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| Holo Audio Titanis I thought this was another tinitus thread! | |
| Will rebuilt Quad ESL 57s take the place on a great $30K dynamic speaker? Unlike some here, my direct experience with ESL 57s is limited…I heard them at Victor’s in Chicago in 1972. He played a Decca cart and Int’l TA into ARC electronics. A Mozart chamber ensemble on Phillips…probably Raymond Leppard…it was divine. Nex... | |
| Small Form-Factor CD Player/Transport You could find a used Parasound Z-CD. Very compact good sounding player. I use one as transport with Mytek Liberty DAC and AQ Optilink-1 toslink. I like small stuff. | |
| Analog vs. digital In the early ‘80s I shared a house with an amateur recordist who had a collection of tapes made on a modified ReVox A77 with a dbx 224 compander NR unit. They were documenting a local orchestra that was very good, and the recordings were totally u... | |
| Best Stereo Upgrade Value IME, which is considerable, it’s the speaker/room synergy and its relationship to your listening goals and expectations. The rest are details. If you want the singer/songwriter and their acoustic guitar or piano to pay you a visit vs. wanting to r... | |
| Quick USB question Another way to make your music collection available without using the USB is to transfer the files to a NAS drive and let the Node access them over your network. That will also make them available to any other network streaming players in your hom... | |
| Amp's that are better sounding than a nad 3020 You would be amazed what $300.00 can buy. TheYamaha R-N303 has a formidable feature set and a very decent amplifier and if you can find one it sells for $329.99. Then there’s always the yard sale treasure possibility. | |
| Acoustic Guitar on Vinyl +1 on Bruce Cockburn. No one has mentioned Jorma Kaukonen! The first Hot Tuna album on RCA is a RtDF. Others…Mississippi John Hurt,Today! on Vanguard, David Bromberg with Norman Blake “The Boggy Road to Milledgeville”. Doc Watson on Vanguard. No... | |
| Bryston's New Back To The Future Program. “Up to spec”. Considering that there is a weak relationship between specs and SQ in the view of many members of this forum, the promise is no panacea for owners hoping their old amps will sound like new. Just sayin’… | |
| Using Adcom GFA-555s as monoblocks to power magnepan 3.3s in active biamp I think the poInt is bridging disadvantages the amp’s ability to drive low Z loads. You have one. So why would you think it a good use of your gear? The 555 was heralded as “high current” in its day (relative to its class peers, not Krell!), but... | |
| Interesting ASR review of small GR Research speaker kit "No replacement for displacement" Words of wisdom. The idea that this tiny FR driver can handle FR music at any reasonable level is simply not credible, and the measurements prove it. As a NF monitor at lowish volumes, maybe a case can be made.... | |
| Top 10 vintage cassette decks Cassettes were a sh**ty medium so why waste your money on a over-engineered, difficult to maintain machine? Just get any Nak 2 head single capstan deck with Sendust heads, metal biasing. Many to choose from. I have an MR2 pro version of BX2. Ano... | |
| McIntosh Group purchased by PE firm Goatshead, That is an unwarranted and cynical comment. ejr1953 says it all. | |
| Politics and Music Please remember to add that the Democratic party of the 1800s was constituted by Andrew Jackson's Nativist/populist coalition, and the GOP was a brand new party devoted to abolition, with its base in the industrial North. In today's world, the po... | |
| Politics and Music Artemus5, “The 60's movement was all about peace, love and ending wars. Yet since we, the baby boomers have grown and taken the roles of power, we have endless wars, violent riots and now the cancel culture where only one viewpoint is even allow... |