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| Folk/Rock choices that are well recorded "Me & Bobby McGee" by Gordon Lightfoot is very well recorded. | |
| How long should speakers last? It seems like dynamic drivers can last if the surround is made of Butyl (rubber) rather than foam. I have a pair of early-70's ESS Transtatics with KEF drivers (B139 and B110) which are still fine. | |
| What is your favorite 1 hit wonder from the 70's? Marty---When Edmunds and Lowe started working together on their respective solo albums, they started touring billed as whomever's record was being promoted. That touring Band was Dave and Nick of course, with guitarist Billy Bremmer and drummer Te... | |
| help me choosing first HiFi Finding a good dealer, assuming there is one within driving distance of you, is a much better way to proceed at assembling a music system, IMO. | |
| Any thoughts on passive v. active speakers? If your taste is refined enough for you to own the Atma-Sphere amps, are you sure there even IS a powered speaker you would be happy with? | |
| Is no preamp really better that a good preamp? All true Phusis, but the OP was asking specifically about adding a separate (perhaps tube) pre-amp between both his DAC & phono stage and his power amp. | |
| What is your favorite 1 hit wonder from the 70's? Well, he may have had another hit, but not until the 80's and not as big as this one, so I'll say Dave Edmunds' "I Hear You Knockin'" (an old Smiley Lewis Blues, a hit for Dave in '71). It is as tension-and-release filled as anything I have ever h... | |
| Stand out phono stages Oops---it should read "(from the highest-output moving-magnet and moving-iron types)", not moving-coil. | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... You're right Onhwy61; it's not just on long held notes, but on short ones as well ;-). I'm also not crazy about B.B.'s tone. There's not enough tube saturation for me (B.B., try a lower-powered amp cranked up to 11), but that, of course, is a matt... | |
| Is no preamp really better that a good preamp? Having enough gain in a source component is not all that is necessary to get the best sound out of that component. The output stage of a good pre-amp is engineered to drive the input stage of a power amp, while any given DAC or phono stage may or ... | |
| EAT EC88 - your opinions really appreciated I talked recently to Kevin Deal, who told me he found EAT tubes to provide a lesser quality of sound than many others. No offense Beewax---Kevin said it, not me! | |
| Is it possible to down-mix stereo outs to mono amp Right you are Al, your original post wasn't up yet when I made mine. As for sound quality loss from a Y-adaptor, with the Grundig being the final link would that really be of much concern? | |
| TheVinylPress.com Bill---Unbelievably (considering my age, which should have made me part of it's target audience---I wasn't, by choice), I until recently had never seen Woodstock the movie. The Band's set was not included, and they were the only Woodstock performe... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... Going back to the sources (something I'm prone to do, as an amateur musicologist---aren't we all?!), I've always preferred both Albert (whom I saw live in '68---fantastic!) and Freddie to B.B. The defining characteristic of B.B.'s playing is that ... | |
| Linn Karik's CD drawer cannot be closed The 80's 5-series was a good car too. My '83 lasted me twenty years and over 200,000 miles, at which time parts cost made keeping it running any longer a bad investment.But the gears and belts for CD transports can be found cheap on ebay. The draw... |