bdp24
Responses from bdp24
| Wrapping Up 2016 For me, 2016 was a year of an alarming number of deaths. The boomer generation is coming into the last decade of it’s time on Earth. | |
| Quack System Upgrades I have one about cables, though not about the claim that "audiophile" brands provided better sound than do others. All companies have to create a market for their products, and in the 1980’s one emerging player in the audiophile cable business did... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? I’m with you dill. Sautan invented this story of a blind test---it never happened. No dealer would allow a potential customer to do it, nor participate in it. Absolutely a bogus story. | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? Things that are more noticed when they are removed than they were by virtue of their presence. It wasn't until I heard the transparency provided by an electrostatic loudspeaker that I realized just how colored, veiled, and opaque cone speakers wer... | |
| What album do you play over the holidays? Yeah yeah, sfar! I had forgotten that one, thanks. I really dig Lou Ann. | |
| Magneplanar Listening Comparison 1.7 vs. 3.7 Speakers Priced just slightly higher than the 1.7i, the Eminent Technology LFT-8b Magnetic Planar speaker ($2499 retail) is not only considerably better than the 1.7i imo, but some feel also better than the 3.7i in some ways. Worth endeavoring to hear. | |
| Cardas RCA Silver connectors Time to switch to a better RCA, like the KLEI or WBT. Cardas RCA's are made of brass (the KLEI and top WBT are copper or silver), and the KLEI and top WBT designs include a single point ground pin contact point, which eliminates the eddy current d... | |
| Quack System Upgrades The CD ;-). | |
| 5 most recognizable voices in American music? 2channel8, I love the Girl Group sound and era. The Brill Building songwriters (Doc Pomus, Mann & Weil, Goffin/King, Bacharach/David, Ellie Greenwich, Mort Shuman, Greenfield/Sedaka, and Leiber & Stoller) wrote SO many classic songs in suc... | |
| Which songs or musical standards have haunted you? Ooh, good one Steve! Also both "Strawberry Fields Forever" and the flip song on the 45, "Penny Lane", as well. Maybe more nostalgic than haunting, but that's close enough for me. | |
| What album do you play over the holidays? J.S. Bach for spirituality; A Christmas Gift for You from Phillies Records, which contains "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" with an incredible vocal by Darlene Love. | |
| Magneplanar Listening Comparison 1.7 vs. 3.7 Speakers What does "acoustically smaller" mean? | |
| Which songs or musical standards have haunted you? "Knockin' On Heavens Door" by Bob Dylan (used brilliantly in the Sam Peckinpah movie Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid)."Whispering Pines" and "The Unfaithful Servant" by The Band (on the brown album).The following songs (with the album the song is ... | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? And to you Dave!---Eric. | |
| Preamp recommendation for EAR 509 The EAR-Yoshino 868L, a nice line stage sometimes available for around your price. In fact, there was one listed on Audiogon a couple of days ago (not from me!). |