terraplane8bob
Responses from terraplane8bob
| 30 year old player, worth an upgrade? I recently had a similar problem when my old Philips CD player started to show its age when paired with my Sennheiser Headphone Amp and HD600 headphones. It clearly showed what a mediocre player the Philips was compared to today's players. I re... | |
| What Are Your Reference Discs? or Specific Reference Tracks Linda Ronstadt singing "When You Wish Upon A Star" with Nelson Riddle and his orchestra on the album "For Sentimental Reasons" recorded and mastered by George Massenberg. | |
| How to isolate turntable from footstep shake or vibration My experience with a "VibraPlane" isolation device was that it not only isolated a turntable from the sub-sonic problems mentioned by the OP, but that even the placement of other equipment, like a CD player or DAC produces a surprising improvement... | |
| What ever happened to Mark Levenson? I spent an interesting afternoon in Mark Levinson's NYC store many years ago. I was there with an audio-reviewer friend who knew Mark. The most interesting part of the visit was when Mark left us in his studio for an hour with instructions to pl... | |
| what system musicians prefer? Do they care? I spent my childhood fascinated by music, played piano, trumpet and euphonium through school, studied at a major music conservatory, joined one of the top military bands in Washington, D.C., learned trombone and all of the recorder family, left th... | |
| This is very timely... I have only ever had one interaction with Lyric Audio and that was just a few months ago. Being confined away from home due to recovery from open heart surgery, I needed a CD player to while away the time. I found an NAD - CD568 on Audiogon at an ... | |
| Whats your favourite track to play to the non hi-fi visitor? Just to show that analogue vinyl is far from dead, Linda Ronstadt singing "When You Wish Upon a Star" -- Nelson Riddle & Orchestra -- Elektra/Asylum Records 60474-1-E -- Recorded & mixed by George Massenburg -- Album : "For Sentimental Re... | |
| Who are your three favorite female singers? Linda Ronstadt - k.d.Lang - Keeley Smith [Louis Prima's ex] | |
| has anybody else noticed this about singers? In response to "Frogman's" comment : "However, while I suppose it is possible that there is a relationship to how a given listener responds to a particular singers ability to find the core of sung notes or not, shouldn’t all listeners then react ... | |
| has anybody else noticed this about singers? There is a phenomenon, experienced with vocalists and with instrumentalists as well, that is very difficult to hear and equally difficult to explain. That is, the possibility of playing ONE note but producing TWO different pitches on that same no... | |
| the sound of massed violins in classical orchestral recordings Still very interesting ------. I wanted to add a bit more to the discussion. A few posters have mentioned Deutsche Grammophon as one of the greatest offenders regarding string tone and I thought this experience might bring a bit of light to ... | |
| the sound of massed violins in classical orchestral recordings Very interesting thus far, and a couple of folks are close to the real answer. I spent over 25 years as a symphony musician in a major orchestra, and then upon retirement, another 30 years as a recording engineer. I hope these credentials might ... | |
| What do you sit on? My friend had a dedicated listening room designed in his newly built house with dedicated circuits and lots of RPG room treatment. His system was comprised of very highend equipment like Mark Levinson, Krell and Wilson Audio. Our group of four as... | |
| Unbelievable The tonal quality of the violins of Stradavari and Guarneri is often credited partly to the shellac used by the luthiers who made them. Just sayin' ---- | |
| Rega P10 v Complete rebuild Garrard 401! After having used a Thorens TD-125 and a SOTA Sapphire [with vacuum] for a number of years, I decided to pull out an old Garrard 301 I had, build a "floating" plinth for it using my Souther Linear Tracking arm with a "Helikon SL" cartridge, and ca... |