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| Turntable suggestions? Well, any advice that omits the VPI turntable line is incomplete. Many people think that VPI's products offer excellent value and build quality, and they also have the advantage of being upgradable as your requirements (and budget) increase. You c... | |
| Pre-Amp Power Supply Upgrade ???? I would like to get a clarification from you: do you really mean 50,000 mfd of storage capacitance for a PRE-AMP, or do you mean a POWER AMP? There are many power amps that have less than 50,000 mfd of storage capacitance, and pre-amps have consid... | |
| Convert Me The previous post offers an excellent suggestion. If you decide you want to spend a bit less than the Aries/JMW arm combination, you might consider a setup I can recommend as a "high value" approach to LP reproduction: VPI HW-19 Mk 4 turntable wit... | |
| Help, I have a short in my Rega RB 900 cable If you are unable to diagnose and correct the problem on your own, you might want to contact Lauerman Audio Imports, which is the US importer and distributor for Rega products. Here's the contact info:Lauerman Audio Imports, 519 Noelton Drive, Kno... | |
| Grado SR-225 or Sennheiser HD580? Sennheiser -- you won't be sorry. | |
| Best 1,000 complete system for girlfriend ideas The other responses above certainly convey the tone of concern over offering suggestions, since no one really knows your girl friend. I think, however, there are probably some "constants" that apply here when buying for the distaff member: buy som... | |
| In Memory of Henry Kloss Another pioneer and giant of our hobby passes -- sad, very sad. Over the past 40+ years as an audiophile, I've owned a number of audio products that Kloss designed or co-designed. Hope he's enjoying the ORIGINAL high-end system. He certainly tried... | |
| Jazz fans: free copy of "What is Jazz?" 19 people responded to my offer to provide a copy of "What is Jazz". Rather than send each person a "thank you", let me extend my best wishes to each of you and hope that you will find the Bernstein recording informative and enjoyable. Please bear... | |
| Mendelssohn Srting Octet, op. 20, any suggestion? There are several string quartets that stand out from the crowd, with the Emerson String Quartet, and Quatuor Mosaiques being among my favorites. I'm not sure if either of these groups have recorded the Mozart work you mention, but it's worth list... | |
| HELP - I need a cheap pro logic amp & I'm lost - If my memory is correct, 3-4 years ago Adcom made several smaller power amps with a Pro-Logic feature built in. I can't remember the model numbers, but a little research ought to surface the info. You could probably get one of these units pretty c... | |
| Any tricks to keep cats away from speaker grills? A small, low-amp electrified grid made from chicken wire (recycled from an old psychology experiment with rats), extending about 9 inches around the base of the speaker, worked very well with our cat. One good zap is usually all it takes (grin)...... | |
| Where to buy Kimber speaker cables w/ good price?? You won't, as a rule, find stores that discount Kimber Kable products -- if you want to save some money, just watch Audiogon closely for used cables being sold.In Seattle, the main dealer for Kimber Kable is Speakerlab, which carries the full line... | |
| Coupling or isolating floorstan. to the floor? Assuming that you want to avoid damaging the tile floor, you would not want to use spikes, unless they are resting on top of the type of footers intended to go underneath spikes/cones (such as the ones made by Mitchell or Quadrapsire, sold by Audi... | |
| Vandersteen 1C with 2Wq or 2Ce Sig or 3A ?? As a long-time Vandersteen owner (2Ci, 2Ce, 3A, and 3A Sig's), my advise is (assuming you have the budget) to skip over the 2Ce series and get the 3A. It's a LOT more speaker, with much better mid- and high-frequencies. At a later time, you can ad... | |
| Revised list: Best-of-Naxos classical catalog Hi, Sean:To my knowledge, Naxos releases are available only on CD. Too bad -- I'd like to hear some of their better recordings on LP as well. I have ordered Naxos releases online from Tower, although much of their stock on this label seems to be s... |