Recent content by Dick Bowman

Also looking for a TT at this time - some thoughts... Gyro/SME309 - owned for some years, could never rid myself of a sense that it sounded "lazy" (even if it didn't in reality). Avid Ingenium/Diva SP - Diva was clearly superior on demo (same arm/cartridge on both), a more "natural"...

Deliberate mismanagement by the politically motivated as part of the project to direct public opinion toward privatisation. Same technique as used in gas/phone/electricity/rail/bus/andsoon.

I make a point of having my source components higher than the power amps, which are in turn placed over the speakers. That means the electrons only have to go downhill, which is a lot easier for them.

Until the streaming "service" goes belly-up. Or decides to delete things you want to hear again. Or just decides they don't want to put some stuff online anyway. Or they put their prices up because they just can. Or you decide to stop paying subscriptions. Personally, I purchase...

"Universal Consciousness" and "World Galaxy" are probably worth a listen as examples of what she was doing a little later - the latter especially for giving us the first chance to hear Frank Lowe (in his explosive phase). Not to mention Leroy Jenkins contributions.

The Sun Ra Arkestra without Sun Ra is a very different proposition from the Sun Ra Arkestra led by Sun Ra. Those of us fortunate enough to have heard the latter can well remember how everything came into focus at the end of the concert preamble when Sunny took charge. It's a "tribute band"...

It is a threaded hole, you need the right size screw.

Wandering slightly off-topic, but... The latest Stereophile (that I've seen) contains a piece about the Pear Audio turntables and arms, which appear to be a spinoff from Nottingham Analogue. Which makes me wonder precisely what the situation is with NA and various "derived" products - I'm...

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TUM CDs are usually available via Amazon - the price is a bit steep at present.

My recollection is that Thorens belts tended to stretch noticeably - I'd guess that the new one is correct and that things just slid out of alignment over the years (I used to figure on a Thorens belt being good for about a year or two until it needed replacing).

Buy a USB cable (£5 or so), plug one end into your PC and the other into your DAC. Install free software like Foobar2000 and EAC. Spend the remaining £495 on refreshing beverages.

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Also - especially when the CD is relatively rare, don't discount the possibility that your rip is OK, but AccurateRip contains value(s) from other people's poor rips.

My opinion (and that's all it is, no direct experience of this exact scenario) is that the basic essence of the sound is set by your starting point. You can make yourself a better/worse Gyrodeck by all manner of modification but the core of the sonics is going to be unchanged. To get something...