alextychkin
Responses from alextychkin
| Best integrated for rock music under $1,500? Krell all the way. Rock, or any other bass-heavy music, will require a tight grip on your woofers, something that only a high powered amp can provide. Forget all those puny-wattage int-amps, you need something SS with at least 150 watts, no matter... | |
| Down-firing Sub makes floor rattle Room vibrations, that I understand, as in interacting with room acoustics. Floor vibration - that's a different story, it seems. Decoupling, proper placement etc, I am sure, could help to minimize the effect of the down-firing sub rattle. Personal... | |
| Down-firing Sub makes floor rattle And that's exactly the reason why for music one wants to get a front-firing sub with side radiators, something like Totem Thunder, for example. | |
| bands you truly miss Talk Talk were great! The godfathers of ...everything good. Missed sorely! | |
| Skips with CDR's Stop touching that laser trying to clean it! You're going to ruin it! From my experience, most high-endish CDP's are picky about (a).CD-r's in general and (b). dirty disks. If the problem continues, sell it and get a Universal player that plays al... | |
| Soliloquy 6.2 Very Poor Treble ..... I have a pair of 5.3i's, and I agree with Boa2 that the right cabling makes the difference. Speaker cables: AP Silver ovals in bi-amped configuration. The highs are just fine. | |
| What sub for music budget A significant part of my music collection is either electronic experimental or electro-acoustic music. Trust me, you DO NOT want a cheap sub because it won't be able to adequately reproduce a huge part of material you're going to listen to. As a m... | |
| what's your latest music "score" A few albums by an Italian ambient composer Alio Die. | |
| underrated or unheard of musician/band Definitely, Bark Psychosis. If you can get your hands and ears on their "Hex" album(dating back to 1994, I think) you'd be stunned... | |
| VR-4JR or USHER 6371 You could place Dali speakers right against a wall | |
| Need post-y2k OUT jazz recommendations Just add late Spring Heel Jack (his post drum'n'base years) and Evan Parker to all of the above. | |
| Top Ten Electronic/alternative Albums 1.Rapoon - "Raising Earthly Spirits"2.Zoviet France - "Digilogue"3.Penumbra- "Scandinavien"4. Rapoon - "Fires in the Borderland"5.Gas -"Pop"6. Ambient Isolationism - "4-1,2"7. Electric Birds - "Strata Frames"8. Coil- "Musik to Play in the Dark - 1... |