chashmal
Responses from chashmal
| How does one get off the merry-go-round? Love of music is joy. Love of equipment is materialism. Love of music with great equipment makes the joy shine brighter, but when you start thinking about the gear too much it all turns to crap in your head. Just enjoy the music like you did when ... | |
| Turntable setup Long Island or NYC ? Innovative Audio is no longer in Brooklyn Heights. They do have a Manhattan store. I was a customer for years, and thought that the last set-up they did on my turntable was not as great as it could have been, so I tried Accent on Music (Dave Wilso... | |
| LP Sound Quality Everything here makes sense. Once you have checked it all: the set-up, cleaned the lp's, and done all of that, there is only one thing left: maybe the records themselves are played out or poorly recorded. I have noticed that many lps I get are dea... | |
| Anything under 3 years is just flirting.... Tetra 205's for 7 years. Great for my tiny room with YBA electronics and a Linn LP12. | |
| CD upgrade opinions? The problem is to find a dealer where I can A/b all these wonderful players. Everything mentioned here deserves a listen, but in the same room. Anyone know of such a place within 60 miles of New York City? | |
| Freak Me Out Davemitchell: thank god there is another real 20th century rec here! Most appropriate for the questioner! | |
| Tube amp with volume control vs. with a proper pre I was thinking of going this way, for reasons of affordability and what I imagine might be a direct high resolution signal. I was thinking of the Art Audio Carissa with volume control. I am not a technical guy, so the complication factor makes me ... | |
| Best blues guitarist, Clapton or Green I never understood the appeal of that generation of technically refined rather timid British guitar players. Give me the raw intensity of Freddie King, Hubert Sumlin (Howlin' Wolf's guitarist), or T-Bone Walker anyday. | |
| WOW factor The leap came when I got my turntable (LInn LP12) running after about 8 years of sitting idle. Wow! | |
| Who R U? I am an obnoxious reclusive Jewish mystic (read kabbalist), visual artist, and sort-of writer. I listen to about 8 hours of music a day. About 2 of those hours I REALLY concentrate on it. When I do that, its vinyl all the way on my Linn LP12.Some ... | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music I have several immediate responses:1. Orlando Gibbons "Fantasias" (Jordi Savall)2. Morton Feldman "Coptic Light" (Michael Tilson Thomas)3. Anton Webern "String quartets/trios) (Arditti)4. JS Bach "English Suites cd #1" (Glenn Gould)5. Arvo Part "T... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? There are those who have an innate drive to delve into subtle auditory exploration with imagination, and there are those who do not. They can be smart, creative, or complex, but if a person is not an 'audio explorer' then no amount of convincing c... | |
| How does one get off the merry-go-round? Come on, you know its a disease. Just roll with it and die with dignity like the rest of us. | |
| Girlfriends and wifes, how do YOU cope? 2 words: trade off. Buy myself equiptment=buy her whatever she wants of equal value. Accept derision for my obsession and indulge her whims in any area she sees fit. | |
| white noise from tweeters I dont know about any of you, but I feel that true Hi Fi components should not hiss, hum, or create these types of distractions. Is that too much to ask? |