bpoletti
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| Cables to Add Brightness Why "add brightness?" How about just getting neutral components? | |
| Cables to settle brightness Don't worry about your power cables. But get rid of EVERY INCH of silver conductor in the signal path. | |
| Turntables "great reviews by Rega afficionados" is enough to make mew question it. I haven't heard a decent Rega table for anywhere near it's retail price. None. | |
| Turntables In my experience and in my opinion, Rega produces turntables that consistently rise to the level of mediocrity below their inflated retail and their selling price. That's JUST my opinion and my experience. Your opinion and experience may be dif... | |
| Bookshelf vs diffuser panel. Who wins? What wins? Artificial ficus trees win. Get a few 5' - 6' artificial ficus trees and use them as diffusers. Much more effective than bookshelves or wasting money or time on diffuser panels. I have over a dozen in my listening room and they are ... | |
| Phono Preamplifier Redux .. Damn This is Getting Expensive Stop worrying about an upgrade. Hold out for a used Herron VTPH-2A. There are no further upgrades available. | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @rauliruegas Brevity is a blessing. The lack of brevity if a curse. Verbosity ensures ignoring the substance. | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? ScanTech seems to make the best carts I’ve heard, Lyra at the top of my list. I’m currently using a Lyra Skala and have nothing I want. It is not the weak point of my system. That's what I've heard and not to discount what others have observed in... | |
| Looking for good recordings of female vocals I have not yet tried... And on the classical side, Get all four volumes of Wagner's Ring Cycle which features numerous very competent female vocalists. Use the recordings of the Vienna Philharmonic under Solti. They were recorded by Decca in the early 1960's if memory ... | |
| Looking for good recordings of female vocals I have not yet tried... I might suggest Amanda McBroom. Has several albums on Sheffield, maybe other labels. And also, just to perform the song she wrote, "The Rose," Bette Midler. | |
| Recommendation on speakers for listening to live music I like the Wilson Alexandria. Nice dynamics. Natural balance. Good soundstage, decent imaging for a mid-size speaker. | |
| Why is Audiogon checking my browser? Usually Capta is used to reduce attacks from netbots. It could be that Audiogon has noticed some logins from netbots that have been getting past their member access controls. The bots could have been using Audiogon to spam or attack its members ... | |
| Are Expensive Balanced Interconnects Necessary? In a well-designed system, balanced interconnects are not necessary. | |
| Help me spend $6000 I have upgraded my cables and have a nice pair of $73,000 interconnect cables I’d be willing to part with for $6,000. | |
| Isn't it really about quality of recording? The quality of any recording starts with the musician(s) and requires that all components in the chain from the musician to the listener's ears are high quality. |