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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Ray, sides 2-4 are definitely good. I'm still trying to figure out Side 1 ('Round Midnight). I think what I'm hearing is a constant accompaniment of brushes from the drummer -- sounds really strange in the left channel across Monk's piano and made... | |
| The Perfect Listening Room Based on my experience listening to the transformation of Audiogon member Slipknot1's room as he implemented recommendations from Rives Audio, it might be well worth using their consulting services on the front end of your planning process. Here a... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? R.Strauss, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Reiner/CSO (Classic Records 45rpm reissue - unfortunately not an improvement over the 33rpm reissue in terms of string tone: it shreds my ears and no amount of VTA adjusting can cure it. But other aspects of the... | |
| Budget Amp for Avalon Eidolon Hi Bill, I did chime in about Atma-Sphere amps with the Eidolons on Eavr11's first thread "down to earth amp for Avalon Eidolon." Thanks for thinking of me.FWIW, I've listened to Eidolons with a variety of amps in other people's systems over the y... | |
| Any good Tuba Classics or Trombone classics Cd Here are five good classical CDs for tuba:Vaughan Williams: Tuba Concerto, Chandos (available from Amazon.com)Music for Trombone and Bass Tuba, Torge & Lind, BIS (available from Amazon.com)Portrait of an Artist: Arnold Jacobs -tuba, Summit(ava... | |
| down to earth amp for Avalon Eidolon Consider a used Atma-Sphere MA-1 MkII (140w OTL monoblocks). They sell on the used market for around $6,000. The higher powered MA-2 MkII.3 is what I use with my Eidolons, and the combination is outstanding in every way, but the cost of the MA-2 m... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Prokofiev: Peter and the WolfSaint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals...Henderson/LSO, Beatrice Lillie -narrator, Decca SXL 2218 SpeakersCorner reissue (delightful, character-filled performances of these works in excellent sound)Handel: Trio Sonatas f... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? "Mulligan Meets Monk" Analogue Productions 45rpm reissue"Polish-Hungarian Lute Music" Ragossnig -lute, Archiv 2533 294 | |
| Best Tweaks..... Walker Audio EXTREME SSTWalker Audio Valid Points and Resonance DiscsWalker Audio Ultimate Motor Drive (motor controller)Walker Audio Reference High Definition LinksDisc Doctor Record Miracle Cleaner - the original "yes, you need to rinse" formula... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? So far:Roy Orbison: "Greatest Hits" S&P reissue mastered by Steve Hoffman at ATI (great sound!)Miles Davis: Steamin', Analogue Productions 45rpm reissueMulligan Meets Monk, Analogue Productions 45rpm reissueProkofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Hende... | |
| Finding Pure Water for Record Cleaning - very long Justin_time, Great post, thank you! You've given me some new direction to explore.. | |
| Keeping it LOW All of these are LPs in my collection that I'd recommends:Gary Karr "Adagio d'Albinoni" on Super Analogue 9125 (double bass)Bottesini, Conc No. 2 for Double Bass & Orchestra, Wedin/OskarshamnEns, Fredin -db, Opus 3 8502 (available new on CD on... | |
| Which version of Bottesini Concerto 2 in b minor? The Opus 3 recording with Thorvald Fredin, double bass, is quite good: Opus 3, 8522.http://www.opus3records.com/class_orch.html#8522. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? R_f, Thanks for the commentary on the Basie and Monk; I gues I now have two more additions to my wish list! I agree with you about the Fantasy jazz series from Analogue Productions: every one I've heard has been phenominal.This afternoon with some... | |
| Thick 2" maple amp platform--couple or isolate? True, maple butcher block is made from maple. But I think Tbg is referring to sold board planks of maple 2" thick as opposed to maple butcher block. Mapleshade Records, for example, is a proponent of the solid maple as opposed to butcher block map... |