whart
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| What do you mean you “heard” the turntable @last_lemming - I agree that it is very hard to find an opportunity at retail where you can make such comparisons. I don't read the magazines much any more, so I don't know what they are doing in terms of turntable evaluations. There was a very go... | |
| What do you mean you “heard” the turntable Weird, i tagged @slaw and it showed up blank. Very kind of you to say that, Slaw. Thanks! | |
| Kuzma/Koetsu feedbak?? @thom_mackris - have you ever talked with Franc? He's pretty accessible (as you are) and might be able to work with you in a joint development to address what you wrote:"I’m giving serious thought to integrating one of the Stabi R’s (or Stabi Refe... | |
| What do you mean you “heard” the turntable What I’ve "heard" in comparing tables and arms in my system, using the same cartridge, was artifacts that went missing on the better set up. For example, when I went from a Kuzma Reference and Triplanar to the Kuzma XL and Airline, there was less ... | |
| Hihat Question So, where's @bdp24? I think the idea of very near field listening to ascertain what your room is doing is a good one. You might buy Jim Smith's book Get Better Sound, which has all kinds of ideas about set up that don't cost money. Positioning in ... | |
| Jimmy Page, It's time to call your lawyers? Listen to Leaf Hound, Growers of Mushroom and see if that is even closer in sound as an antecedent-- there were a few bands tapping into this sound back in the day. | |
| Beware of SACD Transports -- they probably will not work with your favorite DAC Right. If the SACD encryption scheme is anything like that used for DVD, or Blu-Ray, the concept was a closed system that did not permit users to access the raw digital stream at hi-rez, to avoid piracy issues. The only way to decode the encrypted... | |
| That "Wow" Moment! @dweller - Love Chris Whitley. His daughter Trixie has done a few good things as well.As to my introduction to a band/album playing in a record store, it was Elvis Hitler’s "Disgraceland" and the track "Green Haze" which is a cover of "Purple Haze... | |
| So disappointed in today's Americana @bdp24 - you and i have gotten to the point where we can just say something in code and we both go on a roll- remember the old joke about telling jokes using numbers?I think El-Rayo-X is being remastered on vinyl by one of the audiophile reissue l... | |
| So disappointed in today's Americana You might check out Meg Baird, particularly her work with the band "Espers" out of Philly. It’s more psych-folk than Americana but it is based on American folk music, with a twist. Esper’s "The Weed Tree" is a good start. Baird is pretty prolific ... | |
| Have you had enough of Classic Rock? And just think, by the time we hit the nursing home, instead of Slim Whitman, they'll be playing Zep for us. (Pop culture reference there to Mars Attacks). They have some really good rules in these homes- like, if you've heard someone go into a ra... | |
| Kuzma/Koetsu feedbak?? @yeti42 - I deleted my post addressing your question because I didn’t realize that Kuzma had introduced a shorter version of the ’standard’ 4 point arm without a VTA adjustment as part of the arm itself. For what it’s worth, on the Airline I have,... | |
| Kuzma/Koetsu feedbak?? @orenstein- well, it's not like you are in a back-water. Metro NY is still a pretty big center for hi-fi (I lived there for 36 years before migrating to Texas). Bill Parish, at GTT, is the US distributor for Kronos and I had many good dealings wit... | |
| Kuzma/Koetsu feedbak?? @orenstein- on the sound of the different Koetsu, I’ll defer to those who have owned them and compared them meaningfully. I haven’t had one in my system and I gather than the stone bodied ones are more neutral, but none of the newer Koestus are li... | |
| Kuzma/Koetsu feedbak?? Maybe @Inna is right and you should do some comparisons, though it is almost impossible to get these things in the same room, same system and control variables. So you’ll likely have to evaluate in a dealer setting, but at least you should be able... |