whart
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| The Tragic Decline of Music Literacy (and Quality) Miller- look for a band called Sammy Miller and the Congregation- record is forthcoming, but they are usually touring. Young, top tier players, big band with a sense of stage business and humor. I also got turned onto Snarky Puppy recently- they a... | |
| USED RECORD GRADING- What's the Problems? Good luck w/ that. Even play grading is subjective. In some cases, I'd prefer that the seller not play it or purport to clean it. Just spin it to tell me whether it is warped. I had one seller tell me when i asked about warps: "You'd have to be an... | |
| Any advice on buying quality vinyl Wasn’t it "Dynagroove"- Dynaflex was just thinner, right? Hans Fantel was famously touting Dynagroove back in the day. I don’t mind thinner records. A copy of this came in yesterday, on this thinnest vinyl I think I’ve ever encountered. Staggering... | |
| The Tragic Decline of Music Literacy (and Quality) I'm going to play the contrarian here, though I'm from the generation born in the mid-'50s, so had the exposure to the local symphony (Steinberg in Pittsburgh), the music lessons, theory, etc. A lot of pop music from the era- I suspect any era sin... | |
| Spam threads gone wild... Yeah, there were a lot last night too- for a while, some seemed to 'borrowing' language from the site (or maybe I'm imagining things) but the bots were 'learning' to imitate the substance --not very well. Last night, much was about fixing bad rela... | |
| Any advice on buying quality vinyl I wouldn’t assume that the ’original pressing’ is necessarily the best sounding copy either. On the early Elton John records, I found that the early DJMs from the UK sounded better than the US pressings from the same period. But among those, there... | |
| Any advice on buying quality vinyl I think it is impossible to generalize. The attraction of the better audiophile reissue labels is new, usually clean playing LPs that may or may not sound better than an earlier pressing. It depends on the particular record, which usually means yo... | |
| Alternatives to Stillpoints I tried a whole bunch of different things under the tube power supply to my phono stage about 5 years ago. Wound up with Stillpoints SS. But, believe it or not, the Vibrapod cone plus puck did add a clarity without any stridency- not as much as th... | |
| Linear tracking turntables, whatever happened? @ct0517 and @terry9 - thanks both re my cartridge compliance question. I'll do a little reading.regards,bill | |
| Linear tracking turntables, whatever happened? Question for you Trans-Fi and ET 2 users- what kind of cartridges have you found best in terms of compliance? I have been using fairly high compliance cartridges since i got the Kuzma Airline years ago (Lyra, then Airtight) and using this stopgap ... | |
| Does it make sense to retip vdH Grasshopper cartridge Out of curiosity, when you had VdHul retip in the past, did you provide him with information on what arm you are using? My understanding is that he tunes each cartridge accordingly. (I had a higher output VdHul years ago that was retipped, but was... | |
| Jethro Tull CD/DVD Special Editions Are you talking about Steve Wilson remixes? I have a few on LP and consider them an improvement, sonically- Benefit, which was pretty murky in both UK and US pressings and Aqualung ( of which I have many different copies). I tend to shy away from ... | |
| Hey RICH Audiophiles @jerry_gt3rs - do you know Cheech, from Rennwerke in Elmsford NY? A madman, to be sure, but he knows the older cars and did meticulous work (more mechanics, not body restoration as I recall). He had some serious cars in that shop. | |
| cartridge recommendation @Stone1- I wasn't making any specific recommendation. My points were that I: -owned some of the cartridges that Chakster mentioned when they were new, many years ago, and am now exploring some of them again as vintage, given the crazy high prices ... | |
| What are the best speakers you have ever owned and why? One of the great systems I used to listen to a lot was centered on a pair of Duntech Sovereigns, owned by a friend in the late '80s (he passed away in 1991) driven by Krells. Bass string tone and scale on a good jazz recording was lifelike as was ... |