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Thanks Wolff. Agree, 'a worn record is a worn record and will be noisy regardless if it's mono or stereo and no matter what you do', I am looking for a way to hear them in the best way. Actually I think I should sell my house to replace my worn Beatles UK monos with better copies.

I know that a stereo cartridge has vertical and horizontal oscillation from the grove for different channel. A mono cartridge has only one oscillation. Wich one is left channel, vertical or horizontal? I am asking this because I noted that in my system on old mono records the left channel is usually more 'used' and damaged than right one. My TT system is set up correctly. So I am asking myself if an Y adaptor/connector could allow me to enjoy my old mono records without hearing the time's damage, avoiding more expensive solutions like a mono cartridge. Sadly my preamp does not have the useful mono/stereo/mono-left/mono-right switcher of my old Marantz

Escalator Over The Hill - C. Bley.

TUXEDOMOON HALF-MUTE Ralph

What Wolff said. Consider also some good used TT, you can have them at good price. Obiously TTs are more expensive, need more care and maintenance and you have to replace the stylus/cartrige ... but you know it BTW upgrading my old Thorens to a better TT, Linn LP12, was such a musical pleasure that I started to buy tons of used vinyls, from Mahler to Hendrix, from Miles Davis to Neil Young. I think it was my best move in audio market of my life of buyer.

After this rumors about Classic Records' problems, I listened carefully at most of my copies, Zep, CSN, Hendrix, BN, Dylan and Who. Maybe I am a lucky guy, but I didn't find any problems.

It's slow, very slow for me, and some threads give me an error message. Sorry Jim for the bad news.

This afternoon: John Coltrane and Duke Ellington, Impulse, original stereo John Coltrane SETTING THE PACE, Prestige, mono blue label Duke Ellington, Max Roach, Charles Mingus, MONEY JUNGLE Classic reissue

Jimmy Heat THE QUOTA Riverside mono

My opinion about it, after I calmed down, (and waiting the response from Linn assistance) is that the problem should be the power amp, in fact the light of power was on, but it didn't sound. The power amp has a fuse on his main supply that was ok. A lightning strike or a power company large surge should have burned the fuse, (and the fuses of my other mono amp and the preamp as well). So I think I will have to change the name of this topic: 'Saying goodbye to solid state power amp' Anyway after the assistance's response I hope I will do official apologies to tubes.

MINGUS AT MONTEREY, Charles Mingus.

Or Fripp used a telesope shot for this King Crimson record?

Considering the psych record's covers of the 60's, you don't need a telescope to obtain imagine like this.

Damn! The last I observed this Mosaic it reached 450$. Time is fleeting! http://cgi.ebay.it/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt...me=STRK:MEWA:IT

Just grabbed a bunch of Van Morrison's records (later german and UK pressing): Astral Weeks, T.B. Sheets, It' too late to stop now. I love this guy!

On eBay I found this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...ssPageName=WDVW No info on Revenant website. Any Info?

Damn! I am a huge fan of the books of Adams, (and I trasmitted the passion to my son ) and we have to wait until september to see the movie in Italy!

Wolf, I would be glad to blame my power amps (Linn) for this, because I love the sound of my system (and my tube preamp as well (Audio Research)). I will send my Linns to assistence without specifying I use a tube preamp. Hope I will discover the cause of this damage. About tubes I have to say I don't love too much tubes power amps, they lack the punch and the bass frequencies speed I love for my rock records and I had to change power tubes too often for my taste, (my integrated tube amp was a VTL, maybe it was a bad match with my speakers, who knows?) Anyway good tubes sound great if correctly matched. Tubes are like vinyl, they need some more care. I will inform you about the 'guilty'!

Actually my tube preamp sounds nice to my ears. I had an integrated tubes amp few years ago, I sold it because power tubes lasted a short time, and replacing them was an hassle, a part the cost. I upgraded to tube preamp and solid state amps for a better sound and to avoid the cost and the hassle, but if tubes are responsable for this mess I will replace it with a solid state preamp.

I was listening to a record yesterday when a horrible bang jumped out of my speakers. The security switcher of my home general supply turned off. When I restored the supply at home I changed the tubes of my preamp and I discovered that one of my mono solid state power amps it's gone and the woofer of the loudspeaker is deadly silent. If all this audio earthquake depends on a single tube, price 10$, that is what I suspect, surely I will say goodbye to tubes amplification forever. Did you experience something like that?

UPDATE

JOHN COLTRANE AFRICA BRASS vol 2 ABC IMPULSE white label promotional copy

I don't blame cell technology. IMO we are living in a television world and these guys are simply shooting their own 'reality show', a sort of 'Big Bully Brother'.

The brand new 'House of Jazz' opens Friday. http://www.casajazz.it/canale.asp?id=249 I hope the english page will open soon. Another useful link if you plan to visit Italy and wish to listen to jazz after a pizza. http://www.jazzitalia.net/eventimain.asp

Good choice. TDSOTM Anniversary Edition sounds great, and at good price, compared to absurd pricey original pressings. Some vinyl reissues are great: Sundazed, Speakers Corner, Analogue Production and Classic, love them.