chayro
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| Looking for more transparency. Ok, but I'm not paying for them if they don't help. :)What did you get? | |
| Looking for more transparency. I'm surprised nobody mentioned the Cardas speaker cables. I don't know which ones you have, but some were noted for being on the softer side and often used to tame brighter systems.. The newer models are supposedly more transparent, but I have n... | |
| reel to reel tapes I also have a box of 7" tapes I made probably in the 80's. I think mostly jazz stuff like Clifford Brown, Art Blakey that I copied from LPs using my Technics 1200 and Denon 103. I recall they sounded rather good. I was thinking of giving them a... | |
| Esoteric X-01 Limited vs X-05 I'm probably in the minority here, but I owned an X-05 a few years back and I couldn't wait to get rid of it. Sound was dry and harmonically threadbare and so bad on CD I bought a Bel Canto dac to use while I was attempting to break it in. Maybe... | |
| Can I use the Walker Audio precision motor controller with the Avid Volvere turntable? Walker will tell you. They are very responsive to questions. | |
| Finger Prints on Records Residual Oil Remover (ROR) made for cleaning fine camera lenses, works well on vinyl records, as well as many surfaces such as plexiglas, tv screens, etc. It leaves an absolutely clean finish. | |
| MQA CDs The original Pidgeon CD was of exceptional recording quality, so I have no doubt that the MQA version sounded good as well. I would hope Chesky wouldn't remix an MQA release for the purpose of duping buyers, but you never know. | |
| The Tragic Decline of Music Literacy (and Quality) I’m paraphrasing here, but Russ Kunkel, one of the best drummers of our time (James Taylor, Stevie Nicks and a million other hit records) was asked if he could read music and his answer was "Not well enough to hurt my playing." An interesting answ... | |
| OMG OMG OMG Harbeth M30.1 INCOMING!!!A Few Questions For Owners Freediver - yeah, Fritz are really great. I have a pair of Fritz clones of the Totem Model 1, that I like better than the Totems I also own. Actually they're so similar, I could part with either one. Hope the 30s work out for you. | |
| OMG OMG OMG Harbeth M30.1 INCOMING!!!A Few Questions For Owners I am a big Harbeth fan, but I had bad luck with the M30s. They just wouldn't work in my room. I'm not a bass addict by any means, but they sounded like they were missing everything from 80hz on down. Couldn't fix it. However, the HL5s worked g... | |
| Hard Bop, sans drum solos ? Drum solos are an integral part of the jazz idiom, where every instrument gets the opportunity to solo. Jazz Messengers, Coltrane, Clifford Brown/Max Roach. But I agree with the above that Horace Silver has less of it, although IMO, Horace took ... | |
| Silver plated copper Some of the most expensive cables made, such as Jorma and MIT use copper exclusively. IMO, some cable makers may use silver-plated wires only to be able to use the word "silver" in their marketing. I don't think we, as consumers, have the opport... | |
| (Jolida) Black Ice Audio Foz SS-X Sound Enhancement There is nothing worse than speakers that won't work with the room. I've said this many times, but in a normal domestic environment without a huge amount of placement flexibility, it is a total crapshoot in finding a speaker. But when it clicks ... | |
| (Jolida) Black Ice Audio Foz SS-X Sound Enhancement I spent years working in recording studios and there are many, many devices that are used to "enhance" the recorded sound that manipulate phase and eq. While high-end has traditionally eschewed tone controls, equalizers and phase manipulation at t... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers What about Fito DeLa Parra? |