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| How do I smooth out violins? Pity the pour soul who asked for advice. So far we have:It might be the speakers and its probably not the speakers.Buy a tubed preamp and it is not necessary to have a tubed preamp to tame digititis.Purchase new speaker cables, ICs, power cords an... | |
| What Instrument would you listen to? Theo, Beethoven Waldstein sonata, Andreas Schiff on ECM always goes with me on auditions. | |
| New Amp for Maggie MMG's GMC56,For under $1000, my favorite amps for use with Magnepan speakers would be the McCormacks. In that price range, you should be able to pick up a used DNA-125, a DNA 0.5 deluxe, or perhaps a DNA rev B or C. All of those amps would also work fai... | |
| What Instrument would you listen to? Does anyone hear actually buy an entire rig preassembled? With a single instrument, you can get a feel for timbral accuracy, so its a good place to start, but clearly you have to move on to music that uses multiple instruments and voices to comple... | |
| How do I smooth out violins? I think there are a lot of good comments above. I am especially appreciative and supportive of where frogman was going, in that you really want to diagnose and address the problem rather than throw bandaids at it. Who among us appreciates the auto... | |
| How do I smooth out violins? I have never heard your speakers, but this sounds to me like a speaker issue. Your speakers cross over from midrange to tweeter at 3 KHz. Its possible that your tweeters beam more than your midrange which would tend to make the upper frequencies s... | |
| New Amp for Maggie MMG's It might help if you provided a little more information about your price range, room size, typical listening volumes, what is lacking in your current amp that you wish to improve on, if you plan to upgrade to larger Maggies at some point, etc. | |
| Modwright sony xa5400 vs Modwright Oppo 95 Wig, I talked to Dan last week (email actually). He pretty much indicated what is in his blog on the 105 vs the 95 also applies to the 105 vs the Sony. I also asked him to compare use of the modded 105 to the sony with digital in as a DAC. He indi... | |
| Mo' money. Mo' problems. Steve, thanks for the heads up on the twin turbos. I noticed the latest consumer report rated the 328 much better than average on reliability. I normally buy used, so a nice low mileage certified may be in my future. I'm a firm believer in the pow... | |
| 2013 Wish List Well, my first wish is to sell all of my unused equipment so I can free up some cash to move forward. :)I want to try the Coincident line stage. I really love my Promethius Signature and have been a fan of passives for years, but in all fairness I... | |
| Mo' money. Mo' problems. I'm on my 3rd accord. They are bullet proof, do well in all weather, and don't cost much to own or operate. My current red/ivory V-6 leather coupe with navigation is pretty spunky, handles well, and looks pretty good. What more could you ask? Yet,... | |
| Should listings include the age of the item? In principal, I have nothing against "flippers" provided they respect and practice the ethical guidelines of the AG community. I try to exercise a lot of care in ensuring that a buyer is going to get what he wants. If someone just wants to flip, i... | |
| Massed strings and large choral groups Frogman, thanks much. I will give it a read. I probably like the Mahler 8th the least. I recently pinned it down to the abrupt opening of the massed chorus. It is interesting though, that one of my favorite Bruckner works, the Te Deum, opens in a ... | |
| Massed strings and large choral groups Frogman, sixty banjos playing together would tax more than my stereo. I can, however, imagine such an event would go over well in Pittsburgh, and probably does in fact occur on a regular basis.I cannot abide sitting in the balcony dress circle bec... | |
| Massed strings and large choral groups I absolutely agree with this. I would also suggest that large choral groups are harder than massed strings. I think some of this is due to how the recording sessions are miked, but you I have heard big differences using different amps in my system... |