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| Graham 2.2 or SME 309/IV/V I also have a VPI HW19 MK 3, and it has served me very well for a long time. Years back, it was mounted with the SME V tonearm, which I also greatly enjoyed. After wanderlust led me to try several other highly regarded arms, I returned to an SME, ... | |
| CLassical: Rca, London, Col, Mercury..... Notwithstanding their variable sound quality as Musicslug indicates, the Living Stereos seem to have occupied center stage relative to the mono shaded dogs. By contrast, the monos, which can be found almost anywhere at low prices, seem to constitu... | |
| Can tube rolling change bass? Obviously, I should have also noted, perhaps more importantly, that one may or may not like the sound "coloration" per se provided by the Mullard/Brimar combo. I place quotes around the word coloration because some consider it a departure from the... | |
| Can tube rolling change bass? I agree with Cyclonicman that deep bass is not mainly provided by tubes, though they can be considered a tweak. As such, I think he would obviously agree that because some tubes supply more warmth and fullness, one might perceive or experience mor... | |
| Gold interconnect comparison help Hi John...Yes. I'm in the process of burning it in. | |
| KCI Pure Gold and the benefits You are most welcome, John. I'm sure that others benefitting from the great enjoyment and fulfillment provided by the Silkworm+ feel pretty much the same. | |
| KCI Pure Gold and the benefits Lately, I have been taking advantage of the opportunity to hear the Silkworm+, which I had requested John Prator to equip with Eichmann Copper Bullet plugs. After running the cable in for nearly 350 hours, I would like to share my listening impres... | |
| Gold interconnect comparison help I've been reading through this and other threads that have discussed the virtues of mainly the more popular gold based cables. Even among these, there are significant price differences. And it would seem, as some others have previously pointed out... | |
| the smoothest sounding speaker How about refined and resolving ? Some components can sound either grainy or they can sound what I would call raw. I am currently auditioning a mighty fine sounding interconnect, which on first hearing I described as smooth yet beautifully nuanced... | |
| Hum...ZYX with Tom Evans Groove Need suggestions Check out this potentially helpful article on troubleshooting: www.bottlehead.com/loosep/troubleshooting.htm | |
| Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov In my opinion, the best three versions have already been mentioned. Reiner is more conventional and dynamic, Stokowski with the London Symphony is dynamic AND ravishing and Beecham is somewhere in between the other two. You can't go wrong with any... | |
| Looking for Wagner recommendations If there were electronic pipelines into everybody's minds, nary would a single soul be free of the sort of things that would turn away or turn off virtually all of us. | |
| Great recording of William Tell Overture? Rushton beat me to punch again. Yes, the Gamba performance on Decca is, I feel, virtually ideal. It has a wonderful balance of musicality and excitement, and its sound is A-1. | |
| Your ONE all time favorite love song? Stardust,sung by Nat King Cole. | |
| Any comments on Transparent & Cardas phono cables I may have been a bit misleading in referring to the GR as being relatively less dark sounding than the GC. Rather than sounding dark in any real sense, I would characterize the GR as very natural, though I've seen others call it anything from neu... |