rushton
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| What's the Best LP You Bought in 2008 Many good LPs arrived here this year. To choose just one:Fone 016, Rossini Overtures, Myung-Whun Chung and the Orchestra dell'Accademica Nazionale di Santa CeciliaA 45 rpm disc with just 16 minutes of music, but what delightful music making it con... | |
| Has anyone listened to the Fone 45rpm LPs? Thanks, Eziodoc. I finally picked up a few and have been contemplating adding the Piazzolla.. | |
| PC sugguestions for Atma-sphere amps and preamp Silent Source Signature power cords are working very well here on a pair of MA-2 amps.. | |
| break in tips Play music, as Cruz123 says. Gently for the first 100 hours. Then with more dynamic, full range and complex music thereafter. Plan on 300-400 hours for a full range speaker with high quality drivers. If you play vinyl, don't expect that playing CD... | |
| audiophile recordings of 12 tone/serialist works Nonesuch is a gold mine for American contemporary classical music recordings. Much of their contemporary music catalog was recorded by the outstanding producer and recording engineer team of Joanna Nickrenz and Marc Aubort, and then mastered by Ro... | |
| audiophile recordings of 12 tone/serialist works Donald Martino is an interesting composer, imo. Here are a couple of links, including an obituary (unfortunately):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Martinohttp://www.dantalian.com/donald_martino_bio_picture.htmObituary, December 2005. | |
| audiophile recordings of 12 tone/serialist works Here are a few more, keeping to the 12 tone/serialist genre... Babbitt..Three Compositions for Piano, Taub -pf (Harmonia Mundi HMC 5160) Berg..Three Pieces for Orchestra, op6, Dorati/LSO (Mercury SR 90316 Speakers Corner) Fetler, Paul..Contrasts f... | |
| Blues from the 50s/60s/70s Jorsan,I'm sorry you received these first two responses to your post and I understand your feelings. From other posts I've seen from Crem1, I suspect his intent was humor and not to be unkind. And that's the challenge for us all in these forums: m... | |
| Blues from the 50s/60s/70s Jorsan, among many alternatives, here are some suggestions:Wild Child Butler Sho' 'Nuff (Analogue Productions APO 2015 -45) Wild Child Butler (Analogue Productions APO 004) Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon The Blues Every Which Way (Verve V6-3007... | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-1 filter cap upgrade Grateful, if you move forward with the update, please share with us what you hear afterwards. Best wishes, | |
| Life without a remote I've never had a remote volume control in my system, so perhaps this is why I don't find this an issue. Then again, I live with vinyl as my primary source, so..... | |
| Record cleaning concentrates The Walker Audio Prelude 4 Step process here, after trying many others over many years. It simply works the best of any cleaning fluids regimen I've ever used (including most already listed above), and allows for a clarity and transparency of repr... | |
| How do you remove static from an album. Madfloyd, the SleeveCity "Diskeeper 2.0" sleeves have worked well for me:http://www.sleevetown.com/lp-sleeves-inner.shtmlNote that sleeves manufactured literally from rice paper have not been available for many years (to the best of my knowledge).... | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-1 filter cap upgrade Grateful, I can't speak to the upgrade on an MA-1. However, I did have this upgrade done to an early production MA-2 MkII to bring it up to current MkIII production status. Ralph replaced the big blue filter capacitors for the power supply with th... | |
| Silclear, xTreme Quicksilver or Walker SST ? I've continued to rely on the Walker Audio SST. (I do use the Extreme SST version, and find it makes a nice improvement over the regular SST, but your comments about price are well noted.) This week I removed some tubes on which I'd treated the pi... |