whart
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| The Electric Recording Company —Furtwängler’s Beethoven Ninth and for those whose crypto-currencies crashed, what recording on LP of this performance do you recommend that is accessible? | |
| Best speaker/system piano concerts Piano is very difficult to reproduce. From the recording side and mic’ing to playback. There is a lot of gravitas in the lower registers and the timing of the attack and decay on all the registers is not so easily recorded or reproduced realistica... | |
| Pittsburgh, PA Audio Club I can't join you, but grew up in the 'Burgh. Opus One was the "place"- i slung gear for a little while, and knew a lot of folks in the audio scene there back in the early '70s. Haven't been back in a long while. Regards,bill hart | |
| CDs Vs LPs I’m a hair-shirt, dyed in the wool vinyl guy. When vinyl was declared dead, I bought bags and bags of old records, cut outs and the like everywhere I went. (I travelled a lot for business back then). I did not like the sound of the CD when it was ... | |
| Can someone explain to me why : Accupahse Equipment is that expensive ? I remember the gear in NY many moons ago- a guy (who passed away) had a loft space full of it for sale. Gorgeous. It is like classic ’70s era design, with wood, champagne gold finishes, but much higher build quality than the consumer grade stuff o... | |
| My 6922 Tubes Are Too Bright! I haven't rolled a 6DJ8/equivalent in a while, but found the Mullard to be too warm and smooth, and favored a Telefunken in the particular phono stage I was using at the time. But, the Mullard might be the ticket for you--there are various primers... | |
| How much should a person spend to get a decent power conditioner? @folkfreak - I'm a completist in that i cannot read "nattering nabobs" without the complete phrase. :)I was trying to discern what you are using- I remember some posts about Synergistic Research active blocks, and saw that at one time you had the ... | |
| Can someone explain to me why : Accupahse Equipment is that expensive ? I just checked. The gray market price for the big mono block amp is less than 1/2 the retail price in the US. I suspect there is some wiggle room there, but you are negotiating from a very high starting number. There’s a piece in 6moons about this... | |
| Can someone explain to me why : Accupahse Equipment is that expensive ? My experience with high end gear from Japan is that it may be much cheaper to buy it there, but the price here is often double (or more), due in part to the cost of maintaining a dealer network, mark-up and support. (There may also be tariffs but ... | |
| How much should a person spend to get a decent power conditioner? @newf27- Did the additional grounding help with your low level hum?Because that sounds like a grounding issue. Those can be very troublesome to sort, in part because of the different grounding schemes within the components comprising a system that... | |
| Best sounding Beatles Vinyl from tape I am not a Beatles collector: there are, however a few web resources that may help: [url]http://yokono.co.uk/collection/beatles/beatles.html[/url][url]http://www.rarebeatles.com/boxsets/boxset.htm#BOXSET[/url] There was another site that is now go... | |
| How much should a person spend to get a decent power conditioner? @helomech- I believe the brick wall technology was developed by Zero Surge out of Frenchtown NJ, who sell their own units, from two outlet jobs to industrial sized panels. | |
| How much should a person spend to get a decent power conditioner? It’s sounds like you are after both surge protection and trying to improve the sound? On surge I use a whole house, not expensive, but you need to replace when the pilot lites indicates the MOVs are no longer effective. Plus I use a very large com... | |
| Unofficial (Bootleg) LPs As you know, Discogs now blocks any listing that shows "unofficial" as label/source. My suspicion is that neither E Bay nor Amazon block such offerings unless they receive a notice, similar to a take-down notice, from a party in interest (e.g., so... | |
| Record collection sales addvice Given what I buy, I need to know which specific pressing, mastering, plant, etc. Perhaps this is irrelevant to some genres and types of records, but there is a considerable difference in value among different pressings of older rock, blues, prog, ... |