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| 2012 Additions to Your Music Collection Nice list, '61. Curtis Mayfield was a genius. Gotta find a copy of that Atlantic R&B compilation on vinyl.I'll add, for vinyl lovers, the Cassandra Wilson Blue Light at Dawn, recently and very decently released on Pure Pleasure.And, thanks to ... | |
| Ed Cassidy of Spirit is dead Brilliant band, incredibly versatile, listen to Fresh Garbage, or almost any cut from Dr. Sardonicus (a classic which is sorely under-rated). Led Zep opened for Spirit on their first U.S. tour. | |
| Big, big room -- which 10-20k speakers? Man, I'd love a huge room. As an earlier poster suggested, you should try to take advantage of the benefits. I don't like overdamped, dead sounding rooms. And the fact that the ceiling is that high may help if you could suspend some appropriate di... | |
| Manley Steelhead It has oodles of gain. I used it with a Titan i and an Airtight PC 1, my preferred gain setting was '55' if memory serves and I preferred it as a phono stage, using the fixed outputs feeding a separate line stage. Using it directly into the amps, ... | |
| KubalaSosna Emotion or Furutech Powerflux? Think there is only one way to find out and that is to try them. Doesn't Cable Co. do loans for trial? Short of that, perhaps a dealer can arrange the same thing. I had Cardas signal cables and a mix of Shunyata power cables and switched everythin... | |
| Avantgarde UNO set-up tips needed Good stuff there, Tubes 108! Makes sense too, since you are treating the sound of the woofer as part of the midrange, rather than a disconnected device. Paul will be rocking soon enough. The only thing he has to do is invite Jim to his house. Me, ... | |
| VAC Owners:Outboard Phono Stage? Props to Albert Porter for turning me on to the KAB device. I knew they existed, but he zero'd in on that one, the company is reliable, and you can get the device quickly.As to Alonski's questions, I can only offer my own experience:1. Yes, there ... | |
| VAC Owners:Outboard Phono Stage? KAB makes an inexpensive RIAA adapter that enables you to plug a CD player's output into the phono stage input to burn in the latter. I don't think it presents the same safety risk that Almarg described by using a 'burn-in' CD alone. I used the KA... | |
| Avantgarde UNO set-up tips needed Paul, thanks for the nice words, I'm hardly an expert, but I've lived with the speakers (Duos) along time and have learned alot about them and associated equipment through them. I do not think they are a speaker you can get 'right' quickly due to ... | |
| Choosing between Reissue and Original pressings Ralph: any way to discern which records used the Haeco CGS process?Are they early stereos that had the legend that said something "fully compatible on mono players, but for best results, play on a Stereo"?Is your last line a tease? | |
| Is McIntosh really Hi-Fi, finally MC452 Rower, talk to A-ball here, whose system thread is 'To see the Music,' he uses that amp among 4 or 5 others with his horns, and loves it. And, he's probably had some of the others you mentioned. Me, I owned my first Mc piece in 1973 or so, and hav... | |
| Avantgarde UNO set-up tips needed Paul: I saw this because you posted to A-Ball's system page, asking for set -up tips, and I'll defer to him on the G2 Uno. I have had the older Duo for quite a while and can give you a few ideas in the meantime. First, the speakers do require some... | |
| Choosing between Reissue and Original pressings GMC- we are on the same page. I like your wall of vinyl at home.Viridian- excellent point. I did touch on it in my earlier post here, but didn't spell it out as you did. Which may be one reason why mastering engineers have to make dramatic changes... | |
| Choosing between Reissue and Original pressings GMC, the problem with better records is that there are no guidelines other than his ear in picking out the good sounding copies. he trashes most of the well-known reissues which may be right, but after that, he provides zero info on particular rel... | |
| Choosing between Reissue and Original pressings I don't know if there is a general rule of thumb on which pressing or country of origin is best. Others with more or different knowledge are free to contradict me, but here's what I know:on certain records, I suspect the first pressing is more des... |