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| Stillpoints LP Isolator Record Weight Here's the difference I heard on my Kuzma XL (with Airline arm), compared to the factory screw down clamp which is also heavier than the Stillpoints:not as loud, not as prominent a bump in the upper bass which tended to give music explosive power ... | |
| TheVinylPress.com Thanks to all of you for your kind words and support.I recently added an interview with Stanley Booth, the guy who wrote the insider's view of the Stone's '69 tour, was hanging with Otis Redding as they laid down "Dock of the Bay" (a few days befo... | |
| We lost another bassist: Free's Andy Fraser dies Although that song was one of their best known, the group's first album, "Tons of Sobs" was an outstanding mix of blues, psych and hard rock. Later albums, and of course the eventual morphing to Bad Company, is what people tend to remember, but Fr... | |
| Classic Rock: best domestic pressings You should spend some time searching the Steve Hoffman forum; once you have read posts there for a while you learn who knows these records and who is just posting what they have. For what it is worth I think my early Santana's are KC prefix; on Ru... | |
| Hot Stamper - myth or reality? It was a pretty balanced article, i guess. Tom Port is not without controversy and this didn't really stir up anything new. As to the system, doesn't surprise me- there were a lot of well-known engineers who monitored over pretty middle of the roa... | |
| Best copy of Wish You Were Here I have the UK first press, and the black shrink was one of several attributes of the packaging, there was other indicia as well that had to do with how the jacket was cut, but my memory fails me. These early UK pressings sound pretty good, but I s... | |
| KLH MODEL NINE ELECTROSTATIC SPEAKERS. My suggestion above also concerned the relationship between the speakers and the amp; electrostats have some pretty extreme impedance dips (at least the older Quads did) and present a difficult load for some amps. So, apart from the fact that the ... | |
| KLH MODEL NINE ELECTROSTATIC SPEAKERS. You may want to reach out to Janszen, whose father designed the 9. His company, in Ohio, offers restoration services, and he may have some tips on how to check and bring a pair back into service to avoid problems. They were glorious speakers in th... | |
| Have you heard the Ellington Masterpieces reissue? It is a very good record. FWIW, there's another record that Fremer mentioned in passing (not a review of the album, but if I recall, in the context of an equipment review). It is also superb, an old 6-eye you should be able to find for 10 bucks. A... | |
| Refurbish a Dynaco St70 Rodman, thanks for the additional, and corrected info. I remember Pelpoe Industries as well. My point was that modding that amp has some serious cred behind it, and if memory serves, some of the earliest ARC offerings were based on Dyna mods. | |
| Refurbish a Dynaco St70 Pry- I meant with modifying Dynacos, not where he lived. :) | |
| Refurbish a Dynaco St70 Isn't this where Wm. Zane Johnson started too? | |
| Retired audiophile? Even if you had unlimited means and a willingness to buy, try and experiment constantly with new gear, accessories and 'tweaks,' I think you'd find, as i have, that all of these activities may have little bearing on your enjoyment of your system a... | |
| Classic rock: best remasters +1 Czarivey re Porky/Pecko. | |
| Classic rock: best remasters There are only two RL Zep records among the original studio albums as far as I know- LZII and HOTH; the latter is not an expensive record, II is tres cher. The Piros re-do's from the 70's are very good, and don't command much of a premium, though ... |