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| Sussurro Paua on JMW 10.5 arm - mini review Andy,I just now returned to this thread. Good to know that the Paua is performing so well. I saw your comment about Metallica 45s. How do you find them overall? My experience with Metallica 33 reissues, or new pressings, has been absolutely awful.... | |
| White Substance on Aja 30th Anniversary I've seen this residue on many brand new records, most of them top shelf pressings, mostly 45s interestingly. However, I'm not sure if it's just the light in the picture the OP took, or the residue on his record is worse as it looks rather nasty c... | |
| Sussurro Paua on JMW 10.5 arm - mini review Almost four grand, wow. Sounds like you got a good deal on it. I'm familiar with most artist from your list and do have one or two of their records with a few exceptions. Van Halen and Van Morrison records are very well recorded in my experience s... | |
| Sussurro Paua on JMW 10.5 arm - mini review Andy, perhaps you can try the cartridge with a complex rock music such as Pink Floyd? The arrangements and vocals on their albums are a good test for sibilance issues, cohesiveness, and overall ability to convey the heft and intricacy of their sou... | |
| Choosing between Reissue and Original pressings I echo most sentiments here. Tick, pops, surface noise or not on original pressings, once the music kicks in the magic begins. With a great majority of reissues, the drive to make a buck on the vinyl revival is obvious - there is no care for the s... | |
| Sussurro Paua on JMW 10.5 arm - mini review I'm glad you like your Soundsmith, Andy. I used to own an Aida that was mounted on a VPI Scout, and I really liked it with jazz, but I found it less pleasing with rock and vocals, where it exhibited excessive sibilance. However, it was an overall ... | |
| Why do Harbeth speakers have such a cult following Funny, I started an identical thread a few years ago. For a second I thought someone revived my old thread. A poster wrote Tidal speakers have a similarly devout following. Reading Alan Shaw's responses, I cannot help but make a comment regarding ... | |
| Any Mark Knopfler Fans Out There? I'm a huge fan of MK as a guitar player in general, and as a songwriter in Dire Straits, but have never warmed up to him as a solo artist. I'm sad to say I find his music boring compared to his work with DS. His guitar work on DS albums is just "s... | |
| Strobe question I had the same problem when I first got the SDS. I found the VPI supplied strobe disc useless. It was not flat, not round, and fluorescent light hardly worked with it. I got a KAB SpeedStrobe and problem solved. It's $100, but hassle free and simp... | |
| Who is your favorite blues guitarist I second Gary Moore, perhaps one of the most underappreciated guitar players, perhaps due to his wide body of work from hard rock to blues. SRV of course is beyond debate and Peter Green completes the top three for me. | |
| Petition: Stop the loudness wars If you want to hear what compression does to a recording, get a CD copy of Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Californication," Audioslave's "Audioslave," or Metallica's "Death Magnetic." These are just three of the many examples of what compression does to ... | |
| Twisting wire on VPI for anti skate? If it's one album and on one track, why do you assume it's an AS issue? Did you examine the record? A speck of matter lodged in the vinyl could cause the cartridge to skip, as might a scratch. Skipping is not associated with skating forces; it's a... | |
| Kudos to Peter Ledermann at Soundsmith There was a good AS discussion thread going here recently. It appears a majority of audiophiles prefer no AS at all. It is especially true of VPI tables. I removed the AS device altogether from my Classic and never looked back. This was after a fr... | |
| New tubes in Rogue M-180 Monoblocks Since I don't know that much about tubes in general, I have to ask: what sonic benefits are to be gained from biasing tubes higher than the recommended setting? | |
| New tubes in Rogue M-180 Monoblocks Roscoe,I'm not sure what's going on with your amp, but Mark was perfectly clear that you should bias the KT-120s at 40 mA in the M-180 monoblocks, and that's what the meter should read. The M-180 manual says nothing about the meter being off, whic... |