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| Whats on your turntable tonight? The last couple of evenings have found us listening with friends to a variety of music, and this afternoon we listened with a group of fellow vinyl nuts at a friend's house. The music has ranged from Zappa to Prokofiev to Talking Heads to Wild Chi... | |
| VTA for arm vs VTA for cartridge Yes, agree the cartridge should be your starting point. The angle of the arm is irrelevant in and of itself. This is all about getting the angle of the stylus in the groove set correctly. Here's a good diagram illustrating what you're looking to a... | |
| VTA for arm vs VTA for cartridge Follow Lloyd Walker's fine tuning instructions to which you provided the link, Gritingrooves. After getting the arm and cartridge in place as best you can visually, let your ears be your guide in the iterative listening process Lloyd describes and... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Holst, "Capriccio" and "Double Concerto for Orchestra", Imogen Holst/English Chamber Orchestra, Lyrita SRCS 44 -- the Capriccio is "big music" tuneful Holst with full orchestra, the Double Concerto is "I can be atonal, too" Holst. Excellent perfor... | |
| VTA for arm vs VTA for cartridge Gritingrooves, various cartridges are more and less sensitive to changes in VTA. Grados typically are pretty tolerant of VTA and typically don't change much sonically with small changes in VTA (unlike some other cartridges). Trust what your ears a... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Jaybo, thanks for sharing. I think you're pointing out some music that I don't know and perhaps ought to explore (?). I'll have to find someone enar me who has some of this in their collection so I can hear it.. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Tonight was a broad sampling of a bit here and a bit there with a friend over to listen. Here's a sampling of what passed across the turntable over about 5 hours:Doc Watson, "Home Again!" Cisco reissue of Vanguard VSD 79239.Bill Berry, "Shortcake"... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Slipknot!! Great to see your post here, and glad you're feeling better. Lucious records. I need to pull out the Gunther Schuller recording, and may do so tonight while a friend is over who enjoys more contemporary music. Late last night I was play... | |
| How many LPs is enough? After a similar frustration buying a few too many duplicates, I also started entering my LPs into a database/spreadsheet. Before the PDA era, I'd keep printouts of the list in a 3-ring binder to haul along with me. For many years now, I've kept ev... | |
| Second shot suspension Sumiko Blackbird - help Shure balance gauge - hard to beat for $20. Congratulations on finding the solution! I know you must be pleased to find the cause.. | |
| Second shot suspension Sumiko Blackbird - help Springbok, I'm sorry to hear of this difficulty. You're not by any chance using a liquid stylus cleaner, are you?. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? For Christmas Day, we've been listening to a bunch of non-seasonal music: Stravinsky "Firebird," on Classic Records 45 rpm reissue of the Dorati/Mercury. We use this record to validate final system setup, the third side is a montrous test of one's... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hi Larry (Cello), great list of music; I like your selections! Yes, the Harry James "Comin' from a good place" is a good 'un. Love the Arnold and the Mozart Mass recordings!. | |
| Record Cleaning Machine I've used a VPI for 20 years and I have never experienced any "contamination" issue flipping the record over on the platter. I find the VPI platter a great platform for cleaning LPs using a good cleaning fluid such as Walker Prelude, Disc Doctor o... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Tonight's listening shifted to classical...To get the system warmed up, a little organ music first: Marie Claire Alain playing Bach on Erato (ERA 50527). Alain's always enjoyable Bach performances are consistently well recorded on Erato. With the ... |