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| Resolving CD Transports Crowd Sourcing My OPPO 95 has gotten noisy, and I'm looking at the new Schiit Urd. Waiting for early adopter reports. | |
| How big is the sweet spot for the vandersteen quatro wood CT speakers? Johnny R guided my cloth Quattro set up, ( purchased from Audio Connection, shipped to California without incident). They are pushed into the corners and image outrageously. I've read that the Wood CTs are tuned to work best further from boundari... | |
| Bought a system without auditioning, thoughts? You may prefer a less powerful tube amp for those Klipsch- conversely, your amplifier can drive a much less efficient speaker. Curious why so much muscle on these Klipsch? | |
| Budget preamp recommendation...besides Schiit. The ARC LS series, used, could work well ( LS 26 was 2300 in 2018). It has for me. | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" Are your assertions supported by clinical trials, control groups, or pier review? If not, any claim to ' proof of efficacy ' OR lack of long term consequences is specious. | |
| What was the craziest location that you made an audio purchase from? Sea-Tac Airport- Sub-POP outlet store. Who knew you could buy records at the airport? | |
| Songs with excellent advice? Taj Mahal- Goin' Fishin' | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Funkadelic: Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow, Funkadelic Recent English reissues | |
| My analog journey - time for a new phono stage or? Right at your budget is the Sutherland 20/20 with the PSU. Works great for me with Hana ML at loading of 100, gain 64. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Maher's 9th Symphony Karajan conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker 1981? I listen as an hommage to Lewis Thomas. His collected essays, Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's 9th Symphony has shaped my thinking on our relationships t... | |
| Favourite Guitarists Bobby Fripp deserves mention in this Pantheon. | |
| What was the last CD you bought (Name, and year issued)? Ten Seconds feat Bobby Wilcox and Live in Paris, Fripp and Eno, both on DGM, and only available en digital.. | |
| Acoustic Curtain for listening area I've hung a 3'x5' Navaho rug over the TV ( for God's sake it's only to read blu-ray/dvd-a menus ), a very course weave, of the sort recommended by R. Vandersteen for 1st reflections. So, course weave is worth trying. | |
| A perfect song? What are your choices? Bowie: RocknRoll Suicide, Golden Years Iggy Pop: Dum Dum Boys, Seek and Destroy Beatles: Tax Man, Savoy Shuffle I'm gonna assert that if you can listen to any of these, without singing along, that you can downsize and repurpose your list... | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear Bass Communion I Steven Wilson's dark ambient masterpiece, the 2018 RSD reissue on tonefloat records |