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| What is your dream turntable? The Walker Audio Proscenium for us. We still haven't heard anything that would lead us in a different direction.. | |
| Why 45RPM's reissues numbered and not numbered? The first 1000 are numbered. After that, not numbered through the rest of the production run. There's no difference in quality. As with any LP production, the earlier the pressing made from a given stamper, and the earlier the stamper, the better ... | |
| Thoughts on cartridge loading with a SUT. Welcome, Dave. And thanks for the very informative post, even for a non-user of transformers. Your level of contribution is what makes this a great place to share information and experiences.Regards, | |
| MoFi enzyme based cleaner and pure rinse Tgb and Chashmal, just a point of clarification if I may. The Walker Audio Prelude Step Three solution is "just" very pure water with no additives (to say it's "just" purified water is to greatly understate the steps taken to create this water). I... | |
| Walker Audio Prelude Record Cleaning Question - Johnny/42659, I have done careful comparisons on the water used for the rinse step. In my listening comparisons, the UltraPure water made a SIGNIFICANT improvement over standard distilled water (such as readily available from the grocery store or ... | |
| What's the Best LP You Bought in 2008 Many good LPs arrived here this year. To choose just one:Fone 016, Rossini Overtures, Myung-Whun Chung and the Orchestra dell'Accademica Nazionale di Santa CeciliaA 45 rpm disc with just 16 minutes of music, but what delightful music making it con... | |
| Has anyone listened to the Fone 45rpm LPs? Thanks, Eziodoc. I finally picked up a few and have been contemplating adding the Piazzolla.. | |
| PC sugguestions for Atma-sphere amps and preamp Silent Source Signature power cords are working very well here on a pair of MA-2 amps.. | |
| break in tips Play music, as Cruz123 says. Gently for the first 100 hours. Then with more dynamic, full range and complex music thereafter. Plan on 300-400 hours for a full range speaker with high quality drivers. If you play vinyl, don't expect that playing CD... | |
| audiophile recordings of 12 tone/serialist works Nonesuch is a gold mine for American contemporary classical music recordings. Much of their contemporary music catalog was recorded by the outstanding producer and recording engineer team of Joanna Nickrenz and Marc Aubort, and then mastered by Ro... | |
| audiophile recordings of 12 tone/serialist works Donald Martino is an interesting composer, imo. Here are a couple of links, including an obituary (unfortunately):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Martinohttp://www.dantalian.com/donald_martino_bio_picture.htmObituary, December 2005. | |
| audiophile recordings of 12 tone/serialist works Here are a few more, keeping to the 12 tone/serialist genre... Babbitt..Three Compositions for Piano, Taub -pf (Harmonia Mundi HMC 5160) Berg..Three Pieces for Orchestra, op6, Dorati/LSO (Mercury SR 90316 Speakers Corner) Fetler, Paul..Contrasts f... | |
| Blues from the 50s/60s/70s Jorsan,I'm sorry you received these first two responses to your post and I understand your feelings. From other posts I've seen from Crem1, I suspect his intent was humor and not to be unkind. And that's the challenge for us all in these forums: m... | |
| Blues from the 50s/60s/70s Jorsan, among many alternatives, here are some suggestions:Wild Child Butler Sho' 'Nuff (Analogue Productions APO 2015 -45) Wild Child Butler (Analogue Productions APO 004) Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon The Blues Every Which Way (Verve V6-3007... | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-1 filter cap upgrade Grateful, if you move forward with the update, please share with us what you hear afterwards. Best wishes, |