bigtwin
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| RCA interconnect recommendation One comment. Be sure you can return the cable if you don't find it makes any difference. Regardless of what you read here. | |
| Advice needed re: new CD player purchase This may seem like Sacrilege but I use a $500 Audiolab 6000 CDT as a straight transport, into a very good DAC. I have listened to players that are more than 5 times the money and I just can't hear the difference. The rest of my system is moder... | |
| One big reason why brick and mortar high end audio dealers struggle. Lot of grumpy old men on this thread? The world of sales has changed in the last 20 years. Thanks internet. If someone wants to open a store, it's their business to succeed or fail. They have the right to run it any way they choose and you hav... | |
| Isolation Feet Recommendation for Equipment Rack @aubreybobbI I agree there are affordable options. My comment was referring to products like the Townshend Podiums at about $1000 per. They almost fall into the furniture category. | |
| Isolation Feet Recommendation for Equipment Rack @millercarbonThanks for that thoughtful answer. Makes perfect sense that my Rega P8 does not come with any attached dust cover. I have just ordered 3 Giai feet to try under the turntable. Stunning that some of the isolation units for speakers c... | |
| Isolation Feet Recommendation for Equipment Rack Question. If sonic vibration can cause degradation in the sound quality emanating from my turntable, how does placing the TT on springs solve the problem? Would not the sonic vibration also be hitting the tonearm directly and causing the same is... | |
| The Good Stuff If you like Sinatra, check wonderful 3 CD package Capitol Records released in 1990. Available on Amazon. Called Frank Sinatra - The Capitol Years, it captures what is arguably Sinatra at his peak. | |
| The "British Invasion". A question for you old farts out there. I'm in pieces, bits and pieces at the very thought the DC5 were once held as equal to the Fab Four. We were too young at the time to understand it was all about the enduring ability to write songs. That has always been the secret to longevity in... | |
| Tube Power vs Solid State Power I found this short article to be very good. https://www.caryaudio.com/2018/06/04/vacuum-tube-vs-solid-state/ | |
| What song have you played the most? If I go back over the years, I would guess it would be the greatest Rock & Roll song ever written and recorded. The anger and violence till drips from the song. Powerful lyrics that still ring true 50+ years later. A searing guitar solo tha... | |
| CD Alternative I have a $500 Audiolab 6000CDT transport and my Hegel 590 has a first class DAC built in. The first CD I ever bought was Ry Cooder's Bop Till You Drop around 1982. I still listen to CDs about 50% of the time I spend with music, which is about 2 ... | |
| Top 3 songs to evaluate a system @ papyneau The tribute album to Jimi Hendrix called Stone Free. Fabulous musicians from Clapton to Seal & Jeff Beck. Violinist Nigel Kennedy does an outstanding rendition of Fire. The Cure does a take on Purple Haze that I actually prefe... | |
| Top 3 songs to evaluate a system I might suggest a slightly different approach to this question. It's easy to list great sounding music. The problem being those picks tend to make most every system sound good. I would suggest using music that has always seemed flat (for want o... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? Kenny G? Kenny G. is to Jazz, as Marshmallows are to nutrition. Sweet but no substance. But hey, if you dig it.......... | |
| Jazz Fans-- Name some of your favorite, less well known recordings Any of the later recordings by Chet BakerCrystal Bells (Igloo Jazz Classics)This Is AlwaysDianeAlso the Blue Note Tone Poets re issue of "Boppin" by Hank Mobley. Fabulous. |