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  1. hvbias

    Hideaki Nishikawa-san's favorite LPs

    Very sad to hear about Nishikawa-san's passing. Techdas' website used to have a video hosted by Vimeo where he talks about his favorite LPs. I can't find it on their website or Vimeo. Does anyone know if this can still be viewed somewhere? Thanks.
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    The ultimate Reiner/CSO Scheherazade in analog

    I am curious what our members thing is the best sounding Reiner/CSO Scheherazade in analog. For me I am going to have to give it to the Ultra Analog tape reissue from Analogue Productions, it's just stunning. There are many fine versions, I'm not going to name them all just list off the top of...
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    Jimi Hendrix Axis Bold As Love, UHQR Analogue Productions vinyl

    Looks like the stereo and mono for these should be shipping very soon. Chad was selling the stereo at Axpona
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    Air Force Zero unveiling on March 16

    According to their website the unveiling is coming up in a couple of days in Tokyo. I wonder if will be the prototype that we've seen pictures of floating on the web or a more finalized (or the final?) product? @JackD201 ?
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    FS: John Coltrane - Soultrane, US first pressing, promo vinyl

    Hi all, selling some more of my most valuable and highly collectable vinyl. I listed a couple of UK first pressing Black Sabbath records here a while back and this is another record in super clean condition. True first pressing with first label/address (Bergenfield NJ) on label. Heavy weight...
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    How many millennials do you see at hifi shows?

    I am curious how many millennials you guys see at hifi shows. I have not attended one in a few years mostly due to being very busy with work, this is finally calmed down and I'm hoping to attend some next year. As I understand the headphone rooms/halls of the large shows have started to get very...
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    FS: Black Sabbath - self titled, UK first pressing Vertigo label

    Up for sale is Black Sabbath's self titled debut on the UK Vertigo label, another reference level LP. Guaranteed this is last copy you'll need as far as quiet playing, superb sonics LP goes. 1y1, 2y1 first matrix and the very first label with the "A Philips Record Product" below the Vertigo...
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    FS: Black Sabbath - Vol 4, UK first pressing Vertigo label

    Up for sale is a pretty rare (especially in this condition for the vinyl) UK first pressing of Black Sabbath's Vol 4 on the Vertigo label. Plenty has been written about the Sabbath albums on Vertigo at WBF. This is the first pressing with 1y1, 2y1 matrix and Porky/Pecko in the dead wax of both...
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    Insuring the Blue Note tapes

    I had a nice chat with Ron Rambach from Music Matters, the company that reissued Blue Note albums at 45 rpm and now doing twelve titles at 33 rpm. Ron is the one responsible for the painstaking detail to the jackets and now working with Kevin Gray in remastering the new releases. He told me an...
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    Baking tape and loss of fidelity

    Is there a loss of fidelity in playback/transferring after a tape is baked? Or is the original fidelity pretty much intact when the bonding agent is no longer sticky? Thanks for insight.
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    Bass directivity and room modes

    Posted by Lynn Olson on another forum Discussion open to all, I'm particularly interesting in hearing from our acousticians or anyone with experience.
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    Herbie Hancock- 2014 Harvard Norton Professor of Poetry (+ videos)

    http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/herbie-hancock-appointed-2014-norton-professor-of-poetry/ Five lectures, the first one "The Wisdom of Miles Davis" is available for viewing: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/set-1-wisdom-miles-davis I'll be attending the third...
  13. hvbias

    Jazz just doesn't sound good on CD

    Enjoy :D
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    Alon Wolf- why horns for his SOTA?

    Does anyone know why Alon Wolf chooses to use horns for his SOTA, but direct radiators for all his other speakers? Someone must have asked him this at a show? They are one of the few big name manufacturers I can think of where their reference deviates significantly from the rest of their...
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    Basis turntables

    Does anyone have experience with Basis turntables? I'm interested in the Debut with vacuum hold down. Cheers.
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    Life of playback head after being lapped?

    I haven't had much luck getting in contact with JRF (tried jrf [at] jrfmagnetics). Any rough ideas how many hours of use can be had from a lapped Studer playback head? Thanks
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    Two Classic Records 4x 45 rpm Living Stereo classical reissues

    These are sold I'm selling two Classic Records 4x records single sided 45 rpm classical reissues, preferably together. Both are new and sealed. The first is Gaite Parisienne and the second Ravel Concerto in G, Symphony on a French Mountain Air. I'm asking $110 for both, which includes...
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    Big John Patton bringing down my house

    Here is a musician some people may not be familiar with - organist Big John Patton. It took me a while to get into organ jazz. My transition went from Larry Young to pre-1957 Jimmy Smith to John Patton. Patton made both slower bluesy and upbeat funky albums for Blue Note. Some great songs...
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    Suggestions for RS1500

    My tech has given my RS1500 a clean bill of health. I'm looking for suggestions on what I should do to get the most out of it without approaching stratosphere territory; I'd rather reserve that for a better machine... which is inevitable as Ki would say :D. For the time being I'm only going to...
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    Audiogon for music

    I started browsing Audiogon again now that I'm not getting virus warnings. Looking at the music section it seems like a joke compared to the old Audiogon. First the prices people ask for common and slightly uncommon records is insane. I am seeing records that were pressed in the millions in...
  21. hvbias

    WTB: Bottlehead Tube Repro

    WTB: found edit: went with another tape pre.
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    Grateful Dead test pressing vinyl

    Maybe there are some Deadheads here, who knows :cool: I have Audio Fidelity test pressings for Blues For Allah and Shakedown Street. The regular pressings for these are out of print. Mastered by Kevin Gray from the master tapes. These come in plain white jackets and have test pressing labels...
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    Another source for master tape copies (jazz)

    http://internationalphonographinc.com/master_tapes.html I have only bought their CD reissues, the music is a bit more experimental jazz or jazz that is over looked. I've corresponded with the gentleman in charge of the reissues and he is passionate about what he does. Two of my favorites are...
  24. hvbias

    Should tweeters always be at ear level

    Given they're the most directional frequencies, what do members think about this?
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    ATC speakers

    I am considering upgrading my speakers. ATC are one of the brands I've been looking into. Has anyone here heard them? The model I'm interested in are the SCM100, which seem like a good match for my large room. I've done a search and only found a couple of references to the SCM150 in the pro...
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    "Raised" edge vinyl- do you find it changes the sound?

    I have a few RTI and Classic Records pressings that are raising up around 1-1.5 mm on the edges for about a 1/4 of the way into the record. So not quite a massive bowl warp, but still not flat. The cartridge can track them fine and there isn't an audible warp sound like thumps. I'm not sure this...
  27. hvbias

    Allnic Audio H5000 phono stage

    http://hammertoneaudio.com/Product/Allnic%20H5000%20DHT/Allnic%20H5000%20DHT Does anyone have any more details on this phono-stage? DHT plus LCR, sounds quite interesting to me. And I really liked the sound of the H3000.
  28. hvbias

    An analog mixing studio in this digital age

    Interesting article about recording engineer John Wood's analog mixing studio. http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov11/articles/john-wood.htm
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    Instant Composers Pool

    Not sure if there are many free jazz/improvised lovers on this board. But the Instant Composers Pool who have been releasing free jazz albums since the 60s have recently put out a CD box set of all their collected works over the last 50 years. I received mine last week and it is truly one of the...
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    Nick Drake - Pink Moon 2012 vinyl reissue

    Nick Drake's Pink Moon was reissued and given sort of a deluxe treatment. An LP inside an outer box along with a cardboard facsimile of the master tape. Also included are high res FLAC downloads. This is all analog mastered at Abbey Road and the mastering supervision was done by the original...

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