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| Turntable Platter Demagnetizing True Geoff, one exception being the original (not the Mk.2 version, however) Thorens TD-124, which has a ferrous sub-platter, making it unsuitable for use with Decca/London cartridges. | |
| best phono stage to mate with a London Decca Super Gold cart? Excellent Norm! Let us now how you like it, ay? | |
| Best Rock Drummers Speaking of Keith Moon, in the late 60’s and early 70’s Jazz was starting to infiltrate Rock, with drummers having "rudimentary" training making their appearance. Jazz musicians had traditionally looked down their noses at Rock players, as those p... | |
| best phono stage to mate with a London Decca Super Gold cart? I got my VTPH-1mm directly from Keith. He had taken in a -1mc in trade on a VTPH-2, and offered to convert it to a -1mm for me. I told Keith I was using it with a London cartridge, and wanted as little gain and as much overhead as the amp was capa... | |
| "Vintage" high end gear vs new and upgrade path? Speaking of Maggies, the Tympani line of Magneplanars is a special case. The speaker had become too expensive to manufacture to allow Magnepan to continue offering it without raising the speakers retail price above either A: what they wanted to (t... | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? Ah yes swampwater, the dying art of subtly and taste. It's what separates the men from the boys. | |
| best phono stage to mate with a London Decca Super Gold cart? Yeah John, the K & K looks very interesting (as does the budget TRON). ARJ, the input resistance is easily changed with the installation of a 15k to 22k resistor on the inside of the phono amp, on the input jacks. | |
| Best Rock Drummers I see that many (though not all) Audiogon members judge drummers by the same yardstick the general public does: technical "chops". There are other considerations, ya know.In the Big Band era, one drummer was chosen by band leaders above all others... | |
| Ramones mixed with BW 801 at Abbey Road.. Back to Mono! That seems very appropriate for The Ramones. I'm gettin 'it! I like their second, third, and fourth albums even more (Marky is a much more "muscular" drummer than is Tommy), but the first is great too. | |
| Magnepan 20.7 Larry, what do you consider near field distance? I listen at 8' from speakers usually, anything closer being what I consider near field. But big panels like Maggies make the same distance seem closer than do smaller speakers. | |
| Audio and the acoustic therapy of spaces Love it Tom! | |
| When will there be decent classical music recordings? The difficulty in recording and reproducing large orchestras is why old-timers like J. Gordon Holt considered reproducing such recordings the ultimate challenge and test of a music system's capabilities. For the exact reason Al just explained, get... | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? Excellent swampwater! Speaking of Pat McLaughlin, he is himself a fine songwriter, singer, and guitarist, with some great recordings worth seeking out. | |
| best phono stage to mate with a London Decca Super Gold cart? UK reviewer Ken Kessler of Hi-Fi News is a longtime Decca devotee, and has praised Glenn Croft many times, including his phono designs for use with Deccas/Londons. And Croft, being intimately familiar with the cartridges, may have his own preferen... | |
| best phono stage to mate with a London Decca Super Gold cart? What the Decca/London's need is not much gain (40dB is plenty) and lots of headroom. Their 5mV output is way too hot for lots of phono stages. For solid state, the Liberty B2B-1 has both, John Atkinson finding it's overload margin about as high as... |