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| Second shot suspension Sumiko Blackbird - help Springbok, I'm sorry to hear of this difficulty. You're not by any chance using a liquid stylus cleaner, are you?. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? For Christmas Day, we've been listening to a bunch of non-seasonal music: Stravinsky "Firebird," on Classic Records 45 rpm reissue of the Dorati/Mercury. We use this record to validate final system setup, the third side is a montrous test of one's... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hi Larry (Cello), great list of music; I like your selections! Yes, the Harry James "Comin' from a good place" is a good 'un. Love the Arnold and the Mozart Mass recordings!. | |
| Record Cleaning Machine I've used a VPI for 20 years and I have never experienced any "contamination" issue flipping the record over on the platter. I find the VPI platter a great platform for cleaning LPs using a good cleaning fluid such as Walker Prelude, Disc Doctor o... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Tonight's listening shifted to classical...To get the system warmed up, a little organ music first: Marie Claire Alain playing Bach on Erato (ERA 50527). Alain's always enjoyable Bach performances are consistently well recorded on Erato. With the ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? It's been a while since I've contributed to this thread, but vinyl is spinning in our listening room once again so it's time to share what we're listening to, hopefully with a comment or two as the mood dictates. Listening tonight has been an ecle... | |
| How Do You Organize Your Music? Music goes on the shelves here organized into one of five major categories: Classical, Blues, Celtic, Jazz and Pop/Rock. Within each category LPs are sorted alphabetically (by composer for classical, by artist for jazz, folk, rock, blues, pop). Cl... | |
| Any new record cleaning products? The Walker Audio Prelude continues to be the best cleaning system I've used. I've given away my remaining Disc Doctor cleaning concentrate that I used for many years. From all reports, the new Audio Intelligent formulation should be in the same ba... | |
| Review: Transrotor Apollon Turntable It's really great for you and your wife to be able to enjoy this together.As for the Io, I decided it was time to replace the original tubes after so many years of use. With Albert and others consistently saying how the tubes can "make or break" t... | |
| Review: Transrotor Apollon Turntable Congratulations and thanks for sharing your enjoyment with us! It continues to amaze me just how good top quality vinyl playback can be and I'm delighted to know you have raised the level of enjoyment for yourself and your wife.Best regards, | |
| Mercury Living Presence Russ, it's been good to see you weighing in with comments on the recordings! Another series of recordings that are well worth seeking out for a very direct and natural reproduction of an orchestra (provided you care for the music) are the Harmonia... | |
| Where are King Super Analogue LP's pressed? I was told by Elusive Disc that the U.S. made King Super Analogue LPs were pressed at RTI. Quite a few years ago new production for the U.S. market shifted to being pressed in the U.S.. | |
| Mercury Living Presence Mercury has been one of the prized classical music recording labels since it's first monoraural release in the early '50s. Here are two articles that will give you a lot of the background about this label:http://www.soundfountain.com/amb/mercury.h... | |
| Anyone recommend a neutral tube amp? Atma-Sphere. | |
| Looking for assistant to Aesthetix IO Sig Ykauyeung, I have exactly the same Aesthetix Io set up that you have: dual power supplies and volume controls. Since you are sure the issue does not arise playing CD through the AUX input, then I agree you have isolated it to the phono stage. Here... |