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| 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... | |
| Hot Rats Mysterioso1, The Grand Wazoo and Waka Jawaka are both demo quality, with great dynamics, tone color, and a big open stage presentation, but musically, TGW is the better album with more great songs. My original 1973 vinyl still sounds great. | |
| Energy speakers If you are doing an HT, you should think first about the center channel speaker….most use horizontal MTM configuration, which sucks no matter who does it. Look for a true 3way CC and get matched L/R towers. I suggest looking into another Canadian ... | |
| Speaker/equipment placement Ask married owners of Magneplanars if they move them for serious listening and you’ll find it’s not so rare. With heavy cabinet speakers, especially spiked, yeah that’s not happening. | |
| Volume Control Too Sensitive If you are using unbalanced connections, this may work: GT102 VC | |
| A perfect song? What are your choices? Jackson Browne "For A Dancer" Joni Mitchell "Both Sides Now" Bob Dylan "Just Like A Woman" Jimi Hendrix "Axis: Bold As Love" The Beatles "I Saw Her Standing There" Rolling Stones "Wild Horses" Paul Simon "Sounds Of Silence" Smokey Robinson ... | |
| Celestion Ditton 66’s. ‘Upgrade’ to modern speakers consequences? You’ll need to spend in excess of $10K to equal the Ditton 66 in terms of full range power response. Focal Kanta 3 would be one to check out. Expect greater resolution and more articulate bass with lower coloration overall. If this is way out of t... | |
| Was my friend given misinformation. Way2 has a similar background to mine...initially and still an enthusiast/ hobbyist, but spent almost 5 decades in the industry making my living. Big chains hire people and "train them up" but they rarely achieve the level of knowledge of a true ... | |
| Was my friend given misinformation. The B&W 603S2AE is a plain looking box but is a very good speaker for the dough, even head to head with Revel or Focal equivalents. Denon makes some of the best value AVRs, too, but for the same cost a more targeted integrated might have been... | |
| My last Integrated Amp: $5-10,000? The Michi X5 is $7500 and is described by a veteran audio technician of my acquaintance as a work of art from the viewpoint of engineering, parts quality and build. It deserves consideration in this category. There is also an X3 with (only) 200W... | |
| Integrated Amp Suggestions Hardly any manufacturers put speaker selectors on amps with that much power output…not even way back when. The Rotel or the NAD C399 might be the ticket. High end designers eschew speaker relays as a rule. | |
| For classical music lovers best amp for large orchestral forces? I don’t believe in magic. A 25W/ch amp no matter how good, will not reproduce large orchestral crescendi through an 89 dB speaker convincingly. If you have a superb tube preamp (you have!), you want a transparent amp with a large current capacity... |