re: Audiophile/Vinyl Thread - Post Pics, Advice, Questions, Setups, etc.

You need to take the towel off the top of your receiver—it needs to breathe. Is the towel covering any vent slots?

Capitol/Apple Records
2017 Stereo remaster

The purists may hate it, but this blows my original press out of the water

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So what’s the best (reasonably priced) powered speaker that isn’t enormous? I want my setup to be semi mobile as i’ll liaten in different rooms in house or outside while hanging out/cooking, etc. So not looking for a huge stereo with tower speakers.

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I would just grab a pair of KRK studio monitors

ProAudio

That album does sound nice. I recently picked up the 2017 re release of The White Album. It's excellent.

I have always given, to the best of my ability, advice and help to this board when I see fellow audiophiles and music aficionados making decisions that could affect their livelihood.

As many of you have wives, children, and extended families that rely on you, I fear some of you may end up permanently affixed to a one seat table in the back corner of a pipe tobacco smoke-filled back alley jazz club in Greenwich Village, eventually leaving the wife and kids behind to fend for themselves as your need for evermore complex modes and scales drives you further down the hole until nothing but Albert Ayler spiritualization trances will get you your “fix”.


Well Uncle Marco, M.D. (music doctor) isn’t throwing in the towel on his fellow MB residents just yet. In an effort to save your families from certain abandonment (think of the children for God’s sake!), I am prescribing you all with a magical elixir to cure your ailment—a taste of live, unadulterated, unapologetic, Louisiana grown, arse-shakin’, foot-grindin’, nasty boogie-woogie Rock ‘n Roll stew.

Some of you may need to up the dosage of this new elixir from QD (those listening to a few Blue Note releases a week) to TID, or even QID (for the ones with multiple subscriptions entire re-release catalogues).


So I present the MB with this new magical potion. Use it alone on the first dose, as it lacks complicated chords, scales, and modes, and may have side effects causing you to extinguish the pipe and stand up to shake dat arse...



The elixir:








LETS RADIATE!!!

Marco with a needle drop!

PSB was very highly respected - Paul Barton was considered one of the best speaker designers in his era. They date back 20-30 years or so, I'd be careful about the age and condition but they should be very quality speakers. The company is still extant, in different hands but still building highly regarded speakers.

I would have some pause at pulling the trigger on a 30 year old speaker, to be honest. But that does look like a reasonable price, just comparing to market listings for it on hifishark.com. (Click on the Sold/Expired link to see some, for example this was listed at $600 and sold though can't tell what the final price was:
https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649622152-psb-stratus-gold-speakers-in-oak/)

Have you listened to them?

Larry Carlton - Alone/ But Never Alone
1986 MCA Master Series

Picked this up a couple weeks ago at a local record shop for $2.50. I’m telling y’all, it may be the best sounding record in my collection. Makes my pedestrian setup sound other worldly. If you come across one of these scoop it up