bizango1
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| What is your favorite guitar solo of all time? Carlos Santana on "Black Magic Woman". Iconic creativity. | |
| PSB Synchrony One with Cayin A-88t I'd be careful about power. I home demoed a Prima Luna Prologue integrated amp with my Synchrony Ones and it was a complete disaster due to a lack of power. It distorted piano notes at what is a moderate level for me and couldn't even begin to pla... | |
| the greatest pop song ever? Impossible to pick "the best" but we can pick our favorites. For me, Dreams by Fleetwood Mac. Impossible to justify why but with some art and music you just don't have to. You just like it.And I thought your other favorite was by Leftfield (I like... | |
| anyone gotten a scratch on component and gone mad Time to upgrade! | |
| If I like St. Germain I'll like...... Tourist is and will always be one of my favorite guilty pleasures. Whatever genre we call it Tourist hits the sweet spot for me and nothing else-even their other albums-have the same quality and flavor. You might try Down To The Bone's From Manhat... | |
| How good is the BAT VK40? I had one and sold it after a year or two. It had many great features but the for me the sound was a bit uninvolving and a little too "smooth". It did have a sound similar to the tubed VK-30 I had before that in that it did add a thickness or warm... | |
| Your First Vinyl Album. Crosby, Stills, Nash. My mom and dad thought it was wierd that I listened to it on headphones in my closet with the door closed in pitch black where my hifi setup was. I didn't know I was into sensory deprivation then and I am out of the closet no... | |
| Decent moderate priced speaker for large room PSB Stratus Goldi. They will work well in a large room and with your amp they'll play really loud and should take a lot of abuse without damage unless you change to a smaller amp and run out of power. They are great party speakers and pretty good ... | |
| Tube preamp for techno and other bass-heavy music? I owned a BAT VK-30 tubed preamp and home demoed a few others thanks to great dealers nearby. I always felt the best part of the electronica genre was missing-the leading edge of bass transients. When I went back to a SS preamp BAT-VK-40, and then... | |
| Whats your current Reference CD at the moment? I always take some poorly recorded CD's, too. Some essential music isn't available as a good recording and it is nice to know if new equipment makes it unbearable to listen to. It can infuriate salespeople because they of course frequently stack t... | |
| help w/amp demo Take advantage of your willing dealer and reward him with a sale after you figure out what sounds good to you. I home demoed a well regarded 35WPC integrated amp with my PSB Synchrony One (88db sens) speakers and it was a complete disaster since i... | |
| Bass rant Fun thread. I have two JL Audio F110 subs on the way here now. Bass is fun. Heh Heh. | |
| Good matching tube preamp for my rb-1090 ?? Bob, interesting but over my head technically. I remember and have copies somewhere of technical portions of reviews of the amp pointing out that while the XLR connections were there, they converted right back to single ended internally. As a resu... | |
| Good matching tube preamp for my rb-1090 ?? Bob, not sure how much experience you have listening to the RB-1090 but even though it has XLR inputs it is not a balanced circuit. Not that there's anything wrong with that-I'm back to the RB-1090 after trying much higher end stuff and am very ha... | |
| Are You a Sansui Lover? My roomate had the AU-717 and TU-717 amp and tuner about 32 years ago. I still remember how good it sounded and the feel of the volume control with its soft detents. It was cooler than the Kenwood integrateds I had. Sometimes the AU-717 would shut... |