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| Need recommendations for a streamer Anyone still using (still available?) an Elac, Discovery? I use mine hardwired to a Mac AirPort Express wirelessly connected to another AirPort that's hardwired to my router. Have a BNC to RCA Coax connection (various better cables) to a Line Magn... | |
| Finally made the transition to a tube preamp! I started with a tube linestage, Sonic Frontiers SFL-1... I was hooked. The sound was so much more than my SS preamp had offered. I moved to a Manley, Shrimp that I just recently sold. I loved that piece and thought it was a super match with my Qu... | |
| Has anyone had on of these CD players? How good are they? Have experience with the Sony, CDP-608ESD and it’s a wonderful deck; found it compared favorably or totally surpassed the performance of several Simaudio, Theta, Rega decks. Looks wonderful too with its walnut sides. Don’t shy away from vintage pi... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? These nights are becoming few and far between. Streaming mostly but every now and then, when time (and energy) permits,... so have a son living in LA who's in the music business. Last time I was out there he turned me on to Cali Creamin' a blond b... | |
| Which would you choose for good sounding tube preamp for an audiophile new to tubes. This is an easy one for me,... I had a SFL-1 for many years. It's a wonderful lineatage that mated & player extremely well with w/pretty much every amp I threw at it. I ran TAD, Hibachi monos, Perreaux & Classe' amps & it was (is) a ve... | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? How bout Ryan Adams covering Taylor Swift's, "1989" albumin its entirety - guilty pleasure that TS (I mean talent is talent). He does a great job with that LP front to back; it's pretty fun! | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? Couple more,... Fugees doing Roberta Flack’s "Killing Me Softly" Lauren Hill is amazing, Black Crowes doing John Lennon’s "Jealous Guy" & Vanessa Fernandez doing Curtis Mayfield’s "Here But I’m Gone" - soooo many great covers. Again, not bette... | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? Geez,... so many great covers but I do agree with the original always being, well, the original! Chris Cornell doing Zep's "Thank You" is so good, I think Holly Cole does a great job with Elvis Costello's "Allison", there's also a great cover of Z... | |
| Speakers known for great midrange. Have had the pleasure of listening to Quad, ESL-57s completely rebuilt and brought back to spec by the besy Quad guy on the East Coast, (NH guy). They're truly magical and will own my own set soon enough. I agree with the "better" British boxes. ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? These LP sessions are getting more and more rare... streaming so much lately but in a post NY Rangers loss last night, I needed to wind down. Beck, "Morning Phase" Terry Reid, "Superlungs" (amazing voice) & then streamed Sturgill Simpson, "A S... | |
| Need some Cart recommendations, $300 - $700 (New/Used) range…warm, full, yet great def. Geez sooooo many options. I find the Rega, "Exact" to be a HUGE value and was surprisingly really terrific on a vintage Thorens, 160. Also have a Van den Hul, "MC One" on my Luxman table. It's amazing too but will take more than your budget allows... | |
| Looking for a change. Have a set of Cremona Auditor M - they are special as many Audiogoners have attested to all over this forum. Play mine now in a Cary - Manley - Line Magnetic - Auralic streaming system. Have also experienced Cremona M floorstanders at length in an... | |
| Large speaker recommendation 20'x15'x9' isn't really a big room, or is it? I'd say a set of KEF, Reference, 5 Meta or Dynaudio, Confidence 30. Have heard both in a similar (a bit bigger) sized rooms and both are truly wonderful. Played with Octave, Canor & Classe' Sigma e... | |
| Inexpensive Good Vintage Turntables? I use a Luxman, PD-121 w/ADC, LMF-1 arm & Rega, Exact & Van den Hull, The One carts. Have to say, I prefer this vintage deck to every Thorens, 160 & AR, The TT I've used over the years. Simplistic design & directness of purpose. Te... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Ah, the sounds of youth... must have burned through 3 cassettes of "Live Bootleg". Would pump it hard through the Concord/Jensen setup in my '75 Blazer. What a battleship - couldn't park it anywhere in Boston. Lord of the Thighs was my personal fa... |