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1: General Asylum, RE: Advice on fire (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2016-03-21, 22:20:53 (67.241.64.254)
Belated thanks to everyone for the advice. After talking with the insurance company, I took the gear to a local shop where they checked everything out for smoke- and moisture-related damage, and to my .......
2: General Asylum, Advice on fire (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2016-02-07, 04:07:18 (64.134.99.99)
Last weekend a fire broke out in an adjoining apartment and spread to part of my apartment. Luckily the room housing my audio gear escaped the worst of the effects, but as a result of smoke and water .......
3: Vinyl Asylum, RE: VPI Classic best sonic upgrades / recommendations (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2012-05-29, 14:57:33 (174.20.59.162)
The Black Diamond one-piece carbon fibre clamp, if you can find one, makes a dramatic improvement. .......
4: Music Lane, RE: EMI Masters series (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2012-04-30, 02:47:01 (174.20.223.101)
Going by the dates given on the inserts on a handful of titles that I've seen, the Masters are not new remasterings. The Signature titles are, and in the few cases where I've been able to compare dire .......
5: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Anyone read any fun record blogs? (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2012-04-02, 21:37:08 (174.20.62.31)
Hymie's Vintage Records, Minneapolis. .......
6: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: EMI SACDs have arrived (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2012-02-27, 13:39:39 (69.15.95.99)
Reports over at SA-CD.net that some of these titles will be released internationally at more normal prices beginning in April. Simon Gibson has been hinting as much for some time. If you're interested .......
7: Music Lane, RE: Best Lutoslawski cello concerto? (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2012-02-24, 04:31:16 (174.20.87.212)
To add to the previous response, if you do downloads and are interested just in the Lutoslawski concerto, eclassical.com gives you the option to buy the Poltera recording on its own as a high-resoluti .......
8: General Asylum, RE: Here's what I would do... (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2012-02-11, 08:46:28 (174.20.87.212)
A $25 fee for the lowest price rung is way too high. It will kill the market for entry level equipment and that will drive away young people and newcomers. Some kinds of items, like all but the most e .......
9: General Asylum, RE: Power regenerator? (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2012-02-09, 06:48:59 (174.20.87.212)
The early PS Audio regenerators (P300, P600, probably the P1200) would take 240V/50Hz and convert it to 120V/60Hz. Later models don't, though I'm not sure exactly when the change happened. In any case .......
10: General Asylum, RE: Moving from US to Australia - what about my gear? (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2012-02-07, 01:52:48 (174.20.87.212)
Some manufacturers will modify their units to accept a different input voltage and frequency. Bryston should be able to answer that question for you. A lot of computers accept any standard voltage wor .......
11: Music Lane, RE: Great article by Jeremy Denk in the New Yorker (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2012-02-04, 04:32:42 (174.20.87.212)
Denk is a hugely entertaining writer as well as a fantastic musician. He has a blog at http://jeremydenk.net/blog/ which is well worth following and includes, among other things, illustrated musical l .......
12: General Asylum, RE: AudioAsylum Trader ) How about some Visual Punch? (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2012-02-04, 04:10:59 (174.20.87.212)
Yes, volume really is the key. There are plenty of sites that look better than Audiogon, but because nobody visits them, nobody visits them. I've been wondering whether it might be possible to run a " .......
13: General Asylum, RE: vinyl, cd, digital downloads over the last 30 years (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2012-02-04, 03:31:42 (174.20.87.212)
This chart would really make much more sense as a line graph. Showing it as a pie chart shows a strange attachment to, er, disc formats. .......
14: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: Not Sure about Japan EMI SACDs (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2012-01-25, 20:12:53 (174.20.87.212)
I'm doing what you're doing, proceeding cautiously. I've bought a handful of these SACDs and they do improve over the RBCDs, but the degree of improvement varies significantly. A couple of Klemperer r .......
15: General Asylum, RE: Forum for hi-rez downloads (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2012-01-25, 19:15:46 (174.20.87.212)
Hmm. Anyway, if anyone has any thoughts or information to share about where downloads are heading, feel free to chime in. .......
16: General Asylum, RE: Forum for hi-rez downloads (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2012-01-25, 16:26:37 (174.20.87.212)
Unfortunately posts about music don't usually get much traction over there, and of course just because someone is interested in PC audio doesn't mean they're interested in hi-rez. People say hi-rez do .......
17: Computer Audio Asylum, Harmonia Mundi hi-rez sale at qobuz.com (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2012-01-25, 05:56:41 (174.20.87.212)
For the next couple of days qobuz.com is selling 24 bit downloads of Harmonia Mundi titles for the same price as CD quality, typically about 10 Euros (a little under US$14) per title. The normal price .......
18: General Asylum, RE: Forum for hi-rez downloads (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2012-01-24, 14:51:58 (174.20.87.212)
A few sites, notably www.eclassical.com and qobuz.com, have recently begun to offer some hundreds of 24-bit downloads, in many cases of material not previously available in any high resolution format. .......
19: General Asylum, Forum for hi-rez downloads (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2012-01-24, 10:35:47 (174.20.87.212)
On which forum do discussions about hi-rez music downloads happen? Hi-Rez Highway, in spite of the name, is described as an SACD forum, while PC Audio is about equipment. There are some promising thin .......
20: General Asylum, RE: Ads being removed when sold AUDIOGON (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2012-01-13, 06:20:23 (174.20.81.13)
Yes, an item I bought disappeared from the listings as soon as the offer was accepted. Recent listings tend to linger in Google for a while, so if you know what you are looking for you can sometimes s .......
21: Computer Audio Asylum, 24-bit downloads of CD titles (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-12-27, 09:22:24 (174.20.81.181)
Not being a regular here, I'm not sure how often this has been discussed before, but I've noticed some hi-rez downloads being made available of titles that were released on disc as standard CDs only. .......
22: Hi-Rez Highway, 24-bit downloads of CD titles (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-12-27, 09:22:24 (174.20.81.181)
Not being a regular here, I'm not sure how often this has been discussed before, but I've noticed some hi-rez downloads being made available of titles that were released on disc as standard CDs only. .......
23: Music Lane, RE: Missa Solemnis (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-12-16, 15:48:59 (174.20.208.223)
The late Michael Steinberg wrote beautifully about it. The link below should take you to the article; if not, it's worth looking up in his book Choral Masterworks: a listener's guide. .......
24: Music Lane, RE: Agreed... (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-12-12, 16:15:42 (174.20.208.223)
I'm also with the people who put performance above other considerations. But implicit in some of the comments is a concession that sound quality can affect the way you perceive a performance. Sometime .......
25: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: eclassical julkalendar - hi rez downloads on sale (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-12-09, 03:46:35 (174.20.208.223)
Thanks for the tip. The discount also applies to individual tracks, which are priced by duration. I wasn't particularly interested in Yannick Nézet-Séguin's recording of Strauss' Ein Heldenleben, but .......
26: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: we had a discussion on this topic (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-12-04, 16:41:42 (174.20.208.223)
Geoff, I saw a discussion here about the list of SACD titles to be released. But what's new at sa-cd.net that I haven't seen mentioned here so far is a hint by the transfer engineer that there is to .......
27: Hi-Rez Highway, EMI hi-rez? (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-12-04, 10:37:56 (174.20.208.223)
A lot of speculation going on over at www.sa-cd.net about an imminent announcement by EMI on hi-rez, triggered by a cryptic remark posted by Simon Gibson or someone purporting to be him. (It begins on .......
28: Music Lane, RE: Are the political views or the personality of a performer/composer important to you? Enough so (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-11-18, 18:23:43 (75.168.173.84)
There may be one or two musicians whose views or behaviour I abhorred sufficiently to put me off listening to them. It would never occur to me to tell anyone else they shouldn't listen to them for the .......
29: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Preamplifier vibration control devices configurations. (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-11-13, 08:14:50 (75.168.173.84)
Interesting observation. I had a similar experience recently changing to using different platforms under the main chassis and the outboard power supply unit for my ModWright Sony player. I seem to rem .......
30: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Neuance platform - assistance please (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-10-02, 05:35:34 (174.20.213.46)
This is the information I have from an old email from the manufacturer. Hope this helps. Neuance A covers an optimum range of from 0 to 30(#35 max) pounds and measures approx 1-5/8" in height. Neuance .......
31: Music Lane, RE: Kempe/Grummer/F-D/Berlin (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-08-25, 15:44:30 (75.168.172.96)
+1, and the choir is special too. .......
32: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Soundsmith Counter Intuitive -- any effect on sound? (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-08-25, 05:29:38 (75.168.172.96)
Thanks for these responses. I'd been concerned that adding a big clump of foreign matter to the arm couldn't be a good thing, but Jaynemo's response is encouraging. Tre, my current Classic arm has an .......
33: Vinyl Asylum, Soundsmith Counter Intuitive -- any effect on sound? (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-08-24, 10:20:07 (160.94.229.143)
I'm toying with the idea of getting one of these gizmos for my VPI Classic. I'm curious though if anyone using it has noticed any effect on the sound one way or the other, that is aside from the benef .......
34: Music Lane, RE: Elgar Cello Concerto (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-08-19, 16:29:50 (67.6.81.190)
The amazon listing has an image of the back cover and if you look very closely I think you can make out the words, "This compilation and digital remastering p2004", which would almost certainly mean i .......
35: Music Lane, RE: Tchaikovsky "Pathetique" Symphony...... [yt] (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-08-08, 19:06:06 (67.6.81.190)
That looks like Tadaaki Otaka. .......
36: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: The Cello Suites (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-08-07, 09:40:11 (67.6.76.204)
On SACD you might like to consider Tabea Zimmermann on viola in two of the suites. I won't get a chance to listen properly to these till I get my player back from the shop, but initial impressions wer .......
37: Music Lane, RE: Oistrakh + Oistrakh, yes; but you must hear Brown and Suk! (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-08-05, 18:38:31 (67.6.76.204)
Thanks for this reminder. Brown was a superb musician, both as player and conductor. She didn't leave a lot of recordings, but the ones I have often get played in preference to those by much bigger na .......
38: Music Lane, RE: How much do you trust a mover with your audio gear and music (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-08-04, 01:48:27 (67.6.76.204)
I've had fragile equipment survive two major moves but that has been a matter of luck, since other belongings have been damaged by careless handling. I would certainly not trust the shipper to know ho .......
39: General Asylum, RE: Filling out the Customs Declaration form for shipment to AUSTRALIA ? (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-08-01, 22:33:11 (67.6.76.204)
I think you're in the clear for import duty as well as GST. .......
40: Music Lane, RE: Lieder (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-07-24, 10:41:46 (67.6.76.204)
If you're getting into lieder, a useful resource is Emily Ezust's texts and translations site: .......
41: Music Lane, RE: Irmgard Seefried (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-07-24, 10:39:58 (67.6.76.204)
This one? This is a great set, and I'd suggest grabbing it before it goes out of circulation. Seefried's singing had a unique kind of warmth and communicativeness -- you really feel that she's singing .......
42: General Asylum, Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-07-12, 18:56:23 (67.6.87.23)
More than likely this has been posted before. .......
43: General Asylum, RE: Bizarre Craigslist offering (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-06-30, 18:09:56 (67.6.87.23)
But is it a stock fireplace or an aftermarket audiophile fireplace? .......
44: General Asylum, RE: Here's a break ... (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-06-13, 02:24:14 (70.59.118.225)
Totally off topic, of course, but while we're talking about wikipedia's credentials I couldn't resist looking it up on another favourite topic. "Strange thing is, they make such bloody good cameras" - .......
45: Vinyl Asylum, RE: any Beethoven symphony recommendations on vinyl? (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-06-04, 15:16:39 (70.59.118.225)
No telling if this will please the OP any better, but similar in general approach to Böhm, but with a little more drive in nos. 5 and 7 and livelier sound, is Schmidt-Isserstedt on Decca/London. ::: T .......
46: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Ever buy a record not knowing you already have the same performance? (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-05-28, 02:55:51 (67.6.72.32)
Not as painful as not buying an LP you really wanted because you thought you already had it. .......
47: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Music Direct return elicits confrontation (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-05-18, 17:11:57 (67.6.72.32)
If MD would simply state their policy up front instead of insulting their customers by implying that they don't know about LPs, I'll bet they wouldn't lose as many customers. But MD lost me years ago .......
48: General Asylum, RE: $2000 teflon caps for the Adept?!?! (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-05-15, 10:09:48 (67.6.72.32)
I've used the Audience ar1p single outlet power conditioner and later upgraded to the ar2p-TO with the teflon caps. I've used them solely on my (integrated) amp, continuing to prefer regenerated power .......
49: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Minneapolis record stores (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-05-09, 23:00:11 (63.228.43.52)
James and Mary Laurie Booksellers, on Nicollet Mall right in downtown Mpls, has a large stock of classical LPs in the basement. .......
50: Hi-Rez Highway, RE: I have never truly experienced the "break-in" phenomenon (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-05-06, 20:00:17 (67.6.92.210)
Interesting. I'm pretty sure that break-in in the normally understood sense does happen, though I've not experienced the fundamental change in the character of a component that others sometimes report .......
51: Vinyl Asylum, RE: eBay shipping fees to US for international sellers (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-04-18, 19:42:29 (67.6.82.43)
Most international ebay sellers are pretty good about displaying the true shipping cost prominently in their ads. Anyway, what's the alternative? Either they are forced to ship at a loss, which will i .......
52: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Question for TTWeights ring clamp owners (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-04-17, 07:49:11 (67.6.82.43)
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. After reading your posts I remembered that I had two heavy thick acrylic slabs stored away. They are completely flat and overnight I sandwiched the ring between t .......
53: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Question for TTWeights ring clamp owners (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-04-14, 08:36:14 (160.94.229.143)
How much of a problem is there with the ring or how much will I sell it for? If the former, not really very much. If the latter, that will probably depend whether others here report that what I'm seei .......
54: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Question for TTWeights ring clamp owners (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-04-14, 08:23:11 (160.94.229.143)
Good suggestion, though right now I don't have a surface to sit it on that is flatter than the ring itself. Maybe I should look for a sheet of plate glass as suggested by cathode. The deviation from c .......
55: Vinyl Asylum, Question for TTWeights ring clamp owners (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-04-14, 05:27:54 (67.6.67.40)
I have a TTWeights 600g ring clamp that I am thinking of selling. If viewed closely from the side when the record is spinning, you notice that it just very slightly deviates from being absolutely flat .......
56: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Sealed plastic inner sleeve and never opened? (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-04-02, 00:39:03 (67.6.80.77)
Yes, I can confirm also that I have a couple of Columbia titles like this, with the LP sealed inside a plastic sleeve with a perforated edge. The unprotected jackets look aged like any used LP so y .......
57: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Classical LPs from Half Price Books (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-03-16, 17:46:37 (67.4.200.53)
The Schubert disc contains some of the most haunting music you'll ever hear in performances that have rarely if ever been surpassed. It's a recording that I still play regularly thirty years after I f .......
58: Vinyl Asylum, RE: New Kogan, Oistrakh LPs from Testament (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-03-05, 08:08:01 (67.4.203.115)
I'd really like to see Testament's LP reissues succeed, especially since they tend to put out the kind of titles that I as a collector am most interested in. I mean, I enjoy the various "golden age of .......
59: Vinyl Asylum, New Kogan, Oistrakh LPs from Testament (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-03-04, 02:24:54 (67.4.203.115)
Just noticed these forthcoming releases on www.testament.co.uk. Concerto discs by Leonid Kogan: Beethoven Tchaikovsky Mendelssohn and Mozart Plus an encores disc by David Oistrakh. .......
60: Vinyl Asylum, RE: I'm Glad They Deleted the Scene (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2011-02-16, 19:00:31 (184.97.197.206)
One of the things that make this such a great scene is that the only thing on his mind is the records. .......
61: Digital Drive, RE: Hiss from Arcam player (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2010-11-23, 18:39:10 (216.243.165.190)
Thanks for these suggestions. To answer ET's questions, no, there hasn't been any change of equipment recently and the problem remains when I change inputs into my Plinius integrated amp. Turning the .......
62: Digital Drive, Hiss from Arcam player (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2010-11-23, 04:20:41 (216.243.164.221)
I've been hearing some fairly loud hiss from my Arcam CD23. It sounds almost like the hiss from a cassette tape, although not quite as loud. It's in both channels, from both sets of outputs, and it's .......
63: Inmate Systems, Naun's This'll do (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2010-09-06, 20:04:20 (216.243.165.145)
Naun 's This'll do System
IP Address: 216.243.165.145
Last Update: September 06, 2010 at 20:04:20
Amplifier: Plinius 9200 integrated
Preamplifier (or None if Integrated): None
Speake .......
64: Vinyl Asylum, RE: two types of isolation (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2010-07-09, 21:23:17 (216.243.165.64)
I wonder if anyone has tried building an acoustic isolation enclosure. I once saw a glass box made by a manufacturer of double glazed windows to demonstrate the soundproofing qualities of the glass. I .......
65: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Nº 9 – Live at Lucerne (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2010-05-01, 02:52:49 (216.243.165.115)
The Lucerne 9th is available on SACD in a good transfer: http://www.amazon.com/Beethoven-Symphony-No-Hybrid-SACD/dp/B001A72XOI In general Furtwängler's live recordings are better than his studio ones, .......
66: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Similar Alternative (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2010-04-09, 19:43:05 (216.243.164.161)
As another satisfied Neuance user, I'd second the SRA Tremor/Less recommendation as an alternative. The information on the SRA web site may be out of date, however. There were reports a few years ago .......
67: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Another London FFSS Airbrush job???? (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2009-10-26, 21:39:14 (216.243.164.228)
Um, even from behind, she definitely looks stereophonic to me. .......
68: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Ingmar Bergman's record player (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2009-09-29, 18:26:02 (75.72.241.161)
Sad to see the leavings of a life carted off like this. But here's part of his record collection. Coincidentally, I saw an LP set at a local shop of Schubert's Winterreise sung in Swedish by Hakan Hag .......
69: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Is anyone pressing new chamber-music vinyl?? (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2009-08-11, 19:57:54 (75.72.241.161)
I'd agree with the above poster about used vinyl for chamber music. I've had mostly good fortune with used LPs from the 1960s and 1970s of artists like the Quartetto Italiano, the Beaux Arts Trio, and .......
70: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Pedro oh Pedro.........................get the real things....the 33CXs. (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2009-08-10, 19:37:58 (75.72.241.161)
I stand corrected. There was in fact an 1985 LP reissue of the 1955 recordings. I came back to vinyl fairly recently myself. Having seen the prices of some of these early edition pressings, I've been .......
71: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Klemperer Eroica mono 1955 (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2009-08-10, 05:33:41 (75.72.241.161)
It's also in vol. 7/8 of the Franklin Mint 100 Greatest Recordings of All Time series, copies of which turn up fairly cheaply on Ebay from time to time. The set also contains Beecham conducting no. 2 .......
72: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Source for Sumiko/Pro-Ject parts and tools? (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2007-01-24, 11:47:55 (130.126.24.228)
I don't know if they sell outside Europe, but this site looks promising: .......
73: Cable Asylum, OT: Pinging member Sherod re Tsunami cable (0.00)
Posted by Naun on 2006-07-28, 15:04:07 (130.126.36.170)
Sherod, thanks for getting in touch re the Tsunami cable, but my replies keep bouncing. Can you try emailing me (naunc0@gmail.com) using your regular email client instead of the AudioAsylum messaging .......
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