whart
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| Can we make major musical discoveries at age 50, 65, or 80? Absolutely. I'm 70 and started digging into post-bop obscurities a decade ago at the prompting of someone I knew from record collecting. I was intrigued by a record-- Milt Ward & Virgo Spectrum. Nobody seemed to know who he was, or what his st... | |
| Vintage Audio Research subwoofer connect. Hi, @n80. Based on your description, that’s pretty much the same way I have subs connected in my main system. The line stage connects to the basic amps powering the main speakers using XLR outputs and I run the subs via additional outputs (RCA typ... | |
| Assistance Needed to Identify an Older Koetsu Ana Mighty in Paris developed a good reputation for working on Koetsu cartridges. You might write to them with some images--they are one resource for retips of the newer ones that I would consider. | |
| Location of compoments. @drmuso- it's actually a hand wired 2061 reissue so it is smaller than a real stack. I've talked to Galen- seems like a good dealer, I have nobody in Texas I regularly work with other than a genius tube repair guy whose real love is pre-war amps. ... | |
| Location of compoments. Mono tube amps next to speakers with short runs of speaker cable. XLR interconnects from output of line stage, which are long, equipment on sidewall. | |
| Favourite Guitarists With apologies for not reading all the previous posts, I’d submit Eddie Hazel, who played with the early Funkadelics. Listen to the track Maggot Brain and he deserves the mantle of successor to Jimi as much as anybody. There’s a somewhat obscure ... | |
| Looking for a new phon cartridge I've had a fair number of high end cartridges from the likes of Lyra and Airtight- usually their top models. The Koetsus- particularly the stone bodies- a Jade and Tiger Eye- really made a qualitative difference in the dimensionality and tone of t... | |
| Why isn’t more detail always better? @desktopguy -thanks. I've been around the block more than a few times, which means almost nothing, but I've heard a lot of systems over the 50+ years I've been playing in this field. I learned to listen using a pair of Quad Loudspeakers (which I s... | |
| Can you recommend Jazz for some one that doesn't like Jazz? It took me a long time to develop an ear for more esoteric jazz. My thing is the era after jazz died, and popular music (Doors, Hendrix, Cream, etc.) became the market. If I wanted to introduce somebody to jazz in an incremental way (there are s... | |
| "Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better! @tuberculin- I have great respect for Rush and corresponded with him at one point. I think several people have put Neil's ultrasonic work into practice, using Elma machines in cascading baths with cooling systems and have reported on their results... | |
| Why isn’t more detail always better? I had a guy visit through a mutual friend in the last year- he was a producer of a major sound track and wanted to hear what some examples from a label interested in taking a master license (with accompanying mechanical license) sounded like. He k... | |
| "Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better! I accumulated a lot of records over the decades; stuff I bought when I was an "audiophile," and even more when vinyl was proclaimed "dead"- Tower had moved all the LPs to the annex at the Lower Broadway store and I used to come out with bags full-... | |
| Record Cleaning Machine ~ Ultrasonic vs. Rest My experience- it is not a "vs" but an "and"- the two different processes, manual cleaning with vacuum and US are complementary. Sometimes, you really have to work a record in the manual cleaning phase; I always use a rinse step and since I don't ... | |
| What devices have you found useful when inspecting your stylii for cleanliness? I have a variety or loupes, magnifiers, microscopes, including a Shure SEK, and digital scopes. For routine checking of muck on the stylus, and general state of cantilever, I found a 7X magnifier to be the best for my aging eyes. I got one with a ... | |
| Audio Desk cleaner.....still available? I’ve had both the AD and the KL (more about that in a minute), but started in the early ’80s with the first generation VPI- a Model 16 that had been converted to a 16.5. When I left NY at the very beginning of 2017, the VPI was still running fine ... |