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My point was that Johnson was speeded up (and so Rory thought him devilish). Not that Rory was speeded up.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/music ... nson-blues

Original guardian article

https://www.elijahwald.com/johnsonspeed.html

Discussion of whether Johnson speeded up his recordings to be more virtuosic.

https://www.tnt-audio.com/headphones ... ps_e.html


Interesting review but you probably want something berrer

Also on the topic of distribution blocks if you read the naim web-forum a lot recommend the graham hydra

https://community.naimaudio.com/t/gr ... ra/14362

Basically all the wires into one-plug. So star earthing which a "thing" with naim.

Probably not that hard to make at home

This is a bit off topic but discussion seems to have moved from distribution blocks to cables ... I started to build this cable but can't remember why I stopped .. http://www.tnt-audio.com/clinica/merlino.html It is basically a shielded cable using industrial shielded mains cable. It's available fro...

I bought (years ago pre Brexit) from Olson

https://olsondirect.co.uk

https://olsondirect.co.uk

Got a 6 way metal distribution board.

Quite happy with it.

No idea what the situation is post Brexit

I understand Olson is not hifi but industrial

I have just read a fun article on tnt-audio.com ... Here is the last paragraph that explains the "(sic)" bits in the title ... ".... I'll close this segment of the review with a pedantic aside. In the popular press, when the sort of writers who like to lump all disk records together a...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shostakovich-Symphony-No-10/dp/B000024K4Y/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=2L9QP50U2XV6I&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.zPmBQG7ZtXfR2NhnUpvoBi9PFhMl6HzlZ-wpQeTVyeZ9re-ustEjh3avZHxjnvSAeL5r1AiGQcCiv2Y3-s3cFO6NRZx2SjTs0KrPKHCWqNGTLFO_r44QEc_d7QsnvH5dfsEo8MhiW2T8VFG0OreyDaikBUnRwIcWRYQxlWxt3X5C1Kmkj...

https://www.siue.edu/~aho/muso ... os10.html

Quite a good version of shostakovich. Had not listened to it for a while.

Also quite like karajan 10 but rattle really disappointing