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| Acoustic Zen Adagio, How Good Are They? I wasn't all that impressed with the VR4 Sr. when it was only 8KInterestingly, I heard this speaker at a dealer in SF. A friend was considering them as a possible replacement for his VR4Jr's. Frankly, they sounded like...well...BAD. There's no oth... | |
| Speaker match with Pass Labs XA-160 I've heard the 350.5 maybe 10 months ago. If this is not the new .5 series, then no, I've not heard it. Thanks for the alert on that! | |
| Speaker match with Pass Labs XA-160 Tboooe, How would I characterize the Pass sound?X-350, X-350.5, X-600, etc. have a similar character to them, as do the preamps and phono stages. To my ear, these are the adjectives that come to mind:incisive, dry, narrow, neutral, ashy, wispy, ai... | |
| Speaker match with Pass Labs XA-160 I heard the XA-160s with Eggleston Works Andra II's. If you like the Pass sound, the XA is a welcome step up from the X-350. More rounded, fluid, altogether more musical. The Andra II's are phenomenally good, the kind of speaker that will stop you... | |
| Best object in your listening room. My wife's custom made horse whip. It hangs on the wall, above the doorway. She bought it from a silversmith (platero) at the San Telmo Craft Fair in Buenos Aires. He hand carved the ornate handle of the whip. The artist invited us to his studio la... | |
| APL NWO2.5 ? As good as this unit might be, I would sure want to hear the Meridian 808 Signature Reference ($13.5K) before buying in this price classMy neighbor has one. It sits idle on his shelf, bested by both MBL & Zanden. Yet even with the support of a... | |
| APL NWO2.5 ? Several people have remarked that it noticeably outpaces the NWO-1, which was categorically the most lifelike digital I've heard to date. That includes many of the finest players available. In this hobby, the music becomes the focus when the compo... | |
| McIntosh MA6500 Integrated amp Why do they carry 2 Integrateds with the same power output I wonder?At 8ohms, the MA6500 is 120W, while the MA6900 is 200W. | |
| Bob Dylan finally makes sense.... ...there hasn't been anything great that has come out in a long time. For the most part, modern music sounds like a bunch of noise to me.Dad, is that you? | |
| Best rock song of all times "Rocks Off" - Rolling Stones | |
| Bob Dylan finally makes sense.... One things for sure not every word uttered by Dylan should be seen as a statement from on high.Good point. How quickly I forget that I'm having internal dialogue with a journalist, and not directly their source. Wasn't the point of the article to ... | |
| Bob Dylan finally makes sense.... Dylan said:"I dont know anybody whos made a record that sounds decent in the past 20 years, really."ANDEven these songs probably sounded 10 times better in the studio when we recorded em. CDs are small. Theres no stature to it.Irrespective o... | |
| Bob Dylan finally makes sense.... He sounds no different than most other people who disparage the generation after theirs. And he sure isn't digging too deep if he says that no good music has been made in the past 20 years. Because there are literally thousands of recordings relea... | |
| Little red gun next to turntable. It came with the Yanni Live at the Acropolis LP I bought. Guess they're meant to be played together. | |
| Silversmith Audio--Great service provided for me. Last year, I placed a classifieds ad for a pair of Silversmith interconnects. Jeff contacted me to let me know that he had seen the photo in the ad, and that the IC's I was selling were not the current model. In fact, they were two iterations old.... |