dgarretson
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| Steam Cleaning - RCM or not? I just started steam cleaning records with a hand-held Shark-- a great little $40 1000W steamer from Target on-line-- and a VPI 16.5 RCM. I can't imagine using steam without a RCM to ensure even application of steam and vacuum dry afterwards. | |
| How can you not have multichannel system Onhwy61 takes a nice approach in rationalizing the cost of building out mch around the nucleas of a high-end 2ch set-up, and in balancing the estimated cost of this upgrade against the limited availability of mch SACDs.Alternatively, it would be p... | |
| How can you not have multichannel system Agree with Tvad, and with few exceptions even the audiophile press seems disinterested. I can see how a mid-line Blu-Ray or SACD mch system might get broad traction across the HT segment, but that's about it."If done right, sacd multichannel music... | |
| How can you not have multichannel system I'm with MrT on this one. At the point where further upgrades to my 2ch system produce vanishing improvements to timbre, then I'd consider adding mch. But I never seem to arrive at that point. Admittedly, the qualities of timbral accuracy and spat... | |
| Best Albums of 2008 on Vinyl Spencer, to your question about "demonstration-quality" sonics, I'll add the Emmylou Harris double-LP "All I Intended to Be"(Nonesuch). To my ear she has the best female voice in all of popular music. The 180g vinyl sounds fantastic except for sli... | |
| Best Albums of 2008 on Vinyl Most of the better sounding LPs are on Matador and New West, both of which seem recently to be mastering and pressing at a consistently high level. Helm records on his own high-quality label affiliated with Vanguard. For realistic instruments in a... | |
| Best Albums of 2008 on Vinyl "Lots of good stuff but was there anything great?"Good question. Of 15 or so memorable LPs, the ones I would consider great or near-great are Dylan "Tell Tale Signs", Levon Helm "Dirt Farmer", and Pretenders "Break Up the Concrete."Honorable menti... | |
| AT&T cables with ST-BNC connectrs does it work ? You might be OK if you can determine whether you have multi-mode or single-mode ST, and then select a transceiver with the correct orientation(i.e. transmitter or receiver.) However my knowledge is not strong enough to know whether all FO transcei... | |
| AT&T cables with ST-BNC connectrs does it work ? What you're probably thinking of is a BNC-to-multimode AT&T ST fiber optic media converter. It's an external powered device with an integrated transceiver that, depending on implementation, may or may not be compatible end-to-end with the FO t... | |
| VPI Rim Drive vs. belt drive sound files "I would love to see how much better the rim drive is over a string drive. I'm sure it would be a closer contest overall."Or possibly worse than string, in view of the fact that VPI's implementation of rim drive retains several soft rubber belts. | |
| Top Jazz Albums of 2008 My CDP was down for part of the year so I missed a few, but some 2008 fav releases were:Lee Konitz: Deep LeeDonald Bailey: Blueprints of Jazz Vol. 3Bobo Stenson Trio: CantandoKetil Bjornstad/Terge Rypdal: Live in LeipzigNik Bartsch's Ronin: HalonT... | |
| Record Clamps? In addition to coupling the record to the platter, a clamp can be effective in changing the resonant signature of the spindle bearing assembly & drawing off bearing noise that would otherwise be conducted through platter to stylus. For this re... | |
| Audio Research Reference 3 and BAT spec 6H30 I only have experience comparing NOS 6H30DR to new- production Sovtek 6H30 in a VK75SE. In that amp there is only minor improvement with DR, which diminishes as the tube ages. In my amp a fresh Sovtek surpassed a DR after about 1500 hours of use. ... | |
| Metronome Tech It looks like a fairly standard Amphenol type connector:http://www.alliedelec.com/Catalog/pf.aspx?FN=155.pdf | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil I wouldn't pay too much attention to that URL. Perhaps the results were application-specific-- who knows what quality of other parts were in his test preamp or what compensations he needed in a filtering cap. I've used Elna Silmic(admittedly origi... |