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| Whats on your turntable tonight? The Turtles "Turtle Soup" White Whale WWS-7124 Ryuichi Sakamoto "Love And Hate" 12" single Elektra ED 5710 Papa Nebo "Papa Nebo" Atlantic SD 8280 The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die "Always Foreign" ... | |
| Best Covers I nominate J. Cash's cover of "The Mercy Seat" a cover of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds from the 1988 release Tender Prey. On the lighter side, Any cover that I've heard by Big Head Todd And The Monsters, or Lake Street Dive has been excellent (both... | |
| Starting a Classical Vinyl Music Collection Minnesota Public Radio has an excellent classical music channel that you can stream from anywhere on the planet. They also have a web site with some free downloads, and an orchestra, chamber, and opera live stream schedule. You may have a local/re... | |
| Started with $1k speakers … what now? Have you found A British Audiophile on Y/T? He has a smaller listening room than I do, where I use floor standers, he tends to focus on stand mount speakers. There are impressive speakers in that segment. Good luck with the hunt | |
| Obvious Epiphany I've said before here on Audiogon, that whenever I think my speakers are "stale", that instead of buying new, I rearrange my listening room. I think this last adjustment put my ancient rear ported KRIX Euphonix in just the right spot. even a bli... | |
| RIP Melanie Safka I don't begrudge Melanie Safka's success with the roller skate love song, "Brand New Key", which I still sing along with-- in private. I would guess that song fed and clothed her (and her family) for many a year (although her husband, her record ... | |
| I took Frank Zappa’s advice Dental floss is made with Flax, like linen is. Flax used to grow on farms all across the upper Midwest, Pretty flowers. And the Dental Floss Tycoons have all moved to China. The pygmy ponies have taken up residence on hobby farms. And I'm just too... | |
| I took Frank Zappa’s advice Frank spoke truth. When you see "Play this record loud" that's an admission that the poor thing has been compressed beyond comprehension. Why do record company execs think we still listen to little transistor radios? FZ owned a recording studio be... | |
| Favorite Obscure Rock Song "Moons of Jupiter" Scruffy The Cat | |
| Are there any issues with connecting speaker wire in this manner? If you can find high quality flexible (annealed?) copper then yes go for it. Solid wire does have some conductance advantages over stranded, but the lack of flexibility and the generally poor quality (re-cycled, repurposed) of industrial (ROMEX an... | |
| Does a turntable mat make any difference? I play a lot of records. I have several mats of different thickness that I use as a quick, if not perfect VTA adjustment. I suppose had I selected wealth instead of handsome, I might have a copper mat, or some other unobtanium that caught the ligh... | |
| list of speakers Very impressive effort. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I cleaned the Al Hirt section today. A lot of work, but man, he played a truly sweet trumpet, what tone. The marathon cleaning and playing session brought back memories of my Mom's record collection and her gorgeous Telefunken console, stayed up w... | |
| What to do with dead equipment Kind of apples and oranges, but my luthier made a cash offer for my old guitar tube amps. Salvaging transformers, tubes, and other parts made more sense to me than shredding or land fill. Now, if only there was an answer for PVC records.... | |
| Steely Dan Aja cover What I want know, is what was Steve Gadd wearing |