rcprince
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| Shostakovich...WHOA For the symphonies on CD, I'd recommend Rostropovich and the National Symphony on Teldec for the 4th, 5th and 8th symphonies, and Bernstein on DG (of all things for me to recommend!) for the 1st and 7th. Gregm, thanks for the string quartet recomm... | |
| Shostakovich...WHOA The Shostakovich 8th Quartet is one of the finest of the genre. It has also been scored for a small string orchestra, available on a very good Delos hybrid SACD. Don't have any recommendations of the string quartet version, yet; hoping others will... | |
| What does a pre amp do Contrary to your first stated assumption, there are a great many of us who use a tuner, a record playing system, a tape deck, and a CD playing system that does not have balanced connections or a volume control, as well as other sources. For those ... | |
| How international is your system? Interesting post and responses. Mine are 1. Japan (Cartridge; SACD player)2. Sweden (CD transport)3. France (preamp)4. UK (upsampler, tape deck, some tubes)5. US (turntable, arm, phono stage, DAC, mods to SACD player, tuner, amps, speakers, most c... | |
| Jadis JPL preamp owners please help My original JPL only had the three 12AX7s, which are the amplification and cathode follower tubes. I recall that some JPLs also had a buffer tube for their CD input, that may be your 12AU7's function. If there are three tubes in a row and one by i... | |
| Upgrade questions: B&W N803 vs ML Ascent ? Forget what I said about Ascents, I'm an older generation guy and am used to thinking of the old Avalon Ascents when that name is mentioned, not the ML ones. I prefer the B&Ws to the MLs, because I still have a problem with the integration of ... | |
| Upgrade questions: B&W N803 vs ML Ascent ? If your listening room really is 23 x 12 inches, I'd suggest a true mini-monitor! :^) Assuming you meant feet, while I think the Avalons are the better overall speakers, the B&Ws are still quite good for your application, are going to be easie... | |
| VTL MB-450 - Does isolation improve performance? My experience has been that, particularly with tubed equipment, isolation does make a difference in performance, not earthshaking (unless the earth in your listening room is shaking!), but noticeable in terms of better image focus and detail retri... | |
| Another 6550 vs. KT88, 90, et. al.? Hey, I'm a fan of the best minor league team in the majors (the Mets, sigh) and am a follower of the team that stockpiles small forwards playing out of position (the Knicks, double sigh), so I'm used to that sort of thing. I'll e-mail you separate... | |
| Another 6550 vs. KT88, 90, et. al.? Zaikesman and Trelja: I have both a pair of matched quads of EI KT90s, unused (add them to Joe's 4 and you've got your dozen), and a hoard of MO Valve/GEC Gold Lion KT88s, some slightly used. If you're really interested in trying them out to hear ... | |
| Tube Pre-amp Phono 60 Cycle Hum - Big Time Is there a grounding wire from the arm that you can attach to the preamp's chasis? That may help. | |
| Using a receiver as a phono stage From the used prices I've seen being asked for the 7250 (low to mid 200s; I'm currently debating picking one up for a bedroom system, so fond are my memories of my old 7240), I don't know if you really could better the NAD's phono stage, as it act... | |
| What LP shows what analog can do? That's one of the reissues I was referring to. Their Ravel and Rachmaninoff are excellent as well, the former a nice complement to the Analogue Productions reissues from the same Vox Box. Interesting to compare the Reference and AP reissues of tho... | |
| What LP shows what analog can do? I have a couple of copies I squirreled away a few years back. Strings a little steely sounding (compared with the Firebird or some of the Decca reissues), but otherwise a terrific record. Some of those Readers Digest recordings were far better tha... | |
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