bluefin
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| Talon speakers Hawk vs. Peregrine X I hear passion and micro Be once. I have the same conclusion as Soliver. High is very good on Be tweeter but Micro just doesn't have enough bass to play real music. The music is not complete without some bass. The other side is a Dynaudio S3.4 dri... | |
| WOW see how the sonusfaber amati homage is made Ha ha ha.... Why not? My sofa can't sing and does not so good. Some nice ugly singers does not mean all nice-looking singers sings bad. Anyone ever complain his wife looks too good? Maybe a few, definitely not a lot. | |
| ARC LS-5MKIII or ARC LS-25MKII I also like LS5, still have LS5II playing at my home. On the contray as John, I did try BAT 31SE but keep LS5. Maybe LS5 is better match to my system, and I like sound to be a little warm. BAT just remind me too much of a ss. | |
| Sony SCD-1 or BAT VK-D5 / D5SE Get SCD-1, if necessary, upgrade it or add one DAC for CD sound. BAT is not cheap either. Many claims their CD sound better SCD-1 actually spend more money on CD player than a used SCD-1. It won't hurt you anything but add good stuff, if your CD p... | |
| Digital as good or better than YOUR analog? Sorlowski,Ever you doubt your rooom? Maybe it needs some treatment. Sometimes, a room has bad echo on high frequency, so a revealing source make it worse. Therefore, a laid-back equippment, CD or amp or AC or speaker...., will save you in that roo... | |
| is it me or sacd. I will buy records if can still find nice condition ones. For SACD, I will buy newly recorded SACD, if sound quality is a must. Asking a new technology to re-cook the old dish is asking too much IMHO. I keep my table running and play old records, ... | |
| From CAL Alpha to ARC DAC3:an upgrade? Some say too layback, the other too forward.I have a DAC5. They use BNC input but no RCA. A big differece I find to get rid of forwardness is to use digital cable with BNC (can buy from ebay CANARE and specify BNC on one end or both). A BNC/RCA co... | |
| Which Beethoven's symphony do you like the best? Tubegroover, I think all it comes to personal taste. I perfer Mozart's 35/36th over Jupitor. To me, 35 and 36 are more "Mozart". More nature sounding as Mozart's style. If I overplay Jupitor, maybe I will remember more melody. But the music never ... | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...RIP Mozart is indeed a genius of music. Love his opera and horn concerto. The movie is just a movie. My friend told me that the people in Vienna hate that movie when he visited Europe. People there think the story is distorted and too much Hollywood. ... | |
| Speaker make "pop" noise when pre amp turn off The pop could be from preamp or power amp. The cause could be the mismatched of aging tubes/transistors, leakage capacitor, or poor grounding. When I have ARC's LS5/VT100 MKII, I can switch anything off without a pop. Let a good technician check it. | |
| Which Beethoven's symphony do you like the best? My favorite at this moment is 7th by C. Kleiber. I think we should start another thread to talk about Mozart. No point to talk about other composer in this thread, isn't it? | |
| Which Beethoven's symphony do you like the best? Yes, who can forget the opening of Beethoven's 5th and the ending of 9th. It is like a laster printer print into my head since I was a kid first time listening to it. So strong and I can't forget it. The passion is not only strong but also very de... | |
| Which Beethoven's symphony do you like the best? For symphony, and for myself, any Beethoven is better than Mozart. It is not a fair comparison, because Mozart probably never hear the last few ones by Beethoven. Mozart did many beatiful music. But as far as symphony or piano sonata, IMHO Mozart ... | |
| CDs obsolete in 5 years? You can read data and store them in memory while playing. The same trick can apply to all digital formats. Engineer can design that way, actually those portable sport CD player is kind of like that. That's not for MP3 only. MP3 has less data there... | |
| Best Preamp Audio Research LS5 versus BAT VK-5i/SE I have a LS5-II now and own one VK30SE before. They are all excellent preamps. BAT is more accurate and ARC is more lush with tube glare. So it depends on your taste. Md. Butterfly vs. Carmen. BAT has a ss type of control on bass and like a well-b... |