cymbop
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| Power Cord up to $100? Pangea AC-9. Even the wife said, "Holy crap, I can hear the difference!" | |
| Does you wife touch your system? Yep. She warms up the tubes before listening, and uses the Squeezebox Touch to play our albums, Pandora stations, or MOG. The living room has a stereo system, and no TV, so it's pretty important that she be able to operate the system! | |
| Melody Pure Black 101 Line Preamp I know that chi-fi gets a bad wrap from a lot of quarters, but I will second the build quality and sound quality on my Melody SP3 integrated. For two years I've been nothing less than impressed with this unit. | |
| Diagnostics for hum Elizabeth for the win! | |
| Got Ears? You've _got_ to take your eyes out of the equation. Your brain is wired to give visual stimuli precedence over aural stimuli. That's why I play bass with my eyes closed; that's why I'll close my eyes to listen when I'm at a live concert. That's wh... | |
| Got Ears? 1) Get quiet, get centered, and listen in the dark with your eyes closed.2) Consider it your job to identify every single instrument and effect on a track. Are there 1 or 2 or 3 guitars? Can you tell a single-coil from a humbucker? (or better yet,... | |
| Who needs drugs when you've got music? Hey Cymbop do you by any chance have a Bebophone?mmm hmmm. :-) | |
| Who needs drugs when you've got music? Yeah, I had a neuropsych professor who didn't seem to be anti-recreational-drugs in general, but told us to stay away from the E. Too much neurotoxicity over time. The reefers, though? No problem. | |
| Who needs drugs when you've got music? I have a friend who says, "Deep listening after smoking reefer is such a thrill, it's like a drug to me." | |
| Girlfriends and wifes, how do YOU cope? Upon seeing the fiberglass absorption panels I'd just brought into the living room (with wife approval), my best friend said, "You know, marrying her has only given you a higher pole on which to fly your freak flag." | |
| James Taylor reissues? Lindisfarne is correct, and Rebbi is in for two very special treats. Those albums are damn near perfect. | |
| Streaming music comparisons and quality I would guess that MOG's catalog is 10 times bigger than Spotify's. I even found _my band's_ album on there, and I'm only famous among, well, me. And it streams at 320 standard. | |
| Help Me Name a New Band 04-05-12: ChadnlizThe BafflesWE HAVE A WINNER!Baffle. "The Baffles" was taken by a now-defunct British band. So that's it: Baffle. It's concrete. It's abstract. It's an answer and a question. We like it.Chadnliz, I'll be sure to send you a recordi... | |
| What's your profession? Age? I'm 35, head coach of the Duke University Cycling Team, and work with private clients at all levels of the sport. www.pedalgogy.com | |
| Uncle Tupelo Fans I play in a band with the accordion player from Still Feel Gone. He's a sober guy and has great stories about the months in which he became Jeff Tweed's de facto designated driver. |