pratorious
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? ”Have you tried mixing up the rotation?”@slaw No... I guess I was pretty rigid in playing chronologically. BUT... I started last first! For what it’s worth, other than the unfortunate surface noise, I seem to always find the original mono most co... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Every version of side 2 of Kind of Blue I own... six eye mono, six eye stereo and classic records 200g. I’m on my second pass and it turns out each one is better than the last. Go figure. | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? "I get the feeling that it's two against oneI'm already fighting me, so what's another oneThe mirror is a trigger and your mouth's a gunLucky for me, I'm not the only one"Brian Joseph Burton / Daniele Luppi / Jack White | |
| To clean or not to clean? If you can swing it I suggest you set up your VPI in a designated spot near your records. When you choose a record to play, if you haven't done so before, just clean it the very first thing. Use a new inner sleeve or some other method to distingui... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Kraftwerk- Ralf und Florian | |
| Wow an old album that rocked your world Taj Mahal - Oooh So Good n’ BluesJJ Cale - Troubadour Rolling Stones - Aftermath UK mono and US stereo Gene Ammons - ca purange Lee Morgan - Search for the New LandAs it happens I’ve been breaking in a new cartridge since last night. | |
| Favorite Lyricists? For jazz, check out Oscar Brown jr - Sin & Soul | |
| Quick roon question I am quite happy using Roon. It’s doing exactly what I want which is Simply presenting my own digital music along with favorite records from Qobuz as one collection that I can search and combine to playlists etc. Then it plays in sync to my four d... | |
| Contest with reward Procol Harum - Salty Dog | |
| Whats playing on your system today? John Coltrane - Giant Steps”Recent” used record score just before quarantine. The store had just purchased an outstanding jazz collection so large that new hard to find gems were being priced and stocked every day. I wish I could go back. | |
| Question about Tone Controls + Equalizers My McIntosh preamps/receivers have always had equalizer controls which I used sparingly to make particular recordings more appealing to my ears. On those recordings I would be very frustrated if I couldn’t adjust anything at all! It was annoying... | |
| Speaker and amp selector box? This one uses banana plugs. 2 Amp x 3 Pair Speaker Selector Switch Switcher Volume Control, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XUM9OAM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_99qDEbXJGAXEN | |
| What does Roon make in SQ ( Sound Quality) when inserted in my system? I don't believe any sound quality affect is either stated or implied with the use of Roon? Its a UI tool to discover, organize and play digital files, including hi-res, from a variety of sources and control playback to one or more zones in sync o... | |
| What have you liked in a Audiophile FM table radio? +1 Tivoli Audio/Henry Kloss Model One | |
| Albums that you listen to straight through / start to finish whenever you put them on! Fascinating... I guess I am a rare bird. But, of course, the bird is the word. I listen to both sides of a record only the very first time and rarely afterwords. I get a sense of the vibe of the side and play one or the other depending on mood (an... |