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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hi Larry (Cello),That sort of list is likely to change next week, but based on what I've been listening to lately here are some LPs I could offer at the moment given their outstanding sonics and performance/music content (all based on my listening... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Listening yesterday with friends over. After some of the usual LPs to orient folks to the sound of my system, we moved on to... Malcom Arnold - ÂEnglish, Scottish, and Cornish Dances - Lyrita SRCS. 109 - Cello and I must be on the same wavelength... | |
| Best LP cleaner fluid for fingerprints Well, looks like four of us are going to give you five different recommendations... With fingerprints, an enzyme cleaning step is very effective because it will get at the oils from the fingerprints. I've used various home brews and various commer... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Siliab, thanks for your additional comments about Grant Green. Others have offered some additonal comments in their posts here as well and I want to thank all of you because I find your comments interesting and educational.Good listening to you, | |
| Magnetization & Demagnetization any conclusions? Sirspeedy, the Talisman comes with Lloyd Walker's satisfaction guarantee. If you're not satisfied with what it does for you, send it back to Lloyd within 30 days in original condition and he'll refund your purchase price. (I recommend buying direc... | |
| cat jl3 signatures vs. atmashere ma2III's For those who have been following the comments on this thread, Marc Mickelson has posted a follow-up and summation to his reviews of the CAT JL2 and Atma-Sphere MA-2 amplifiers. His comments in part:But even with all of the praise I hefted on the ... | |
| Magnetization & Demagnetization any conclusions? The Walker Audio Talisman is in use here. Both on my system and on the systems of some other audio friends, I hear pretty consistent and repeatable improvements when the Talisman is used: greater clarity through the midrange particularly noticeabl... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hi David,I know the Command label through some of their classical recordings. As I recall, the classical records sound as though the master tape must be pretty well engineered, but they were pressed on poor vinyl and I've never found any that soun... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Last night was more jazz and pop. I think tonight will have to be a return to classical music. At any rate, the particularly interesting records from last night were all well recorded vocal:John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, Impulse GR-157 on a Spe... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Very cool, David. It has amazed me over the years how well Deutsche Grammophon recorded vocal recital and small chamber music when compared to the hash they often made of orchestral recordings after the mid-'60s. Great to learn of another good exa... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? The pop and rock music is coming out of boxes and onto shelves over the past few days, so tonights listening has been sampling from the past:Elvis Presley - Elvis' Golden Records (mono RCA reissue - poor sonics, but what a performer!) Willie Nelso... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Mea culpa: McHenry Boatwright as Crown and John Bubbles as Sportin' Life. Somehow didn't think what I'd written above looked right. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Classical music on the 'table tonight:Haydn String Quartets, op33, with the Tatrai Quartet (Hungaraton SLPX 11887/9) - sinewy, sustantive, performances - great stuff. Of many different groups, the Tatrai always strike hit the right mark in this mu... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? A largely Celtic evening tonight:Silly Wizard - Live in AmericaAndy Stewart - At it againPlanxty - The Well Below the ValleyPlanxty - Cold Blow and teh Rainy NightAltan - S/TMairéad Nà Mhaonaigh/Frankie Kennedy - Ceol AduaidhTannahill Weavers - ... | |
| When should Walkers SST be reapplied????? Silver oxide (tarnish) is still highly conductive, and one advantage of the SST is that when it dries it creates a tight seal on the connection. I don't think Lloyd Walker has ever suggested a time frame for cleaning and reapplying, and I can't te... |