Dmitry

Not in Europe.

These are pretty amazing sorbothane feet. They greatly reduce vibration, be it under your turntable , speakers, blender, subwoofer, compressor, etc. They retail from Amazon for $29. I was going to put them under my turntable, but ended up bolting a shelf to to the wall. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AJ1PI66/ref=afx_dp_prime_egress?ie=UTF8&fpl=fresh&th=1 They are brand new in a bag. Package of 8 cones. My price is $17 post paid. I also have a package of 4 Isolation Circular Disc Pads 0.5" thick 1" wide. $12 post paid. I'm using 4 of these under my turntable shelf. These really made a difference. Anyone living in an old house will benefit from these, trust me. https://www.amazon.com/Isolate-Sorbothane-Vibration-Isolation-Circular/dp/B019O5BF28/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=Isolate+It%21&qid=1607168728&sr=8-5

Larry, now that you've confirmed what simple tweaks can do to change the sound of your system, if you want to take your listening experience on the new level, put the turntable on the bottom of the stack, with the amp on top of it.. I was floored when I did that.

Shouldn’t it be split seams, not seam splits? I got an A in English as a Second Langauge from Brooklyn College.

Thanks, I'll check out the Hoffman. Meanwhile, which retailer has the best deal going on the Tone Poets? It's the sale season.

I see the solution to your problem: add a little more storage. No need to thank me.

The Boston Pops was his tag on the escort circuit.

Here it is.

V.S.O.P.

Over 1000 restaurants have permanently closed in NYC since the lockdown in March. I'm sure quite a few of them presented jazz bands for the pleasure of their patrons. It's a domino effect...

I'm not a musician, and not even good with words, but this isn't any worse than the bands I could hear weekly, mainly at the Tonic in NYC, or in any other place within 1 mile north of it, ca. 2002. I must single out the trumpeter's outfit. It certainly took some effort to procure an ensemble with so much hipster flair,...what europeans might call a garniture.

The producer of this record was Ralph Bass.

Yeah, that too...the music!

Yeah. It's much easier if you have removable headshells, like the ones on Technics tables, or SME tonearms. OR if you have a separate table for mono records. Even with removable headshells, don't forget that cartridges have different tracking forces, and different VTAs, which you'd need to tweak every time you change the headshells....unless you have, for example, two cartridges of identical dimensions, like 2 Grados, one mono, one stereo. Then the switch from stereo to mono would be effortless. If not, having two turntables set up, for stereo and mono, is ideal. You'd only need to set it up each cartridge once.

I disagree. I agree with Chekhov - "Everything should be perfect about a person: face, clothing, soul, thoughts." If he were into records, he'd surely say, "Everything should be perfect about an album: the vinyl, the jacket, the spindle hole, the inner grooves."

Just purchased my first mono cartridge, a Grado Mono ME+. Wanted one for a while, and will treat myself for the upcoming big 5-O. It was going to be either this one, or the Audio-Technica AT3MONO/LP. Both are supposed to be excellent for the price; I went with the Brooklyn, NY product. Now I just hope it doesn't hum on my turntable. https://4ourears.com/collections/specialty-cartridges/products/grado-prestige-mono-phono-cartridge-model-me Does anyone have a dedicated MONO cartridge for their records?

That can actually make them sound very nice. Less music on a 12" disc can possibly make for wider-spaced, deeper grooves.

I ordered this lot of about 3 dozen from Music Matters when I was under the influence...of the Hoffman Forum. I did play 6 or 7 of them, and they sounded remarkable. The rest stayed sealed in their shipping boxes and I forgot about them; we were fixing our house then...that was 9 years ago. I can't believe I've had them this long! You are right about the unpredictability factor - some are possibly buggered enough for the particularly anal buyer to raise a shit storm. Just pulled them out. On Side A I'm itching to open and play them, on Side B, I am sure the PITA level will creep up rather fast.

Same here. I've been storing albums in poly sleeves for decades, record outside the jacket, in inner sleeve. Speaking of the outer poly sleeves - these are excellent value. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003NG2WIG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Inners - https://www.amazon.com/Sleeves-Vinyl-Provide-Collection-Protection/dp/B07CYKRVRW/ref=pd_bxgy_img_3/132-6046237-0480110?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B07CYKRVRW&pd_rd_r=7a2ab0db-bd1f-454d-845e-50535476c235&pd_rd_w=sQZpu&pd_rd_wg=8Bz1E&pf_rd_p=f325d01c-4658-4593-be83-3e12ca663f0e&pf_rd_r=Z758G89CCB9DJNP31TF6&psc=1&refRID=Z758G89CCB9DJNP31TF6

Well, at least in theory, the 45 RMP 12" LP will sound noticeably superior to a 33 1/3 rpm. This is a good explanation why: https://www.classic45s.com/why45s/45sound.html I'm with you on the changing sides every 7 to 10 minutes, though. I'm sitting on 30 of the unopened ones...an impulse buy, as I confessed above.

Sound diet is very important to boost his immune system. Good luck!

I've been out of the loop with the Music Matters. They are charging $75 +s/h for 33 1/3 rpm LPs now?! That is ...a lot. Otoh, the JRVGs used to be $27.99 20 years ago. Edit: what is their price structure based on? The 45rpm LPs are priced from $39.95 to $99.95.