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| Virginia Beach, Hampton Roads Audio Club Anyone? Dave, there is an active group in the Richmond area that draws a few folks from your area. I've emailed the group in hopes that someone your way will reach out to you.Regards, | |
| 33 1/2 compared to 45 rpm ???? Osgorth has answered this well from my experience. The 45 rpm disc, all else being equal, moves a fairly significant step closer to what I would expect from the sound of the master tape: higher resolution, better image focus, improved clarity on t... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hank Mobley: "Soul Station" - Blue Note 4031-45 (Music Matters 45 rpm reissue) (This series of 45 rpm reissues continues to amaze. If you love jazz, and if you love vinyl, you will regret not getting these while they are available.) Frank Sinatra:... | |
| Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Opus 44? Andre Previn's two performances with the London Symphony Orchestra are excellent, well recorded and have held up extremely well over the years. Previn's earlier recording for RCA (LSC 2990) has never been released on CD, as far as I know. It is mo... | |
| Finding ultra-pure water locally... Drubin, my process for rinsing with a vacuum cleaning machine is to dedicate a cleaning pad (Walker Audio, Disc Doctor or Music Direct) to the final rinse; apply ultra pure water to saturate the pad; apply pad to rotating LP; then vacuum. . | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Schumann, Cello Concerto - Janos Starker/Skrowaczewski/LSO, Mercury SR 90347 (Speakers Corner reissue. A wonderful recording of a great performance. Speakers Corner delivers yet again with a sonic wonder of a reissue. Don't miss it.). | |
| While listening to my system my Rhea blew up Your description is like a tube failing catastophically and taking out something with it.. | |
| Aethetix IO Signature Question Would it be beneficial to go all tubes or keep the solid state preamp and monoblocks ?????There's no absolute answer to this, I'm afraid. For my listening priorities, all tubes is the path I've followed and will continue to follow. But there are t... | |
| Aethetix IO Signature Question Radrog, I use the Io with a .36mv output moving coil cartridge, use the stock tubes, and don't experience any material tube noise from my listening seat at my normal listening volumes. But keep in mind, the Io generates 80db of gain entirely throu... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, Vol. 1 - Columbia CL 851 (wonderful music making from 1925 and 1927!) Chopin, Piano Concerto No. 1 - Kletzki/PhilharmoniaO, Pollini -pf, EMI ASD 370 (Testament reissue - superb) Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown; Lightf... | |
| Aethetix IO Signature Question Hmmm, let me put it this way... A friend just replaced three tweaked out KPEs with an Aesthetix Rhea and the improvement in his system was dramatic. The Aesthetix Rhea devestates the Krell and the Aesthetix Io Signature plays in the league above t... | |
| If you had 10k to spend on tube amp????? For what speakers? Amps and speakers should always be considered in combination with one another. Nonetheless, my short list would include: Atma-Sphere OTLs (the MA-2s will drive most speakers but a used pair will be over your limit, the MA-1s req... | |
| Which is your fav Beethoven String Qt version? Tatrai, Vegh and Berg (for the late quartets). | |
| Aethetix IO Signature Question Radrog, I use the Aesthetix Io Signature with dual power supplies. In the usual parlance of "musical" versus "analytical," I would say that the Io is in the "musical" camp as far as devices of this caliber are capable of being classified. The Io h... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Chet Baker & Art Pepper: Picture of Heath - Pure Pleasure reissue, great music making Alison Krauss/Live - MFSL 3-281 Lennox Berkeley: Divertimento - Lyrita SRCS 74 Beethoven: Kruetzer Sonata, Heifitz RCA LSC 2577 (Cisco reissue)Lars-Erik Lar... |