Travis In Austin

If anyone is interested in the Spin Clean system, I have one I need to get rid of (wife bought me a VPI for XMAS). I cleaned less then 25 records with it, and purchased extra cleaning solution for it. I may be missing one of the two plastic rollers that the record rotates on (I would fire the maid but she is too good looking). If anyone is interested let me know and I will make one last hard ditch search for the roller, and if no luck, I will order another one from the Manuf. Travis

Max, Have you ever run you Clearaudtio TT in a multiple tonearm configuration. I am looking to upgrade my TT now, but was thinking it would be cheaper in the long run to just pull the trigger on the Clearaudio with one tonearm with stereo cartridge, and then upgrade it with an additional tonearm and mono cartridge as opposed to two seperate TT, arms and cartridges. So, from what I have seen so far, I beleive your rig is the only one capable of running multiple tonearms and was wondering if you have ever tried it? Travis

Craig, Out thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Gods speed man, Travis

Does anyone own a SME 20/2, there is one for sale on Audiogon that is about 10 minutes from me. http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?anlgtabl&1145839590 There is also a Thorens TD-850 for sale by another guy I have done business with here in Austin. http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?anlgtabl&1144179705 Just wanted to see if anyone had any firsthand experience with either of these TT, I am looking to upgrade what I have now, just not sure how much I want to upgrade. There is a Basis Debut Signature Vacuum w/ vector lll arm down the road, but for 13.5K I don't think I want to upgrade that much. http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?anlgtabl&1145386222 Any thoughts? Travis

Chris, I will tell you about your Cornwalls, and there is no easy way to put this, so I am just going to go ahead and say it: they were adopted. Yes adopted, it doesn't mean that they were not loved or unwanted, the original owner just didn't have room anymore, like all parents they moved up in the progression of life and bought LaScallas, the CW's were put in the extra room, Then came along a 2.33 children, a dog and a cat, and KHorns. As hard as this is to say, the CWs were relegated to the garage for a short while, albeit under wraps and a other protection. While your CW's were very much loved and appreciated by their original owners, there was just not enough room for them. It was because they did understand there beauty and enjoyment that they decided that it was too selfish to keep them for themselves so they looked long and hard to find some good new owners. They did have some ups and downs along the way, and were even slightly mistreated, however, they come from good clean stock and you will never be able to tell. So while they are adopted, that does not mean they are inferior in anyway. In fact, they are special, because they were selected and wanted for precisely who they were, by you. I will leave for another time the tales of all that they have been through. You now know there birth date, and you can have the satisfaction of having a special month for them each year. Enjoy the hell out of em! Travis

Looks like the Dr. had another late night, Oh to be young again. Travis

Dang, Sounds like a fun trip, makes me really pumped up for the Hope get together. So where does "Steamer" come from, I don't think Colter ever said. Travis

Please, can we give credit for inventing overdubbing to Les Paul, with George Martin and Brian WIlson really putting it to good first commercial use. DrWho, check this out your history books From Wikipedia: The overdub was first used by inventor and guitarist Les Paul on his 1947 "Lover (When You're Near Me)", featuring eight different electric guitar pieces. His later work would be seminal in the popularization of multi-track recording. Colter, I stand corrected and mispoke. Brian Wilson was the one who began to utilize the full potential of multitrack overdubbing, which many others then began to follow. Pet Sounds was a major breakthrough in multitrack overdubbing. With regard to the significance of Pet Sounds, this is what a few folks have said about Brian Wilson and Pet Sounds: George Martin If there is one person that I have to select as a living genius of pop music, I would choose Brian Wilson. Without Pet Sounds, Sgt. Pepper wouldn't have happened... Pepper was an attempt to equal Pet Sounds. Paul McCartney It was Pet Sounds that blew me out of the water. I love the album so much. I've just bought my kids each a copy of it for their education in life ... I figure no one is educated musically 'til they've heard that album ... I love the orchestra, the arrangements ... it may be going overboard to say it's the classic of the century ... but to me, it certainly is a total, classic record that is unbeatable in many ways ... I've often played Pet Sounds and cried. I played it to John so much that it would be difficult for him to escape the influence ... it was the record of the time. The thing that really made me sit up and take notice was the bass lines ... and also, putting melodies in the bass line. That I think was probably the big influence that set me thinking when we recorded 'Pepper', it set me off on a period I had then for a couple of years of nearly always writing quite melodic bass lines. "God Only Knows" is a big favorite of mine ... very emotional, always a bit of a choker for me, that one. On "You Still Believe In Me", I love that melody - that kills me ... that's my favorite, I think ... it's so beautiful right at the end ... comes surging back in these multi-colored harmonies ... sends shivers up my spine." Speaking of Deja Vu and CSYN: David Crosby He was the most highly regarded pop musician in America, hands down. Everybody by that time had figured out who was writing and arranging it all. "In My Room" was the defining point for me. When I heard it, I thought "I give up - I can't do that - I'll never be able to do that." Eric Clapton All of us, Ginger (Baker), Jack (Bruce), and I consider Pet Sounds to be one of the greatest pop LPs to ever be released. It encompasses everthing that's ever knocked me out and rolled it all into one. Brian Wilson is, without a doubt, a pop genius.

In there a forum member in WA. that is close by that they can give these things a listen? Would be interesting to hear how they sound. There is a guy in Spring, Texas that makes several models of speakers that are closely releated to Klipsch Herritage line. He has been the subject of previous threads, his stuff looks great and supposedly sounds great too. There was a good market for this type of thing until Klipsch revamped the Heritage line. It's little guys like that who probably got Klipsch to wake up on Heritage. Travis

Pet Sounds is absolutely incredibile, you have to have the mono lp, which is the way it was originally recorded. The rechanneled "stereo" does not sound good at all. Brain Wilson remixed it for the DVD-A, it comes in the original mono, a pretty good stereo mix, and a great surround mix, but none are as good as the mono lp, IMHO. As far as overdubbing, Brian Wilson practically invented overdubbing, it was a required evil because of the limited tracts available at the time and Wilson doing everything in the studio in a modular approach. It would actually go to 24 tracks of analog, not 16 tracks of digital. Travis

markertek.com, part no sc35r 3' 1/4" male to RCA male, 12.95 each, using canare connectors and Belden CDT wire, and you can get them in any color you want, 1.5' for the same price. Travis

Oscar and WUzzer, I really envy the amount of time you both get to enjoy your systems. Has me inspired to sit back and enjoy mine a lot more. Travis

Markertek.com will have everything you need, and they have a great catalog they will send you for FREE. Travis

The reason for the poll was that I find myself spending time buying music, hunting for music, getting my music room situtated the right way, messing with equipment, and the time I actually spend enjoying all seems to get less and less. Was hoping to see how much time everyone actually gets to spend enjoying their various systems. Travis

Gary, What else are you "holding out" on? [] Travis

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Delano, You need to come to the next record convention here in Austin. You will see more original BLP's and BST's in one day then you will in a lifetime of hunting. They come in every condition. You should be able to get on in M- for $35 to $45. Travis

\Can you say Amdro. It's funny how us folks from the south have to explain stuff like fire ants. We even have a Texas Supreme Court decision about them: a man and wife (Snowbirds) come down from MN with their trailer to stay at an RV park for the winter. He get under the trailer to hook some things up, etc. and lays in a fire ant mound is bitten several hundred times AND DIES! Court says, there are all kinds of things in Texas that can bite, sting or hurt you, and in some cases kill you. It's up to you to know what they are and to avoid them, not the RV Park owner. Sooooooooooooo, if you don't know what fire ants are, or more importantly if your children don't know what they are, make sure you have one of us point them out to you so you can avoid them. Travis

Don't worry, I will have the whole new "sharing" law figured out by then, including, but not limited to, loopholes that fit our situation. There is usually always a good one if you are having a "charitable event." Travis

Scott, You have an email from me. I am sorry about causing your heart to skip a beat, I was not reading the thread close enough and did not see that the seller was from AK. Travis

Started with speakers that came with an Emerson all in one job (phono, 8-track, turner) when I was 9, then AR1's from my Dad (still have) then KG-4's (still have) then Ampex Studio Monitors from my Dad, then LS's and Herresy (still have) then KSP400's w/matching rears and center. Travis

I will thrown in the first $100.00 for the room and bourbon to get things rolling. I can also bring some reel-to-reel gear if anyone is interested in that or doing an A/B with R2R and CD and/or LP. However, I think it is going to be difficult to get a good sounding vinyl rig going unless someone has it there in hope and is willing to move it to the room where we are going to have the mixer, Travis

I will be there, and will be driving from Austin. If anyone from Texas is going and wants to ride along send me an email. tcwesq@texas.net. Travis

Is this TT really worth $65,000. The good news is the tonearm and stylus are included in that price, the bad news is that the special TT Stand is not included. Cost for that is only 25K. Is it worth it?

Dr. Who, the big difference is going to be the speed of the tape, it needs to be 7.5 IPS and who recorded the tape for the record label. Ampex, Bell and Howell and some others produced excellent quality prerecorded tapes which will be superior to vinyl because they were recorded straight from the two track master. On the other hand, a 3.75 IPS prerecorded tape from columbia record club is going to sound like garbage because it is a 4th maybe 5th generation copy. The 7.5 has double the S/N ratio of the slower speed. The right prerecorded tape on the right tape player will sound superior to the vinyl because the limitations of the cutting lathe and eventually the cartridge/needle obviously do not apply to tape. 3D, you are close but a little off on the sizes, but you are correct about the fact that two track has wider tracks resulting in higher quality reproduction. Home analog is 1/4", studio recorders are 1/2", 1" or 2". The broadcast standard is 1/4" two track, with two tracks nearly 1/8" wide, 4 track home R2R is about 1/16" per track, but is far superior to audio cassette which has tracks smaller then 1/32". Not quite but close. Regardless of the number of tracks used on the studio recording, that tapes was "Mastered" onto a 2 track 1/4" tape at 15 or 30 IPS, almost allways Ampex 456 or 499. That two track tape is then sent to be used with the cutting lathe or to the company that will make the prerecorded reel to reels. A stereo lathe can only accept two tracks (left and right) same with the precorded tape facility. This is the whole reason for mastering, ensuring that the music is going to work with the lathe, be within the RIAA curve, etc. You will see on just about every lp, recorded at _________ Studio, and then mastered at __________. Travis