zaikesman
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Esquivel - "Cabaret Manana" [RCA/BMG CD comp. '95, rec. '58-'67]Esquivel - "More Of Other Worlds, Other Sounds" [Reprise CD reissue, orig. '62]Bill Holman - "Big Band In A Jazz Orbit" [V.S.O.P. CD reissue '87, orig. Andex '58]Pink Floyd - "Soundtr... | |
| Does EAR324 phono stage sound like tubes ? Hi Shoshis, assuming you're listening to MC mode in the "15 ohm" or "4 ohm" positions through a full-range system, then that sounds like you've probably got a quiet unit there, but I'll add that the hum, if you had any, wouldn't be most apparent t... | |
| Does EAR324 phono stage sound like tubes ? The 324's MM facility would certainly seem to have more attention lavished on it than is usually the case with high priced MC-capable phonoamps. This leaves me the possibility of trying a good MM or MI cart, or using an outboard SUT -- disappointi... | |
| Does EAR324 phono stage sound like tubes ? Hi Isanchez, thanks for your input. Your experience with hum sounds similar to mine.I think this finding of hum could be somewhat system-dependent. Not that the 324 only has hum in certain systems (although it's possible that certain 324's have mo... | |
| Does EAR324 phono stage sound like tubes ? Hi all, I recently acquired an EAR 324 myself, and think it sounds very fine, musically speaking. (My previous phonostage was a PSA GCPH -- obviously not in the same league price-wise, but I insist on mono and polarity switches in addition to exte... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Frank Sinatra & Count Basie - "Sinatra-Basie" [Reprise LP '63]Frank Sinatra - "Sinatra & Swingin' Brass" [Reprise LP '62] Arr. Neal HeftiDon Elliott - "A Musical Offering By..." [ABC-Paramount '56] Arr. Quincy JonesJ.J. Johnson & Kai W... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Peggy Lee - "Black Coffee With..." [Decca LP '56]Anita O'Day - "Swings Cole Porter With Billy May" [Verve LP '58]Anita O'Day/Gary McFarland Orchestra - "All The Sad Young Men" [Verve LP '62]Horace Silver Quintet - "6 Pieces Of Silver" [Blue Note L... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Sorry E, I obviously misunderstood your post of 11/08 -- didn't notice that you had written "Janis Ian" in quotes as a separate title, thought you were talking about the '70's Columbia album instead. (Which, if I was a fan of her 70's work, I woul... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hey E, the other week Janis Ian's self-titled '67 debut LP on Verve/Forecast was in heavy rotation here. I don't really dig most of her stuff I've heard after that one, but I didn't realize that the title you mention, which was released in the mid... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Well, I had to return the SUT, after it became apparent (and carefully controlled tests proved) that the transformer in each channel did not sound the same as the other (I liked one, the other not as much). I'm currently plotting to try another...... | |
| SUT shootout Cool thread, the subject of which I'm only just beginning to investigate (tried a CineMag, liked it OK but wound up returning it for tangential reasons, at least for the time being).But while Dougdeacon has apparently long since moved on from SUTs... | |
| What if you designed your ultimate speaker? Hey, if it worked, it should work well with my proposed speaker design, eliminating the imaging concerns! I think it should be built from cement-filled cinderblocks, and could also serve as a panic room. Or maybe accidentally prove that sound is a... | |
| What if you designed your ultimate speaker? Hi C1ferrari: I never thought about a plasma microphone. That's wild, and might well be more executable than a full-range plasma driver. How it would sound compared with conventional microphones, who knows? Very interesting. (What I have thought a... | |
| What if you designed your ultimate speaker? C1ferrari and Mapman: Interesting ideas both. Has either been tried? Is either possible? I would assume at least Mapman's is, and it seems to me that a Walsh driver in particular may stand to benefit from a possibly more physically compact motor, ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? A day's worth of playing later and the new SUT shows virtually no losses now, which is impressive since there's another set of interconnects involved. I'm not sure yet if it sounds like an unequivocal, significant improvement on running straight i... |