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| Whats on your turntable tonight? @spiritofradio, many thanks for your kind words a couple of pages back. I definitely have some catching up to do… For me; this is a “desert island” pick: Bobby King / Terry Evans “Live and Let Live” 1988 Rounder Records Produced by Ry C... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Brooks Williams - Little LionPink Floyd - MeddlePaul Simon - You’re The One (pressed in the U.K., very well recorded.) | |
| Fanfare for the Common Man,...best recording in your experience? Let me preface this by saying I’m not a huge Telarc fan (digital recordings) but I have this title on both vinyl (pressed in Germany) and compact disc (Japan). Both copies were purchased new upon release. I’m fairly certain the vinyl was only pres... | |
| Uneven soundstage help, please. To re-state the obvious there are many variables that can affect system channel balance. For years I wouldn't be caught dead owning a component with a channel balance control. Now, with age advancing and a mild hearing loss in one ear the balance ... | |
| Top Audiophile companies over the last 60, or so, years..your choices? Top 11 since 1950 (60 years): Acoustic Research Audio Research Conrad Johnson Grado Laboratories Great American Sound Marantz Mark Levinson Audio Magnepan McIntosh Pass Labs (and previous iteration... | |
| Top Audiophile companies over the last 60, or so, years..your choices? Schubert, if we could only get our brains defragged. Roy Allison was a very gifted loudspeaker designer. | |
| Top Audiophile companies over the last 60, or so, years..your choices? @ schubertPossibly Allison Acoustics Inc. | |
| How old are you? I'm on my way to 67, and learning that aging is not for the meek... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Miles Davis - Tutu | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Slaw, 100% on the Steve Phillips "Steel-Rail Blues" recommendation. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @spiritofradioThank you for the kind welcome. I'm actually in the Southeast, but have been a customer of Kurt's for years. You are indeed right about having such a great shop in your "backyard." The amplifier and speakers in my system were purchas... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Miles Davis Bitches Brew - 1970 Columbia GP 26 original | |
| Best modern 6550 tube for ARC per-amp Indeed, far from perfect. I could recount/regale endless stories of questionable moves/decisions made over the 40 years in this "hobby"... | |
| Best modern 6550 tube for ARC per-amp So, now one of your proposed strategies is to place a tube of questionable history, possibly fake, and with untold/undetermined hours of use in your $15,000 preamp? Right, makes perfect sense. |