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Text Box: Luminous Luminous Audio was created with one goal in mind, to bring music lovers closer to the recorded music truth.  Luminous supplies speaker cables and interconnects.  Owned by RAS founding member Tim Stinson.

Text Box: Sound & Image Design Sound & Image Design strives to provide our clients  with a truly realistic audio presentation in all of the systems we sell and install.  Locally owned by RAS members Tim Stinson & Graham Hickerson.

Text Box: Blue Oasis Audio In Carytown—Home of music and home theater systems that combine:  Musicality, Simplicity, Elegance, Lasting Value,  Affordability.  Owned by RAS member Tom Craggs

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Text Box: Downsize Solutions At our last meeting of the RAS more than 92% of the music people brought to share was on CD. However, I'm sure there are many more LPs out there. CDs are more convenient to take to a party. If you have LPs but find that you don't listen to them as much as you did in the past for whatever reason, I think I can help. I provide my clients with one CD archive copy of each LP. The vinyl is triple washed on a VPI Record Cleaner, recorded digitally, copied to a CD-R and inserted into a slim jewel case with a photocopy of the album's cover art.   If you can buy the CD commercially, it will be a cleaner copy and will be less expensive than having me copy it. But, if your favorite recordings are not available for sale, then I think I can help. Mint condition records will produce mint copies; scratchy records will produce scratchy copies. I can, however, remove some of the "pops and ticks" and even produce a copy that masks a skip. It's just a matter of how much time I take and what quality you require.   Next time take your vinyl with you as a CD COPY! Call or email for more information and a sample of what can be done. Please remember, though, this is not a miracle solution.   Doug Small Downsize Solutions White Stone, VA 804-436-3231 cell vinylsound@verizon.net Stereophile Audiophile Societies Page Audiophile Societies listed by Stereophile Magazine.