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Dmitry

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  1. Btw, what turntable is this? And another btw, there's Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary leaders album cover on this album cover.
  2. If you'd stockpiled them, they'd probably dry out anyway. What's 50 quid get you these days?!
  3. I just watched it for the first time last week. Took me 3 tries. The scooter on a metro sequence is enjoyable. I didn't care for the rest of the movie...let's put it this way. I was expecting a much better film, based on the cult status.
  4. Where's the sculpture? Am I looking at something abstract, or is there a depiction of a pubic area on the bottom left, a nipple and the elbow on the right?
  5. For the same reason I stopped reading the NYT. I remember reading an issue on a transatlantic flight last summer, and the Hillary love-fest even made it into the Arts section, where they were salivating over her wardrobe choices. In conjunction to all of that the quality of their writing suffered tremendously. That was the end for me. Does Seymour Hersh still write for the New Yorker? Damn good journalist.
  6. Yep, it's about time he stepped down. Not that it'll make any difference. These do suck, you know. Neither clever, or funny, imho. Such are the times. http://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon Incidentally, how much does the cartoon editor at the New Yorker pull? No less than $120K a year, I bet. Sweet gig.
  7. I've had that cartridge for a long time, it's a legend. Switched to the 20x2, a very nice, revealing cartridge. I got mine at a substantial discount in Hong Kong, from a "well known in small circles" grey market dealer. All of my turntables have been purchased used, all the cartridges - brand new.
  8. THIS IS MY FAVORITE SO FAR!
  9. Yes, you might run into a little bit of a gain matching conundrum with some LOMC cartridges, but I use a HOMC Dynavector. Essentially the same gain as MM cartridges, but I find the sound to be palpably better. Not pretending to be an expert, just my observations. Direct Drive tables are awesome. The pinnacle was late 1970s-mid 1980s. I have a late 1980s Pioneer Reference Series PL-90. What a machine! I love the speed stability, the auto-stop, the button for one-touch lowering and raising of the tonearm, the instant 33/45 switching, the removable tonearm/headshell. As we know the most well-regarded of them all is the aforementioned SL1200. There are so many of them available used, for very reasonable amounts. Just check out your local CL. As you might know, Technics is starting to mass-market the newly re-engineered latest version of the SL-1200 in the summer of this year. I think MSRP would be around $1700 , complete with a tonearm. Initial reviews are very-very favorable. On the more affordable front you got Pioneer PLX-1000 and PLX-500, marketed for DJs, but from what I've read, are excellent for vinyl lovers also... Well under $1,000 incl. a decent cartridge.
  10. rostasi, I'm curious how much a new head unit would cost to retrofit in your old Prius. Something that'll allow BT and USB connections. Could really transform the way you do things.
  11. Cool! I've never seen this one before. Nor heard of Sam Lazar... Space Jazz, a Sonic Sci-Fi Opera by L. Ron Hubbard, Featuring Chick Corea
  12. Bundle, that's the way to go. If you buy several sets and have them shipped together, the shipping costs per set quickly diminish.
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