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| Great Jazz SACDs Oh, sorry, Archambault. They have a chain of stores in the Montreal area. Don't know if they have a website. Probably do. Could be in French though. | |
| First pressing LPs Viridian, I started learning long ago and hope to continue on with the process. Noise is noise. Your reductio ad absurdum is delightful, if a bit off the mark. Oh, BTW, to Rockinroni: 1) a sample of one is great, but I wouldn't ask Albert Porter a... | |
| Great Jazz SACDs I was surprised to find two new SACDs at the very attractive price of $20.99 CDN at a large Montreal retailer. The special price must come from the record company so similar bargains are no doubt available in the USA. They are reissues by Philips ... | |
| First pressing LPs They should have sent digital tapes! What a theory! The pressings from the country of origin sound best! How can a record be noisier and sound better? Vinylites always floor me. What about all the other links in the record making chain? What if th... | |
| hifi as investment? Audio as an investment? You have to be kidding. Spotted a Château Palmer 1972, if I remember correctly, the other day and was astounded that the asking price was around $495 a bottle. I bought one around 1982, the time I bought my house, and remem... | |
| How good is the VSP labs Trans mos 150 I owned a VSP Labs power amp for a while some time ago. It, along with the rest of my equipment (turntables and speakers excepted) were lifted by burglars. I think mine was the top of the line 180 wpc channel called the "Gold Edition". Ran it with... | |
| Perfect Pitch? Talking comic opera, don't you think audiophilia nervosa might be the basis for an intresting one, albeit only understandable by more "objective" 'philes. It's only a bloody record player, you know. Good tunes. | |
| Do tube dampers really work? Like chicken soup for a cold: it can't hoit! | |
| Perfect Pitch? If memory serves me right, this prof said that something like five percent of the general population is "tone deaf". Maybe those are the audio high-enders! He also mentioned that different portions of the brain are involved in pitch processing, rh... | |
| Ok this will be a good thread. Wow, looking at the archives for a source for room treatment materials I stumble onto this thread that has (well almost) as its central character none other than TWL. What do I learn? TWL sold Linn in the good old days! I should have known. With T... | |
| ps audio 4.6 ,5.5 vs adcom preamp. gfp 555 phono Owned the 4.6 a good while back. Can't say I upgraded since it, along with a bunch of other equipment, was stolen by burglars. Can't say what more modern phono sections sound like. I don't listen to very much vinyl, so I now have a simple little S... | |
| Are Recording Engineers "Certified"? Some institutions do train people for the job. They are not necessarily those that wind up with real studio jobs though. As to the hit or miss nature of recordings: blame a lack of standards. It's way more art than science, but when someone is goo... | |
| Damned if I Do and Damed if I Don't Lugnut, great response! | |
| "Junk" LP listings on audiogon - get rid of 'em The vinyl revival won't last, so time is on the side of all the folks here who begrudge a little space for stuff that could be picked up in garbage bins, garage sales or carted away for free a short while ago. Come to think of it, most of the viny... | |
| When separating the TT from the rest of the system Leads to the preamp should be short, as in use the ones that came with the tonearm. A longer cable (within reason, assuming it is unbalanced) can link the pre to the power amp. The weak signal coming out of the cartridge does not suffer the higher... |