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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Almost forgot:Paul Robeson - complete set of 78s on HMV from London | |
| Loudness - Why has the industry stopped producing amplifiers with this feature any longer? I have no loudness or tone controls. I’m sure others have explained better than I can why the shortest distance from A to B is an engineers goal. If you MUST have a tone variability option, tone controls provide more flexibility. Loudness was a ch... | |
| Tube versus SS Speculative, anecdotal at best with regard to COVID19. My stereo (just dated myself: who uses “stereo” anymore? It’s “audio”) sounds horrible when it’s humid out. Does everybody else’s? I don’t think so. As for ss v tube: ss sounds less colored mo... | |
| Tube versus SS Speculative, anecdotal at best with regard to COVID19. My stereo (just dated myself: who uses “stereo” anymore? It’s “audio”) sounds horrible when it’s humid out. Does everybody else’s? I don’t think so. As for ss v tube: ss sounds less colored mo... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Quatermass - Quatermass Conlon Nancarrow - Complete Studies for Player PianoPaul Kantner - Blows Against the EmpireJorma Kaukonen - Ain’t In No HurryJimi Hendrix - BBC SessionsScraping Fetus Off the Wheel - Nail | |
| Which one to choose between two 80K$ tube amps? Should not be necessary to spend $80K on jaw dropping sound. My entire rig, which includes a Koetsu onyx and Futterman OTL3s converted to triode, less than $30K. See theaudioatticvinylsundays.com “about” page. When people come to listen for the fi... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Fairport Convention with Sandy Denny at My Father’s Place in Roslyn NY. I was at that concert in the spring of 1974. | |
| List your System Ingredients: Listed most to least expensive, by list price or price paid I read the start of the thread. That said, anyone wanting to know about the individual components in my system should simply go here, scroll to the bottom:https://www.theaudioatticvinylsundays.com/aboutPlease note that you will not find cables the... | |
| Most useful tweaks that are sensible and really make a noticeable improvement Geoffkait:i think its a NYC thing. I lived on a busy thoroughfare in NoHo / East Village. Dozens of taxicabs go by per hour. When I removed the cage, the RF went way up. Now that I’m in Newburgh, I should try removing the cage and see what happens... | |
| Blind fold hearing test No | |
| Room improvement For 41 years, my room was a 1100 sq ft area of a warehouse loft, with 9 ft tall brick walls, tin ceiling, hardwood floor, and 4 x 6 ft windows. For about 9 months now, the room is an attic in a brownstone with a peaked roof, a gable, two dormers, ... | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? How about 25 ft of audio cable for $15,000?https://www.morrowaudio.com/collections/interconnect-pair/products/anniversary-interconnect-pair-288...I’m using wire from a chain link fence lately. Sounds great! | |
| Most useful tweaks that are sensible and really make a noticeable improvement noromance: My engineer claims that the metal cover acts as a shield. It should never be removed. Same goes for the tube amps. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Richard Thompson - 13 Rivers | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Richard Thompson - 13 Rivers |