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| Help: my phono preamp is blowing away my linestage Patrick, as already suggested, if you're prepared to spend around $2500 for a linestage, seriously consider sending the Io to Aesthetix to have the volume controls and single switched high level input added. If you listen mostly to vinyl, you may ... | |
| VPI Scout Slipknot1 may be able to provide those details. He has a Scout. Let's see if he returns to this thread... | |
| VPI Scout Jsangelo,I stand corrected. After reading your reply I looked at the instruction manual for the Scout. While the speed accuracy is within 1%, the manual says:"There are multiple grooves on a very slightly tapered shaft so you can adjust the speed ... | |
| how 2 make a surge tank for the ET2 Eddaytona, a "surge tank" is also called a "resonance chamber." It is an air storage chamber inserted between the pump and the tonearm (or other airbearing device). It's purpose is to help even out the pulses created from the piston action of the ... | |
| VPI Scout The Scout allows one to switch between 33.33 and 45 rpm by moving the belt. There is no means to adjust the speed +/- 33.33 or 45. The AC motor and the precision ground pully will give you each speed with a high degree of precision. If you want to... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Yesterday...The Beatles "White Album" in 17 different vinyl releases, compliments of a local collector who brought them over for a listen. (We listened to selected cuts from 8 for comparison.) :-)Crosby, Stills & Nash - "CSN" - comparison of a... | |
| killer violin tracks. Here are three violin recordings I would recommend for critical listening:"Music for a Glass Bead Game" - Arturo Delmoni (vn), Nathaniel Rosen (vc), John Marks Records 15 - music of Bach, Kodaly and Giordani. An extremely well recorded disc of out... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Joe - glad to see you playing the Mendelssohn Speakers Corner reissue. Marvelous record! One of the great Decca recordings. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Tonight is EJ Moeran's Cello Concerto, Boult/LPO, Coetmore (vc), Lyrita SRCS 43 (another gorgeous recording by the great J Kenneth Wilkinson)Beethoven's late String Quartets, beautifully performed by the Vegh Quartet, Telefunken 6.35040 (Number 12... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Tonight its English 20th century composers:Arnold Bax - "Garden of Fand," "Northern Ballad No.1," "Tintagel" - Boult/LSO, Lyrita SRCS 62Butterworth - "Banks of Green Willow," "Shropshire Lad" - Bridge - "There is a Willow Aslant a Brook"Harty - "J... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Tonight: an eclectic mix of avant-garde 20th century, Baroque and Classical:Alan Hacker - "Hymn to the Sun" L'oiseau Lyre DSLO 17, a great clarinetist playing music of Hacker, Birtwhistle, Debussy, Monteverdi, and Schumann. Baroque Chamber Music o... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? 20th Music fest: Malcolm Arnold: Oboe Fantasy, Oboe Sonatina, Clarinet Sonatina, Duo for two cellos - Nash Ensemble, Hyperion A66171, A66172, A66173 (I always enjoy exploring Arnold's music, with his wit and wry good humor - excellent recordings b... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? So far this evening:Paul Simon - "There Goes Rhymin' Simon"Mendelssohn - "Hebrides Overture" and "Symphony 3", Maag/LSO, Decca 45rpm Speakers Corner reissure (Stunning! An absolutely incredible recording by Kenneth Wilkinson and a suberb reissue)C... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Joe, I am consistently struck by how closely our music tastes match. We definitely need to get from one side of the river to the other to further explore each other's music libraries!Tonight:Resphigi's Church Windows, Reference RecordingsHolst Pla... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? With some friends over to listen... Queen: Night at the Opera (LP) Muddy Waters: Folk Singer (MSFL)(LP) Satchmo Plays King Oliver (Classic Records 45rpm reissue) Ossian: Seal Song (LP) Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture (Speakers Corner 45rpm reissue)... |