stiltskin
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| Feickert analogue protractor....Owners impressions Dan ed,I just arrived home and my dear wife handed me our local news paper as I walk through the door,The headlines read...Canada Customs "On Guard For Thee"Under the head lines it read ,Canada Customs returns suspicious package from foreign land.... | |
| lps sound bad When I first learned of better play back equipment, thanks to the Absolute Sound magazine circa 1978/79. It was frustrating show casing my Magnapan speakers to my head banging friends that only liked Rock.The few Lps I had that were truly great so... | |
| Feickert analogue protractor....Owners impressions For some unknown reason as of yet, my MintLp protractor was refused delivery at Canadian Customs and was sent back!Yip was notified by the carrier with no explanation and of course has since notified me of this.Yip was astonished at this as well a... | |
| lps sound bad Sns,Misspelled the title of one of my all time favorite rock Lps...Long day...I was back going through Better Records .com and here is something you may want to check out.Click on Hot Stampers. click on Customer Testimonials then Customer warning\... | |
| lps sound bad If Rock was the only music that I listened to, I would not of spent a fraction of what I have spent on a system.There are many reasons why most rock recordings are terrible.However there are some exceptions that do stand out.Someone in this thread... | |
| Does the Step 4 final rinse for Walker Prelude help? Using the laboratory grade water from the Prelude kit as you know pools onto the Lp.It almost seams it rides or floats on top of the Lp until you work it around the surface with the brush.Thinking about it, this Step 4 must pick up where the lab w... | |
| Ayre MR-X monoblocks - how good are they?? Pinkus , It's really quite simple....Usually what I do is bring along recorded music that I enjoy the most and music that I am most familiar with.Knowing what this recorded music sounds like in my home, I use my memory of it as a bench mark.Curren... | |
| Ayre MR-X monoblocks - how good are they?? DownunderI fully believe the components were thoroughly run in and properly matched up together.Nothing was out of sorts.What I heard with the Ayer gear and the entire system in general was system synergy carefully set up by a competent dealer. At... | |
| Quad 57 refurbishers - who's the best? Apparently so, on this continent anyway.Where the Quads strength lie not much even today can start to come close. | |
| Ayre MR-X monoblocks - how good are they?? Downunder,Just this past Thursday I listened to a dealers set up with the Ayre MX-R monos paired with the Ayre K-1x preamplifier. The Ayre equipment were driving the Reference Grand Veena 3As which are, according to Harry Pearson of TAS, "extremel... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Hi Viper, What's left over from my old system is a vacuum tube Supratek preamp with built in phonostage that will drive a MC cartridge with a output voltage as low as 0.2 mv WITH OUT the use of step up devices.The Chenin model are quite good and w... | |
| Feickert analogue protractor....Owners impressions Hi Thomas, I remembered early on in this thread someone made a brief mention of the Adjust Plus software from Feikert.Not until you mentioned it, I went back into the thread and saw it was Emailists, however he did not elaborate on the software at... | |
| Tube amp for "difficult" speakers,,, A couple of years ago I heard two models of Dynaudios large floor standing speakers driven with ease by VTL 450 monos.On other occasions, Dynaudio Temptation were driven by the superb Atma-Sphere MA-1s.The Atma-Spheres, VTL and Sim audios Rock sol... | |
| Feickert analogue protractor....Owners impressions Smoffatt, Will do.I think with being caught up with the excitement of some new equipment that recently arrived ,I felt that I should have another protractor as a 2nd reference, just to be sure.As it stands , the Graham jigs are exceptional, includ... | |
| best fluid for vpi 16.5 cleaner non-vpi brand? I purchased the Walker deluxe Prelude kit from a local dealer. He told me straight up...follow the directions, clean a few Lps, then play them.If you do not hear an improvement or do not like this cleaning solution for any reason, return it for a ... |