rushton
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Spending a final day of vacation listening to some marvelous recordings that demonstrate the value of the time and effort we put into getting our systems to sound as good as we can get them to sound:Beethoven, Symphony No. 7, Kajski/PolishChmPO, T... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Yes, this has been a really nice thread, Joe. It's been a real pleasure to read what others are playing and share some suggestions as we play stuff in our music library. This evening we've been listening to: Vieuxtemps - "Violin Concerto No. 5" Br... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? "Antiphone Blues" (Proprius 7744) in honor of Arne Domnerus, the Swedish saxophonist who died this past Monday at the age of 83. A wonderfully unusual combination of jazz saxophone and organ (particularly at the time originally recorded in 1974); ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Simon & Garfunkel - "Bookends" (Columbia KCS 9529) in an early 2-eye red label pressing. This 40-year old LP has been played to death on low-fi equipment and it still sounds great tonight! (My listening partner wouldn't head off to bed until w... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Listening right now to a delightful performance of Beethoven's 7th Symphony: Kajski conducting the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Tacet L 149. A very lithe, dynamic performance; and the all tube recording chain makes for a unique sonic qua... | |
| What amps for Maggies? The Wolcott mono block amps and the Atma-Sphere MA-2 OTL mono blocks both drive the Magneplanar 3.6s very well. Excellent matches to this speaker.. | |
| CJ CAV50 - triode vs ultralinear "All in one mode" -- Atma-Sphere Triode OTL amplifiers. They are able to do it all in a single package when coupled with compatible speakers.. | |
| Recommend Classical Piano LP's Any of Ivan Moravec's recordings of Chopin on the Connoisseur Society label - excellent recordings of performances by a master. Nomura Nojima's recordings of Ravel on Reference Recordings - a classic recording. | |
| CJ CAV50 - triode vs ultralinear Tvad's comments match my experience with other triode/ultrlinear switchable amps. Love 'em in triode for chamber and small ensemble jazz for the harmonic "rightness", nuance and delicacy they deliver. Switch to ultralinear for large scale orchestr... | |
| Best amps 15000$ for Avalon Indra The Atma-Sphere MA-2 amps drive Avalon Eidolons beautifully. The Indra would be an even easier load for these amps. Used prices run within your budget and Ralph will check them out (and update them as necessary) to make sure they meet current fact... | |
| Dedicated power That some outlets may not be rated for larger than 12ga would be the potential issue (connection points not large or secure enough). However, the often recommended Hubbells, PorterPorts and Jena Labs outlets will all handle 10ga wire with no troub... | |
| Advice re: home-brew water Charlieo, I vacuum to dry (two rotations on the VPI) but then do a double rinse with the reagent grade water. I'm having very good results. But, I never trust the vacuum to get the LP dry enough to place directly into an inner sleeve; it always si... | |
| House surge suppressor installed at the meter After looking around quite a bit and trying to understand the various specifications, I had my electrician install an APC PMP2X panel mount surge suppressor at the house breaker panel. It has one of the higher energy ratings at 2690 joules and 1ns... | |
| Advice re: home-brew water Charlieo, I haven't used the Rain Water brand water, but the description in the link you provided looks as though they've processed through a number of good filtering steps (including both absolute filtration and reverse osmosis filtration) that s... | |
| Is anyone using LAST? I've never had a problem with LAST record preservative messing up an LP, and I used to use it regularly with probably 2000 LPs treated over the years. However, since upgrading my turntable/tonearm combination and switching to Disc Doctor and now W... |