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| Your Best Hobbies (other than Audio) Fishing!Spin reel myself under blue sky.Or spin record on my turntable. | |
| Top 10 Must-have Classical CD's Here are several my favorites:Beethoven Sym# 5/7, Kleiber, Vienna Phil. DGBeethoven Sym# 6/9, K. Beom, Vienna Phil. DGRachmaninoff, 3rd piano concerto Horowitz, RCABeethoven piano concerto #5 HorowitzBach Golden. Vari., Glen. Gould, SONYBrahms Dou... | |
| Budget system not up to expectations... Oval 9 is very revealing. Probably too much for your source and amplificaiton. Either upgrade your front end or switch to a ~$100 used cable (would recommend a Cu one from Audioquest). This is a typical "mismatch" issue, your cable is more expensi... | |
| CD v. SACD SONY's CD players (most of them) can sound bright. But there are not always bad things about SONY. Higher end SONY's transport actually last pretty long time in my experience. Therefore, I am confident in mod on a good SONY CD or DVD player. Becau... | |
| CD v. SACD 24 bit and higher sample rate can improve the sound than redbook CD format. Natalie, that guy in your review like the tube output stage, which has nothing to do CD or SACD. I think you are referring an improper review to justify SACD vs CD. If we ... | |
| Taming bright Thiels Could be your room. But it is hard to treat your room without change its look. I would say change to a not so bright speaker. That's a quick and direct solution. Lots of people already try different electronics and cables(bright & soft/ss &... | |
| Has anyone heard the Usher Audio Speakers For what I saw in their shop, those top line speaker drivers are made in Europe(France?). They do have some drivers made in Taiwan or box made in China for their lower priced lines target at local market. The new top line ones are co-designed by E... | |
| Has anyone heard the Usher Audio Speakers Listen some of their speakers in Taiwan. It seems that they are easier to drive than other high end speakers. The one like SF EA sounds pretty good even on a Denon receiver. Do like powerful amp, but reasonablly smooth even for receivers. Most are... | |
| Sony SCD-1 balanced or unbalanced? Balanced cable/CKT can get rid of common mode noise in the CKT(most likely from power line) and RF noise in the air. If you alrady have a stable power line/cable and clean air (free from RF noise), then you probably won't tell the difference. Usua... | |
| direct drive tt's? I like classical on record more than CD. Very different experience. I have both DD and BD TT, they all give better result to classical on records. Listening to violin is a quick evidence. Dynamic range is a big difference for orchestra. I doubt yo... | |
| What do you choose first SOUND or MUSIC? Equipment serves the music!!!A good system can serve better if properly used.Choose good performance first then try to show it with better equipments, but it can't make performance than it really is.The opposite won't work.Why don't you buy a Stei... | |
| System to take on the road Nice sound (expensive too): Integrated amp (audio refinement or SF Integrated) + Sonus Faber speakers. They can fit into reasonable size box, though not tiny but acceptable for an apartment. Some DAC is small too, like P3. This como gives you good... | |
| Dynaudio vs B&W for classical? Lots of people prefer planar for classical music, but not for me though. I had a planar before and thought it was good for classical until I optimized my power amp and turntable to fit my small dynamic speakers (ProAC and Celestion + REL sub.). Ac... | |
| CJ Premier 11a vs. Audio Research VT50/VT100MKII ? I hear CJ-P11a with ARC-VT100MKII in the store and bought ARC. At that time we try both CJ(16 or 17?) and ARC(LS15) pre. P11a has a warmer sound (more tuby) to me. But I choose ARC because it make orchestra sing better than CJ in large classical r... | |
| 2 Questions on General Music Preferences Hear a good orchestra music on good gear, I want to stand up and conduct. Can live with med-hi but will not be so excited. Music love is a must, and a good gear a plus. But some guy never attend great live music or never hear good gear will miss a... |