curiousjim
Responses from curiousjim
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Playing Herbie Hancock, Head Hunters. Might have to get a replacement, I’ve played it a lot! | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Starting off with Herbie Mann, Memphis Underground, but not sure what’s next… | |
| Tune of the Day | |
| Jazz for aficionados Herbie Mann, Memphis, underground | |
| Where do you stop? 35 years ago I started using a silver coated, multi strand speaker wire and it’s still in use in my second system. It’s definitely brighter sounding that straight copper, but I’m not sure I’d like all silver. Just like my interconnects. I have 2 t... | |
| Proof of improvements in audio system sound quality.... The only part of this I believe is, well none of it. Especially the part about his wife being bored at the stereo store!😉😉 | |
| Learned something new today and it isn't good. I read about this years ago and now am using a Audiolab 6000CDT. Before the 6000, I was using an Oppo and never noticed anything saying something was emphasized or deemphasized, so I just ignored that about one in a hundred disks sounded a bit bri... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Manfred Mann, Greatest Hits. | |
| Tune of the Day Chicago, Saturday in the park. Chicago V | |
| Jazz for aficionados Today has been a Wynton Marsalis day. Currently playing is The Magic Hour. | |
| Best shipping companies I just used Estes to send a speaker from Missouri to New Jersey and it was $200 each way for the box on a skid (about 180 pounds) and had no problems. It might have been a corporate rate I paid. It was for some warranty work, so I can’t be sure.... | |
| Concerningly loud pops in vinyl playback I have terrible static problems in the winter, but if your pops are so loud that they are startling you, I’d guess a tube is going bad. Try to see if one is flickering or sparking at the same time. All the best. | |
| KEF's meta material gimmick? I haven’t heard the Reference 5 Meta’s yet, but There’s more going on in the new KEF Meta’s than them adding the rat maze. The spec’s are different. They are slightly less efficient and the crossover points are different. My Reference 5’s are 90d... | |
| Jazz for aficionados One of my quiet time favorites. Wynton Marsalis, Standards & Ballads. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Donald Fagen, The Nightfly |