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  1. Jim Treanor

    What turntables do you use? Pictures would be nice as well :-)

    SOTA Sapphire with Origin Live Encounter 3c arm and Ortofon 2M Black cartridge. Mounted on a fireplace hearth.
  2. Jim Treanor

    What turntables do you use? Pictures would be nice as well :-)

  3. Jim Treanor

    Recent Mark Levinson Interview

    Stereophile, Myles. When it was near-pocket-size.
  4. Jim Treanor

    Recent Mark Levinson Interview

    Having met Levinson when I worked at Garland Audio back in the dark ages and helped set up his HQD (Hartley-Quad-Decca) system for a demo he did for sales staff at Garland's house, I'd note that he hasn't changed in at least one respect--he remains as definite in his views as he was then. My...
  5. Jim Treanor

    Your top five musical pieces (in any format) regardless of recording quality.

    In no particular order of preference: 1. Guitarist George Van Eps' rendering of Cliff Burwell's Sweet Lorraine on a 1950's Paul Weston Columbia LP, Solo Mood. As definitive an instrumental evocation of non-syrupy sweetness as I've ever heard. 2. Morton Gould's ballet Fall River Legend...
  6. Jim Treanor

    Split Decision!!!! StereoMojo Review: One for, One against..Bruce Brown!

    What struck me most about that Oz thread was one poster's assertion that Bruce had dispensed "vitriol." That's not how I read his SM review, especially given his multiple approaches to try to get the speakers to sound right to his ears. It's notable, too, that not all of the posters were of one...
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    Split Decision!!!! StereoMojo Review: One for, One against..Bruce Brown!

    Well, that disposes of that possibility.
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    Split Decision!!!! StereoMojo Review: One for, One against..Bruce Brown!

    I'd have been tempted to ask how many operating hours were already logged on the speakers when Bruce got them (apparently he had first crack at them, and my initial thought was that perhaps the crossover caps might not have "settled in"), but it appears from his review that he gave them plenty...
  9. Jim Treanor

    Record Racks

    I wanted flexibility, expandability, ease of mobility if needed, and relatively cheap, so I put together these poplar stackable modules: With LP's installed, they're rock stable to at least five units high (which is as high as I can reasonably read the spines).
  10. Jim Treanor

    Another question on vinyl record lifespan

    Given my age, I have to consider the possibility (my ego notwithstanding, "likelihood" is probably more accurate) that normal degradation of my hearing acuity factors into this. But I still have some LPs, mostly classical, purchased in the mid 1960's and played a lot since, and apart from some...
  11. Jim Treanor

    Hello from the Willamette Valley

    Hi Felix!
  12. Jim Treanor

    Hello from the Willamette Valley

    Thanks, Bruce.
  13. Jim Treanor

    Michael Fremer Interview

    I'm fortunate to have a mailman who knows that vinyl is in the flattish square boxes that he occasionally delivers here and that they should neither be shoehorned into my rural mailbox nor left out on my doorstep to bake in the sun. No arrows for Fremer here. I think he's pretty much on target...
  14. Jim Treanor

    Hello from the Willamette Valley

    Thanks to all of you for the welcome.
  15. Jim Treanor

    Hello from the Willamette Valley

    Surprising that I didn't find this site before today (I landed here doing a search on the forthcoming APO reissues of some of the RCA Living Stereo classical inventory). My interest in audio dates back to circa 1960 and includes sales stints at Garland Audio in San Jose and at Toad Hall and...
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