audphile1
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| Best Sounding Rhapsody in Blue check out this Telarc disc. I own it and like it a lot. | |
| 8 ohms or 4 ohms settings for my B&W 803s? If the recording is compressed, I don't see how it would change by switching impedance. The 2 CDs you mentioned are not audiophile quality recordings.I guess you can experiment, but I doubt it will change much. | |
| Pro-ject Tube Box SEII setting with Blackbird cart I woulld try it with MC settings first. Is your linestage high gain or low gain? | |
| Pro-ject Tube Box SEII setting with Blackbird cart if you are talking about Sumiko Blackbird, that is a high putput Moving Coil cartridge and not an MM. Try different settings and see which one sounds best. Loading is important too. | |
| Esoteric SA-60 or Arcam 139 for 2CH Hi Rez Audio o It depends on what your sonic pref is. Arcam - not as deep and not as impactful in the bass, more laid back overall, sort of reserved as far as dynamics. Esoteric - detailed, resolving, dynamic and very good bass. | |
| IC in between AZ Silver Ref 2 and Cardas Quadlink AZ Matrix MkII are excellent. They would most likely be what you're looking for. | |
| RACMANINOFF PIANO CONCERTO 2 Shadorne, yes, you explained it well. | |
| RACMANINOFF PIANO CONCERTO 2 02-18-08: ShadorneThis is perhaps too well recorded. Try cranking it - it is meant to be played loud - it is actually very dynamic...one of the nicest recordings of piano - what speakers/amp are you using?...Shadorne (System | Reviews | Threads | ... | |
| RACMANINOFF PIANO CONCERTO 2 I second Sugarbrie. Ashkenazy on London is a good performance. I too prefer performance over recording sound quality. I can't say that the Ashkenazy recording sounds bad, but it was recorded awhile ago, so take that into consideration. | |
| Most important component?? there is no one improtant component. Everything is equally improtant in a system. All the components have to create synergy. With top of the line speakers and crappy source, pre and amp, you will get what percentage of speaker performance? If you ... | |
| Why use CD Transport instead of computer source I have just concluded an interesting 4-day listening session using various sources.The sources were:1) my own Audio Research CD3MkII cd player2) Slim Devices Transporter3) Bel Canto DAC3I run my entire system balanced. Interconnects from source to... | |
| Tube Pre-amp BAT, ARC, EAR, Sonic Frontiers Also EAR added sweetness so i would prefer to keep that natural and involving impressions but subtract sweetness.Check out ARC LS-25MkII. | |
| Extreme Midrange Bloom what's the rest of the system? Could it be that the BAT pre has too much gain for your amp? Look at all the specs of this preamp and compare them to the specs of the other pres you had. Something is not right. There could be some midrange bloom si... | |
| Best Recording of Solo Tambourine I think Winstonsmith is Carlos269 in disguise | |
| Macintosh vs Pass labs McIntosh is like a Buick Park Avenue. Where Pass amps are more like a BMW M5. Performance, design and implementation of the Pass Labs amplifiers is heads above the Mc. And what's up with the cheap turn buttons on the Mac? Do they just visit some j... |