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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Thanks, Palasr! | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Palasr, any comments on the sound quality of the Doors - Morrison Hotel (45 RPM/Analogue Productions)?. | |
| Help finding a Sub w/ quick punch down to 20hz Surreal Sound's Constellation sub-woofers will do it. You can custom select the number of drivers based on the volume of your room. "Dipole bass with an attitude" is their tagline, and it's absolutely true. See:http://surrealspeakers.com/. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Elgar, The Dream of Gerontius, Boult/NPO, Watts -sop, Gedda -ten - EMI SLS 987 - a Bishop/Parker masterpiece.Paul Chambers Quintet, Blue Note 1584, Music Matters 45 reissueWild Child Butler, Sho' 'Nuff, Analogue Productions 2015 45 rpmDead Can Dan... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? My goodness, I'd forgotten how incredibly good this LP is, from 1977:Music for Percussion, Vol. 1 - John Elliott Gardiner and the Tristan Fry Percussion Ensemble, Gale GMFD 1-76-004. Music by Chavez, Hovhaness and Serebier.. | |
| Tube Pre/Monoblock Recommendation Use Atma-Sphere MA-1 monoblocks. A superb match to the Merlins. Also, one will have difficulty doing better than the Atma-Sphere MP-1 full function preamp.. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? The recent 180 gram reissue of Paul Simon's Graceland is indeed a very significant improvement over the original DMM mastered LP. We started listening with the cut "Under African Skies" and my wife looked at me, grinned and held two-thumbs-up. I f... | |
| Richmond VA Our next meeting will be Saturday, September 15, from 1:00-5:00. We'll visit the systems of two of our members, one an analog-based system and the other a server-based digital system. Join us!To contact us for more information, visit our website a... | |
| VTA Direcrtions Updating the link due to a change in the website...The best description I've ever found of what to listen for are those provided by Lloyd Walker for fine tuning your turntable. Since VTA and VTF interact, he recommends an iterative process of chan... | |
| Richmond VA Our website has changed to http://richmondaudiosociety.com/Next meeting is this coming Saturday, July 21, 2012.. | |
| Aesthetix IO Eclipse Sidekick_i, I thought I would add one more comment to support what Albertporter has said about the choices you are considering. As much as I try to find long-term listening enjoyment from the solid-state phono stages I've heard, I keep coming back... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? By golly Slipknot1! I must have been channeling you today, at least in part...Ravel "Daphnis et Chloe" Monteux/LSO/Royal Opera House chorus (London CS6140 ORG 45 rpm reissue ORG 105)Ravel "String Quartet in F" Guarneri Quartet, Lancia LMF7002 (rec... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Louis Armstrong, "The Great Chicago Concert, 1956," (Columbia reissue, 1996)Altan, "The Horse with a Heart," Green Linnett SIF 1095Ossian, "Seal Song," Iona IR 002Paco Pena & his Group, "Flamenco puro 'live'," Decca (Speakers Corner reissue) | |
| Listening habits and LP storage Some of my LPs are on shelves in the listening room, but the majority are on shelves in a room down the hall. I tend to pull several at a time for a listening session, then re-shelve.. | |
| Dedicating circuits and fancy power outlets You will not regret making the investment in a dedicated circuit for your system. I've done it three times, in three difference houses, and it's always made a nice improvement.Some additional thoughts for you:1) Consider installing at least 2 circ... |