I was just wondering if any NYC area based forum members happened to go the Masada and Cecil Taylor concerts last Friday and Saturday nights at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall. If you do live in the NYC area and enjoy jazz's freer side then you sure missed one heck of a fabulous concert.

Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall is a relatively new concert hall with a 1200 seat capacity, great sight lines and excellent acoustics. I attended Friday night's show and the hall seemed to be almost full, which is a good sign for jazz and a really great sign for free jazz.

Hola,

I saw a post somewhere that said that with higher voltage electrical supply, cabling can be smaller and has less effect on sound.

As an electro-luddite, I wonder if that's true?

Then, I was thinking 220 volts at 50 cycles may have an easier time powering power supplies, etc...

So, would gear designed to run on that higher voltage have an advantage in its native environment over our 110 volt set-ups running on our electricity?

Maybe I should I be buying Euro-gear and running the power from my washing machine circuit?

Hi,
I have a Micromega Stage 1 CD player which I am using as a transport for a Channel Island Audio VDA-1, along with a Rega Mira amp. I am looking to change out the CD and I don't know whether to go for a modern CD player like the Rotel RCD-1072, or use something older that might match up better, like the old Rega Planet, and keep using the VDA-1.

Is a modern CD player like the Rotel so much better than my 10 year old Micromega coupled with a modern DAC? Any thoughts would be most welcome.

Thanks

Hi to you all,

I succefully repaird a Thule CD 150B player with a new philips 12.4 transport (thanks to the kind suggestion of another forum member).
Given the components of the player (cf picture from the simular but non balanced Thule cd 100) it's rather sensitive to shocks etc. but it sounds great.
I would like to know if there are (besides the 3M resonance absorbing foils i've used already in the casing) ways to improve further the stability of the transport itself.

thanks

My father once gave me a record of the LvB Violin Concerto played by Alfredo Campoli with the RPO conducted by John Pritchard (HMV Concert Classics SXLP 20043). Campoli's playing is quite beautiful but I suppose this disc has more sentimental value than anything. It was one of his favourites and I remember him playing it (loudly!) on Sunday mornings from when I was very small.