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A little bedtime music..

The mailman brought a goodie bag this afternoon. The Thorens leather TT mat sure looks and feels nice. We'll see if it sounds better than the stock rubber mat Got a Zerostat, a stylus cleaning gel pad with a hi magnification triple, and some gooey stuff for cleaning records without having...

The Angeles String Quartet did a great Haydn cycle. They may have disbanded though.

45 rpm too.

Well, they won't ship internationally but they did take my money and promised to ship to my brother in Colorado in two boxes from Hope. No sales tax and no shipping for FedEx Ground. My sister-in-law promised to trans-ship them to me here in the UAE. Looking forward to the fun of swapping the...

I did an audition at the dealer with the Heresies and ordered the Forte IIIs. Like you, I thought the Cornwalls were just too big and I I live in a largish apartment. Even made templates of floor footprints to see it with my own eyes in-situ. The walnut is fine looking but I wish I had the...

The most effective room treatment I've found was big black acoustic foam wedges stuck in the corners of the walls, ceiling, and floors. That doesn't deal with high frequency "reflections" that others above mention but with low frequency room resonances. The white foam pads are for reflections...

Tivoli Music System. Only play CDs as no local stations of interest.

No. 76.3, the "Kaiser" second movement, poco adagio, cantabile, brings me to tears from its beauty. Over Harbeth SHL5 Plus.

Waiting for the next episodes to drop.

I just taped a couple of quarter coins on the backend of the arm to balance a 15 gram cart on the other end. Looks kludgy but works. Cost? $0.50 USD.

Listening to some relaxing music before bedtime.

Harbeth SHL5 Plus speakers. Using an ADCOM GFA555 Mk II power amp for a tryout with the Yamaha AS3200 iintegraed as a preamp.

Saw on YT the ClassicsToday guy say this was the reference recording of this piece. Recorded 1973.

Looks like I'll have to transship the kits via a relative in the US to the UAE. Once I get the swap done I'll offer on Barter for some intrepid speaker builder to have fun with the parts. They can live out my fantasy!