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| Record cleaner I've found that the Deep Cleaner followed by nothing works just fine for me. That's in a vacuum machine. | |
| Personal turntable/cartridge evolution Voice of Music changer w. Astatic flip-overSherwood belt drive w. Ortofon>Blue PointAR/Merrill w. Blue Point>Special>V-15Scout w. Dynavector>GradoHm, not too many for all those years. | |
| Personal CD player evolution Magnavox(?) (implementation of well rated phillips) 1987NEC 1990 (expensive and well built but sounded brittle)Optimus 3400 1994External DAC and tube smoother thing to Optimus 1996.Sony XA20ES 1998 | |
| Personal amp evolution Marantz 4430Technics SA-somethingFisher (offshore period - poor)Yamaha AX-something (not at all bad)Dynaco ST-120 (blew it up while modding)Jolida 302 (one of the first made; enjoyable)Golden Tube Audio SE40 (pair running as mono blocks; pain to l... | |
| McIntosh MA6500 phono section? It's very decent. It's not a stand-alone high dollar phono stage, but it's easily good for your front end (which I also owned, but not at the same time as the MA6500), and I'd never characterize it as thin. | |
| Can DK design MKII drive the Magenapan MG1.6 well? Isn't anyone concerned at all about frying the 1.6's with too much power? The DK is rated at 320 watts into 4 ohms. | |
| LP storage? What do you use? I notice Ikea now has something called the Markor. I haven't yet inspected in person, but it looks like it should be perfect: cheap, more than 12" deep, five evenly spaced shelves high, the bottom shelf several inches off the floor, and doesn't lo... | |
| How are the blue note RVG CD's? Excellent -- and unusual - interview with RVG in Tape Op one or two issues back. | |
| KLH Model 12 Speaker? I have some model 12s with pretty decent enclosures but I think the tweeters and maybe some of the mids are not working. If you're still out there, maybe we should get together. If you're not, I'm open to other suggestions. Otherwise, they're goin... | |
| LP storage? What do you use? Cheap, but doesn't sound perfect. The shelves are too shallow. Yeah, you can use it, but it'll look sloppier and provide less dust protection. | |
| Which CD side to touch the plastic sleeve? Check out the Univenture "archival" sleeves, available from Bags Unlimited and elsewhere. They have a cotton (actually, polymer) sleeve inside the vinyl, so both sides of the CD are against the soft stuff. | |
| LP storage? What do you use? The EXPEDIT looks like a great solution, but is rated for only 29 lbs per 13 inch shelf. Records would weigh far more. I'm afraid to risk it.Check out the offering at www.GothicCabinetCraft.com. Seems to be the best shelf-type solution I've found. | |
| Your top 10 vinyl LPs that never made it to CD The Clown is available in a very nicely done budget-priced edition.I've found that everytime I track down an lp that I'd been seeking at a not insane price for years, it comes out on CD within a few months. And usually low-priced and well remaster... | |
| Do you rember your first? First component I bought was a Fisher CR-4013 (?) dual-speed cassette deck. Before that I'd owned various suitcase portables.First time I was blown away by sound quality was a pair of AR 9s I heard at a store in the mall. I don't remember what was... | |
| The best books on music Some of my favorites are The Sinatra Reader; Friedlander's The Song is You; Hajdu's book on Baezes, Dylan, Farina; and E. Von Schmidt's Baby Let Me Carry You Down. |