Whats on your turntable tonight?

I just listened to "The Cascading Voices of the Hugo & Luigi Chorus, "Guilty" with Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb, and "The Greatest of Stan Getz". I love my turntable & records! :^>

Rushton,
I'm delighted to hear the improvement was that palpable. From what you and quite a few others have said about the handy work of Lloyd Walker in past, I'm not surprised that it took 10 seconds or the fact that Ann and yourself are not looking to try a myriad of other ideas.
My approach was a blend of what a local friend was doing (that worked) and some of the information from an old lengthy set of threads from redkiwi concerning shelf design experimentation from back in 2000 on A’gon that made a lot of sense. I truly believe that it’s a matter of coupling or decoupling depending on the circumstance and a variation of sorbothane seems to do the trick for me under the amp maple block platforms. One major improvement is we’re hearing a level of low frequency textural detail from Ralph’s amps now that was not fleshed out before, and by the way, I have never heard from any other valve or SS power amp in my house regardless of set up!
I don’t see myself as a real big tweaker, but that said, my amp set up stands in contrast with my use of a Neuance Platform and wall mounted, spiked rack for the Linn Sondek Lp12 and Aurios classic isolation bearings under the chassis of the Aesthetix Calypso and Rhea. These forms of isolation I have tuned out to what IMHO is a very fine resolve, a group of very different isolation philosophies that all have their place.
I will be looking forward to hear how things work out for you two with this amp stand project, as it seems in this hobby, there is always something more to learn and I just want to hear how good things sound over at your place too. Cheers!

As for the Queen "Night at the Opera" I can't speak for the EMI version at all. I was on a real DCC kick back when the records were prevalent and of course... it sounds spot on. I'll leave it at that and spare you the details. It is truly hard to buy one of everything nice...

Foster, if you're ever in the Philadelphia area, I'd enjoy having you over here to share some music and share with you how things are sounding here.

I, too, am not a big tweaker in the sense that I'm not inclined to experiment with a lot of different variations. Redkiwi amazed and impressed me with his dedication for trying so many different variations to determine what he thought worked best. And I love that he shared so much of what he learned in the process since I don't have that degree of patience or willingness to fiddle.

Nonetheless, I sincerely believe that great sounding systems get that way because someone IS paying attention to all the small details in fine tuning the set up. And that does include the right combination of tweaks, vibration/resonance control, etc. So in that sense, I am a tweaker. If I can get a 1% improvement here, and 2% there, pretty soon I've accomplished a pretty significant improvement in the overall sound of the system.

I've become convinced over the years that many people just don't get the full benefit of the sound their systems are capable of delivering, and it's because they don't pay attention to the details of system set up and fine tuning.

Thanks for sharing your endorsement of the DCC reissue of ANATO!

Regards,

Smw30yahoocom (Sandra), glad to see you continuing your posts! Thanks for sharing. It's really good to hear from a fellow traveler along this path.

Rushton,
Thank you for the gracious offer, I may take you up on that some time in the future. The last time I visited your fair city was for a Paul Cezanne retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in August of 1996. You share quite the beautiful city and museum.

Happy Listening!