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Whats on your turntable tonight?
glad one of us Rabbit hole dwellers could help ya out of a tube jam…. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Leon Redbone - On the Track ( server ) 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
my two cents on tube rolling is that most designers/ producers can’t rely on nos tubes so they gotta voice and design around what they can get…. So on Nos we all roll the dice. Aesthetix sent me to Andy at Vintage saying “ he knows what sounds bet... 
Bad recordings and high end audio
…and part of my patronage to a particular artist and recording studio is near yearly sponsorship of the LP version of the album they put out. As a consequence, I am quite familiar w the high rez file, the half track 15 ips master and what comes of... 
Bad recordings and high end audio
Protection copy of what master ? in the case of early Zep most likely the mastering for cutting a lacquer with the goal of being able to play on the average turntable of the day and maybe on a Delco AM/FM car radio of the day, low low bar for bass... 
TEKTON IMPACT MONITORS
@chorus for sure i don’t know where the balance is…. I am a globalist but also a realist. the competitive landscape is not flat but ignoring an economy w 1b soon to be middle class consumers is difficult..ask any soy bean farmer….We had internal c... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
after a standing shower on two feet ! the world seems a much brighter place.  Thanks to all for tge encouragement. Brian, i am counting on you for memory care !Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems ( server )loving it again all over…. 
PowerBall Lottery Winner
i would hire Rickie Lee Jones to sing “ Easy Money “ to me each nite….My days would be spent at the local food bank paying it forward… 
Manley Chinook to Aesthetix Rhea Signature?
super nice system I would be inlined to isolate your existing tube phono with HRS base or similar products ( symposium, etc ), do some tube rolling, get into a silver AQ cable from arm to phono stage  ( if it has a DIN ), iF the Manley has a non t... 
Cost of Features - Extra's
cost accounting is complex, really a black art. Added features cost something but so does complexity and simplification. For example, add a third Belles Aria model at < $1,500 or the $2,350 Signature. Now David is stocking another front and rea... 
Manley Chinook to Aesthetix Rhea Signature?
while i am a lover of most things Aesthetix, my personal belief is a FET and tubes will better the all tube phono over time for noise. This is where a great relationship with an Aesthetix dealer AND ultra low noise tube vendor essential. Aesthetix... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
More Boz - Silk Degrees 
The first system you had that was "high end/audiophile", by you standards
@annalog I still have a CC2 it was one of the first low TIM amps and a real sweetheart. I use it to run the Totems in our sun room….@bdp24 great story about David Fletcher 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
@noromance my favorite line ( self reverential ) from that LC album is “ i am just a lazy bastard living in a suit “…..wry insightfully honest dude, miss him greatly…Boz Skaggs - MemphisStarted listening early today… 
TEKTON IMPACT MONITORS
well you can see South Korea from Texas…Seriously, anybody here work in South Korea ? The quality level, work ethic and Engineering prowess are fantastic. Of course, i am just talking about simple suborbital aerospace parts….