zazouswing
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| Looking for good recordings of female vocals I have not yet tried... Margie Day - worked a lot w/ Griffey Bros Orchestra. Ella Johnson - w/ Buddy Johnson A few I enjoy but are definitely an acquired taste: Circus 2000 Amon Duul 2 / Slapp Happy Marina P | |
| Indentical measurments = Identical performance? @erik_squires +1. It’s called Occam’s Razor. Been around for a while. Was the basis of the scientific reasoning that created the tools that take the measurements. Now that we have the tools, we forget about the principals. It would be funny in any... | |
| Finally made the transition to a tube preamp! Welcome aboard. I’m not certain I agree with @blisshifi - at least that hasn’t been my experience. I find the amplifiers are more forgiving and the lower voltages in the phono and pre stages are more prone to tube noise. This is why tubes tha... | |
| Playing with Cartirdge loading on my phono stage Tuning by ear is the way to go here, as others have said. 10x the internal resistance of the cartridge puts you on the edge of pinching the signal - that is decreasing the volume by resistance instead decreasing it by lowering the gain. Once you g... | |
| How did 70s rock music transition into 80s music? Lots of good bands listed here, but one swallow doesn’t make a summer, and I believe that’s the point. My gut is that a combination of technology (synths), corporate investments, MTV elevating sounds based on what the bands looked like, and a gene... | |
| How many plays can you get out of a good record? I’d say if your using good equipment and listening to the same disc enough to mater, you need to get more records. | |
| NRG The 5 Power Cable There was an extensive cable shoot out published a while back. They spoke highly of the cable - and it was about the only cable on the list I could possibly afford. I’ve had my eye on it ever since - but no real word experience. | |
| What I really hate about some music While I agree lyrics are important - and bad lyrics can quickly ruin an otherwise excellent song - keep in mind most rules are made to be broken. Listen to CAN and tell me what you think of repetitive lyrics. Also, 12 bar blues is a structure and ... | |
| Added an SUT...not sure I understood this Your tx is 1:10. Take what the input resistance is at the phono preamp - it should be 47k, and divide it by 100 (10 squared). That is 470 ohms if you have 47k. This number should be at least 10 times the internal resistance of the cartridge. I sus... | |
| Roots, a question for younger audiophiles, how did you start your journey? After collecting records for 20 years, and finding Needle Doctor on line as a source for my DJ decks, I caught the bug with a simple pair of Dali bookshelf speakers. Then, when looking for an upgraded source, I thought the amplifier should use pre... | |
| I need advice on a 300b tube Does your new amp have individual bias pots, or does it have auto bias or just one shared pot? Does it have hum pots? | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Dark - Round the Corners. I usually run away from proper Prog-Rock like a dog who just got out of the yard - but man, that fuzztone guitar work. An album stuck between genre’s for sure. JassStereo’s Henry Red Allen / Coleman Hawkins discs. I l... | |
| Chime in if you bought a second table that cost a fraction of your main table. My guess is that most of the responses will be something like ‘OK, I guess’. For me, my main system itself is somewhat modest. 2 tables, 3 arms, Groovemaster w/ Miyajima carts. I can listen to 78’s, 16” transcription records, and stereo recordings... | |
| Which would you choose for good sounding tube preamp for an audiophile new to tubes. I’ve had a lot of luck with the Icon Audio gear. Currently using an LA 4 in one system. They don’t get a lot of attention here and I’m not certain why. I would make certain whatever you get is tube rectified. I’m generally of the impression that a... | |
| Proper set up: worth the chase I’ve always operated under the general impression that we get stuck on the math associated with voltage but ignore resistance. I started a resistance block diagram of my system and was able to identify and correct some mis-matches to a great impro... |