bkeske
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| What are you streaming tonight? Well, was streaming a sampling of the new Cleveland Orchestra upcoming release on Tidal (to be released as a CD box set in June), ‘A New Century’, on their very own new self-label. Very very nice. Found I could purchase the whole set via Apple, so... | |
| Purchasing vinyl online Agreed @richie1975. I’ve been buying most all my vinyl on Discogs, and 98%+ of my purchases have been an excellent experience. I prefer original or first generation repress/remasters (mostly from the 70’s); most all classical. If you look at a sel... | |
| Parasound Zpre3 As I was writing that last post, I was curious, and thinking my opinion is being unfairly represented with the ifi Mini Tube in place. So, I decided to take the ifi Mini Tube 2 back out of the path and did an A/B test : CD player > Yamaha AV (v... | |
| Parasound Zpre3 I’m not sure you can really compare the Zpre to your JAS Audio tube pre amp at a tenth of the cost. Although I am happy with it, and sounds good with my Belles and Vandy’s, it’s still an under $500 pre, but did solve my AV pre issue with little ca... | |
| Parasound Zpre3 that is very underratedI am enjoying it. Have spent a good part of the day tweaking my Vandy’s, the Zpre, and the ifi Mini Tube 2, to explore all the various options and dial in the sound I (I think I) desire. A continual exploration, but I’m pret... | |
| When Did Your System Disappear? Not easy to hide my Vandies in my room, but achieved a great disappearing act with room treatments a couple months ago.. Changed everything....then got my new preamp today, and its getting harder and harder to find them....depending on the quality... | |
| Parasound Zpre3 I don’t think so Eric, I was only thinking of a tube pre when I began to get serious. But wasn’t really looking at Parasound at all. Johnny from Audio Connection was emphatic that I get a pre during a phone chat with him a little while back, telli... | |
| How far away from your speakers are you? I measure from my ear to the front of the speaker using a laser measure (actually my bass driver, probably, as my laser goes through the Vandy 'sock'). I thought at 8’-9’ was close as well, but am surprised how many others listen from that distanc... | |
| How far away from your speakers are you? I put them were they sound the best. With my Vandersteen’s, Richard supplies a chart and guidelines with various locations per your room and set-up. For the most part, I’m close to those recommendations. I have roughly a 12’-4” x 17’-6” room, the ... | |
| Top ten American composers/songwriters Gotta add Robert Hunter to the list | |
| OMG, just removed my speaker grills and the sound just opened up to a new level! Vandersteen are designed to be played grills on Yep, had to remove the ‘socks’ of my 2CE Sigs while getting one of the acoustic couplers repaired. I know what they looked like without, but just plain ugly naked when seeing them for myself. Of cour... | |
| ~$6K mini-monitor recommendations? Never heard them, but always heard good things about the Genelec 8300 series if true near field monitors are your goal. | |
| Sales or clearances happening now Seems to be sales everywhere. Unfortunately my business is at a standstill now, which started about a week/week and a half ago, so I certainly won’t be participating. I don’t see clients coming back anytime soon. I had to claw my way back after th... | |
| Thoughts on choosing an amplifier I would recommend reading about the Belles 150A Reference here:Can’t go wrong with an old Belles amp, lots of power, and a wonderful sound. I was looking for a 150A, but they move fast on the used market, so jump fast on one if the price is right.... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Joni Mitchell, Don Juan’s Reckless DaughterReally nice, and Jaco....Man....Just bought the European CD set of Joni’s; The Studio Albums 1968-1979. Great purchase for this complete collection. |