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| Whats on your turntable tonight? The pop and rock music is coming out of boxes and onto shelves over the past few days, so tonights listening has been sampling from the past:Elvis Presley - Elvis' Golden Records (mono RCA reissue - poor sonics, but what a performer!) Willie Nelso... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Mea culpa: McHenry Boatwright as Crown and John Bubbles as Sportin' Life. Somehow didn't think what I'd written above looked right. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Classical music on the 'table tonight:Haydn String Quartets, op33, with the Tatrai Quartet (Hungaraton SLPX 11887/9) - sinewy, sustantive, performances - great stuff. Of many different groups, the Tatrai always strike hit the right mark in this mu... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? A largely Celtic evening tonight:Silly Wizard - Live in AmericaAndy Stewart - At it againPlanxty - The Well Below the ValleyPlanxty - Cold Blow and teh Rainy NightAltan - S/TMairéad Nà Mhaonaigh/Frankie Kennedy - Ceol AduaidhTannahill Weavers - ... | |
| When should Walkers SST be reapplied????? Silver oxide (tarnish) is still highly conductive, and one advantage of the SST is that when it dries it creates a tight seal on the connection. I don't think Lloyd Walker has ever suggested a time frame for cleaning and reapplying, and I can't te... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? The last couple of evenings have found us listening with friends to a variety of music, and this afternoon we listened with a group of fellow vinyl nuts at a friend's house. The music has ranged from Zappa to Prokofiev to Talking Heads to Wild Chi... | |
| VTA for arm vs VTA for cartridge Yes, agree the cartridge should be your starting point. The angle of the arm is irrelevant in and of itself. This is all about getting the angle of the stylus in the groove set correctly. Here's a good diagram illustrating what you're looking to a... | |
| VTA for arm vs VTA for cartridge Follow Lloyd Walker's fine tuning instructions to which you provided the link, Gritingrooves. After getting the arm and cartridge in place as best you can visually, let your ears be your guide in the iterative listening process Lloyd describes and... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Holst, "Capriccio" and "Double Concerto for Orchestra", Imogen Holst/English Chamber Orchestra, Lyrita SRCS 44 -- the Capriccio is "big music" tuneful Holst with full orchestra, the Double Concerto is "I can be atonal, too" Holst. Excellent perfor... | |
| VTA for arm vs VTA for cartridge Gritingrooves, various cartridges are more and less sensitive to changes in VTA. Grados typically are pretty tolerant of VTA and typically don't change much sonically with small changes in VTA (unlike some other cartridges). Trust what your ears a... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Jaybo, thanks for sharing. I think you're pointing out some music that I don't know and perhaps ought to explore (?). I'll have to find someone enar me who has some of this in their collection so I can hear it.. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Tonight was a broad sampling of a bit here and a bit there with a friend over to listen. Here's a sampling of what passed across the turntable over about 5 hours:Doc Watson, "Home Again!" Cisco reissue of Vanguard VSD 79239.Bill Berry, "Shortcake"... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Slipknot!! Great to see your post here, and glad you're feeling better. Lucious records. I need to pull out the Gunther Schuller recording, and may do so tonight while a friend is over who enjoys more contemporary music. Late last night I was play... | |
| How many LPs is enough? After a similar frustration buying a few too many duplicates, I also started entering my LPs into a database/spreadsheet. Before the PDA era, I'd keep printouts of the list in a 3-ring binder to haul along with me. For many years now, I've kept ev... | |
| Second shot suspension Sumiko Blackbird - help Shure balance gauge - hard to beat for $20. Congratulations on finding the solution! I know you must be pleased to find the cause.. |