swklein
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| Inexpensive wine pairings? A terrific wine for Italian food is Amano Primitivo. Under $10 a bottle, and superb. | |
| Seeking warm, smooth musical amp 2k with features You might want to look for a used Audio Research 100.2. | |
| Best Platter Mat For Linn Sondek It's going to be a matter of taste, and will also depend on your arm and cartridge. But I've used the felt on my LP12, the NoFelt donut mat, and Herbie's Audio Lab's Way Excellent mat, and they all sound different, and in my experience, the Herbie... | |
| Best $4000-$5000 loudspeaker I like the Vandersteen 3 Signature, the Theil 2.4, the Proac 2.5 (although I think they recently changed their line and introduced newer models) and the Aerial 7b. Rather different sounds from one another (some might think the Thiel is the odd man... | |
| Polish Music? There's a center for the study of Polish music at the University of Southern California: if you have a particular need for instrumentation or period, I'm sure an email to them would get you exactly what you need. | |
| Exteme Phono Turntable Mat It works extremely well. And the donut version does indeed outperform the standard version as advertised. All things considered, though, on my LP12 I ultimately preferred the Herbie's Way Excellent Turntable Mat. | |
| hospital grade or commercial grade receptacles ? In response to Irv, I'm not saying that physics doesn't matter. And I'm not a scientist-- although I am a professor, and therefore used to thinking skeptically, and demanding proof from myself and from my students in our work in the humanities. A... | |
| hospital grade or commercial grade receptacles ? Another pointless battle between those who hear differences and those who don't- which has to depend, I have come to believe, not on differences of hearing but on the resolution and nature of the equipment used. In my case, Wattgates and FIM outle... | |
| Old, grainy, bright & financially restricted I'd look into Van den Hul the Second. A terrific bargain, the kind of tonal balance you're looking for, matches well with Audio Research electronics, and inexpensive, particularly if you order from a European dealer who advertises on Audiogon and ... | |
| Kimber vs Transparent With Thiel and Levinson, Transparent's by far your better choice-- one of your best choices of all, in fact. You'll likely find Kimber bright and tight with this associated equipment. | |
| Well-recorded Satie? I'd go for the Pascal Roge versions (digital) on Decca, which I assume are still available in some form. The Ciccolini performances are often considered definitive, but the piano tone on the recordings, early and late, is not flattering. | |
| CAL Alpha burned down:what's next upgrade? The only digital player I found that I could live with after owning a CAL (in my case a Tercet Mk IV) was a Cary (in my case, a 303/200). Check 'm out. | |
| Linn Ikemi still viable at 4k I liked the Cary 303/200 better at the price, and I have an LP12 for vinyl. For what it's worth! | |
| Audio Research SP9 MKII to MKIII Upgrade The jump in quality from MKII to MK III is substantial, and well worth the cost. However, it's cheaper to do what I did-- sell my Mk II on Audiogon and buy a used Mk III. I probably paid $150 for a mod that would have cost $800 if I'd sent my unit... | |
| Beethoven String Quartets: DDD recordings.... May as well throw another 2 cents into the mix: the Alban Berg Quartet set of the later quartets is also very fine (this is DDD: the studio recordings. I'm not familiar with the live versions). But the best of all to many, including me, is pre-DDD... |