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| Shout out for Better Records Viridian, I agree that Tom makes it sound as if he has the market cornered on the best-sounding pressings of a title. I sometimes wonder if he is treating records in some way to enhance their sonics. It just seems strange that he finds these great... | |
| Best stereo recievers of the 1970's? I remember learning in the 1970's that you cannot judge the sound of an amp by its power rating. I went to Circuit City or whatever stereo store and the sales guy was pushing a 30 wpc Harmon Kardon receiver over a 75 wpc Pioneer integrated amp. Th... | |
| EFFICIENCY Jmcgrogan2 is correct on how loud the peak sound pressure levels will be with each speaker. However, another thing to consider is how each speaker will sound (i.e. tonal balance), which will vary depending on not only the voltage sensitivity but t... | |
| Shout out for Better Records Absolutely, you can go to used record stores just like Tom does, buy a bunch of pressings of a title, go home and clean them, and listen to see if there is a "hot stamper" in the bunch. I have done just this with Heart Dreamboat Annie, some Cat St... | |
| Angriest Lyric/Vocal How about almost anything from later Roger Waters-era Pink Floyd. If you want to hear angst, listen to Animals, The Wall, or The Final Cut. | |
| my beautiful table isn't behaving after our move Somehow you are not getting a voltage signal from your turntable/cartridge to your preamp, or there is a problem somewhere else inside your system. Have you tried using a CD player or FM tuner or tape player or some other source to see if you get ... | |
| Shout out for Better Records I have also had excellent experiences with Tom at Better Records. I have bought around 3 dozen hot stampers and found some great-sounding versions of many of my favorite titles, some astoundingly so. I will tell you what my BS detector has found. ... | |
| Best matching amp for Wilson W/P6, any sudgestions I have WP7's and tried a bunch of tube and solid-state amps. I didn't like the match of low-powered tube amps with the WP7's as much as I did with my Sophias, but as other posters have said, tubes give a fuller midrange and a bigger soundstage wit... | |
| Can an EL34 tube be replaced with a KT88 or 6550? Even if your amp will not allow you to negatively bias a 6550 or KT88, you can significantly improve the sound through tube rolling the EL34 tube family. For NOS tubes, Mullard EL34's and Amperex Double-D getter EL34's are terrific, as are GEC KT7... | |
| Led Zeppelin-newly remastered I hope the half-speed versions by RTI/Stan Ricker are better than other titles they have done. I am not a fan of the MFSL titles SR did and the Steely Dan Aja is a joke. The only one I like is the ZZ Top Tres Hombres. | |
| Amplifier advice for Wilson Sophia speakers There have been a number of posts on driving Sophias, so you may want to do a search or look at the amp/preamp section on this subject. I had a pair of Sophias, now Watt Puppy 7's, and drove them with an ARC VT100 Mark III, which I believe Wilson ... | |
| Name your favorite sax solo. Dunno if you can consider it a solo since it is part of the main melody line, but I can never get Raphael Ravenscroft's sax line in Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street out of my head. | |
| Smallest room dimensions for good bass to 20hz If I am not mistaken, even though the dimensions of your room may be shorter than the wavelengths of bass frequencies, a small room can support low frequencies through pressurization and depressurization of the room. I am in a small room and I can... | |
| How many dbs i will gain with 0,6mv cart.vs 0,3mv? Since your new output voltage is twice your old voltage, the gain is 20 log (V2/V1), which is 20 log (2), which is 6 dB. So you would get an additional 6 dB of gain from switching cartridges. Looking at it another way, you would need 6 fewer dB, o... | |
| How to flatten Vinyl Albums There is a treatise on a company making units to flatten LP's in the October Stereophile. This may be the safest bet to flatten valuable LP's. |