anodyne
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| Whats playing on your system today? Geoff and Maria Muldaur - album "Pottery Pie" CD from Japan, Warner-Pioneer, liner notes & one spine title in Kanji. No obi. Unknown if remastered, but production & sound are better than the vinyl, which is saying something. For all t... | |
| Looking for good recordings of female vocals I have not yet tried... My nominations, in unranked order... k.d. Lang - esp. album Shadowland which is more torch than twang Shirley Bassey - esp. 1987 single with Yello "The Rhythm Divine" Lisa Gerrard w/ Dead Can Dance and solo Sheila Chandra - "Sacred Stones" Am... | |
| Amps with meters ... Or consider amps with incomprehensible meters.The Marantz SM-11S1 has an enigmatic porthole, front and center in the faceplate that contains a digital numerical read-out that constantly varies in values and, for the life of me, I can never fathom ... | |
| Upgrading sub to get a live feel. I’m going to come at this issue from a different perspective. Fully agree with comments about deep bass being omnidirectional (or non-directional) in most settings. One failing of most audio bass setups (full range or subs), to me, is lack of cont... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Listening a lot to new (to me) stuff from millennial groups, mostly via Tidal...CHROMATICS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQz5jc1_troSTILL CORNERS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7szSgKm-bqETry the links, or go to hi-rez website like Tidal ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? CocoRosie - "God Has a Voice, She Speaks Through Me"Zoot Woman - "Gem"William Orbit - Montauk Point (Edit 1)John Kay - "Bold Marauder"Kendra Smith - "Bold Marauder"Richard & Mimi Fariña - "Bold Marauder"Yello feat. Till Brönner - "Till Tomorro... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Saint Germain "Boulevard" (Complete Series) F Communications 2xLP – F022DLP France London Grammar "If You Wait" 2xLP 45rpm vinylMazzy Star "She Hangs Brightly" Plain Recordings 180-gram vinyl | |
| The floor between and behind the speakers is too often neglected I get a decent --tho mild-- improvement in imaging and reduced treble hardness from placing a faux ficus tree between each speaker and the rear wall. Each tree has natural branches densely fitted with silk & wire leaves & twigs. Each is... | |
| Why does all new pop music sound the same? Getting back to the original question... "Why does all new pop music sound the same?"ANS: If you restrict your effort to discover new music to boring pop-schlock on playlist radio and the muzak at K-Mart, it does mostly sound alike. Worse, the ... |