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| Audiophile Tool Bingo For starters, Erik, useful in phono cartridge set up. I use different magnifiers for different purposes. I wear one of those illuminated eyeglass magnifiers to brush cartridge while playing, but that isn't exactly set up. Anything small I need to ... | |
| Audiophile Tool Bingo Good lights; good magnification; | |
| Factory service for products from the 90's @stereo5- I’ve owned cars that dated back to WWI. Some of the great cars were made pre-WWII. The analogy fails. There are pieces of equipment that are well worth restoring- old WE, Saul/Sid era Marantz, etc. (there are many post war cars that are... | |
| Factory service for products from the 90's Lamm never authorized third party repair or made schematics available. I do have a guy here in Austin who rebuilds pre-war tube amps, so if I needed him to work on the Lamm ML2s, I suppose I could get his help. But, Elina is planning on opening a ... | |
| Quad ESL service, Electrostatic Solutions or Quads Unlimited ? A happy ending. that's all folks! :) | |
| Best progressive rock album side I’m no guru of prog, I lived through the original classical formalism and have the UK early pressings of ELP, Crimson, Yes, etc. But I tapped into "prog guru" Ken Golden who helped broaden my horizons, with good King Records reissues from Japan of... | |
| Chill Out; Get Outside of yourself Yep, that was kind of my point. We get caught in cages of our own making. This place forces you to transcend the normal inner voices and get in touch with something bigger. I could see how the long cold winters here could make one go all "The Shin... | |
| Chill Out; Get Outside of yourself Thanks gents, yes, the photo was taken from the plane by me or the wife. Once I get back I will collate and edit all the photos. It is culture shock in some ways, very much a "can do" attitude in others that is both familiar and reassuring. Our fr... | |
| Most Realistic Recordings @yoyoyaya said: "Milcho Leviev Quartet's Blues for the Fisherman...". Not so secret late Art Pepper record! | |
| How accurate are cable descriptions for your system? The only way I have found to approach it is to trial certain cables in my system. Sure, there could be a "wrong" cable for a particular system, given how the components, as a system are voiced- that is, you are combining attributes and to some de... | |
| Most Realistic Recordings Or the Kodaly piece, on Period Records, old but not forgotten. I was told by a player (whose son studied under Starker at Indiana) that Starker did not use vibrato to cover his intonation. He was playing brilliantly for decades, even as a very old... | |
| Most Realistic Recordings @simonmoon said: "Art Land and Rubisa Patrol" Great music. Even the US pressing has mojo and the import is better. For CD lovers, Black Ice by the Wolfert Brederode Trio on ECM (redbook only AFAIK) is stunning. One of my favorites for real pian... | |
| Vladimir Lamm RIP @charles1dad - thumbs up. | |
| Vladimir Lamm RIP I am saddened by this. I have his ML2 SETs and at one point, also had his Reference Line stage. The first time we brought the gear for him to go over- just to check- it was ready to be picked up a couple days after my wife dropped it off in deep B... | |
| Tubes getting hard to come by? The real depletion occurred more than a couple years ago- truly "new" old stock of even common audio tubes is scarce and some of the more desirable old tubes, including rectifiers, are simply not on the market or very recherché. (and you have to k... |