slaw
Responses from slaw
| What did you get for Christmas? A little more inner peace. | |
| Top 10 Snafus to avoid when building a good rig Putting room demisions and acoustic treatments as first priority. Then getting you ac wired compentently and appropriately to your systems needs. Thse are the building blocks of a bad, good, or great system. Just do it, you will not regret it. Aft... | |
| Best of the new jazz 45rpm reissues I second the Diana Krall "LIP" | |
| Recordings with BASS One a little more hard to find is Peter Gabriel "Soft Dog" on the 45rpm Charisma 12" pressing. | |
| Best Rock Album in 2011 Feist "Metals" | |
| Rock n Roll w/Strings Nirvana "Unplugged in NY", Charlie Daniels Band..... | |
| Tonearm board makers? Doing my own out of stainless steel, purpleheart, and two different damping materials. | |
| Which companies deserve a star for Christmas Cable Co., Soundstage Direct, Morrow Audio, Dedicated Audio, | |
| Album Of The Year 2011 Feist "Metals" is pretty darn good. | |
| non-magnetic mechanical stylus force gauge In my experience, the Shure is not nearly accurate enough, the Canrong units that have exploded on the market and have mutiple manufacturerers badges on them are unreliable. I bought the Mapleshade which measures at record height and has been extr... | |
| Recordings with BASS "Raising Sand" @ "Icky Thump" on vinyl. Neither are perfect but if your system can make sense of it, you're doing something right. | |
| Radio Paradise -- Good Stuff Great station! | |
| Quality Pressings My "Tea for the Tillerman" came extremely dished. Sent it back and asked them to inspect the replacement. It arrived warped enough that even when clamped it is disconserting when gently lowering the cartridge. So much for getting one inspected. | |
| Isolation/Vibration control advise for a phono pre I second the Stillpoints. | |
| Any pleasant surprises because of guest appearance Nothing quite as fantastic as posted but Aimee Mann came to town a few years ago, and actually was in a good mood! She invited people from the audience to come on stage and play instruments during a song. |