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| Tell Us about an Album That Took a Long Time to Grow on You I've been listening to both the Hogwood and Pinnock recordings of C.P.E. Bach's Six Symphonies for the past few months. I prefer Pinnocks version (greater "authority" than Hogwood), and am finally becoming familiar with the structure of the music.... | |
| New Ikea storage unit great for LP's! It would be very close punki, but if you live by an IKEA you can take one of the Kallax inserts on display in the showroom and try to put it into an EKET cubicle. IKEA may eventually offer inserts for the EKET as well, which would be great. | |
| Oh man, I broke my class D amp. Make fun of me. Then help. Dang, great post (11:28 pm) Jerry! | |
| Sgt.Pepper special on PBS Another way to gain insight into Brian Wilson’s talent, particularly the making of the Smile album (which was envisioned by Brian to achieve what Sgt. Pepper instead did, though Smile on a much higher musical level), is to read Paul Williams’ book... | |
| CD players = dead? If, as many are want to say, hi-fi is in service to the music (rather than and end in itself), then it’s simple. Do you have CD’s? If so, you need something to play them on. If you don’t have CD’s, now is a good time to start acquiring some---they... | |
| Three best audiophile CD/LP in your collection In hopes that the request is for "good" music with great recorded sound (rather than good sound only, as found on Sheffield LP’s):For Baroque era Classical, rushton's 2010 recommendation of the Harmonia Mundi U.S.A. label is a great one. Also, Tre... | |
| Help me to choose turntable below 1600$. VPI HW-19 (any incarnation, the later the better) with an Audiomods Classic II arm. If you can find one, a Townshend Rock Elite (Mk. 2) in place of the VPI. | |
| Theoretical cable question In general, silver wire will provide more (and/or more extended) highs, heavy gauge silver or copper more bass. | |
| Magnepan 20.1 X-over Consider bi-amping the 20.1's. That will both eliminate the need for a jumper, and drastically improved the sound of the speaker. And it's easy! | |
| Oh man, I broke my class D amp. Make fun of me. Then help. The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band are who is playing in the subterranean room in The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour movie. They made a bunch of incredible albums, containing songs such as "Jazz (Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold)" and "Can Blue Men Sing The W... | |
| If bi-amping is so great, why do some high end speakers not support it? There are sonic benefits to be gained by getting rid of the speaker-level crossover in a loudspeaker, instead filtering the signal before the power amps, the amps then powering the drivers directly. That requires the speaker be designed to be used... | |
| Tape-in and Tape-out ports Me too Don, for my Stax headphone amp. The old tube version of the amp had a pair of output jacks, for returning the signal to the pre. | |
| Isoacoustics Gaia Speaker Footers Thanks zman. Of course, if one buys three sets of four, he will have four sets of three! Perfect for a set of main speakers and dual subs. | |
| Where is you money at latest reissues Audiophile pressings or higher end audio equipment. Moe, the answer to your last question/sentence is the music always comes first. I would MUCH rather have a great music library and a mediocre system to play it on than the opposite. But that's just me. Most hi-fi nuts are also crazy about music, a... | |
| Tape-in and Tape-out ports kalali---For one thing, the tape out jacks are fixed in level, not variable like the mains, so they can’t be used to feed a power amp (unless your amp has level pots). Also, they are taken from before the final stage of amplification in a pre, and... |