zaikesman
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Returning my recent purchase of the Beach Boys' "SMiLE" on 2LP due to high distortion levels in the pressing (inner bands, side 2 only, but not always the quietest surfaces elsewhere either). Noise and distortion issues aside however, IMO the soun... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Marian McPartland - "A Delicate Balance" [Halcyon LP '72]Duke Ellington - "...Meets Coleman Hawkins" [Impulse! stereo LP '63]Michel Legrand - "Legrand Jazz" [Columbia mono LP '58]James Moody - "Last Train From Overbrook" [Argo mono LP '58] As deta... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Gee, whadya think God talking to Noah sounds like over a good hi-fi?I myself am partial to Nichols & May, and Derek & Clive (for the uninitiated, Dudley Moore and Peter Cook, being very naughty indeed). | |
| Why aren't the older members still active ? No wonder I've never gone to any of my high school reunions ;^) | |
| Why aren't the older members still active ? Good call there MJ on Mr. Lyons, one of my old faves for sure. If memory serves, I believe I may have been the first member to respond to him on the occasion of his first contribution to a thread.Anyway, speaking for myself, as much as anything I ... | |
| Why aren't the older members still active ? See any names you remember and wonder what happened to them?Albert: Yes, although to be fair a few, such as Elizabeth, Russ and Dan, haven't really left from what I can see. But I don't look (lurk?) very often, I was lucky to find this thread. (Al... | |
| Garage Band Hangover Good on ya, SM! For an audiophile, you're alright. Speaking of Texas, check out the Moving Sidewalks' version of "I Want To Hold Your Hand". (Yes, the Beatles are my #1 band of all time -- and most of this great American garage stuff you're talkin... | |
| Do you ever wonder? I too am not a fan of anyone in Audiofeil's list, nor own anything by them. (And I could say the same about almost anything and everything played on popular radio these days, irrespective of genre.) But that's not the same as asking how they can m... | |
| Magnepan 3.7's versus 20.1's? FWIW, my local and longtime Maggie dealer, when I asked him this very same question on my last visit, indicated that he did think the 3.7 competed with the 20.1 in certain ways (and was a worthwhile improvement from the 3.6, a speaker I greatly ad... | |
| Why aren't the older members still active ? I'm still here (to a greatly reduced degree -- credit burn-out), and I still listen to plenty of 60's "garage" rock (including the more obscure, largely local type -- not what the respondents to your thread thought was garage-band music). Somethin... | |
| What is the best Reel To Reel machine ever built? Even though I myself won't be pursuing R2R (not enough easily available material I'm interested in to play), one thing I would be curious about is what these R2R worthies think of the vinyl vs. tape comparison. Too often, it seems to me, the magic... | |
| Who tweaks VTF too? Gotcha, Dan_ed! : ) | |
| Who tweaks VTF too? Gosh no Joe, I'm nowhere near organized enough for that, I just go by ear for any particular record on any particular day. But since I assume some of this has to do with room temperature, which varies (and presumably little to do with such potenti... | |
| Who tweaks VTF too? Update: 800 page views now, but still no affirmative responses that anyone else tweaks VTF to suit individual records. | |
| Stand out phono stages Duanedam: I have no experience with the Steelhead, but based on comparisons I've read between it and the EAR 324, I'm surprised, to say the least, that you felt the GCPH is that close to the Steelhead, particularly with an MC cart. (I found the GC... |