whart
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| Building a listening room from scratch Some of the best sounding rooms I had were in old buildings that didn’t require a lot of treatment, e.g. a large room in an old brownstone in Brooklyn, with wide plank floors and heavy real plaster walls- behind which was lathe and horsehair. What... | |
| How Many Brimars Are There?? Doesn’t Brimar stand for "British Made American Range" to enable the UK tube maker (it was part of ITT and got bought or renamed as STC if memory serves) to compete with the American tube configurations?I'm also not sure Brimar manufactured all th... | |
| Audio Research D150 There’s a website with all of their legacy products, including updates. Here’s the link: [url]http://www.arcdb.ws/D150/D150.html[/url]And here’s a link to the manual if you don’t have it: [url]http://www.audioresearch.com/ContentsFiles/D150_Manual... | |
| Schiit not shipping I bought my first product from them by online order Friday. An Eitr. I got a notice of shipping today (Monday) from the "Incontinence Institute of America." These guys are really beating this to death. Whatever. I have a sense of humor, and notwit... | |
| Don't waste money on ultrasonic RCMs +1 chayro. But, in "our" defense, we are, ah, nerds? So, any statement is subject to scrutiny. | |
| Don't waste money on ultrasonic RCMs Yikes! | |
| Who has made a move and did you let movers take Hi-Fi Sounds like you’ve already made up your mind. How far a distance are you moving? I moved a fair sized household, multiple hi-fi, sizable record collection, art, books, etc. from NY to Texas last year. We did use a professional mover- but for the r... | |
| CD/Vinyle Estate sale question @viggen900 - the only other thought that might make sense is to ask the family if he had any "audio buddies"-- often hobbyists consort with like-minded individuals. One of them may be able to provide more immediate guidance on the gear and records... | |
| CD/Vinyle Estate sale question Are you in a large city or near one? Most record dealers will give you pennies on the dollar for used vinyl even if there are some records within that collection that are worth far more. The alternative is to find a local collector who is willing ... | |
| Black Sabbath - Master of Reality which one? UK Vertigo Swirl. Condition of record is more important than the cover or the poster (which is rare). Not cheap. | |
| Dire Straits : what is your favorite pressing? @marktomaras - you will have fun doing this comparison. I've found that such comparisons often, not always, reveal different strengths and weaknesses in pressing/mastering with no clear winner. Probably not a bad idea to have an SPL meter to check... | |
| Audiophile LP's Victor Feldman also worked as a session guy with the so-called LA rock mafia in the '70s-- he played with Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and also appeared on many Steely Dan albums. | |
| Audiophile LP's I think the OP’s question was directed to LPs marketed as "audiophile" rather than the not so simple task of finding a "best pressing" among various commercial releases.To the OP’s question, many of the direct to disc records sound fabulous-- the ... | |
| Vinyl - Hearing The Beginning of the Song One Revolution Earler Remember the Shelby Lynne album, "Just a Little Lovin’" that was an homage to Dusty Springfield? The initial release on Lost Highway was horrible, but Chad re-did it a while ago. A profound amount of pre-echo, to the extent it almost sounds delibe... | |
| Can you ever get perfect alignment? I use the Kuzma Airline (linear tracker). I don’t know that any third party protractors or other alignment tools (apart, perhaps from azimuth) would be useful- the arm comes with a simple gloss cardboard ’card’ with appropriate markings. I use a m... |