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sberger

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Re: What's spinning?
Reply #1785 - 05/26/12 at 17:59:16

Lon the madness is never ending. And I like it Grin

I like my machines a lot. I just like to try new things is all. In the olden days that kind of attitude could be dangerous. Nowadays it's the only experimentation that I do that still brings me a great deal of pleasure. And ain't bad for my health either. If the Denon gets down to a grand or so I could see myself jumping. I've always had good luck with their stuff.

My first listen this morning through the 5400 was Henry Grimes "The Call"

Good for getting the morning eyes open. But now after a bit of fine tuning of the turntable it's time to start dancing, so...

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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. D*ck Posts: 5232	Re: What's spinning? Reply #1786 - 05/27/12 at 02:49:10 Put the CSP2 back in the system. So far no hum!
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sberger Seasoned Member Posts: 179	Re: What's spinning? Reply #1787 - 05/27/12 at 04:46:18 Glad to hear the CSP2 has been tamed. Mine had some hum issues as well for awhile that finally went away after switching out some tubes. Used every night now as my headphone amp for television/movies. Nice stuff that the wife does not tell me to turn down:
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. D*ck Posts: 5232	Re: What's spinning? Reply #1789 - 05/27/12 at 13:23:42 Often played on Sunday mornings. Sort of like church for me.
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Re: What's spinning?
Reply #1790 - 05/27/12 at 15:26:23

sberger wrote on 05/27/12 at 04:46:18:

Glad to hear the CSP2 has been tamed. Mine had some hum issues as well for awhile that finally went away after switching out some tubes. Used every night now as my headphone amp for television/movies.

Nice stuff that the wife does not tell me to turn down:

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/ccdb63142b97c9b8a62894f0ed49cec4/30...

Yes, very nice Ella!

I'm doing some tube-rolling to see what tube sets in the CSP2 bring out the best of the sources and justify it being in the system. So far a Philips 6922 has surprised me as being quite nice for most material and sources. . . I'll keep it in for a spell. And now on to rolling rectifiers; right before I took the CSP2 out last time I won on ebay three different 5Y3GT tubes (a batch).

This is such a great sounding cd!

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sberger Seasoned Member Posts: 179	Re: What's spinning? Reply #1791 - 05/27/12 at 17:31:16 Love that cd. In fact, enjoy it so much that I found an original on vinyl. International Phonograph has done has done a fantastic job with their reissues of this, Bill Dixon's Intents and Purposes, and Julius Hemphill's Dogon A.D. All great A little piano music for a grey Bay morning:
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Re: What's spinning?
Reply #1792 - 05/27/12 at 18:03:09

sberger wrote on 05/27/12 at 17:31:16:

Love that cd. In fact, enjoy it so much that I found an original on vinyl. International Phonograph has done has done a fantastic job with their reissues of this, Bill Dixon's Intents and Purposes, and Julius Hemphill's Dogon A.D. All great

A little piano music for a grey Bay morning:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ekXtn4Dx6fw/T7C0aqNnpvI/AAAAAAAAB0I/d918pXX4dpw/s1600/...

I agree, they're all fantastic reissues. Looking forward to more.

Well, things move quickly in my household. I blew two fuses trying rectifier tubes in the CSP2 and cut my losses and restored the system to source direct into Torii mode. And you know what? It sounds so good that why do I want to change it? I don't need to.

Rubinstein. What a masterl.

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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. D*ck Posts: 5232	Re: What's spinning? Reply #1793 - 05/28/12 at 20:04:08
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. D*ck Posts: 5232	Re: What's spinning? Reply #1795 - 05/30/12 at 23:34:51 This Blu-ray looks absolutely spectacular and sounds even better. I actually turned the monitor off to just listen this time. Great music too. I'm one very happy Sade fan.
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. D*ck Posts: 5232	Re: What's spinning? Reply #1796 - 05/31/12 at 16:33:19 Mono recordings that sound excellent on these SACDs. Nice interpretations of Debussy that I had never heard before. The recording on SACD is very dynamic and very resonant. I dig.
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Lon Seasoned Member "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. D*ck Posts: 5232	Re: What's spinning? Reply #1797 - 06/02/12 at 20:03:38 First vinyl played in my living room in a long time:
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sberger Seasoned Member Posts: 179	Re: What's spinning? Reply #1798 - 06/02/12 at 20:26:08 Congratulations!! Love that feeling of having to choose the first album to slip on the tt when a new piece of equipment is introduced to the rig. I'm sure it's going to be a long day of spinning today. Enjoy and let us know how everything sounds. I've got some Bobby Timmons flowing now:
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Re: What's spinning?
Reply #1799 - 06/02/12 at 21:04:17

Had a lot of fun in the second system last night, and having some fun now in the main system.

I finally thought it was time to roll tubes on the preamp that arrived yesterday. It had some rather unrecognizable ones in and I replaced them with the first matched pair of 12AU7s I found on hand, some GEs, the sound improved by a good step. The preamp is very clear and dynamic, if a bit brighter than I'd like, but it's still early.

I'm still awaiting my Rega and some cabling to make the cabling more consistent and better, so I'm reserving serious judgment here. But sound is quite satisfying. The PS Audio GCPH is a wonderful phono preamp.

Can't wait for all the equipment to be here and set up. A few more days for most, hard to say when a few of the cables will arrive.

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