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| Isolation for turntables Another method is to put a supporting concrete pile under your house directly under the turntable - although I concede this is not always practical. Since the Oracle is sprung, then any additional compliant isolation will cause sonic degradation t... | |
| Soul Recommendations I just discovered "The Baby Huey Story" - wow, gutbucket and Memphis is it Jayboard? I like it. And James Brown's Funky Divas album is cool too. The record stores here are experiencing a boom in soul sales right now. | |
| "Burn in" Are you serious? And how come my buddy says he enjoys music on my gear, is he just humouring me? Or does listening to each others' stereo three times in the last three months constitute burning our brains in. Something does not compute. | |
| "Burn in" Are you serious? Call me a fool, but I can't help myself, I have to re-enter this debate... oh please stop me Lord!!! If burn-in was just getting used to the sound, then my system must be really bad. Because this means the unmusical sound I heard when I first plug... | |
| Shelf Material - Neuance I really like the new Patricia Barber - "Nightclub" is it? Have not heard the Burns Sisters but will check it out. I have driven my self to distraction auditioning different shelf materials, different racks, different interfaces between rack and s... | |
| Results of granite platforms for Silverl Thanks for the suggestions, and particularly the kind offer Jadem6. I think I have finally found a way to get some Maple Butchers Block and so I can compare it with the Neuance shelf (which is great by the way). I will definitely report back when ... | |
| "Burn in" Are you serious? Boy do I get tired of these endless and pointless debates on whether or not someone's opinion about their own experience is deluded or real. What do you hope to gain - petty points scoring? Certainly noone is winning any of these debates. Some bel... | |
| "Krell" is a buzzword It is fair to say that there have been some reliability problems with Alfas, it all depends on how long your memory is - even in recent years, like a 164 I had where the switches needed to be cleaned or replaced every few years. But mechanically t... | |
| "Krell" is a buzzword And I would like that Spyder. Sometimes I think the most thrilling auditory event is opening the throttle on the Alfa at about 90mph. | |
| Shelf Material Sol322, I am in two minds over the suspension thing. It isolates a shelf from a rack pretty well, but whatever you use to suspend the shelf has a sound of its own, a bit like a plucked string. I did have success with the Neuance shelf as well as d... | |
| Help me find a smooth solid-state amp? If that front end is a Pioneer DV525 - then the DAC in it is bright and mechanical/electronic sounding. Warming it up will not fix the fact that the front end has sucked natural harmonic balance out of the music. A decent DAC or another CD player ... | |
| Shelf Material - Neuance You misunderstand me Sean. My reference to up-pointed spikes was the interface between the rack and the shelf. The two reasonable ways to do this is with up-pointed spikes or a soft bumper of some kind. I was referring to the fact that up-pointed ... | |
| "Krell" is a buzzword Hi Sedond and Jim. Three Alfas is truly impressive and am humbled with only two. My days of being my own mechanic in order to be able to afford commuting while indulging my eccentric taste in sports cars, are over. So I stick to the newer stuff, a... | |
| Results of granite platforms for Silverl I only wish I could get my hands on some Maple Butchers Block - too far away here in NZ. | |
| Soul Recommendations Of course, Junior is a blues man, I should have said I ALSO hear a lot of soul in him (but not much in the Telarc rubbish he did). Listen to James Brown and then Junior and tell me you do not hear it. I have always admired Ray Charles but have not... |