suretyguy
Responses from suretyguy
| Sound is too big for my room. I've got to admit that I don't understand the problem. What you describe is something that a lot of audiophiles spend a lot of money for, but never seem to achieve. What am I missing? | |
| Acoustic Sounds 45's Jazz series I've already made my decision on this: The difference is definitely not worth the big price tag to me. It's interesting that Pure Audiophile, which has thus far issued two remastered albums, Karrin Allyson's Ballads and Ray Brown's Soular Energy (... | |
| Your Holiday/Christmas Favorite Recordings The Roches Christmas CD. Quirky, but traditional songs beautifully done in this group's own distinctive style. | |
| Acoustic Sounds 45's Jazz series I have three: 1) Bill Evans' Waltz for Debby 2) Ellington's Duke's Big 4 and 3) Thelonious Monk's Brilliant CornersThey all sound just fine (although I expected pristine surfaces for $50), but I frankly am not all that certain that the hefty price... | |
| How did you get into this hobby? Somewhere around 1975 or '76 I wondered into a store in, of all places, Reading, PA, looking for a new receiver. They were demoing a pair of Quad 57s with a full Quad electronics system: 33 preamp, 303 amp, & FM 3 tuner. Playing at the time on... | |
| what are you listening to lately? Not a whole lot. Too many baseball games and I don't have a TV anywhere near my listening room that I could watch with the volume down. | |
| Your Favorite Chet Baker Recording Far and away his single best is "Chet Baker & Crew", one of the Pacific Jazz releases (1956 or thereabouts?). It's got Phil Urso, tenor, Bobby Timmons, piano, Jimmy Bond, bass, and I can't remember the drummer. Baker and this group play with a... | |
| Purchasing used lps on Audiogon Call me old-fashioned, but I am so reluctant to buy sight unseen that I simply never do it anywhere. I think it's difficult enough to make a judgment about condition even if you can eyeball the disc, since only the most obvious flaws are readily a... | |
| Suggestions for my first turntable If you want keep the cost down, there is the Music Hall MMF 5 which sells for $500, including a pretty decent Goldring cartridge. Appearance is basic, but it's not ugly. For a little more (about $750) you can get a Rega P3 w. arm but no cartridge ... | |
| Happy Birthday Nina Simone It is frightening to me that she is 70! I can remember clearly when she made her recording debut. | |
| How can I get back into vinyl very cheaply? Hey, one man's meat is another man's poison, right? Actually, I don't own a 2.1, but I bought one for my son (For $225 from a local dealer) and it sounds "perfectly acceptable" as I indicated. I don't doubt that it can be bettered, but I was respo... | |
| Suggestions for Phono Preamp, moderate $ There is also the Musical Surroundings Phonomenon at about $550-600 new. It is almost infinitely adjustable to your cartridge requirements and sounds good too. I've not heard it with a very low output MC (You didn't mention this in your query.), b... | |
| How can I get back into vinyl very cheaply? The MMF 2.1 can probably be had for around $225 Perhaps a little less) new. It's easy to set up and the Goldring cartridge is perfectly acceptable. If you can stretch a bit from the $350 figure, however, I'd go for the MMF 5 (List $500) which is m... | |
| Help with Denon phono-stage please I own one of these (paid $210 on ebay). It is actually an "active" (i.e., has to be plugged in to an ac outlet) MC headamp (not a phono stage and not a transformer), with 2 gain settings, 24 or 32 db; the MM setting provides no gain, so on that se... | |
| Can hear TV or Radio station via Phono stage ??? The really frustrating aspect of RFI is that with a quality phono stage and interconnects I have the problem. But when I use the phono section of a cheap Onkyo preamp there is no problem! Of course, the sound sucks, so I'm still experimenting, try... |