rockvirgo
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| Record-playing Rituals? before each play, i manually rotate the LP by its label with the index finger of my right hand while brushing in the prescribed rotary fashion with a dry discwasher in my left. note to belt drivers - try this at your on risk, hehe. then i deftly d... | |
| Where s the bass? on the cheap, go to a carpet supply place and get a remnant - industrial office grey is nice - then cut it to whatever size you like...you will be astounded! | |
| Over seas releases buy it direct from the record label wherever they are...works for ECM's and you get em months before usa release! | |
| LPs - display/storage etc ideas an old cedar hope chest makes a real nice record cabinet, just unhinge the top and set it on its side atop anything suitable...then ask the wife to find a new place for that cake-stained wedding dress and all those quilts hehe | |
| Where s the bass? carpets act like equalizers. have you got wall to wall, plush, persian or??? | |
| Musicality" in a system? What IS that ? assuming some music can be characterized as art, maybe we need to back up and define art. for a moment let's say art is any medium that communicates or invokes a feeling in a person. it can be a sense of beauty, disgust, serenity or confusion, any... | |
| Audio s impact on enviroment imho, the industrial revolution dehumanizes mankind. so i'm using as much energy as i can as fast as i can. in the usa at least, acquiring, expending and enjoying scarce resources is the definition of success. there is no downside. decrease the su... | |
| Is Component "Upgradability" Important ? bear in mind there are improvement upgrades to existing models, like HDCD capability or a phono board, which are well and good. then there are replacement upgrades which make the former current model obsolete overnight. i'm not sure what the gener... | |
| Pass Aleph-3 questions the thing that took the high frequency hardness out of my system was changing the preamp. also i'd suggest putting yout tt inside a sound proof booth at 115dB haha. back to smooth sailing, woohoo! | |
| Extension Cord yes you can. get a yellow one with black stripes. the orange ones are less stout. | |
| Do you play? yes i play. i started teaching myself the guitar close to 30 years ago. shortly thereafter i replaced my portable record player with my first real stereo, a dual turntable with shure cart, dynaco separates and A-25 speakers. the more i practiced a... | |
| Cough vigilante i'm a little shy about admitting this. when i was a mischievious teen attending classical concerts i would cough during a lull in the program just to see how many others would react to my suggestion and follow suit. result never less than two, haha. | |
| What is the meaning of a true audiophile a true audiophile is anyone with the desire to get the best sound he/she can from the hardware available at any given moment. it could be from a $10 clock radio; it could be from a $100,000 dream system. from simple to complex, all you have to do ... | |
| Access/Use Restrictions-Listening Room from the reality files: panic stricken siamese cat runs into the listening being chased by eight year old boy...boy nudges lp's over displacing cinder block bookend from planking underneath...cinderblock tips bicycle resting peacefully against the... | |
| Bi-wiring speakers this head in the sand stuff cracks me up. you figure it out, haha |