r_f_sayles
Responses from r_f_sayles
| Balanced tube preamps w/ remote to consider? Pedrillo, I want to understand, a used Aesthetix Calypso is about 22-2400 USD and the two 12ax7/ECC83s and two 6922/6dj8s at best might cost about 400 more with a little smart shopping. And the fact is with these signal tubes and this preamp, they... | |
| New Rickie Lee Jones CD Balm in Gilead is truly another beautifully personal album by our Duchess of Coolsville. I haven't seen any word of it on vinyl, yet I know she's a real vinyl fan so I'm hoping so.Happy Listening! | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Macdadtexas, Siamese Dream is a nice choice. I spin their first album "Gish" more than once in a while. It was such a breath of fresh air in the summer of '91. Billy and Butch sure did their home work on this one!Happy (classic-heavy-alt-metal-got... | |
| Finding Pure Water for Record Cleaning - very long Kds4444, Nalgene water bottles for drinking, available at sporting goods locations like REI, have now pulled BPA out of the molding compounds because of human health concerns. What's good for us may well be good for our vinyl...Happy (analogue) Li... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? * Vetiver- Things of the Past on Gnomonsong RecordsA great cover album, only to be topped their own stuff. fun.* Mono- Hymn to the Immortal Winds on Human Highway Recordsbeautiful, dense, euphoric* Sting- The Soul Cages on A&M Polygram a Russi... | |
| beatle remasters on vinyl? £, ¥, , or $... anyway you care to express it, Audiofeil might just be on to something!Cyclonicman, if I'm reading between your lines, and I would be one to agree, why fix what isn't broke. The reasoning behind the RS catalog was that it was bein... | |
| Graham Phantom vs. Phantom II Axel, Your point is well taken, the lady may be teaching me something by contrast, if I understand you correctly. Synergy is a demanding mistress my friend! And this is why we need an open forum like AudioGon. There is no way I (we) could get this... | |
| beatle remasters on vinyl? Like I say Coffee2... I'd have agreed with you in spades if I didn't own and listen extensively to the DSD Abkco reissues of the early Rolling Stones albums. And if you think about it... does Trinity Sessions by the Cowboy Junkies on vinyl sound a... | |
| Graham Phantom vs. Phantom II I appreciate you sharing comments and experience in this matter. The Graham Phantom II is a work of art both mechanically and sonically, to that I feel we all would agree. I would also acknowledge that synergy is paramount, regardless of anything ... | |
| How quite is the Aesthetix Calypso Vs Bat VK3i No problem with noise on my Aesthetix Calypso with good NOS tubes. The Calypso is more to my liking and would be a sound improvement to the BAT VK3i IMHO. | |
| Zu Essence + Sub vs Zu Definition MK2? I would have to agree with Audiofeil... he is spot on in that the Essence was designed for and is a near perfect match to a whole world of fairly small watt tube amps. At 97db 1w/1m and 12 ohm, few speakers made today offer such a great opportunit... | |
| The great Soupy Sales died I'm from the Detroit area and was a child fan of Soupy's mad antics until starting school, only to be associated by the similar sound of our last names (mine was real, his contrived). It sucked being called soupy in school as I had nothing other t... | |
| Which phono preamps modify to top notch? I find the current used price/performance ratio of the Aesthetix Rhea outstanding. Great air, well balanced sound, excellent low level detail and sound staging, blah, blah, blah with the audio jargon... it makes really believable music . There is ... | |
| Geometry for pivot tonearms - calculation errors?? Thank you johnbrown and Dertonarm. Good to have more geometry delineation.Every little bit of knowledge helps out with the puzzle.Happy (analogue) Listening! | |
| Graham Phantom vs. Phantom II Downunder, please read March 5th, 2007- by Wayne Garcia, The Absolute Sound review or maybe you have. I too questioned Conrad Mas about this very thing and like I said previously, he acknowledged that the Magneglide system seemed to play well on t... |