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| Why do I keep torturing myself with remasters? Ole- search Laser's Edge Group- as i said, Ken has a bunch of different companies and labels under that umbrella. If you send him a message, you are welcome to mention my name. He visited recently- brought some interesting records, including an ol... | |
| Cheapest courier If you know someone with a DHL account, the rates are a considerable fraction of those quoted as "retail." I don’t really do much shipping, but a lot of buying, so it doesn’t help me too much, but I did get a quote from them at one point, based on... | |
| Why do I keep torturing myself with remasters? Ole, a couple of people have urged me to go to one of the Utrecht shows- likely where a lot of this stuff is going to show up. As to prices, I doubt you'll find any bargains on stuff like Il Balletto di Bronzo. But if you wanted to go wild, that's... | |
| Why do I keep torturing myself with remasters? I got Di Terra recently, original Italian pressing, for reasonable money. (It came from overseas) Ditto, a Le Orme, from a shop in Manchester. Ken Golden hipped me to a decent remaster of Comus, First Utterance and the shop also had a few Le Orme,... | |
| Why do I keep torturing myself with remasters? Ole- for some of those uber collectible records, that’s where a good remaster would pay off. One of the reasons why some of these records fetch big money now is that the record at the time of release wasn’t popular and few copies were pressed. (Or... | |
| Wes Phillps has passed away I was sorry to see that. He was not well for a while, but he contributed a lot, and was well-regarded. Another reminder that this is all so finite- live life like you stole it! best,bill hart | |
| LP Cleaning My take- based on your description is that your "cleaning" is actually leaving something on the record. Probably residue from the cleaning fluid, mixed with whatever you might have dredged up out of the grooves in the process of using brushes and ... | |
| Please Support Music Education Music education-- to address CZ’s point- isn’t about teaching people to be musicians. It is all about exposure. Who knows, someone who has only been exposed to pop music of a specific genre may find beauty in the precision of Bach. And, it isn’t j... | |
| Turntable Recommendation 15K budget Avid Acutus, Brinkmann, Oracle, Nottingham,, Curious also why you ruled out Kuzma, if you don't mind replying.... | |
| New listening room electrical design Maril-Thanks re the material- yes, I suspected pulling out the old drywall would make everything easier and better. Glad you did. Let us know what you think of the sound once you get it up and running.bill hart | |
| New listening room electrical design Maril- for my own info, what led you to the Soundbreak product? (I will eventually be doing a build out too, that's why I'm asking). Sounds like you are well on your way.Exciting! | |
| Who's absorbing the cost? ebm- which dude? | |
| Who's absorbing the cost? Willie- the problem is, at least on the pressing side, it isn't newer technology. Most of the presses are old- many were resuscitated after years of being offline. Yes, folks like Chad have, in the process, added some computer assisted monitoring ... | |
| Phono/preamp/amp chain. One of them tube the others SS. Which one? Inna- to me, the amp-speaker relationship is symbiotic. So, choice of speaker may push you one way or the other with respect to the choice of amp. And, sometimes, the stereotypes about "tube" and "ss" sound aren’t always the result in practice. Th... | |
| Who's absorbing the cost? Low- oil crisis stuff was pretty bad in the U.S., but most of them still played. I have an original SOS label pressing of Lynyrd Skynyrd "Pronounced" with paper flecks embedded into the vinyl from regrind, but it still plays nicely. Go figure. (I ... |