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| What in the world is going on..... fjn- if it is the MoFi re-do of Big Pink, try turning up the volume. That record was cut with really low gain. There are a few threads on this on the Hoffman board. I have a copy, but haven't played it in some time. | |
| What in the world is going on..... His early solo albums--standard issue-- sound pretty great as I remember. Don’t know if they were all Phil Ramone, but that would explain a lot. I have more respect for him now than I did back in the day--it was too "pop" oriented for me at the ti... | |
| What in the world is going on..... The first sign that the recording was at least mastered, if not recorded digitally is the download card that accompanies the record. Not that all digital is bad- I have some wonderful sounding records on vinyl that were natively recorded in digita... | |
| Allman Brothers at Fillmore East, which one? I have an early pink label Capricorn, I would have to check who mastered. It is a good sounding record, despite the challenges of the recording. Just checked a piece I wrote, Dennis King and George Piros both mastered these, I have one which is a ... | |
| What piece(s) of equipment would you most like to try? A full set up of period WE horns and amp stack, probably with the EMT 927 turntable and that EMT phono stage that is in current production. | |
| Speakers Corner Wash- it’s all part and parcel of the compound. With modern plants, as I understand it, the pellets are melted and extruded into nuggets/biscuits and that is what gets put onto the press. It’s not like the mold release is a liquid blob inside the ... | |
| Speakers Corner Washline- if you go back and read my post, you'll see that I mentioned the fact that the so-called mold release is already in the pellets of PVC compound that are used to make the records. So, the notion that Pallas says they "don't use" mold rele... | |
| New listening room electrical design Maril- I was curious about the solution to the comment Jea had made up thread. There, Jea said:"JMHO, if the subpanel will be somewhat close to the audio equipment’s branch circuit wall receptacles (15ft or less) imo, that kind of defeats the purp... | |
| New listening room electrical design I always learn something from Jea. Question: unless the construction of the drywall/studs is already first rate, won't it be way easier to tear it out and start from scratch? Re Jea's comment about the proximity of the subpanel to the outlets, co... | |
| Speakers Corner Speakers Corner is a good reissue house; Pallas is a good pressing plant. I doubt any plant would say they use mold release compound in their production since the pvc compound, as supplied, contains various things, including thermal stabilizers an... | |
| Who is you go to for top quality vinyl servs- I have a couple of oddball Beatles records made in the Soviet era that sound pretty good. One is an early comp w/ Taste of Honey. It’s probably a 2 dollar bin record. I do have a fair number of Melodiya classical records that I acquired ove... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? @salectric --which compression driver for the Altec? And if a modern paper cone woofer, which one? And what do you do for a X-over? The WE stuff is too recherché, but doing this with a bit of Frankenstein-ing might be cost-effective. TIA,bill hart | |
| Remembering Phoebe Snow on Her Birthday July 17, 1950 Glenn- thank you for posting this. I've been playing her self-titled album since it was released, and it remains one of my favorites to this day, including "Harpo's Blues." I regret not seeing her perform- she was scheduled to appear at the Turnin... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? To me, a lot of audiophile quality double bass is too closely miked- you hear things that even the player probably doesn’t hear. I think that is intended to create an immediacy, but real bass doesn’t sound like that in a club. Piano, to me, is als... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? The epiphany for me, as regards "bandwidth" was hearing the original transcriptions of Benny Goodman's 1938 Concert at Carnegie Hall, in the process of being restored by an archivist. I listened to the flat transfer and to his cleaned up version o... |