paper of all sorts. Go ... | |
| Maybe too detailed You know Stenho, your advice about cleaning up detail through vibration control might be a factor. I remember how I experienced a similar situation to Lavoy after I upgraded preamps. I thought the new preamp was too detailed and my system was caus... | |
| Tinnitus Article Ckoffend, I didn't mean to imply that audiologists are at the top of any income survey. I just assumed most people would know that when I made the statement. My wife has worn hearing aids for many years, we've known several audiologists and their ... | |
| Which Webern box set do 20th century fans like? Thanks for the heads up on the Craft performances, I'll look out for those. BTW, I've got to quit responding to these threads right after I get out of bed. I meant to say Webern fans are NOT members of a large group. | |
| Tinnitus Article Sherod, the utilization of this device requires rather elaborate services of an audiologist I seem to recall reading. Much back and forth interaction via computer programs with the firm in Australia. It's not a "one size fits all" device. Every pa... | |
| Which Webern box set do 20th century fans like? Hey Chashmal, great to hear from another Webern fan. We're exactly members of a large group. I've got quite a few Webern discs, but multi disc sets devoted to Webern are few in number. Your Boulez "Complete 1-31" on Sony is my first choice. The DG... |