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| Adding a maple platform to an existing wood rack Thorman: You're not in the "small percentage of people that have had less than great experiences with Maple." Many, many people have tried maple and been disappointed. The rest of us just get tired of responding to the same questions over and over... | |
| How is it ? that a tuner smokes the table ??? I just saw this thread, and I can relate to it on several levels. First, back in the 1970s, I used to think my modified Dyna FM-3 (regulated power supply and upgraded caps and resistors) sounded better than my LPs and I had the same puzzled reacti... | |
| Kondo, Zanden, CJ, Ref 5? Pre w/ Pure Tonal Color? You should add the Emotive Audio Epifania to your list of preamps to audition. | |
| $3500 to spend on a tube preamp....ideas? Emotive Sira. They appear on Audiogon frequently under $3000.Dave | |
| Piano on vinyl - the best Jdaniel, I don't have problems with smearing or lack of focus (at least none that bother me), but I would agree that piano is difficult for LPs for another reason. Even a slightly off-center LP can have noticeable change in pitch, and this bothers... | |
| Piano on vinyl - the best I have been listening this morning to one of my all-time favorites----a box set of Satie piano works performed by Frank Glazer on Vox. Dave | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea It's not often that I laugh out loud at something in an audio forum, but Audiofeil's comment made me do just that. Until his suggestion that this thread might just be a bad dream, I had my own philosophical quandary. What's worse: having so much t... | |
| do record cleaning fluids soften the treble? Opus88, You are clearly a man of discriminating good taste.Dave | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea Would that be the same David Shreve who did the Rabco SL-8 mods back in the 1970's? As I recall, he was also one of the first to emphasize the importance of VTA. | |
| do record cleaning fluids soften the treble? Stanwal and Notec, just to be clear, I am not recommending that anybody play dirty records. If a record is dirty, it needs to be cleaned. Period. My comments are directed to records that are already clean (both visually and in listening) but haven... | |
| do record cleaning fluids soften the treble? Doug, Your logic appears reasonable but the results don't agree with what I hear with my own ears. Fortunately, everyone is free to make their own conclusions about record cleaning. What works for me is very simple---I only clean records that need... | |
| do record cleaning fluids soften the treble? Interesting comments above because my experience is different. Many of the fluids I have tried change the tonal balance by thinning the bass and accentuating the treble, making the overall sound brighter and thinner than the LP was to begin with. ... | |
| Amp for Martin logan CLS Originals Atmasphere's description of the various models is dead-on right. I was an original owner of the first version of CLS stats, and followed the so-called upgrade path step by step to the CLS-Z. The original CLS was a very easy load for tube amps. I u... | |
| Your favorites amplifiers for their visual look ? My favorites (visually) are:1. Emotive Audio Vita and Caeli 2. Cary 40M3. Classe CA300I own the last two but not, unfortunately, the Emotive amps. | |
| tonearm for benz micro L2? I tried the L2 in 3 arms. It worked fine in all of them, but it sounded best in the Triplanar VII, followed closely by the Moerch DP-6 (12" Red wand), and followed somewhat further behind by a VPI JMW-10.Dave |