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| Breaking in a Rhea phonostage Don't try to judge it yet. I can't speak from direct experience with the Rhea, but it should take 200 hours of music playing time for the capacitors to break in, and it will continue to sound better for up to 400 hours. Keep listening! Also, cycli... | |
| Lp cleaning - scrubbing records - any downside? Markd51, nice informative post. I follow exactly the same process except with the Walker Audio Prelude and brushes. The light scribbing with the brushes in the manner you've described has given me far better results in my VPI 17.5 than using the i... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Celtic music tonight so far...Patrick Ball, "Secret Isles" - Fortuna FOR 029 (Celtic harp)Battlefield Band, "The Battlefield Band" Topic 12TS313. | |
| Record storage? If you have an Ikea store within driving distance, their Expedit or Bonde bookcases/shelf units are perfectly sized for storing LPs. . | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Makes three of us then... Had a couple for friends over and one brought the Vaughan Williams on CD not realizing that the system here was set up for vinyl only. I had that same Vaughan Williams in my hands earlier this evening... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Kenny Drew, "Undercurrent" - Blue Note, ST 84059 -45 (Music Matters 45 rpm reissue) - Mmmmm, Outstanding! Vaughan Williams, "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" - Marriner/ASMF, Argo ZRG 696 - a superb performance with my preferred performance o... | |
| Help VPI SDS Issue You can find out by simply bypassing the SDS and again plugging the motor directly into your AC outlet. See if you get a different result. . | |
| Help VPI SDS Issue This is not a problem with the motor. Just give the platter a bit of a push with your thumb to get it started. If it bothers you, you could re-talc the belt. (A bit of talcom powder in a pastic bag, drop the belt in the bag, shake, then reinstall ... | |
| VPI SDS Newbie From hearing a friend's system as he went through the Scout to Scoutmaster upgrades, you may get more improvement by first upgrading to the 300 rpm motor, then adding the SDS. The folks at VPI can give you some good guidance on this if you call th... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? The Doors, "Morrison Hotel" - Elektra 7559-60675 German pressing (320 matrix) from a year ago - very nice. ("L.A. Woman" from the same reissue series is also very good, but not on the table tonight) | |
| Your Favorite Classical Music Recordings J_evege, I greatly appreciate your focus on the music and your willingness to start some further conversation about great music. However, I join Newbee in a reluctance to launch into such a broad topic as you've outlined. If you take a look at New... | |
| Clarinet concertos anyone? You might also look at this earlier thread...http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?gmusi&1189734063. | |
| Your favorite Sheherazade LP ? Has anyone yet heard the recently released Scheherazade recorded by the Marc Aubort/Joanna Nickrenz team on Classic Records CR 2002?Moscow State Symphony OrchestraPavel Kogan, conductorClassic Records CR 2002-200GAubort/Nickrenz are one of my favo... | |
| Aesthetix IO tube rolling experiment at Area 51 Very nice summary of your listening experiences with all the different combinations! Thank you for sharing this.. | |
| Your favorite Sheherazade LP ? Beecham/RPO, EMI ASD 251 (Testament reissue)Reiner/CSO, RCA LSC 2446 . |