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| System Opinion, Fritz and AVA Fritz (or others), what stands are recommendable for the Carbon 7s? | |
| Bass and Bass Traps Are bass traps any less effective if they're behind furniture or other items? | |
| VPI Headshell weight question Any reason why I can't use a $3 Technics weight rather than the $15 VPI one. In both cases I'm talking about the one that screws in as a spacer, not the little round ones that sits atop the headshell. | |
| Golden Tube Audio SE-40 I had a pair. Never had any reliability problems (nor with my SEP-1). But I didn't think they were very user friendly with the hassle to bias them from the bottom and the cost of retubing relative to the value of the unit. But I do miss their sound. | |
| Analog to Digital I like to keep my computer and my 2-ch system far away from each other. A totally different, and very satisfactory, way to go is to use a digital recorder with removeable media. It stays in the system all the time and is quick and easy to use, jus... | |
| Solid state recorders There are several choices now using several different types of solid state storage. Look at the Tascams too. The Marantz is aimed more at broadcast/news markets. The use for home audio is to have a convenient and high quality recorder sitting in y... | |
| Who makes a good CD recorder? I used to use a Sony "Pro" rack mount component recorder. Very, very good recordings. Lots of features. To copy records for the car or a friend it was much more convenient and somewhat faster than computer recording. I sold it to downsize but I ma... | |
| Whats the most you paid? Most I ever paid was ~$30 for Classic Records and DCC pressings in the 90s.Best deal would have to be $1.49 for Szigeti Bach Sonatas and Partitas set in a very nice original pressing just last year.A clean Riverside 10" of Blind Lemon Jefferson's ... | |
| Monitor speaker that will stop the Quest? After more than a year, I'm really enjoying the heck out of my Fritz Carbon's.When I first got them, they obviously did a lot of things really well, but I heard a vocal glare that really disappointed me. I heard it, but for the most part it wasn't... | |
| Your First Concert was..... Gladys Night & the Pips at Westbury (NY) Music Fair. | |
| Kind Of Blue 1st pressing stereo... I gave my copy away to a thrift shop for the tax deduction. Someone probably bought it for $1. | |
| The Bad Plus - where to start? Prog.Get it real cheap right now at oldies.com | |
| Blues records article in Sunday NY Times I see "The Stuff. . ." is in the Times article. Hope it helps Yazoo's sales so they put out a Vol. 2. Good article by the way, thanks for the head's up. | |
| Blues records article in Sunday NY Times Luckily, lots of this material has become available from Yazoo and others. I recommend everyone who is interested in exploring the ultra-rare pre-war 78 game check out a 2-cd set called "The Stuff that Dreams Are Made Of" and a disc called "Down I... | |
| New vinyl's noisy little secret Mapman - Be sure your stylus isn't chipped or damaged and scraping the groove. |