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| Classical vinyl - Good sources of info and talk Rushton, what a great list! Many thanks. This should keep me occupied for a while.Ajahu, I certainly agree that, at the end of the day, it is both the quality of the piece and of the performance that matter. Yet, just as I would (generally) rather... | |
| Help in reducing distortion from old mono records. Ditto the Stravinsky conducting the Firebird. I think the later Columbia pressing of the complete Firebird in the 3-record box (with Rite, etc) is very good, and smoother sounding than the latest CD reissue (which contains some distortion in the l... | |
| 2nd hand classical Lps in London Back from London and 2 visits to Harold Moore's. Very nice people, many more records than I could even look at, and got every bit of my budget, and then some.Many thanks | |
| Help in reducing distortion from old mono records. I've gotten interested in some of the old mono classical records and noticed the same thing, occasionally. In 2 instances, I got 2nd copies of the same record, and found that the 2nd copy played much better. I talked to a couple of experienced dea... | |
| a record cleaning device and proper method I brought my classical records out of long storage, and was pleased that the ones I had cleaned with my VPI machine 15+ years ago (and kept in boxes in climate controlled storage) still sounded great. And the VPI still worked as well. I bought som... | |
| Discography of JVC K2 discs? I did a post a while back about comparing vinyl and CD versions of Miles Davis' Bags Groove. (I think that's which one it was...it's getting late.) Anyway, there were both XRCD and K2 versions. The K2 version appeared to be from a later remasterin... | |
| 2nd hand classical Lps in London Many thanks, Gents. I suspect, with the current exchange rates, that your suggestions will help me blow my budget rather quickly.Regards | |
| Am I getting it all? Islandmandan - You do raise an interesting point about vinyl--there does seem to be a wider range of sound among records than CDs. Funny that I don't recall that from record listening in the 80's. Thin, fat, muffled, bright...you never know. I don... | |
| Am I getting it all? Agree with Ncarv...a very good analog front end should smoke even superb digital. I'll take my Linn LP12, Koetsu Black, and Ear 834 over the digital I've had in my house most any day (at least on classical)--and that includes the EMM CDSA, the Lin... | |
| How did you get into vinyl? Same as DCStep, almost down to the timing. Got into (semi-) high end in the 80's, but by 1990, burned out on tubes, cartridges, step-ups, etc., went whole-hog into CD's (figuring they'd get them right soon enough)...yet last fall something came ov... | |
| Harbeth M30 vs. Super HL5 Kensetsu - Give it some time on the highs. As I think I noted above, I went from Vandersteens to the Harbeths and thought the Harbeths sounded a bit rolled off at first. After a couple of months, that concern vanished completely, and I realized I ... | |
| Size matters...need smaller speakers I downsized from floor standing Vandersteens to Harbeth Monitor 30's and am quite happy. The positive buzz about Harbeths is true--they are unusually musical. They image well, but some other speakers are more holographic. Yet their midrange is rea... | |
| Shelter 501 Mk II vs Koetsu Black I just replaced my 20 year old Koetsu Black with a new Koetsu Black. My turntable dealer (who tends to prefer Lynn and Lyra cartridges) remarked, after installing the cartridge on my Linn, "You've now got that Koetsu technicolor sound."I don't kno... | |
| Harbeth M30 vs. Super HL5 Kensetsu - Have you compared both speakers? I'd be curious about your thoughts, if you were able to do that. (Not many folks have, as far as I can tell.)As far as WAF goes, I'm allowing myself to get pulled into a partial kitchen remodel. Started ... | |
| Harbeth M30 vs. Super HL5 This has been a question of great interest to me, as an owner of the M-30's who is thrilled with the mid's, but wouldn't mind a bit more warmth. (This is a question that has come up before on this forum by the way, but without much response.)So, l... |