Hi, I was wondering what I specifically need to upgrade (and to what price point) to completely rid my turntable of 'essing' distortion about 13khz or so. My stylus has a quoted range of 20-20khz, but they don't mention that a large portion of this range sounds like [censored]! The tonearm (an offset design) is balanced and the antiskate is set properly. Do I need a stylus with a range up to 50khz? A heavier, more precise tonearm? Any specific makes/models of stylus that are recommended?

I really enjoyed AD's review of the Audio Note AN-E. It was insightfull and enlightening. Peter Qvortrup only proves that "some people get it some of the time" and was brave and bold enough to take Peter Snell's ideas and old inventory and move ahead, when others did not know what they did HAVE! When a simple 2 way 8" design is maxed out AD knew what he was hearing was magical.

Hi all,
I'm trying out a Vellman (Dynaco) Stereo 70 tube amp, with integrated volume control from a local shop and I have a hum from my speakers which does attinuate when you raise the volume control with ot without a source connected.
I have the (I believe Integrated Amp since I have to use my pre-amps tapeout loop for connection to the amp) powered through a power line conditioner (tried without too) and sitting in my rack under the other equipment (3rd shelf down).

I have tried to connect a seperate ground from chassis to ground and no change.

The quality of live albums usually range from bad to terrible, but there are some of them that can be just great. I was listening to the Bob Dylan 300th, or maybe it was 30th anniversary set. I was set back on my heels (no mean feat when you consider I was sitting at the time) by how good some of it was. "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" sung by Shawn Colvin, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Roseanne Cash was just wonderful. Stevie Wonder on the other hand is awful, but there is A LOT of great music that even sounds good.

What are your favorites, and why?

WBEZ the last surviving all jazz FM station operating in Chicago recently announced that within a year they will change format - to talk radio. Obviously the world needs more talk radio. I still have one college radio station with full time jazz programming, but after that, it's up to my collection and what little live stuff is happening around town.

Chicago, which once had a justified claim to being the center of jazz, has now rejected it. Change isn't always for the better.

Interesting article about archiving recordings on wax cylinders from the early 1900s..

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0413/p13s02-stct.html

And here is the web site to actually listen to the digitized recordings:

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/