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| Morning coffee with Beatles and a hole "Expect to pay dearly for them in very good condition. VERY dearly."=unobtanium. That's why I settle for a regular clean press. Still cheap, and not too hard to dig up. I try and look for an artists native country pressings. Brit(maybe my favorit... | |
| Morning coffee with Beatles and a hole "You missed your chance when The Beatles in Mono LP set was released in 2014. It starts at $990 on Discogs now."I have a couple reissues. They're fine, for reissues. Didn't move me enough to want to get the entire catalog. I'm more of a period ... | |
| Morning coffee with Beatles and a hole cleeds-agreed. Unfortunately, no mono switch! I'm always searching the bins for the mono presses. Early mono Beatles in PLAYABLE condition has become unobtanium. | |
| amp repair cost too high?? I was recently torn between spending $750(the amount I spent on a used PS Audio Power Plant)to refresh the unit, or trash it and just spend more money getting a new model.I figured getting 5 years out of its 13, and now getting at least another 1... | |
| Adding a sub woofer? Trust your own ears. Get at least 2 subs. Speaker taps to sub-just as REL and many other manufacturers suggest. | |
| Thoughts on the most difficult instruments for speakers to reproduce? "Don’t laugh but I would always bring the ultimate tweeter killer speaker shopping with me, BST Spinning Wheel."SW is an excellent demo song. I have a first run press(XSM137878) along with a MONO South American press(not rare, but unusual)The mon... | |
| Tube matching question "I enjoy the glow of the tubes so big bold labels kind of take away from that."It's been awhile since I bought a new Gold Lion tube for my PL HP. One thing I noticed about GL tubes, the logo faced to the rear of the amp, so no visible label. Ei... | |
| Tube matching question Based on your avatar, you have a PL. You don't have to be obsessed/concerned about matched pairs. Buy another tube for a perfect label. Life will be in balance. Don't worry. | |
| You can Vote for Most Valuable Lead Vocals (Rock Groups) Let's face it, ANY Classic Rock band up to about 1979-80 was nothing without their original singer.Let's be real.......Skynrd,AC/DC,Sam Halen....??? | |
| SRV! Apology for the bump, but Johnny's mentioned. Ever see the one?Thanks to the internet, I would have never seen this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rervO5zUNDI&feature=emb_logo Johnny OWNED Johnny B Goode in that performance. It's almost as if... | |
| FANFARE FM TUNERS ???? WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THEM ?? Anyone who raves about how good their tuner sounds has a decent antennae setup. You can get by with a cheap $3.00 dipole to get reception, but for maximum performance, it's all about the rooftop, or at least get thishttps://www.audioadvisor.com/pr... | |
| VPI Classic 3 Upgrades or Move On to Something New Never mind the table....Is it plugged into the best phono stage you can afford? After that, up the food chain with a new SS cart. You will get endless opinion saying the VPI is this or that, but your ears tell you it's fine. Treat yourself to this... | |
| Really...My favorite power tube is reissue that's not widely popular soundermn-Your setup looks good.What PL integrated is tube integrated? I thought the preamp was the only model tube rectified."PL HP IntegratedVintage JVC VL8 with AT ART9 cartManley ChinookRevel F228BePair REL T9/i subsEL34b power tubesCifte Inpu... | |
| My first Turntable... need some suggestions please Hopefully after 18 years, the OP figured out what to do. | |
| Now Hear This "How many versions of the 20th do you have" Reply-13..."I want to hear ALL of them"They had a nice session. The room is setup how I would do it. NOT look completely like a listening room, great view, no overbearing audio geek treatment ruining th... |