orpheus10
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| Jazz for aficionados Everything must change, the young become the old, and the old will soon depart; change is the only thing that's certain about life. If you want to know what's good about changes in jazz, look no farther than Cuba; the most scintillating "Afro jazz... | |
| The great Phil Woods has passed. He was one of the great ones, and he will be missed.As hard as I've tried, I still can not make the transition from old to new; his version of "Stolen Moments" is "old school" and I could listen to it all night long, going deeper and deeper into t... | |
| DYI cable Belden had some microphone cable that I bought by the 100 foot reel to make interconnects, and somebody paid them to quit making it. That cable was a combination of silver and copper. You start with the wire. Vampire Wire will sell you some good w... | |
| primer on buying vintage tubes? I like Brent Jesse. Mullards last a long time, my 6922's are good after many years, and the good thing about NOS tubes is they don't sag, meaning lose their sparkle, while current production tubes lose their sparkle in a hurry. There's no doubt ab... | |
| Best Female Vocalists Ballads I'll second Shirley Horn, and you can add "Cecile McLorin Salvant". | |
| Repair or mod CJ PV-12? Detredwings, all the people who can not hold a soldering iron or read a schematic think everyone else is so afflicted, consequently we have to overlook and at the same time understand the basis for their inability to comprehend what we have presen... | |
| Repair or mod CJ PV-12? Tubegroover, I also own a PV-10A and I have sent it in for mods and upgrade, plus bought sets of tubes. This is the first time me and CJ have conflicted; while it's good for a company to have a policy, I don't think they should blindly adhere to i... | |
| Repair or mod CJ PV-12? Frogman, no one has impugned CJ's reputation for refusing to sell me a transformer, we simply find it unreasonable.I am a technician whose bad back is acting up, and to pack this unit and take it to the post office would be a hardship at the momen... | |
| Repair or mod CJ PV-12? Rok, it's good to hear from you. Once we've been to New York, they can no longer keep us down on the farm."Harmon Kardon", the high end of mid fi, right there at the top of "Stereo Review's" list. "Receivers"? Do they still make those?Do you have ... | |
| Repair or mod CJ PV-12? Frogman, it's good to hear from you! I found George on "you tube", and he's pretty good on bass for a guy who builds amplifiers.Thanks for your input. | |
| Repair or mod CJ PV-12? Detredwings, you brought up a very valid point, the "CJ glow" as we called it, is special, and does not exist on current models; they went to that sterile sound the reviewers decided was best. As we know, trombones sound "trombonier" and saxes sou... | |
| Repair or mod CJ PV-12? While it's very unusual for a transformer to go bad it happened, one of the windings went open. This was very easy to confirm with an ohm meter. Replacing the transformer would be a piece of cake, especially since I left the color coded wires atta... | |
| Repair or mod CJ PV-12? Tubegroover and Detredwings, thanks for the invaluable advice; I would replace the transformer my self if I could find one. CJ won't sell one, and I don't know where else to go. Since the mod people can probably get a transformer, that could be in... | |
| Primaluna & Klipsch Cornwall frustration HELP I have Primaluna mono blocks 70 watts, and 150 watts SS at high volume has better definition and bass; but, and here is a big but, the Primaluna sounds better; however, if you crank up the volume on the Primaluna, it loses some definition.The solu... | |
| looking at upgrading my tonearm from a triplanar While I'm quite familiar with what the "Triplaner" looks like, I've never seen a "Durand Talea", I decided to look it up.Heres the site for the famed "Durand Talea"; http://www.durand-tonearms.com/Whattheysay/whattheysay.htmlIt sure is pretty, now... |