whart
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| Am I an Audiophile, a music lover-or both? And, apropos the "hat" approach to the topic, there are the record collectors, often folks who don’t have particularly good playback equipment, and in many cases, are buying a record because it is rare and special (and often of considerable value,... | |
| Led Zeppelin II @notesaddict: That is the beginning of the code: S for Stereo, A for Atlantic. Then Numbers. Then a suffix. The suffix on the Atlantics, usually a two letter code, is the pressing plant, e.g. MO is Monarch. Not saying those are the best, just one ... | |
| Am I an Audiophile, a music lover-or both? @hifiman5 - music, to me, is taken in on a visceral level. Much is affected by mood. (I'm not talking about substances). I may not be in the mood for a particular piece of music, and want to listen to something else. One of the joys of having a la... | |
| Help! Tweaking My Lovan Rack for new Big A**ed Transrotor Turntable! Not nuts. Just be aware that all these materials sound different, and the theory behind the layers- constrained layer damping- is to combine different materials with different resonance characteristics to arrive at a fairly neutral solution. I’m n... | |
| Am I an Audiophile, a music lover-or both? It’s a tightrope sometimes, because you or I love music, we want it reproduced as convincingly as possible to create an illusion of reality- whatever that is- the studio, the live performance, the band in the room.Getting caught up in the machiner... | |
| Led Zeppelin II @notesaddict- it all depends on which pressing, who mastered, what plant. If you read the deadwax, that will tell you. Atlantic actually put the code for the plants on the labels themselves. The one people tend to chase is the RL mastered one, whi... | |
| RCA Caps @geoffkait - I guess subtelty is not my strong suit :) Thanks for the award.After my long time ownership and factory tweaking of the SP-10 preamp, my continued contact with ARC was mainly due to maintenance and refurbishment of my Dual 75a, which ... | |
| Led Zeppelin II Haven’t heard it -of II. My second japanese press of 1 is special, and not crazy money, but I can’t make the leap of faith from that to a japanese pressing of II. I thought the Jimmy Page sanctioned reissues from a few years ago were great for peo... | |
| RCA Caps I had a long, love-hate relationship with the ARC SP-10 mk ii. I bought mine used, from somebody who had to have the new SP 11, and knowing what the SP 10 was capable of, I jumped on it. I had it sent back to ARC to have it gone over (at my cost) ... | |
| 3 Cartridges Reviewed Well done. thank you for making that effort and taking the time to write it up. Your writing is clear, concise and punchy. Not so easy sometimes..... | |
| Support table or shelf for turntable @noromance props for the Quads. Have owned my pair, recently restored, since 1973.I had a plinth like yours that was custom made in 1973 for my then new SP-10 turntable by Mel Shilling, an old time Philly audiophile who ran a shop called Music &am... | |
| Power line conditioners- to use or not to use? That is the question? From somewhat long experience, but not with every brand, I’d say the first step is to run dedicated lines. There are many threads here on the subject. I found that most of the conditioners I used back in the day did not improve the sound directly ... | |
| Led Zeppelin II living the dream, mike lavigne. :) | |
| looking for the best cd transport only, without dac I’m a piker when it comes to serious digital playback of music. Long time vinyl guy (since 1965!, although my turntable then wasn’t quite in the same league as what I’ve been using over the past decade or three).I’m now seriously considering that ... | |
| Great music few are aware of. Any genre. Not talking about the ELP or prog stuff, just straight piano playing, classical style. No pretensions of it being prog or rock. Yeah, I dug the The Band quite a bit back in the day. I was simply giving Emerson his due for being a superb keyboard p... |