viridian
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| Most underated albums...... Since you're asking, I love "Welcome". The Organ playing is simply ethereal. But, to me, it doesn't comprise a whole the way that "Caravanserai" does. "Barboletto" falls somewhere in the middle. What makes Caravanserai unique is that it is the sou... | |
| Setting VTA on a new Shelter 901? I respectfully disagree with this imagingability concept of setting VTA. In my experience VTA is correct when surface noise is reproduced in a different plane than the music on the disc. If the noise is within the fabric of the music then you ain'... | |
| Dynamic Tracking V.S Static Balancing There are really two questions here. To answer the first, there are several conceptual advantages that a dynamic balance arm has over a static balance arm. Tracking force is always exerted at a right angle to the record, even if the turntable is n... | |
| Most underated albums...... Tweekerman, you have it absolutely right, Caravanseri is a terrific, underrated, album. Neil Schon's guitar work is a fantastic counterpoint to Santana's and Mike Shrieve's drumming is out of this world. I had the good fortune of catching them liv... | |
| Setting VTA on a new Shelter 901? Clearly, as far as the Shelter is concerned, I am not playing with a full deck.Marty | |
| Setting VTA on a new Shelter 901? I use a deck of playing cards when setting the VTA on arms that have coarse adjustments like yours. Put the deck under the arm, touching the bearing and lower the arm until it touches the cards. To increase VTA add more cards and lower the arm dow... | |
| Remeber the FONZ???? I think the manufacturer's name is Fons; the Fonz was a character in a TV......well, you know this part.Marty | |
| Pristine Jazz The Dave Frishberg Songbook, Volumes 1 and 2, on the Omni Sound label. I have several thousand jazz records and these are the best of the lot. You may not, however, care for Frishberg's combination of tear jerkers and novelty tunes. | |
| Most underated albums...... Anything by Rashaan Roland Kirk!Edgar Winter, EntranceThe Dave Frishberg Songbook, volumes 1 and 2Duke Lamumba, Jungle FunkMathew's Southern Comfort, Later That Same YearTen Year's After, Undead | |
| The Color Of Vinyl Uh no! | |
| Where is the best place to store electronic parts? Store them at my house!Regards,Marty | |
| Need help with tracking vinyl I don't think that your new concept will hold any water. | |
| Phase and time alligned speakers I agree totally with Phasecorrect; I am not a fan of any of the mentioned brands. The tradeoffs, to my ears, are much greater than the befifits. I'll stick with higher order X-overs for now. | |
| Ok this will be a good thread. It's the software dummy! | |
| Japan vs.the rest In the old LP days the general assumption that the pressings from the country where the master tapes resided were the best. In many cases pressings from other countries used safety masters and other tapes several generations away from the original... |