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| Please suggest serene, restful jazz recordings Bill Evans Trio - Waltz For Debby Bill Evans Trio - Live @ Village VanguardThese are the definitive piano trio LPs, both featuring phenomenal bass of Scott LaFaroMiles Davis - Sketches of SpainThis LP shows off Gil Evans skills of orchestration an... | |
| Want to Start vinyl If you clean your used LPs properly, most will sound great. Don't underestimate the value of a good cleaning regimen. There are also many new rock LPs released that sell for $12-15. Many now also include codes for digital downloads, so I can enjoy... | |
| Static on Vinyl Try a humidifier in the room. Cheers,Spencer | |
| Kr Audio Kronzilla vs Atma-sphere MA1? Why is the weight of the Atma's an issue for you? Do you want a heavier or lighter amp and why? FWIW, I agree with your comments about the sound of the MA1s. In fact, I'd go further and say that these amps have many sonic attributes beyond the abi... | |
| What amp should be used with merlin vsm's? Pedrillo, we're still awaiting photos of your VSMs afloating! No discussion of amps for the Merlins would be complete w/o a mention of the Joule Electra, Atma-Sphere and Berning OTLs. I haven't had a chance to hear the Graff or Transcendent, but w... | |
| Tube Amp for ProAc Tablett 2000 Consonance makes some nice-sounding inexpensive integrateds. Pretty good value there. Cheers,Spencer | |
| Tube amps and speaker ohms Pauly,Your last post was one of the most helpful & educational from a practical standpoint the I've read in a long while. Bartokfan, it might take a long while(i.e. months, not a few minutes w/Google) to fully appreciate how well Pauly broke i... | |
| "Warmer" high-powered amp/int stable w/ low load? Don't laugh, but the Sunfire amp would do a nice job. Tons of power, warm tonal balance. Cheers,Spencer | |
| Will an RCM make the Rice Krispies go away? As for the enzyme cleaner, try Walker Audio Prelude or Audio Intelligent. I agree w/others that a vacuum cleaning machine (e.g. VPI or Loricraft) is 95% required. If you don't have one, plenty of elbow grease will be needed. If you are looking at ... | |
| Best Tube CDP for $2000 Budget Used Metronome should be on your list. Cheers,Spencer | |
| Balanced Not really and Ground Hum True balanced will help fight RFI and noise in general, and is a great idea, but really should be necessary to rid your system of a ground loop.I suggest you read the archives on ground loops, both here and at audioasylum. Then I'd try borrowing o... | |
| Which would you choose- Lyra, Zyx or Benz for VPI Jspownell,Another ZYX/JMW user here. My Airy 3S-SB rides on a TNT6 w/12.6 arm. I went w/the silver version based on Mehran's recommendation relative to my system, and am very happy with it. I also considered both the Benz LP and the Cardas Heart(i... | |
| Turntable with isolation base application VPI, ?? One option is to put the points of your cones atop Walker Valid Points. However, if you use Walker cones and Valid Points, one could argue that the Big Rock becomes redundant. Cheers,Spencer | |
| 40ft: speaker cable or interconnect? Mogami and Canare are two of the best sounding budget and DIY options. Lots of places will build them to desired length w/your choice of termination. Frank can certainly make you Signal Cables within your budget. If you switch amps, going to balan... | |
| tubes and analog Yes, Mab33 and Carlbecker, I think you guys have summed it up nicely. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect a used pair of well-cared for amps, carefully packed, sold to me w/extra driver tubes, etc. would come to me loaded with the wrong valued... |