xiekitchen
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| Your favourite recordings that everyone else hates Hello Slipknot1: I have the MFSL 1/2 speed pressing, the best there is of this thing.. get one of these on ebay.. but you'll pay.. or try a mint copy UK pressing. My UK pressings of yes are better than domestic and Japan's. | |
| Your favourite recordings that everyone else hates Probably Yes "Close to the Edge" a really terrible sounding recording with harsh hashy hard sound but I am still emotionally tied to that music from my youth and even like it today although I certainly don't play it every day. "Close to the Edge" ... | |
| AC Filter necessary? Buy a Tice unit.. BIG improvement in sound.. I would not plug anything into the wall after hearing the Tice improvements. | |
| Attention Spica Owners I bought and replaced my spica tc-50 tweeters with the Audax drivers from Madisound 2 years ago and they sound great, although a little tipped up at first they needed a week or so break-in. I am using my TC-50's currently in my second system with ... | |
| Headphone I can stand for more than 1 hour Gee I kinda like my Stax Pro Lambna's, cost me $700 back in '90 and still going strong, I could never go back to dynamic type headphone the electrostatic is too revealing. They are big but not uncomfortable. Stax dedicated headphone tube amp is a ... | |
| Therapeutic music: I have EXACTLY that kind of hypontic,transporting, trancendental experience with the following favorites:1. Chick Corea's work with Flora Purim, and the title track to the Romantic Warrior RTF album2. Santana's Welcome album, and selected passages... | |
| Good ROCK speakers see if you can find a pair of used JBL's from the late 70's here or on ebay: models L-166,L-110, L150, or the big boys the L-200B L-220 or L-300. Rebuild them yourself (internal wiring, connectors)and get them re-coned. Forget about nuances, imagi... | |
| How did you get into this hobby? walked into the back room of Mace Electronics in Erie PA when I was 14 or so in 1975 and heard a pair of JBL L-200s and Marantz units playing Supertramp and the Eagles. My first amp was a JVC integrated 30 watter when I was 17, with a garrard turn... | |
| Buying LPs - where do you shop Since I moved to Georgia from New Jersey I no longer have access to my favorite used record store, the Princeton Record Exchange. I've been buying LP's on ebay for several years now, usually only UK,German or Japanese pressings. I only bid on list... | |
| Steely Dan - New release / June 10th When Two Against Nature first came out I was able to find a U.K. pressing limited edition, which sounds good but has just a slight bit of noise pressed into it, not the best ie virgin vinyl I've heard. I remember when Donald Fagen's 2nd solo album... | |
| Best relatively Compact Speakers in $2000 range?? Nothing beats the Ensemble Animata, I bought a pair used for $1300, but the problem is they almost never pop up used. I'm told they might be out of production now. | |
| Best Integrated amp for under 4k Rega Mira is a fine integrated amp hard to beat, just crummy input jacks (one of mine broke from a cardas interconnect) | |
| Any hi-end Aussie speakers or electronics? They say Duntechs are amoung the best and most neutral in the world.. | |
| High-End equipment for music peformance? I saw Keith Jarret's trio about 10 years ago or so and the bass player, either Dave Holland or Charlie Haden, don't recall which, playing upright bass with a pickup and a Cello, I'm not kidding, a Cello amplifier driving his bass bin. Too bad the ... | |
| Best Used Turntable for around 1K If you modify the Rega P-3, you will get better results: rewire the arm w/cardas wire, clips, cardas box w/rhodium jacks, use a golden cross interconnect to your phono pre. Then replace feet with walker audio valid points, then change mat to audio... |