big_greg
Responses from big_greg
| Whats on your turntable tonight? A nice promo copy of Roxy Music - Avalon. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Carly Simon- Boys in the Trees, Super Disk half speed mastered. | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Checking out some new jazz on Qobuz - You Can't Steal My Joy, Ezra Collective, and Invincible Nimbus, Anne Mette Iversen's Ternion Quartet. | |
| The best State or region for Audiophile Olympia has one of the best record stores around (Rainy Day) and Desco Audio graciously hosts the Olympia Music Club. | |
| Big systems - Little rooms I'm on board with using multiple subs, but in a bedroom? I have one in my bedroom, but never really use it and don't have room for another (or two or three more). | |
| MOVING TO computer/HD/audio player from CD's Look into getting a streamer - Bluesound, Lumin, etc. Some can also act as a server, allowing you to copy your CD collection onto it. I use Bluesound, so that's what I will speak to, but the concept should be similar with other streamers. I hav... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Alan Parsons Project - I Robot | |
| Big systems - Little rooms I currently have a pair of Klipsch KLF-30 speakers in my bedroom. They're almost right up against the wall, only about 5 - 6 feet apart, they are pointed right at my bed, the room has wood paneling and no acoustic treatment. They sound terrific!... | |
| Sound quality issues streaming from Tidal vs CD It could be that your CD player is so good that the streamer doesn't compare favorably. I have a Marantz KI Pearl CD player and it sounds better (to me) than any of my other source components, including my streamers. I am using lower cost stream... | |
| Sound quality issues streaming from Tidal vs CD It might be the streamer. The quality of the streamer matters just as the quality of your CD player matters. I'm not familiar with that streamer, so don't have any comment on how it compares to others.Streaming music can sound as good as CD, a l... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw I love Montrose! The S/T will always be my favorite, but Paper Money is no slouch. Moving on to Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies. I "downgraded" my 2nd table to a Shure V15 IV cart with a Jico SAS and have been playing some of my less... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Montrose - Paper Money and AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've got it. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? That Tom Petty "Masterphile" recording turned out to be a bit of a bust. At first it seemed really detailed, but after listening a bit it just seemed a bit bright and tipped up. I played the old standard pressing I had and it had a lot more bass... | |
| Marantz SA 10 compared to I have the Marantz KI Pearl and have owned a Modwright modded Oppo BDP95 and currently have the BDP 105D and UDP 203. The Pearl is a few notches down the line from the SA 10 and is a much better CD/SACD player than any of the Oppo players I've o... |