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Bob Dylan - As Good As It Gets

The fake reviewer quote made me laugh out loud. Good stuff Jack, all the best on the repairs. What are the differences between the ESL57 and 63?

The wait for the project details is killing me

Oscar Peterson Trio - Complete Clef/Mercury Recordings mosaic box

This looks like an iPhone app?

Miles Davis - At the Blackhawk disc 1

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I'm wondering if there is any good software that can implement a "jukebox" style web interface to browse all albums. Basically create a website on a local computer that is easily updated with album art and artist information by simply inputting information into a field. The user can then just go to their local website and browse their entire collection say for example by album art. Or clicking on an artist which would then take you to a page of album art for just that artist. It wouldn't have to playback anything just serve as GUI showing the user what music they have access to. I'm using foobar2000 and iTunes, but both of them have become too cumbersome when dealing with large directories spread over multiple drives and different masterings. With the above web interface I could easily find what I'm looking to listen to and then load the album into the player. I see a lot of the audiophile jukebox devices use something similar, but they are all stand alone units and I want to stick with my computer. I understand coding something like this should be fairly straightforward, but I can't program let alone making custom fields to easily add information. Does something like this exist? Free or pay it doesn't matter.

The EAR is really good, though I've never heard it with the SUTs in the signal path since he uses high output cartridges. The Aesthetix sounded great, but I wasn't there long enough to make any conclusions compared to the EAR.

I imagine with an attenuatable source things would be fine. With balanced outs that are normally double the output of single ended it causes problems. they're all opinions being posted here, no one is stating fact. Putting IMO in every comment posted is lame.

Some of my favorites: The Flaming Lips - Embryonic. One of their finest albums and one of the best albums in the last 10 years. Stardeath and the White Dwarfs - The Birth. Closely related to the Flaming Lips, but completely original in their own way. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns. I love her debut and this one, really hard to say which I like more. Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Lynx Pt2. One of the finest Wu Tang solo albums. I would go so far as to say best rap album in the last 10 years maybe even eclipsing the first Cuban Lynx. Either this or Fishscale for best rap album of this decade IMO obviously I have my biases Bear in Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth. Porcupine Tree - The Incident. The Dead Weather, I will need to listen to some more. I still haven't heard the new Rykarda Parasol and I loved her debut. Sort of a weak year for me.

That was the joke

Has anyone here heard any of the Aesthetix IO phono stages? I will get to hear one against an EAR 324 this weekend.

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From an objective point of view the HEV70 begins to clip at not unreasonable listening levels. It also gets overloaded with higher than 2-2.5 v output sources.

Franz Schubert - Symphony No9 (Tennstedt, Berlin Philharmonic) black triangle cd

Ah sorry. WRT to the MFSL thing, I don't ever remember disparaging one of their remasters TBH. I might have posted about preferring other versions to theirs, but mastering differences are so much more obvious than subtle source or amp differences to me. Especially when lots of funky EQ is applied.

Wow that seemed uncalled for It's pretty hard to listen to music when the left channel is 70% louder than the right and keeps cutting in and out. Oh right you weren't hearing what I heard.

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Yeah I have the Mullards as well, but no way to test them. The TS are coming matched and tested, so it eases my mind a little. All I have to do is set the bias.

Yeah they still work to some degree, I'm not taking any chances though.

Nope, playing some Guns N Roses finally did the old set in. I was listening to some of the Analogue Productions LPs a couple of days ago and the microphonics started to get worse in one channel then it started cutting in and out in the same channel (not completely though). Confirmed the same with the digital rig. It did the same thing today so I'm not chancing it with this quad and just replacing the whole set.

New Tung Sol EL34 quad. I should have kept a back up set of tubes, now I'm without an amp for a week unless I want to listen to dynamics

Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy vinyl, masterd by Chris Bellman (Bernie Grundman studios)

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