Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Tube amplifier
Labarum wrote: > > > If you want a retro- system look at Quad Valve Amps > > https://www.quad-hifi.co.uk/valve-products/ I think I still have an original Quad pre-amp in the attic. Bill ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114820 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] USB Cables
One of the audiophile "testers" was switching ISPs, and determined that he could hear a difference in the sound depending on whether it came over the coax cable broadband connection of his old provider or the fiber optic connection of the new one. ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114088 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] USB Cables
Fahzz wrote: > If you want 67 pages of diatribe on this subject: > https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/ethernet-cables-in-for-evaluation.840789/ > > I know there's threads on Audio Science Review which are (a lot) more > rational. Like I said earlier, cable issues make people nuts. Quoting this great comment on that thread: I don't quite understand why this kind of unfettered product pimping via pseudoscientific "tests" is not called out here, and yet a thread "why was CD 44.1kHz", with no inflammatory happenings and just informative posts (with even links from one of the engineers at Philips) is deleted without fanfare. I'm listening to BBC Radio 1 on my Yamaha receiver "net radio". The data goes: 1. Through 1m of cat5e, 2. To an ASUS wireless access point in bridge mode, 3. Through WiFi 802.11a for about 25 feet to another floor, 4. To a Belkin WiFi router with DD-WRT, also acting as a transparent bridge and switch, 5. Through a cat5e patch cable to a wall jack, 6. Through another 15 feet of structured Cat5e riser cable to a basement patch panel, 7. Through another Cat5e patch cable to a D-Link managed gigabit switch, 8. Another patch cable to a firewall appliance running on a VMWare virtual machine on a Dell Optiplex, 9. Out another network adapter and patch cable to a Motorola cable modem. 10. Converted into DOCSYS3 and sent out through coax RG6 to a customer termination block, 11. Up the house pole, and across the street, where it is joined in with the rest of the neighborhood cable plant, 12. Likely to a neighborhood hybrid fiber/coaxial termination transponder, 13. Then via fiber to a cable company signal distribution hub and headend, where it meets IP routers and many patch cables in the data center, 14. Routed from Portland to Seattle and then to Kansas city through interstate fiber feeds and paired commercial connections, 15. Received by a Lightwave Networks peering agreement router and then ingressed into their content distribution network datacenter, 16. Where a signal is sent to me that has been repeated from a coastal fiber endpoint such as Mae East, and then has crossed the Atlantic via an undersea fiber optic cable, 17. and repeat this complexity backwards to get into the BBC to their server farm, transcoding machines, digital studio workstations, serving audio to DJs with a system like Prophet or Zetta off a digital music datastore. Exactly what Ethernet cable is preventing me from hearing the music exactly like it would be heard in the studio or in another country? ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114088 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] levitating turntable
castalla wrote: > What happens to the levitation if there's a power cut? Probably a > nicely scratched disc ? I had exactly the same question, but if you check the link in post #1 there's this information: UPS SYSTEM This solution stores enough power to safely lift the tonearm, stop the record, and return the platter feet to resting position ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110693 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Second Hand Transporter - Aberdeen Mod
slartibartfast wrote: > Yes but Stereophile like it.[emoji3] > https://www.stereophile.com/standsracks/206finite/index.html > > A bargain rack at only $6195 if you already have $100,000 of components! ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109827 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Hahahahahahahahaha
Golden Earring wrote: > I think at my age I'd rather get an Orgasmatron - it would save me a lot > of physical effort... > > Dave :D I'd want the version that comes with Jane Fonda... I have, however, sat in an Orgone box (sadly, to no effect): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgone Bill ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109212 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Hahahahahahahahaha
Golden Earring wrote: > Wow, Bill, you nearly got me there! > > I followed your link, & was enjoying the "weird science" & reflecting > that with all those low voltage DC probes I might be able to cancel my > next appointment with the proctologist. > > THEN, the clouds parted, a very bright light shone through & I heard a > commanding voice saying, "Sell ALL of your hi-fi immediately & buy one > of these contraptions!". > > Summoning my dwindling willpower, I took a large dose of a 2nd > generation atypical antipsychotic medication that I happened to have to > hand. > > I'm now feeling -slightly- better, but it was a close shave... > > Dave ;) In a foreshadowing of many future audiophile devices, John W Campbell, the editor of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, and a big proponent in the 1950s of the Hieronymus Machine, the Dean Drive, the Scientology E-meter and other similar devices, showed by experiment that a schematic of the Hieronymus machine drawn on paper worked just as well as the device itself. This was, of course a not-at-all-double-blind test. Bill ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109212 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Hahahahahahahahaha
Golden Earring wrote: > Don't ask Bill, it's -technical- :rolleyes: > > Dave :cool: Ah, you mean like a Hieronymus Machine: https://josephmax.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/hieronymus_machine_1/ ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109212 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Hahahahahahahahaha
Apesbrain wrote: > If you've seen the inside of the NAD, you'd know it's more than a RPi in > a box. So what *is* inside? Bill ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109212 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Dilemma
Great stories, Dave! I still have my Transcriptors deck with the SME arm and Shure cartridge (all vintage mid-1970s), but the turntable needs a new belt and the damping fluid has gone away, so I haven't used it in quite a while. On top of the dustcover I keep the Museum of Modern Art book that shows it in their collection and has this photo: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/3339 Bill ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108834 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] 20 interesting facts about MQA
An excellent, well-reasoned article, and even quite a few rational comments. Bill ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108280 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA
MichaelJ wrote:
> Back in 1970 our quad setup consisted of a radio in each corner of the
> room listening to Casey Kasem's Top40.
> We applied judicious amounts of herbals to convince ourselves that we
> had achieved surround sound.
I remember the first time I heard stereophonic sound in the 1950s
("ping-pong stereo", with a real table tennis game!), which used a TV
tuned to the BBC for one channel and a radio tuned to the Third
Programme for the other.
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] External DAC on Transporter: best output option
arnyk wrote: > Careful pro workers rewound the tape which often made the echo weaker or > even lost it in the hiss. At the BBC we always stored tapes (1/4" full-track mono or two-track stereo) end out, so the pre-echo became a post-echo and thus less obtrusive. Of course they then had to be re-wound before playback This occasionally led to problems, particularly with the Arabic service, which had tapes copied from a classic set of transcription records of the Koran. Turns out it's quite difficult to tell when these are played backwards, and some poor studio operator would occasionally get a call from a listener and have to log the mistake. ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106519 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] External DAC on Transporter: best output option
Golden Earring wrote: > Hi Bill! > > It sure is a pretty deck (if you can find room for it, lol): you do have > to change the damping fluid periodically since it tends to get clogged > up with detritus. > > I'm afraid I stand my earlier comment that the LP12/Ittok with a low > compliance cartridge gets a lot more information out of the groove > however - the rationale is that the stylus moves, the arm/cartridge body > doesn't. Also there's no isolation of the turntable/arm board from the > rest of the deck on the Transcriptors. The strobe speed setting is very > :cool: in combination with the damping paddle fine tune, however. > > Ultimately more form than substance: well worth keeping as a work of art > though! > > Dave :) > > P.S. As I recall it got a few free product placements in the movies (I > think there's one in Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" if I remember > correctly,,, ) Yes, it's Alex's turntable on which he plays the music of Ludwig van: http://www.filmandfurniture.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/record-player-1024x576.jpg There's also one in the Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/3339 I really should replace the damping fluid, and I could also use a new drive belt. Looking at it now, though, I see I have a V15 MkIV rather than III. I still have the original Transcriptors arm, although I replaced it with the SME as soon as I got the turntable (acquired in the 1970s as part of a deal with Clive Taylor, former bassist of Amen Corner). ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106519 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] External DAC on Transporter: best output option
Golden Earring wrote: > I had previously owned a Transcriptors (later Mitchell Engineering) > Hydraulic Reference deck with an SME 3009 arm & a Shure V15 MkIII > cartridge (I'm sure you remember the '70s too) I still have this exact setup, and very occasionally play vinyl on it. Bill ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106519 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] External DAC on Transporter: best output option
Wombat wrote: > No! I don't want to be guilty for your decline due to drugs. You at > least put some effort in long posts that in a way give the impression > you are/were/going to be a nice guy even without all the pills. I just > did swallow a yellow one. > Cheers! Not one of these, I hope: https://www.lexal.net/scifi/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/phillips/ ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106519 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] External DAC on Transporter: best output option
Golden Earring wrote: > Now indulging my undoubtedly subjective recollections of a world which I > assuredly understood less, & yet seemingly (& probably not > uncoincidentally) seemed to enjoy more, with a sunny afternoon here on > Hayling to boot. The tagging will have to wait... > > Kudos to ftlight for his kind assistance in facilitating my personal > fantasies. > > Dave :) Happy to help, Dave. I should probably go outside and enjoy the nice day before tomorrow's threatened torrential rain here on Long Island. Bill ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106519 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] External DAC on Transporter: best output option
Per the edit to my previous post correcting the studio info, here's more details: Blind Faith recording details: http://www.classicrockreview.com/2014/01/1969-blind-faith/ Olympic Studios: http://www.soundonsound.com/people/keith-grant-story-olympic-studios Morgan Studios: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LBHGXTwp71EJ:www.philsbook.com/morgan.html+=3=en=clnk=us ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106519 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] External DAC on Transporter: best output option
Golden Earring wrote: > I'm just curious how it is possible to manipulate quite specific parts > of a recording when you don't have a 48 (or more) digital multi-track > recording to use. The effect I'm describing is quite marked, to the > extent that I'm reasonably confident that anyone with access to these > two versions will hear it too. How many tracks would an analogue studio > master tape from 1969 actually have? On another forum I see a mention that this album was recorded at Advision Studios in London. In 1969, Advision had an 8-track Scully recorder: "In early 1968 Advision became the first studio in the UK to obtain a professional 8-track recorder, which was built by Scully Recording Instruments. Among the first artists to use the 8-track machine were T. Rex, The Who, and Caravan. In 1970 the studio used a custom 24-channel desk with an 8-track recorder." https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Advision%20Studios ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106519 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Intona USB thing
Golden Earring wrote: > I have never encountered any discs cut from inside to out, although I > agree that many orchestral composers could not resist a grand finale. > And why not? They hadn't even dreamt of the possibility of recorded > sound, they were writing for live concert audiences. When I worked at BBC External Services (1968-71) we still had sets of 78rpm transcription discs of some long works. The records in the set were always cut alternately outside-in then inside-out. As noted elsewhere in this thread, the shorter groove length at the inside of the disc results in impaired fidelity. When playing the set, if all discs were cut outside-in, the change in quality from one side to the next was quite obvious. The transition from inner groove to inner groove followed by outer groove to outer groove (and so on through the set) eliminated this problem. ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106914 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Intona USB thing
Golden Earring wrote: > When dealing with the merits of PCM sampling rates much stress is placed > on the implied upper high frequency limit in accordance with "Nyquist > theory" (which was fully in place by the 1950's, long before its > subsequent application to digital audio - the Wikipaedia article on > "Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem" is very informative, if not the > easiest of reads) & again I fully accept the frequency response upper > limit & the need for severe filtering at or below half the sampling rate > to prevent the intrusion of audible artifacts not present in the > original signal being introduced by the decoding process. It's interesting to note that Nyquist's original paper, Certain Topics in Telegraph Transmission Theory (which Claude Shannon relied heavily upon while developing information theory in 1949), was first published in 1924, when "high fidelity" in audio depended largely on how well designed your recording and reproducing horns were. Nyquist worked for Bell Labs, and was trying to get the most Morse code down the smallest pipe, particularly important for the worldwide network of telegraph cables, which were first laid in 1850 and continued in operation until the 1960s. I recently acquired a copy of this 1928 Bell Labs reprint of the original 1924 paper, although I paid only $1.50 for my copy: https://www.atticusrarebooks.com/pages/books/746 Bill ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106914 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA
arnyk wrote: > Reading between the lines, I get the feeling that this is also JA's > neighborhood. My first reaction is that like most of the close in NYC > area, its a smelly $#!^ hole. I've spent enough time in NYC that my > brain filled in the sounds and smells that go with the pictures. So I'm > thinking who are you, Detroit-boy to cast stones? Fact is that the > population density around here is low enough that the place blows clear > due to the natural forces of nature. There are just too many sources of > pollution (IOW people) in the near-in NYC area for that to happen > there. Bed-Stuy is undergoing gentrification, as are many parts of Brooklyn, Manhattan now being completely unaffordable for most people. https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160510/bed-stuy/bed-stuy-ranks-no-7-citys-top-gentrifying-neighborhoods-report I suspect that Herb has a rent-controlled apartment, and it would be almost impossible for him to move to another place. I have a friend in Brooklyn in a similar situation, although he's in the rather nicer section of Brooklyn Heights. ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107118 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA
Archimago wrote: > I think all of us here recognize ourselves as "audiophiles" but we don't > need to be "high end" audiophiles as the magazines proclaim. I suspect > the "high end" is weak and we can promote a kind of "audiophilia" which > can accommodate the "love" of audio and the hardware, but dissociates > the claims of sound quality from price, belief in voodoo, and can speak > out against the unnecessary/detrimental like MQA. "Rational Audiophiles", perhaps? ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107118 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD WAV vs. HDTracks WAV Blind Test
Fahzz wrote: > Obviously you need to upgrade your cables and speaker wire! Check out > the audiophile forum for how to spend the most money to do that. LOL And don't forget to install all new unidirectional-copper AC wiring, all the way out to the utility pole! ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107050 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Bought a New Dac but had a problem
edwardthern wrote: > The point is, which obviously went wa over your head, is I > should not have to wake up earlier than I normally would on my day off > to take care of someone elses business. Yes getting their product back > is 'their' business not mine, I ordered product X, I have no business > with product Y. Assuming their refund includes the cost of return postage, you can buy the postage on line at the USPS website, print a label on plain paper and stick it on the package, then leave it out for your mailman to take away. No post office visit required. For overseas shipments, the USPS info that you enter when buying the postage also includes Customs details, no separate form needed. ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106459 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Bought a New Dac but had a problem
drmatt wrote: > It would cost less if you weighed things in kilos.. ;) But then we'd have to price it in Euros, which would reverse the advantage! ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106459 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Bought a New Dac but had a problem
Have you checked the postage cost to Europe? I'm just sending a package to England and the cheapest rate for a packge over 8 ounces and up to 32 ounces is $22.50. ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106459 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Bought a New Dac but had a problem
If you paid by credit card, dispute the charge with your card issuer. If you used PayPal, open a case for merchandise not as described. ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106459 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Where can I get some kool-aid?
Archimago wrote: > Hey Ralph, > Finding Kool-Aid again is very much like an ex-cult/religion member > finding "the way" again... > > --- > > Oh ye of little faith. Cast aside thy apostate ways and come rejoin the > fold! > > For penance since you have upset the Almighty Stereophile, go buy a > minimum $1000 power cable and say 20 "Hail Absolute Sounds". > > Don't forget to tithe regularly - just look at the list of charities > listed in the Advertiser section. Bring more believers to purchase a > MicroRendu here and there will add to your treasures in Audio Nirvana. > > Be at peace... Om Wish we had a "Like" button here! Bill ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106137 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The return of the Super LP List
pablolie wrote: > As to Casino Royale... wow. Sadly missing is this memorable song sure > to test your entire chain > https://youtu.be/dP9Wp6QVbsk I see it also comes in a ten-hour version, if you really want to give your system a workout! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBGpjJ7QQYs ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105731 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The return of the Super LP List
Casino Royale was, of course, a comedy with Peter Sellers, so perhaps Bacharach went a bit over the top: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBLeACT_KBQ Wiki says "Bacharach worked over two years writing for Casino Royale..." ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105731 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] The return of the Super LP List
ralphpnj wrote: > The latest issue of The Absolute Sound (issue 264, July/August 2016) > features the triumphant return of long dead LP Super List ad I for one > could not be happier since now I have a very handy list of audiophile > dreck that is to be avoided at all costs. Thank you TAS!! Here it is, for anyone who wants to compare notes: http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/tas-super-lp-list-2016/ I'll just copy the Best of the Bunch sections here: "In keeping with Harrys practice, each and every new entry on the list is marked with a dagger () symbol, and those recordings that are still available new or re-issued are marked with a double dagger (). LPs with particularly natural, as opposed to hi-fi spectacular sound have been awarded an asterisk (*)." BEST OF THE BUNCH: Classical Arnold: English, Scottish, & Cornish Dances. Lyrita SRCS-109 Brahms/Debussy/Bartók: Sonatas/Abel, Steinberg. Wilson Audiophile W-8722* Gerhard: The Plague. Decca Head 6 Gershwin: Porgy & Bess complete/Maazel. Decca SET 609-11* Herold-Lanchbery: La Fille Mal Gardée. Decca/ORG 0109-45 (45rpm)* Hi-Fi a la Española. Mercury/Classic SR-90144* Holst: The Planets/Mehta, LA. Decca/ORG 122-45 (45rpm)* Prokofiev: Scythian Suite. Mercury/ORG 118-45 (45rpm)* Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3. Mercury/Speakers Corner SR-90283* Ravel: La Valse/Paray. Mercury/Classic SR-90313* Respighi: Feste Romane/Maazel. Decca SXL-6822 Stravinsky: The Firebird/Dorati. Mercury/Classic SR-90226* Widor: Symphony No. 6, Allegro. Mercury SR-90169 BEST OF THE BUNCH: Popular Bachrach: Casino Royale. Colgems/Classic Records 5005Q Balalaika Favorites. Mercury/Classic Records SR90310-45 (45rpm) Belafonte At Carnegie Hall. RCA/Analogue Productions LSP-6006 * Ellington: For Duke. M & K Realtime UMK Ralph Hunter Choir: The Wild, Wild West. RCA LSP-l968* Dean Martin: Dream with Dean. Reprise/Analogue Productions 076-45 (45rpm)* Music for Bang, Ba-room and Harp. RCA/Analogue Productions LSP-1866 Peter, Paul & Mary: In The Wind. Warner Bros./ORG 071 (45rpm)* Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon. EMI Harvest SHVL-804 The Sheffield Track Record. Sheffield Lab-20* Don Shirley: Water Boy. Columbia CS-9196* The Weavers Reunion at Carnegie Hall, 1963. Vanguard/Analogue Productions 005* ftlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105731 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
