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I need a female jazz vocalist. No Krall, No Norah
The latest one I've recently listened to and can't realy stop listening is LHasa singing spanish in latin romance style.The sexiest and the most attractive voice I've ever heard. 
How often do you demagnitize your MC cartridge?
In most cases it's not recommended. The cartridge normally must be magnetized. Even if you believe on such drastical improvements tend to do it not any often than twice per year no matter how often you play your records.Don't ever do it with MM ca... 
I need a female jazz vocalist. No Krall, No Norah
Patricia Kaas (french blues, chanson)Meridith Monk (innovative vocal jams)Lisa Gerrard (sophisticated vocal from Dead Can Dance)Diana Schuur she's just for 'schuur'!Flora Purim (latin fusion)Cesaria Evora (latin fusion)Sade (smooth jazz)Basia (ele... 
How to ship albums?
If you're planning selling them separately, than bags unlimited www.bagsunlimited.com is the way to go.Please place the record outside the jacket. Preferably have a jacket plastic sleeve as well if you want to preserve jacket good. Place your reco... 
Tube Biasing in Amplifiers
Newbee,In general I wouldn't say that this is an imagination but closer to truth but not to all tubes and tube components. In general I can state that higher bias current almost identically to transistors bring tubes to more stable and distortionl... 
tubes with thiel, meadowlark or revel
Drubin,Zaikesman has more powerful MB180 but I suspect that 3.6 need something like MB225 or MB450. 
Bi amping with Tube and Solid State
Murph...,Your suggestions seem to be fine but you're still facing a "double-degradation" using passive crossovers on two sides amplifier and speaker-embedded.A capacitor tended to bring more distortions than any active element so mainly a lot of e... 
Tube Biasing in Amplifiers
Please, be noted folks that if there's too much under-bias the mismatch with transformer primary circuit load may take place that can also affect negatively on tube life and sonics. 
Tube Biasing in Amplifiers
actually vtls do have a margin down to 25ma so it realy won't hurt. 
tubes with thiel, meadowlark or revel
Despite VTL doesn't have 2Ohm taps it can drive difficult 2-ohms loads. It has a transformer that is stable to 2Ohms.Power is certainly not enough but models such as MB180 or MB225 can handle these speakers as any SS amp.Coinsident speakers IMO ca... 
Grading records.
You can grade jacket as not mint. or Mint- with comments on cut-out.You needn't grade the sealed record.I had an exception when I got the record from the sealed jacket with scratches and was greatly pissed with large question mark on my face when ... 
Cleaning Records
If I went through 4yanx steps I would spend a full calendar year to clean my vinyl collection only with sleap and eat breaks.If a record qualify for "STEP ONE" I simply ignore taking care of this record and look for replacement.Otherwise it takes ... 
Marketing Ideas
With great fishing season during the rain I feel I need to upgrade my cheap stock reel so idea of Gon fishin' is definitely great. Any ideas for a good inexpencive one within $50...$100? 
How important is powercord synergy?
Mootsdude,I know well of design of Quicksilvers you're about to get. The AC issues are all taken care of inside the unit and less-likely you will gain something going through the powercord game.You're about to get the unit of one of the finest qua... 
Are Dealer Recommendations Useful or Useless?
Well folks,Good mentioning of con-sult but it's not realy the point.A dealer can "hook-up" a millionair guy or his careless wife to enter the house, look-up arround to build-up >$100k AV system and what was realy notable the wires are used the ...