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Name 3 songs where audio quality and song quality completely align
 a few more...   Andy Narell....Slow Motion (Bernie Grundman masterpiece) Duke Ellington and Johnnie Hodges ... Back to Back ZZ Top... "A fool for your stockings" Duguello  CRANK IT!!    
Name 3 songs where audio quality and song quality completely align
RhythmStick...whole album (+1 chuckt) Sunday Papers  Joe Jackson... great bass! Angry Eyes... Loggins and Messina    
Small, Effective Subwoofers?
I have an older Hsu Research Sub that works well with my Tekton Lore Be speakers.   
50 years of Hip Hop- How Come?
@simao Hip Hop is not rap. Out of touch Boomer :)  
50 years of Hip Hop- How Come?
Im 67 and a big soul/ Motown/funk fan that happens to be white. From what I can remember. the first popular HopHop on the radio waves was from bands like the New Edition in the early eighties. They transformed into a Hip Hop giant called Biv, Bell... 
Looking for a good small subwoofer...
Here is a link to a great buy.      
Looking for a good small subwoofer...
I have an older Hsu sub in my system. They don't get much press here, but are well designed and easy to dial in. Very musical. The founder, an MIT grad, started the company engineering and building subs.  
Qobuz hell
I tried Tidal and still use Spotify some. I recently tried Amazon Music and find it sounds the best of the 3 for me. I a using my Samsung S9 phone into a Wiim Pro streaming into a Topping E30 DAC (AKM chip). I connect the DAC via RCA aux input int... 
Favourite Guitarists
+1 Joe Satriani Warren Haines   
patricia barber - diana krall - holly cole
Throw on some Roberta Flack and enjoy!  
Grado Prestige Gold 3
I use a vintage Pioneer PL-707 turntable with a Darlinton Labs MP-7 phono amp on my main rig. I listen to mostly jazz and some rock and pop. Started collecting vinyl in the 60's. I bought the Audio Technica VM 540 after reading all the positive r... 
cheapest cable upgrade ever
Trying to wrap my head around this. For speaker wire, the red, +positive side from amp to the speaker would have the positive end toward the speaker and -neg toward the amp.. For the negative side terminal (same speaker) wire, is the + pos side ... 
Most Realistic Recordings
My best recordings were engineered by Rudy VanGelder at his NJ studio during the late fifties, early sixties. I have a copy of Rhythmstick, which was recorded there in the final years of it's existence (1990). It was co-produced by Creed Taylor wh... 
Great Rock Bassists your Top 10.Rock not Jazz. But Hey what about Reggae
Tim Boggart of Vanilla Fudge and later Beck, Bogart, and Appice. Felix Pappalardi from Mountain. John Entwisle Flea    
recommended speaker cables and interconnects
I just purchased  Van Damme Hi-Fi Series LC-OFC 2x6mm from Lucasoundvision. The wire has excellent specs and love the Airloc crimp termination. https://www.lucasoundvision.com/product/new-van-damme-hi-fi-series-lc-ofc-2x6mm-speaker-cables-2x3m-...