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| Mississippi John Hurt Sit, thanks for your recommendation on VSD-79220. I have a really nice 2LP set you might watch out for. Recorded at Oberlin College in 1965, it's titled "The Best of Mississippi John Hurt" but it's not a compilation, it's a live performance. Vangu... | |
| New to tube: prob. with right channel of Aesthetix Excellent trouble shooting advice from Tvad. I'm going through that same process here trying to find a noisy tube among about 70 in my system.Matt, just keep in mind that if the only thing off is a channel imbalance, and if otherwise everything so... | |
| Hall of Fame: BIGGEST BADDEST Monster Amps Atma-Sphere MA-3 OTL ... 475 watts of pure Class A, Triode, OTL exuberance!from: http://www.atma-sphere.com/products/ma3.html. | |
| Products for raising cables off the floor. Kevin,As a good rule of thumb, you should try to separate your cables by about 3 - 4+ inches from each other and then raise them 4+ inches off the carpet with something that does not store electrical energy. Where cables must cross each other, do ... | |
| Atmasphere preamps Fjn04, I think you will find that the Atma-Sphere MP-1 does all that you describe, and with a great neutrality. It will not have that euphonic warmth we sometimes associate with tube electronics, it is quite neutral, but it will have superb rendit... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Linkoping, the Bach Parita No.2 in D Minor is sufficient to savor and enjoy for one evening. Thanks for sharing! | |
| Aesthetix Calypso -vs- Ayre K-1Xe preamps? Chazzbo, the Calypso is linestage only. The Aesthetix Janus is the full function preamp in the line.Mikesinger, the reliability of the Aesthetix is just fine from all I hear. And as self-disclosure, I'm a very satisfied owner of an Aesthetix Io Si... | |
| Essential Blues/ jazz Cjlcapp,Sdcampbell has given us some really good posts on jazz, so his advice for a starting point is very good advice. Also, here are some threads to get you started (since the search function at Audiogon doesn't seem to index all the threads pas... | |
| Walker Audio Extreme SST Agaffer, with your system (very nice, btw), you should hear a positive difference. Try re-cleaning your contacts with some isopropyl alcohol (to both clean off the first application of E-SST and to clean the metal surface), then re-apply the E-SST... | |
| Walker Audio Extreme SST Hi, Agaffer. Thanks for sharing your experience. I've heard from some other audiophiles that they too did not hear a difference, including some members of our local audio group. Here are two or three thoughts to share, for what they may be worth..... | |
| Walker Audio Proscenium Turntable: Photo Essay Good luck, Marty. And you're welcome. The details really make the difference. BTW, there are quite a few other articles/reviews that will give more insight into Lloyd's philosophy and the impact of his various products available on the web at Posi... | |
| Walker Audio Proscenium Turntable: Photo Essay Afro18 (Marty), Lloyd's design philosophy and thinking about tweaks are outlined to some extend in some online articles, but you'll have to do some reading and piece it together. Here are some of the articles and interviews... ...Lloyd's own discu... | |
| Walker Audio Proscenium Turntable: Photo Essay Ledoux, interesting that you should raise this question, because I just had an update done to my air pump and one of the things Fred Law offered to add was a DRAIN to deal with just the issue you mention. Fred said that some of their far east cust... | |
| Is A Roll-Out Shelf Not A Good Idea For Turntable? 3zub, the rollout shelf will be a compromised solution, no matter how sturdy the retracting hardware. The best platform for a turntable always will be the most stable and rigid solution you can come up with. If there is any way you could live with... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hi, Foster. Yes, the King Super Analogue label is a Japanese label of King Records. They have made some superb LP reissues of London/Decca catalog over the years and I have many of them. Copies of many these LPs are still available new through Aco... |