If you’re gonna turn a record, might as well have the best phono stage preamp ever built...pure Nelson Pass bliss!

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How’s it work with the hidden tracks on the LP of Broken? I remember when I was like 13 and got that CD I thought it was weird my CD player showed 99 tracks but the case shows 11 IIRC.

After you posted that album pic, I dug out that CD and played WISH at 1/2 volume on my “Wall O Sound”. I forgot how awesome Reznor’s music is...I had to play some SuperSexySwingingSounds after that!

I used to be a Mac amp man. I still love them. Great sound. I love working on them. I love the look. I love everything about them. One day, a good friend of mine brought an amp by the shop telling me I had to check it out. Simple looking 42 pound cabinet. No meters or controls. Only one lamp that illuminated the logo of a speaker company called “Epicure”. I ran the amp into a pair of JBL L100s using a lowly Carver C1 preamp...the L100s had never been so alive! To this day, I’ve never found another amp which remotely compares to the Epicure M1. I now own 4 of them. Currently, I’m using a Threshold SL-10 preamp-with no processors or equalizers-into two Epicure amps. One runs a pair of JBL 4430s and the other for Yamaha NS-1000s. At half volume, my shop is so loud it’s unbearable and yet still crystal clear! What’s wild about the Epicure is all the transistors are N-channel and it’s 1 Ohm stable in AB mode. If anyone ever gets a chance, get one. The amp will never cease to amaze you and they usually sell for less than $500.

I was never a Sansui fan-especially when working on them. The G series receivers used germanium diodes IIRC and it was hard to find replacements. Lots of people tend to disagree with me though.

If you want a cool old school receiver that’s under rated and affordable, look for a Stereotech!

Anybody here have White Zombie “Supersexy Swinging Sounds”? And if so, do you want to part with it? I’d trade a project pin or some parts for one. I’d take one and cash for a complete working pin.

Also, Tom Petty “Honeybee”, the Quarrymen (prob takes a complete Sys11 game to get one) or a turquoise lettered Led Zeppelin (I’ve got one, but it’s rough.)

Hard to believe a Solar Fire in about any condition is worth more than a $700 record!

I see EM pop up all the time for around $700. Seems like I have a warehouse full of $700 project games that I have less than $700 in much like anyone that bought that record new in the 90’s…

I won’t let my kids watch much TV, so they’re getting into vinyl with me. We play pinball and turn records. Go to the record shop and they pick out Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson and Taylor Swift (they’re girls age 8 and 4). Their 3 brand new albums cost more than the dozen or so oldies I got. I’ll have to remember Walmart for the kids music as the girls didn't like the record store (they said it smells bad and the people dressed funny.)

Is that a first pressing of Wildflowers?

One of the greatest track line up ever!

Anybody have a first press of Tom Petty Wildflowers?

Just throwin haymakers…