berner99

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I love sad music
Johnny Cash (or NIN) Hurt. 
Which speakers to be ''in'' the music?
"I want to be IN the music,"If you mean that you can walk around the room and are still in the "sweet spot", then you might enjoy:Omni/polydirectional speakers or maybe Speakers with wide dispersion Several have home trial though most you’ll have ... 
Whats your favourite track to play to the non hi-fi visitor?
Jennifer Warnes Famous Blue Raincoat:  her voice and the sax.... 
LSA 20 Signature Loudspeaker / Great Performer & Great $ Bargain until end of the year
Thanks for the review.I have the lower-priced of their two standmounts. They are wonderful--on the warm side, and with wide dispersion and disappear like omnis or my mirage bipoles. How do these compare (to either set of their floor mounts) aside ... 
Why do some think "music" (not gear, trading, etc.) is the ultimate end?
If you use the analogy of cars plenty of people (well perhaps mainly men) love cars for cars own sake and not just as a means of getting places.  OTOH I paint, and for many, watercolor painting supplies are just a means to paint—though to be sure,... 
Should mags review stuff not easily available
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Favorite Symphonies Quiz
I think the composer's time in history and life circumstances are significant.  I love Haydn, his works are playful and fun (and less prissy than Mozart) but not about emotion any more than Baroque works are.  Tchaikovsky (like Mahler) certainly h... 
Larsen speakers ... anyone here heard or owned them?
Please post your impressions. 
Favorite Symphonies Quiz
Beethoven 9th FurtwanglerSibelius 2ndAlan Hovaness 22: symphony of light 
Ever Hear a Tube CD player?
I have an oppo modwright 105 player (the one rgs92 is talking above) and am quite happy with it. TAS has review. 
Basic technical question about digital source signals
itsjustmeWhen you over or up sample a signal the goal is not to magically create missing information from a vacuum. Its simply to move the noise ("steps") to a higher frequency so that they are more easily filtered out. Get i hgih enough and your... 
Questions that Never Die
Is class D soup yet? 
Songs that make your system sound AWSOME!
Famous Blue Raincoat (album and song) Jennifer warnesAncient Fennell Cleveland symphonic winds 
Your favorite 'concept' album
Pink Floyd Wish You Were HereMoody BLues Days of Future PassedKing Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King 
When was the first time that you heard great sounding speakers?
Late 1970s when I replaced LS3/5As by Dahlquest DQ10s.