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| what is star grounding? Basically, it is a process of pulling a separate wire for every ground back to a single common grounding point on the chassis. See if this helps explain it:http://www.geofex.com/Article_Folders/stargnd/stargnd.htm | |
| Famous and favorite recordings A little "age appropriate" orchestral music with a magical combination of music, interpretation, performance and recording...Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" and Saint-Saens' "Carnival of the Animals" performed by the London Symphony conducted by ... | |
| Famous and favorite recordings Here are four outstanding piano recordings in which the music, the performer, the performance and the recording are all perfectly matched...Ivan Moravec playing Chopin's Ballades and Mazurkas, from the original Connoisseur Society recordings, VAIA... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Last night...The Academy of St. Martin in the Field in Concert: Music of Albinoni, Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Pachabel (Marriner/ASMF, Brown -vn, EMI ASD 3017)Rimsky-Korsakov: Overture from May Night; Christmas Eve Suite; The Ta... | |
| recommended cartridge for ETII tonearm Alun, confusing is right! The horizontal mass is what creates the challenge for cartridge matching and why a medium-to-lower compliance cartridge works best in the arm. And, with respect to our more mathmetically inclined forum members, I think it... | |
| Who will survive? One last table til I die. Gregadd, nicely said.. | |
| recommended cartridge for ETII tonearm Alun, here's some reasonably concise information from the SME web site about the ranges for high, medium and low compliance, and why it all matters:With one compliance unit (lcu) equivalent to l x l0-6 cm.dyne, a low-to-moderate compliance design ... | |
| RCA RDCE-501..Vivaldi's Four Seasons...tremendous Jsujo, thanks for the offer, but no reel-to-reel. Glad to hear from someone else that the Timegate is a good recording! It stays on my "want list.". | |
| RCA RDCE-501..Vivaldi's Four Seasons...tremendous No 45 rpms or d-to-d, but here are a sampling of some baroque/early music LPs to pursue that are exceptionally well recorded with much more stylish/interesting performances. They will all challenge the reproduction abilities of your system.Bach: B... | |
| Could someone explain quality sound in preamps? Many people have had great success using passive linestages. But, you have to be very careful to get good results. Ralph Karsten offered the following thoughts about the role served by a preamp (linestage), and some thoughts about passive linestag... | |
| recent LP happiness Vvrinc, my experience with the MHS reissues of the Lyritas is that they are generally quite good: well worth picking up until you can find an original. I have several for which I don't have the originals. Mastering was usually done by Sterling or ... | |
| recent LP happiness Vvrinc, I have a mix of Chandos and Lyrita performances of the Bax symphonies. The Bryden Thompson performances on Chandos are quite good, the downside is that they are digital recordings and don't have the delicacy of harmonics that the Lyritas h... | |
| recommended cartridge for ETII tonearm Alun, I've used a Grado Reference/Reference (1.5mv) on the ET-2 arm with very good success. As Ecclectique says, I think a wide range of cartridges will work well on this table.. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Cheryl Wheeler: "Cheryl Wheeler" Northstar W0001Paul Simon: "There Goes Rhymin' Simon" Columbia 25589Sonny Boy Williamson: "Keep It To Ourselves" Alligator AL 4787Just to confuse all of you who think I listen only to classical. ;-). | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Sbank, for a good Schubert Trout Quintet on LP, consider either:Clifford Curzon and Members of the Vienna Octet, Decca SXL 2110 (Speakers Corner reissue) (my preferred performance and recording); or The Festival Quartet, RCA LSC 2147 (Classic Reco... |