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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Durufle, Suite, op5 - Torvald Toren at the Hedvig Eleonora Church Organ, Stockholm - Proprius 7854 Torvald Toren is an excellent organist playing on a beautiful organ built and voiced in the French "neo-classical" style, a superb organ for the mus... | |
| New LP Cleaning ? Best practice is to always clean before the first play. There's no telling what has gotten into the grooves in the handling and packaging process, and no telling what is left behind from the pressing process itself. Why risk damage from grinding d... | |
| Tweaks such as demagnetizers ionizers for lp's Walker Audio Talisman - $225 - it works.. | |
| Does the Step 4 final rinse for Walker Prelude help? Doug, I appreciate all of your efforts to elucidate and educate, but I'll have to disagree with your speculations about the optimum sequencing of the Step 4 Rinse, and I won't choose to experiment with it. The point of the Step 4 Rinse is exactly ... | |
| Ideal room dimensions for great system sound? The best listening room I've had the pleasure of being in was a custom designed room using the Cardas Golden Ratio for its dimensions, as Davetherave describes. The dimensions of this room were: 16' wide x 26' deep x 10' high. If I were designing ... | |
| Does the Step 4 final rinse for Walker Prelude help? Tbg, no I don't use one. My vinyl is too valuable to me to risk having an accident with a hair dryer coming near my LPs. Same for the steam cleaning recommendations. I do use the Talisman.. | |
| Any fans of Jordi Savall? What is there on vinyl? Hi Chashmal, then watch for Orlando Gibbons: Fantaisies royalesJordi Savall / Christophe Coin / Sergi Casademunt / Rec.: 01/1979Astrée AS 43 [LP]. | |
| Walker Audio Prelude Step 4 Rinse For additonal perspectives on the effectivenss of the Step 4 Rinse, please also see the thread begun independently by Tbg: Does the new Step 4 final rinse for Walker Prelude help? . | |
| Any fans of Jordi Savall? What is there on vinyl? I see the Astree records with some frequency offered on various lists. The prices for the Savall recordings are typically in the range of USD$50.Albert, it is all about the music, after all, isn't it?. | |
| Does the Step 4 final rinse for Walker Prelude help? Tbg, I too had expected little improvement and was very pleased to find a very noticeable improvement. Whatever the degree, it's a material enough improvement that I now use it regularly and will continue to do so.Thanks for posting your experienc... | |
| Any fans of Jordi Savall? What is there on vinyl? Jordi Savall has an extensive discography on vinyl on the Astree label (commanding a pretty steep price on the used market these days). Other labels on which Savall has recorded in the vinyl era are EMI (with his own Hesperion XX group) and CRD (w... | |
| Does the Step 4 final rinse for Walker Prelude help? TGB, my experience with Walker Audio Step 4 Rinse is similar to yours. A few days ago, I posted my observations which the moderators insisted on putting in Reviews:Analog. Too bad we can't have all of this discussion in one place. Step 4 Rinse is ... | |
| Cable elevators - conventional wisdom wrong? One good reason to raise cables off of synthetic carpets: better sound. In another listening room, my cables lay on oak flooring and I didn't lift the cables. In my new listening room, the floor is covered with synthetic wall-to-wall carpeting. In... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Rossini, 6 Sonate a Quattro, Salvatore Accardo and others, Philips 4759648 (2LPs) (This limited edition reissue is one of the most realistic recordings of a string quartet in my collection. Yes, it's expensive. But the performances are superb and ... | |
| cleaning fluid mix and match? Certainly, there's no reason you couldn't mix and match. But you may want to experiment a bit first. I find the Walker Audio Prelude Step 2 cleaner superior to Disc Doctor Miracle Record Cleaner even without the enzyme step. But, there is no quest... |