xiekitchen
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| funny connection of spade cables My 2c: Leave the spades on as you have it. Periodically (every 6 months) clean spades with Kontact or contact cleaner pro gold or something and re-insert. Cutting off spades will make re-sale difficult. Besides, not sure how audioquest does it, bu... | |
| Live Santana... Yeah I have the CD of Caravanserai as well, this is the newer remastered one that came out in 2003 or so (?) and it is no slouch.. rich full sound lots of detail retrieval and tape hiss minimum.. very nice.. I also have the same for Welcome. Wish ... | |
| Live Santana... Correction to above.. "Not all Lotus is live" meant to say "Not all of Moonflower is live" | |
| Live Santana... I have Lotus pressed in Holland. The quality of Holland mastering and vinyl is very good, not sure how it compares to Japanese pressing. The recording is pretty good although a little bass shy. Mix is very heavy/up front on Carlo's guitar, unfortu... | |
| Can't Stop Grinning... Gotta say, that's a heck of an upgrade! nice stuff, you went right to the top. | |
| Cleaning Just before playing record Yep, sometimes records I have wet vac. cleaned and put away, when I pull them out months later they still have a smidgen of dust on them.. wet vacuuming just before playing gets rid of that. | |
| Best and Worst Rock Concert Moments oops maybe I'm mental, KEITH not KIETH sorry | |
| Best and Worst Rock Concert Moments I have another Kieth Jarrett story:I had a front row seat to a concert with Kieth in a trio setting with Jack Dejohnette on drums and Dave Holland (maybe not sure) on upright bass, in Princeton NJ early 90's forgot which year... Interesting to not... | |
| Opinion of my older Snell E111's please - I have a pair of Snell E IV's. Not sure if the IV's are better or worse or the same as the III but the III gets alot of respect. Hard to beat good all around sound for around $300-400 used. No, not the last word by far in transparency, imaging, et... | |
| lps from "classic records" as awesome as axis bold Dear Audiohifila,I had the original U.S. Atco Peter Gabriel (as usual, the US pressing had distortion and noisy vinyl, then found the original UK pressing Charisma label and thought how could it be any better?Decided to try the Classic and WOW IMH... | |
| lps from "classic records" as awesome as axis bold I hear bad things about some classic record titles but I gotta say I've had nothing but GREAT sounding LPs from them:1. Miles "Kind of Blue" is super wonderful2. Miles "Sketches of spain" same3. Carol King "Tapestry" super killer sound4. Peter Gab... | |
| Chime in.What's the Best Cassette Recorder ever ? NAK - see if you can find some NOS Nakamichi tapes, I found a box on ebay and WOW they are the best tapes ever tried (every micro detail, echos, spacial cues recorded - literally sounds just like the LP) in my life; I'd say you could not better a ... | |
| upgrade from my BENZ ACE low output MC cartridge NO brainer to me would be the Benz Glider.. very highly regarded, not sure if it's low output however but may be available both ways. | |
| Phono Pre Amp? The NAD unit is really entry level.. I know you can do better... the Graham Slee mentioned above should do it. | |
| Rega Owners Help "upgraded cabling is expensive and questionalbe in its contribution"I tried several different power cords including stock with my Rega Jupiter 2000; each time a cord was changed the sound was immediately and obviously affected. Went with the Carda... |