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Whats on your turntable tonight?
@big_greg,You’re welcome.  We learn from each other.  The successes and failures are very educational.If you’re considering an Orb, I believe the sole US distributor is Mockingbird Audio.Phillip said I snagged his last DF-01iA+.  Deliveries from O... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Early morning update regarding Orb flattening.  Last night before going to bed, I took a chance and baked a replaceable color vinyl 12" in the Orb as a test.The subject: Ben Watt (with Robert Wyatt) "Summer Into Winter" Cherry Red UK rerelease for... 
If you own quality monitor speakers you want to read this new review
I believe this is the article the OP is referring to.http://v2.stereotimes.com/post/nsmt-loudspeakers-20m-armada-system-by-terry-london/Maybe not relevant, but here is an older article about 20Ms.http://www.stereotimes.com/Speak072711.shtml  
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First group of rescued (flattened with the Orb) records from the shed.Traffic “John Barleycorn Must Die” United Artists second US pressing 1972Andy Summers & Robert Fripp “I Advance Masked” A&M 1982Robert Wyatt “The End Of An Ear” CBS-UK 1... 
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@big_greg,+1 Savoy BrownSomewhere in the mysterious shed lives a copy of "Blue Matter" waiting for me to dig it out.A side, track 1 fittingly is "Train to Nowhere". Both Zigzag magazine and Rolling Stone magazine considered "Train to Nowhere" as t... 
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7" Saturday, I felt the up/down to flip/switch records to be worth the effort.Chris Butler (Waitresses, Tin Huey among others) did a series of 7" recorded on various media other than traditional magnetic tape.The Series was called "The Wilderness ... 
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@slaw- thanks very much for the tips on using the Orb.The one I will receive is a DF01iA+.I will post reports about how it works.  I have plenty of candidate records with varying degrees of warp ready to test.  All have been degritted and await th... 
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Beethoven Violin Concerto C major, op61 Jascha Heifetz/Boston Symphony-RCA Red Seal (France) 1969The Romeros “The World Of Flamenco” 2 disc set-Mercury 1975Dvorak “New World” Symphony-Eugene Ormandy/London Symphony-Columbia Masterworks 1975Luciano... 
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@slaw - Please do reveal the inner secrets of the Orb.  I pulled the trigger today.   
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following the above post...Part of the shed haul from this morning.Procol Harum "Exotic Birds and Fruit" Chrysalis 1974 
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@tomic601 thanks for the tips. I’ll check with @slaw about flattening. I’ll look into Nitty Gritty and Walker to try and rescue my termite terrorized records. @big_greg Understand about leaving the shrink wrap in place if it is stickered up. Howev... 
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@mammothguy54,Yeah, Thunderclap Newman, a favorite from college days that got spun a lot on the independent radio station I listened to. Where else could you hear 3 funny Brits playing almost every instrument imaginable including a kazoo. Pete Tow... 
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@boxer12  -"It looks like you have some keepers in that shed. Can I have your wife's phone number please :-) " HA!  If my wife knew of anyone interested in my records, she'd gladly arrange to have them removed, when I'm out, of course.  Heck, sh... 
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@tomic601 ,My wife would be delighted if you would come sneak a few records out of the shed when I'm not looking.  She'd even throw in one of my locomotive air horns, or a kWh meter, or a high voltage porcelain insulator or two.Today's haul fro... 
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More finds from the shed.David Thomas and The Wooden Birds "Monster Walks The Winter Lake"  Twin Tone Records 1985Polkaholics EP no title  Utility Grade Records 1983 (this was the Toronto based post-punk band not to be confused with the Polkaholic...