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| Finding Pure Water for Record Cleaning - very long @lewm now You made me laugh!!! H2O DOES degrade because of... Why would you inject Argon into the opened bottle of wine??? (Who would not finish a bottle of wine?) you walk into a chem lab and they have Argon to flood their opened cans of whateve... | |
| dynamic classical which isn't boring? @willemj methinks that some folks, myself included, have a hard time pointing to the "boring" classical music. Is it JSBach? Or Stockhausen? Maybe Bruckner symphonies? Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony makes me cry each and every time,... whats a bet... | |
| Philips Vinyl: Dutch vs Italian Pressing Well, I washed my Sibelius set today. With MoFi fluids, then 18 MOhm deionized water (distilled water is like a tap compared to this: the benefit of running a genetic testing lab for my hobby)Same result: pops and clicks coming from the Left, then... | |
| Soundtracks and Film scores, your favourites I am not a movie fan but David Lynch has the same taste in music as I. 1492 by Vangelis is my favorite Vangelis effortThe Killing Fields by Tangerine DreamBody Love, vol. 1 & 2 by Klaus Schulze: never watched the movie (some German porn accord... | |
| Philips Vinyl: Dutch vs Italian Pressing I have this box, LPs "made in Holland", box "printed in the Netherlands".The first thing you will notice is that LPs are paper-thin, I even weighted one today, it is just 105g. Vinyl itself is what must have been called "virgin vinyl": very-very q... | |
| CD-Rs' sound quality as good as store bought ?? On my system I cannot hear the difference. I know that there IS a difference because my Naim CDS3 skips on some CD-R copies of CDs. Unless I use "black" CDR blanks, for some reason those never skip. Another proof that CD clones are somehow differe... | |
| Classical fans, I need advice @schubert I have no idea why I got this obsession of "getting into" Mahler: I love Stravinsky and Ligetti and have no problem screaming that Prokofiev had no talent at all!!!! Same with Hillary Hahn, my inner voice is not attuned to hers. But that... | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? @bdp24 +1!!!!!! I do my best to follow "pop" and I keep finding my gems here... Pop does not get played as often as Bruckner or Tchaikovsky on my system but some of my fav "pop" artists challenge my middle-age shift into classical... How/where do... | |
| Selling in audiogon vs amazon vs ebay? What about Discogs? I keep buying second copies of LPs I already have, just cannot help it no matter how hard I try to check my collection first! Dislexia in action!!!have to free some shelf space for more goodies, from the responses here I guesse... | |
| Engelbert? @rpeluso thats a great reminder: being a teen in Kiev, then Soviet Union, Humperdinck was my only "peephole" into the Western pop. Beatles, Stones, God Forbid PF! were not allowed, but you could buy E.H. LP in any store. I had to buy a few because... | |
| Classical fans, I need advice @schubert +1 re. sound quality!!! 100+ CD box of Wilhelm Furtwangler is a Must (and it is soo cheap!) and it is all in glorious Monolike the tape I got from a fellow from stereo2go forum of a shellac recordings of Yma Sumac: the awesomeness shines... | |
| Classical fans, I need advice @schubert , what is your take on "The Rest is Noise" by Alex Ross??!!I bought it on the whim because of the obnoxious title, got all pumped up to hate it. Ended up reading thru the night! Love the part where he compares PF to Mahler...!!!??? WTF!!... | |
| Best source for and kilo-ohm value to use to replace 2 turntable speed control pots? Just last week I ran into the same problem with volume pot for Philips, bought substitute from DigiKey. You must know max resistance for the pots and choose the ones which have appropriate dimensions. They wont look exactly the same, but with some... | |
| What sounds best: Vinyl or CDs @soundermn I am sorry for being the "hijacker" of the thread and Big Thank You for catching me!!! Once again, SORRY!!!! Rega player shall bring another level of quality to OP, thats a solid upgrade! If you have 10k+ of CDs and x100+ LPs (thats me)... | |
| What sounds best: Vinyl or CDs @rauliruegas : your prediction is spot-on, youngsters prefer MP3 sound to whatever else is out there. Makes old f@$&s like me cringe, but its true that young brains cannot take the "torture" of analog. Once this recent fad of LPs and cassettes... |