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| Veracity of albums for sale being "sealed"? "how would the prosepctive buyer know?"Most "audiophile" pressings issued during the past couple of decades come sealed in loose bags of fairly thick plastic. And of these most have perforations along one side for opening. While it is possible to ... | |
| Laser Disc movies played on Sony XBR Flat sreen?? A good point at least theoretically. But the recombined Composite signal does not go through the second processing and settings circuitry performed after the Composite recombination. Especially on the -99 and its little brother -79 that second fil... | |
| Laser Disc movies played on Sony XBR Flat sreen?? In contrast with almost every other piece of audio or video gear I've owned over the decades, the level of design and parts - and cost - is a huge determinant of the product. There is virtually no "point of diminishing returns" with LD players.And... | |
| Where are you buying new vinyl? Another highest recommendation possible for Elusive Disc.Service has been unfailingly perfect for the past seven years, with individual help provided in any of the situations that I have had. | |
| FMS Blue Smooth and even response from bottom through top ends.Bass is acceptable.Somewhat veiled compared to today's cables, but very good in its time.Not as quiet as today's cables.Build quality and RCA's were good.In their current market FMS Blue was ex... | |
| MBL 101E placement in room Hi, Dev -"What are the pros and cons in doing this."Pros are user-friendliness - ability to live with two large speakers without making the room unusable for anything else. :)Cons are giving up a last few percent in audio perfection. You lose a bi... | |
| MBL 101E placement in room I have had a pair of the 101e's for about seven months. Room is about 4.5M wide by 7.5M long, with typical living room furniture. The speakers are powered by two Spectral DM-80's - run in mono.You can see that the setup is not what the more neurot... | |
| This is the way to release an album on vinyl... There's a LOT of this current stuff out there - heavy vinyl, decent pressings, great music. Pretty cool.See -Against Me! "New Wave"Paramour "Riot"Radiohead "Rainbows"She Wants Revenge "She Wants Revenge"Killers "Sawdust"MGMT "Oracular Spectacular"... | |
| How many lps before you like it Stltrains -There are about three pressings/runs of the "78 UK set" if that is what you mean by what I referred to as the "Blue Box." There was the initial run of a few thousand. When EMI found out how popular it was even at the initially high pric... | |
| How many lps before you like it Stltrains -Glad you at least were entertained! A life's work is behind all that. :-)The MoFi "Children" is indeed lifeless (good word choice). I was just trying to say that it's the best vinyl out there - at least in my experience. The two UK pres... | |
| How many lps before you like it If you get really obsessed - decades of listening and research, and thousands of dollars have yielded this for me (yes, I really have listened to this music and vinyl over and over):Moodies -Days/Passed - mediocre all around; UK originalThreshold/... | |
| haunting/dark classical Olivier Messiaen"Quartet For The End Of Time"Its inspiration, alone, meets your interest. The music even more. | |
| Anyone know of a good pressing of Stickey Fingers? Heard 'em all, most in direct comparisons over the years -1) Original UK pressing. As long as you get one with the orginal zipper, it'll be "original" enough and indistinguishable from other "original" pressings.2) Japanese original (check out obi... | |
| Moody Blues "Question of bal." CD or SACD vs Vinyl The MoFi vinyl pressing is inarguably better than the original US, UK and especially Japanese LP's. The original tapes are clearly of mediocre fidelity (Lodge and Hayward have long ago said such, also) and there's little that could be done, but Mo... | |
| Sources of 45 RPM recordings My best recommendation is Red Trumpet Records in Pennsylvania. The owner. Rick Flynn, is personally involved in all aspects of the store's operation and will always take/return telephone calls for advice, orders, suggestions, and other service mat... |