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| Koetsu Rosewood Vs Rosewood Signature Vs HANA UMAMI RED advice please Hey @terry9 - I have not heard the Rosewood platinum (and you have the full diamond cantilever no less) but I was led to understand that this cartridge got you a lot of what the more expensive Koetsus offered. For me, I won’t declare it an absolut... | |
| Koetsu Rosewood Vs Rosewood Signature Vs HANA UMAMI RED advice please I can give you a little of my perspective in that I have been running Koetsus, am very familiar with Kuzma's products but cannot comment on other aspects. I have been running two different new fresh authorized stone bodies on Kuzma's original Airl... | |
| To clean or not to clean... A bad cleaning is worse than no cleaning at all.I did a deep dive into this a while ago, including a trip to the Packard Campus of the Library of Congress. (What a cool place- most of the time was spent listening to Les Paul acetates cut direct to... | |
| How To Safely Ship Cartridges For Retip Bonded courier. With handcuffed Halliburton. Private jet. Kidding. I shipped various things back and forth with Steve L at VAS (I’m in Texas now) without a problem. Ditto Peter L at Soundsmith. Probably used Fedex or Priority. But, I’m a little wa... | |
| Yet Another Post About Power Conditioners! @jea48 +1.@output555 - sorry to have derailed your query. | |
| Yet Another Post About Power Conditioners! @mikelavigne: Mike- you preachin’ to the choir. I am also of the view that sorting basic power issues before applying what may amount to band-aids is not only more effective overall, but pretty cost-effective. I had an intermittent noise in my sys... | |
| Yet Another Post About Power Conditioners! @output555 - I hear you, it is a question of spending money on electricians and dealing with what may be system wide (power not just hi-fi) issues.@mikelavigne - not being one for watching long videos (nice plug for Rex though), did Fremer do a sp... | |
| Yet Another Post About Power Conditioners! I’ll play the contrarian. I’ve done a number of dedicated rooms, with dedicated lines, and over the years tried various power conditioners. My preference is minimal filtering. If you have noisy electrics, the first question is whether it is someth... | |
| How can a system be judged with highly processed, non acoustic music? If you assume the "standard" is real, live music, it is harder to evaluate something that has been heavily processed or involves electronic instruments. But those can inform too. From my perspective, anything done in a studio is likely to have und... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? I already provided my view on improvisational or more challenging jazz upthread. I will say that from my limited view of streaming services Qobuz, for example as a trial, it isn’t very deep in jazz. Look up Cecil McBee, who I keep mentioning, and ... | |
| An Homage to Long Term Ownership I have equipment here, some in use, that I've owned since the early '70s including a Technics SP-10 table and a pair of original Quad ESLs ('57) (all sympathetically restored), other stuff that just needs a little attention but playable (ARC Dual ... | |
| I have a speaker made by Federal Telegraph co Mike- you might try to call Andy Bouwman, who is better known for selling vintage tubes. He's knowledgeable of pre-war speakers and might be able to give you some insight. FWIW, Andy is pretty old school in terms of communications- best way to rea... | |
| Why so many tubes? I don't use high power (Lamm ML2 SETs in the main system) but everything from phono stage and power supply to line stage to amps is tube circuitry so I do use a lot of tubes. That in itself is not a problem. (I like to think of them as "field repl... | |
| Jazz Fans-- Name some of your favorite, less well known recordings @stuartk - Hi Stuart, thanks for the nice words. I have a blog if you look up my name-bill hart- and "vinyl" you should be able to find it. There is easily 5 years worth of writing there, not necessarily all jazz. In the meantime, I'll give some t... | |
| Truth on "Truth?" Have not heard it. The first UK, blue black label Columbia/EMI, is so much better than the US Epics it's like a different album. Those are probably costly now in mint condition. |