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Coincident Dragons vs Vac Phi 200
What's "fair" (whatever that means) doesn't have any reverence when you are asking for a sonic comparison, but will be difficult is understanding how twice the watts plays into driving your speaker pairing...Are the Tyler Acoustics Linbrook Signat... 
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Yusef Lateef ‎– Live At Pep's Volume TwoImpulse! ‎– 547 961-2(release on CD in 1999)Yep, volume one was released on vinyl back in 1964, so go figure what Impulse! was thinking?! 
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Damien Rice -O 2003 Vector Recordings 
DeVore Orangutan O/96
Has anyone had an experience of hearing the Orangutan O/96 driven by OTL amps, such as Atma-Sphere? 
"Slam"--what is it, is it really accurate?
Buy and large for me "SLAM" is a HiFi or pro-audio support thing. What I mean is, very little acoustic live music ever produces real "SLAM" unless it is of an electrified genre. That said, I think it is a matter of taste for the music reproduction... 
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I would like to(NOT)thank Rodman99999 and Palasr for adding anything to this otherwise, civil thread.Happy Listening! ;^)> 
The Death of Tubes?
The trouble being that all tubes are considered incandescent bulbs.Says who? 
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Beautiful Freak from The Eels DreamWorks Records –DRLP-50001 (1996)vinyl consistently pulls just shy of four hundred bucks a copy in M- (ish shape) and good luck finding one.Daisies Of The Galaxy by The Eels on Bong Load Records –BL47 is another. ... 
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Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter -Reckless Burning (first album/briefly pressed to vinyl. Falls somewhere in the Trinity Sessions- Cowboy Junkies and So Tonight That I Might See- Mazzy Star genre) Hauntingly beautiful*AtmaSphere: Ralph, I wou... 
Anybody blow a ceramic woofer with an OTL amp?
I'm sorry to here of you lose Springbok10.(belated)Hope all has been well since.I'll have to stay in touch with this issue as I poses newly updated Atma-Sphere MA-1 Silvers that Ralph and his fine crew just updated. I feel the new caps are finally... 
Want to replace my speaker cables
If you like what you get from the Analysis Plus Solo Crystal Ovals Interconnect, why not explore Analysis speaker cable? Many good things have been said about them in reviews. I would also jump on the band wagon to say there is nothing wrong with ... 
Favorite lp of all time
Stephane Grappelli's -Feeling + Finesse = Jazz from 1962 on Atlantic 1391.Played with the legendary Django Reinhardt in the Quintet of the Hot Club of France etc.Pierre Cavalli on hollow body simply cooks through this Lp.* a tip; buy it on the UK ... 
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Ok, it's been a while but here are a few from Declan Patrick Aloysius Macmanus (Elvis Costello) (the true King!) that just never found there way to wax...Painted from MemoryMy Flame Burns BlueThe River in Reverse...what are these record companies ... 
Royal Oak, Michigan
Time has flown, hasn't it Jim, Jeff, and all my other SMAC (Southeast Michigan Audio Club) friends! Our humble beginnings, and this is how it began. Happy Listening! 
A Very Long Primer on Record Cleaning Fluids
09-25-12: MacloganJustin Time may have known something about the chemistry of solvents and surfactants when he wrote this. But he didn't know very much about what goes into the mix that we call "vinyl", and he is apparently ignorant about what hap...