whart
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| Who's absorbing the cost? I honestly don't recall returning that many records due to defects back in the day- I'm sure they existed and I'm sure I returned some. I had "serious" gear starting in 1973 or so, and I'm confident that if a record didn't play or track well, I wo... | |
| Would owning Hoover Dam improve the midrange? How the transformer is mounted to the pole, the material of the pole--wood v metal and if wood, what type of wood, plus the type of cable from the transformer down stream all make a difference. I have my eye on a pole up the road with three 250 kW... | |
| help a Die hard ANALOG guy choose a budget CDP @sbank -Thanks. FWIW, re linear power supplies, i was pretty surprised to see how much some of the audiophile ones were (maybe I should not have been). And many of those were limited to one voltage/current output. I bought a decent bench supply of... | |
| Furutech Vinyl flattener or the ORB ? @downunder : Question for you downunder-- will you do repeated sessions (not necessarily back to back, but over time) with the DF-2 if the record still has problems in playback after a single session? I have had some records that flatten and play ... | |
| help a Die hard ANALOG guy choose a budget CDP @sbank : Spencer- you should start a new thread that helps demystify this for readers. I love my records (even some that were natively recorded in digital and/or pulled from digital masters), but there are some obscure records that have never been... | |
| Furutech Vinyl flattener or the ORB ? The Furutech is made by Orb (it is the DF-2). The one that is branded Orb in the States is the DF-1 [something], which was the original model but updated- I think Acoustic Sounds was selling these. There is also an Orb DF-3 that is not brought int... | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? James Hunter and his band- big, full band with horns, blue-eyed soul. These guys are very good players and put on a tight, bang-on performance. The drummer is terrific, the bass is a good old fashioned acoustic bass- made me realize how much is mi... | |
| Who's absorbing the cost? This is probably an incomplete answer since I was never involved in the distribution side, but in the old days, the major labels ate the cost of defects and returns and probably pushed back against the pressing plants if there were defective press... | |
| TheVinylPress.com I didn't know much about Josh White, who was playing a distinctive style of blues guitar as early as the '20s and later became a seminal figure in the popularity of the "Piedmont Blues," a mix of fingerpicking and old time string sounds and jazz. ... | |
| TheVinylPress.com I haven't updated this thread in a while. There is a book review of the new biography of Morris Levy, which makes for fascinating reading, several album reviews, including the first Lucifer's Friend album, and a comparison of various pressings of ... | |
| What in the world is going on..... Wolf- I tend to like your taste in guitarists, but the measure for me isn't even chops, it is the ability to convey something that is emotionally affecting- I'm not sure there is a metric for that and it may be personal taste. For example, I went ... | |
| Why do I keep torturing myself with remasters? ehtoo- That has been my experience re the EQ of Japanese pressings of rock music generally, but sometimes it is either not the case, or the EQ works in combination with the nature of the recording so the end result is not bad, e.g. LZ1 japanese pr... | |
| Kubala-Sosna Elation Speaker Cables I have had the K-S Emotion in my system for a long time- power, interconnect and speaker cables. The Elation had not been introduced when I bought them. I upgraded one interconnect to the Elation and could hear the difference. However, I think it ... | |
| Why do I keep torturing myself with remasters? I agree that the vinyl itself on Japanese pressings is usually far better than records made in most other countries. Quiet, typically well made. (That old JVC compound used by the 'old' MoFi was one of the best!) I'm not as sanguine about the son... | |
| Why do I keep torturing myself with remasters? ole- I feel bad, reading what happened to you, what a nightmare. Here's a thought, and don't take this the wrong way. I don't know how old you are, but trying to replace these things at this point may just be a bitter process- used record buying i... |