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| Piano black polish and refinish BASF makes the finishes on the Hamburg Steinways. Obviously a vast company and I doubt they sell a "refinishing stick" or the like. There must be a good piano restorer near you-- worth doing a little digging. You in Dallas? Judging by your "handle... | |
| Cream — Stormy Monday @soix- I respect your view and you may be right. Thanks for the courteous and thoughtful response. (Keb Mo' was fabulous in concert; Ditto, Etta James, who I considered a blues singer, and a long list of others). My personal issue with the blues... | |
| Cream — Stormy Monday To me, the blues has to be bitter and heartfelt. The closest Mr. Clapton came was a live bootleg when he was playing with Mayall. It certainly isn’t audiophile. I think it was the Flamingo Club. This is not about sonics: Apologies if alre... | |
| Why do we demand so much from our systems? I suspect there as many different answers to this question as there are different people with different tastes, experiences and expectations. When I started in this sandbox, call it 1970, the "high end" was still emerging--and I jumped on the tube... | |
| The future of LAMM without Vlad I ordered a complete tube set for my ML2s very recently. I used the email address and made it to Elina's attention since she knows me from the Brooklyn days. She responded fairly quickly- and promised the tubes w/in a couple weeks, given that thei... | |
| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? @mikelavigne said: "these things happen in the USA when there are established relationships between the dealer and customer. i have experienced it multiple times. not every customer is serious minded enough to earn that sort of support. those th... | |
| BEST TUBES FOR AUDIO RESEARCH PRE-AMP (LS-16) I can't answer your question but can offer you some thoughts. I've rolled tubes in a lot of high end gear over the years. While you can generally describe the attributes of a particular tube by type, brand, place of manufacture and year date, to m... | |
| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? @thr1961- part of the magic you are experiencing is the Koetsu. I’m running a Kuzma XL/Airline on an HRS plinth with the big Minus K isolation platform (the same technology that the Dohmann (lauded above) relies on). I used some pretty high grade ... | |
| Manley Chinook SE MK2 I had a Steelhead (first version, not the earliest, but before the remote control version) and rolled high quality old tubes. I wound up using the MM inputs, because I had a hard time finding a good spot using the autoformer; some frequencies shon... | |
| Why "bookshelf" sspeakers? I think you have to go back in history, at least in the U.S., hi-fi was larger speakers, often adapted from large high efficiency speakers--think of JBL or Altec, Bozak, EV, or kits of drivers/crossovers that required the end-user to build a cabin... | |
| Step Up Transformer Question @lewm- no disagreement w/ your clarification of my wordage. Thanks. | |
| Step Up Transformer Question Good point on asking Steve Leung, there @Dogberry. I also would not underestimate the N Clayton builds- I needed something not spendy for my vintage system based on old Quads and was using a VAS Franken-Denon cartridge Steve put together. Clayton ... | |
| Cost Incurred to Achieve a Vinyl LP Replay If the question is "how much it cost" (I used to get this all the time with cars) to play in the state of the art, you’ll get myriad answers. In the States, the VPI is very popular as a bang for buck table (I don’t follow the company so don’t know... | |
| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? I spoke to Jonathan (last?) when his table was still in development. He spoke of using a cutting lathe as a model and I know Mr. Krebs had considerable influence. How can you meaningfully compare these, and with what variables? I suspect at some... | |
| Power conditioners A few observations in addition to those above: most of the comments so far line up with my own experience-- try before you buy (or have the ability to return for a full refund). I experimented with "black box" conditioners in my previous house (wi... |