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Whats on your turntable tonight?
finally a MFSL GAIN 2 worthy of lavish praise and i am only 2 of 4 sides in...Alison Krauss & Union Station - So Long So Wrong  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
 @noromance well then thanks for the illumination of the bastard child, which frankly sounds great!!!! Fremer even references a conversation w Roy but obviously simplifies the A to D edit, back to A production thread...as a 30 ips stereo master du... 
Revel speakers - dealer scuttlebutt
the floorstanders are awesome, buddy runs a pair w fleawatt Eico and sonics within reason db wise are to die for.... 
The imperfect amp: Pass or Ayre?
sure I have heard both and while I chose to own an Ayre VX-R in both the initial and then Twenty ( Diamond ) design, I think you might be missing the point a BIT...compared to many other components in the chain, amps are VERY low in distortion...O... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
 @noromance Fremer says otherwise and also talks about the OP being DMM direct metal master, but I agree with my faulty memory acounted for, that this reissue is way better than my OP ( long since sold ) and my digital server copy of the CD...move... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
@noromance Charles to Syd, now that is a LEAP....spinning the 2012 remaster on Legacy of Graceland....not trying to start a fight, Lord knows I fully invested in Digital and it’s related black arts, but the track Homeless is an analog tour de forc... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Ego is a learning blockgoing to stream some Heep on Tidal tonight, Procul I got on analog, but ya I can see my way to it....fun 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
 @slaw the Old Kit bag is an absolute gem... and like most RT has a dark side for sureyou guys are all such great music masters, this is without doubt my favorite Audiogon thread and micro community  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
yes, I never buy anything below mint or near mint, I never relax that rule, and i read a lot of the feedback. in about 100 transactions , two were clearly fraudulent and i took them to task in the feedback and thru discogs help.one idiot who runs ... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
There is a way to share discogs collections on discogs ... but technology at the level escapes me....i do seem to have mastered the BUY function  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
@slaw i also have Frogtown and adore it, back here in land of vinyl so i will play that in your honor this eve...right this moment I am digesting a minty copy Japan OP of Bob Dylan - Infidels. My only analog copy of this for 20+ years was a casett... 
Why does my old CD player sound so much better than my new streamer?
Are you level matching with an spl meter between sources ?????? Louder is better 
Atma-sphere Updates
stay on the high road you have always been on Ralph. Enjoy the musicbestjim 
Your reference for "the absolute" sound?
only the dead, deaf or unemotional can forget the first experience of an Italian V-12 at full howl.....I know I cant forget it....and my reference jaded as it js by age and chemical memory, some say emotion is the real acoustic event. I have been ... 
Old school analog system
@chakster yes a 23R but what arm ? we set them up with Souther but i don’t want to mess w that...might follow @noromance lead and use Jelco 850L w Decca super gold as a fall back.....