rushton
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Thanks, Joe. Each of the Speakers Corner Mercury reissues I've heard thus far have been excellent. Appears that this one is following in that same pattern. Another to add to the "want list." | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I'll be interested in your comment on the Rachmaninoff Mercury reissue, if you're willing to offer one, Joe. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Planned for this evening... Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (Solti/LSO, Decca SXL 6691) and Beethoven's 9th Symphony (Solti/LSO, Decca 6BB 121/2). It's a "big sound" evening. | |
| eminent technology 2 setup help If you continue to have trouble downloading the manual, try "save target as" (if using Internet Explorer) and save to a file first, then open it. BTW, for leveling the tonearm, a great tool is a blank-sided LP, e.g., a multi-record set with the fi... | |
| eminent technology 2 setup help If the armboard is already drilled correctly for the arm, the ET tonearm can be set up successfully with the plastic cartridge alignment card that came with the arm (a clear rectangular piece of plastic with a hole at one end to fit over the turnt... | |
| Revision 3 Atma Sphere amps In case you haven't yet seen it, Ralph recently offered his perspective on the difference from rev.2 to rev.3 at the ASOG's site.http://www.otlamp.com/forum/messages/3361.html | |
| Referrence music.... The "Depth of Image" LP from Opus 3 is also a favorite of mine. As Newbee comments, all of the cuts are of voice or acoustic instruments, it has a wide variety and combination of instruments, all the selections are well recorded, and they all come... | |
| 3 Top Cartridges Picks I'll add just one: The Magic Diamond cartidge from the Swiss maker, MagicMicro. Lloyd Walker sells this cartridge and it is stunning in its combination of musicality, neutrality, natural detail and soundstaging. Top to bottom the best cartridge I'... | |
| Oracle Delphi/ ET-2 static electricity issue Are you using a carbon fiber anti-static brush like the Auidoquest on your LPs? If so, after applying the brush to the LP before play, touch it to the tonearm. You'll probably hear a static discharge audibly through your speakers. I do this routin... | |
| Quite Strings? Troutki, for vinyl you unfortunately will have to search in the used market - new vinyl doesn't seem to offer much in the way of chamber music, let alone string quartets. For used vinyl, Ars Nova and Mikrokosmos are good sources to look through ea... | |
| Quite Strings? Music of string quartets is not always quiet, and can often be extremely challenging emotionally and intellectually (as in the string quartets of Shostakovich, for example). But, to answer you inquiry, some quartets that will match what you descri... | |
| What LPs do you use for VTA adjustment Dougdeacon, the Stravinsky Firebird is the Dorati performance with the LSO, but in stereo. The 45 rpm version is incredible. Both the 33 and 45 versions are still available from Acoustic Sounds. The 45 is at a premium price since they are out of p... | |
| What LPs do you use for VTA adjustment "If/when you want to get more into it, setting by ear is the only way of course."Dougdeacon's comment above is absolutely true. For some guidance on the relatively simple process of setting up your turntable by ear, read Lloyd Walker's process whi... | |
| Help: my phono preamp is blowing away my linestage Hmmm, let me describe it this way... Unlike a purely passive setup, the Io runs the line level input through its final gain stage just before the volume control. This gives the buffering of an active line stage, so you don't experience the potenti... | |
| Aesthetix IO vs. Manley Steelhead vs. The Groove The Walker Audio phono stage is a true SOTA contender based on listening to it in Lloyd's system. Given my biases, I don't prefer it over my Io Signature, but it is incredibly good. |