77jovian
Responses from 77jovian
| Why I like my home system better than live music I prefer live concerts for classical music. Here, the Colorado Symphony performs in a hall with sub-par acoustics, but I find even poor halls enhance classical performance. I attend many bluegrass/folk/acoustic music concerts, too because the perf... | |
| Dire Straits Brothers in Arms Comparison I'm with Vegasears, the XRCD is excellent | |
| Favorite 5 Hard Rock albums Driving Music R.E.O. -- T.W.O.Spooky Tooth -- You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw | |
| Favorite 5 Hard Rock albums Driving Music Uriah Heep -- Look at YourselfDeep Purple -- Made in JapanAlice Cooper -- KillerWishbone Ash -- ArgusZZ Top -- Tres Hombres | |
| Any Tom Waits Fans? I have thought Waits unlistenable for the last 15 years, even though I loved his earlier stuff...But you have all made me want to re-listen, starting with Rain Dogs. Gotta love Audiogon... | |
| Autographed Albums Emmanuel Ax, Tommy Emmanuel, Pat Donohue, Mike Dowling, Steve Goodman, Lawrence Juber, a book by Marvin Hamlisch | |
| What is your favorite guitar solo of all time? One? no way..Jeff Beck, Because We Ended as LoversChristopher Parkening, Laudate from Mozart VespersTerry Kath, 25 or 6 to 4 | |
| Buy tubes from Audio Research or not I re-tubed my VT100iii w/matched winged "O"'s and 6H30's from the Tube Store and biased them myself. Leonard at ARC walked me through the process before I did it, even though I did not buy the tubes from ARC. No problems and fine results. I don't ... | |
| Best Song Intro My vote goes for Tom Waits' opening monologue to "Better Off Without a Wife" | |
| Audio Research Amp/Pre matching I have a VT100iii w/an LS26 and it's a great combination | |
| Best Christmas Album I would add albums by David Grisman, M-Pact, and Dan Fogelberg | |
| How often do you get a chance to see live music Last Thursday, I went to hear a piano recital by Murray Perahia; Saturday I heard the Colorado Symphony and Sunday I heard a vocal recital by Thomas Hampson. That's a little more than usual, but all three were terrific and I wouldn't have wanted t... | |
| Music Inventory Update....I picked up a $60 USB scanner on Amazon and downloaded the Music Collector software. The combo works like a charm, I'm making excellent progress in loading my music collection. The program has lots of options for adding notes and otherwi... | |
| What were the best and worst rooms at RMAF 2009? I heard the Vandy 7's and ARC setup on Friday and was nonplussed. I returned on Saturday and was much more impressed, but I thought they were hampered by the small room. I look forward to hearing that system again.The YGA Kiphods were in my top fi... | |
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