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| Favorite live LPs Ben Harper "Live From Mars"Sweet Honey in the Rock "Live From Carnegie Hall"Various Artist "Ann Arbor Blues Festival" | |
| Besides Audio, what other ''passion'' do you have? Surfing, making movies, road biking, cooking. | |
| I'm frustrated with people who don't ... You shouldn't get frustrated. You don't need to justify your hobby to someone that doesn't share the same thrill from it that you do. I have several other hobbies besides music and simply don't discuss surfing with my audiophile friends and vice v... | |
| Listening Chairs Eames lounge chair! The chair Ekornes copied but, can't hold a candle to. | |
| use of treatments and sound consultant As you know most acoustic treatments don't blend into a living area. The one exception that I have seen is the method used by Richard Hardesty. When you step into his living room you have know idea that it has had any acoustic treatment done. It s... | |
| What is your favorite Greg Brown CD? "Slant Mind Six"Some incredible lines of word pictures.To bad you don't have a TT, "Poets Game" is a great album that I think is only available on vinyl. | |
| Link Wray, "The Swan Singles" I listened to it last night. It is a must have for anybody with a interest in the history of rock. Now I no who influenced Dick Dale and the other surf guitarists of the 60's. | |
| Would you buy a subscription to Zappa ? I loved Zappa live. Saw him many times when he used to play in Los Angeles almost weekly. His albums though, are a different thing. I wouldn't pay the subscription. | |
| Rogue Zues with Vandersteen 5A's at 2004 HE Show The 5As are designed to be bi-wired, and if you want, bi-amped. Just to digress for a minute, the 3's on down the Vandersteen line are also designed this way. However, with them, the division is between the woofers and the mids/hi's. Since the 5's... | |
| Need help with problem burning cd's with Mac G4 Are you using Panther 10.3.2? I burn CDs and DVDs on my Mac using itunes and idvd all the time and have never ran into a problem. When using idvd I work in other programs during the burn time, using itunes it is so fast that I don't have time to w... | |
| ARC Ref 2 MK 2 Pre w/ Pass X-600 monos? I second the LS5 mkll. I never put mine up against the Ref 2 but, I did almost make the mistake of switching it for the Ref 1. Thank goodness I auditioned the Ref 1 for a week first. The balanced only inputs are a minor annoyance but, Cardas adapt... | |
| vandersteen 3a sig ss vs. tube I used both tubes and ss amps when I had my 3A sigs. I lived with the ARC 100, Jeff Rowland amps, and Theta. I would say that if you really want the most out of your speakers it isn't so much tube v.s. SS as it is, bi-wire v.s. vertical bi-amping.... | |
| Amplifier reviews from Hardesty's The Audio Perfectionist is a interesting publication, and draws interesting comments. Many people interested in building a stereo system would like to have a source for information that will help them make decisions and not go through the expense,... | |
| van nuys californa The web address for the Los Angeles/Orange County club is:http://www.trackram.com/GSBAS/GSBAS.htmDon't dismiss it just because you live in the valley. The club travels to different venues all over LA and OC. The last event was at Brooks Berdan's p... | |
| Best Sounding LPs You mentioned folk and country . Jazz and classical seemed to be pretty well covered here so I will list some great folk, bluegrass, rock recordings. All of which can be found new.In folk:Greg Browns "Poet Game"Doc Watsons "Southbound"Alison Kraus... |