slipknot1
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Ok all you vinyl experts: Do any of you have a recommendation for Charles Ives' "Unanswered Question" on LP. Reading another thread on Sibelius' work reminded me of a music appreciation class I took in high school and how that Ives work stands out... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Kind of OT, but relevant to posters to this thread:Took my daughter to the Princeton Garden movie theater today to see "March Of The Penguins" Great documentary on Emperor Penguins! After, we stopped in at the Princeton Record Exchange to pick up ... | |
| Philadelphia area audio club? Bob (Ubglub),I sent you an email offlist. Our next group gathering is set for Sunday August 14th 3-7 pm. A Philadelphia Area Audio Group family cookout. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? It's been waaaay to hot of late to light up all the tubes in my listening room, but tonight we did:Neil Young "Greatest Hits" (Reprise 48935-1/Classic Records 200g reissue) Listening to "Cowgirl", "Southern Man", and the great tunes from "Harvest"... | |
| Your Wish List for Reissue on Vinyl I would like to see the entire Emerson, Lake & Palmer catalog remastered.Also: "Blues For Allah" & "Terrapin Station" HQ remasters on 200g vinyl (Grateful Dead), Dire Straits' "Love Over Gold". | |
| JMW-9/Cartridge Problem The Scoutmaster comes with a large(ish) counterweight standard. There IS a smaller one available from VPI. I got one from them myself in order to get a satisfactory VTF with the Dynavector 17D which is lighter than than the Grado in question. Blut... | |
| JMW-9/Cartridge Problem Did your Grado come with a metal weight designed to fit between the top of the cart and the headshell? If so, that can add the needed weight to the front end to offset the counterweight.Another option is to contact VPI and get a smaller counterwei... | |
| You might be an audiophile if... You might be an audiophile if you keep the major appliances out on your front porch so the "motor hum" doesn't intrude on your system.You might be an audiophile if you schedule family vacation trips only to those destinations that have high end au... | |
| You might be an audiophile if... You might be an audiophile if- your living room only has 1 or 2 chairs in it. | |
| When audiophiles visit for a listening session Reminds me of the classic story of Grateful Dead fans when the boys were at the top of their touring game:How can you tell if Deadheads have been staying at your house? They're still there... | |
| Whither the Great Designers? Ralph Karsten of Atma-sphereLloyd Walker of Walker AudioMick Maloney of SupratekHarry Weisfeld of VPIThese gentlemen all get my vote as world class designers with a lot of great ideas and future products yet to be seen. | |
| Learning about my room and my sound.. Larry (Cello), I had the level one service performed by Rives on my room and they were a pleasure to work with. I followed their final recommendations regarding treatments, locations of same, and equipment placement. The equipment placement was a ... | |
| How many "tube" watts do Maggie 3.5's or 6's need? My 3.6R's are in a 17 x 23 x 10 room, driven by Wolcott P220 tube amps (220 wpc) with outstanding results. | |
| Does anyone get turntable set-up? Lloyd Walker provides some very thorough guidance in TT setup:http://www.walkeraudio.com/fine_tuning_your_turntable.htm | |
| 2nd sub for center channel ? Hmmm, I'll qualify my comments up front by saying that I am not that well versed in HT. That said, it is true that there is a lot of information contained on the center channel. In HT and film reproduction for the home that information is in the f... |