whart
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| Moving a 5,000 vinyl LP collection safely There's a section of Newburgh near the river that is old houses+ gorgeous. I forget what it is called. Yeah, it is a little rough there. I used to drive my sports cars and bikes north and would sometimes come through in one direction or another. A... | |
| Moving a 5,000 vinyl LP collection safely I recently moved from the lower Hudson Valley to Austin, TX, with approximately the same number of LPs. I packed them myself in double walled boxes that I got in bulk from one of the specialty suppliers, Bags Unlimited. I numbered each box and had... | |
| ARC D-76A Filter Cap Replacement I’ve never done it. I had my Dual 75a done over ten years ago through a dealer- I think they farmed out the work to Soundsmith, who was (and may still be) an authorized repair center for ARC.Here’s the book with the schematics if you don’t have th... | |
| Are you seeing more 9/10s? No different than buying old records --where "very good" means precisely the opposite. Grading inflation. | |
| Austin Record Convention @trytone - my experience, for the big ticket items, is that most dealers put them online to reach the broadest audience. (Similar I guess to vintage wine market, though I really don't dabble in that). The rare stuff in prog/early rock/post-pysch f... | |
| Austin Record Convention I went to the last one and thought it much better than one I attended a couple years before--higher quality wares in general. I will probably attend this one as well. I didn't buy much at the last show several months ago - partly because I am real... | |
| Linn LP12......That good?? @bdp24 - perhaps you are correct as a matter of terminology, but it becomes like ordering non-decaffeinated coffee- an acoustic bass to distinguish it from the far more common electric bass in rock or blues? Yeah, I get it, but the instruments sou... | |
| How "Tribal" are we? Ironically, I think ’we’ have more in common than the average person who has no deep interest in music or gear. At a certain point, you can keep slicing and dicing the differences- tubes, no only SET, but in the end, it’s still about producing som... | |
| Thief Alert I love the "my cousin is a bounty hunter." Sorry this happened. The wheels of justice may grind slowly, but....regards, | |
| Linn LP12......That good?? @bdp24 - but Atkinson may be right about that. Last time I heard James Hunter, that blue-eyed soul devil with the killer band, I was reminded of how good rock and roll sounds with a double bass. Tone, tension, and a less "thudding" sound even when... | |
| Latest bin find.....Elton John Some of the UK DJMs are on semi-translucent vinyl- though it looks like normal black vinyl, if you shine a light behind it, you can see it is a dark, almost blood red color. The preferred pressings, sonically, are, if memory serves, not these tran... | |
| Linn LP12......That good?? @rossb - I have had two Kuzmas as well; first the Reference, with a Triplanar, which was very easy to set up and run with minimal grief over isolation; then the XL, which was a huge pain to isolate given its mass, but well worth it once I got that... | |
| How do i know If you are buying new, from the same manufacturer, reach out to the manufacturer and perhaps they could point you to another dealer even in another country that would be willing to demo for you and perhaps help make those arrangements for a demons... | |
| Latest bin find.....Elton John I remember hearing Lindley back in the Jackson Browne era- it was probably just before or after Late for the Sky (which is as much a Lindley album as it is a Jackson Browne album in my estimation)/ Lindley looked like Cousin ITT, seated, bent over... | |
| Latest bin find.....Elton John Yeah, nobody wins in those Mother Nature things- it is amazing to see the outpouring of support, not words, or hashtag stuff, but hard labor, money, people doing stuff, rescuing animals as well as people. Kinda restores my faith in human-kind if y... |