daveyf
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| Does it come down to the mastering quality only?? @onhwy61 @folkfreak I tend to disagree with the statement that a mediocre to bad recording on a decent system will sound anything BUT mediocre or poor. IMHO, the more warts that are exposed, the worse the listening session becomes...if we are talk... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Flamenco Fever--Superb Direct to Disc..Bill Evans MoFi One step Portraits in Jazz,Shelby Lynne Just a little Lovin'Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme Simon and Garfunkel MFSLBlack Sabbath Master of Reality UK Vertigo 1st pressing.Black Sabbath Vol4 ... | |
| Original Blue Notes vs Reissues I own a number of the original Blue Note recordings and also a number of the Music Matters Reissues. Personally I usually prefer to listen to the reissue, simply because the pressing is almost always quieter. OTOH, if the original is quiet, and I... | |
| Chinese fake cables How fake, how good? Can't talk about cable fakes...but in the guitar world it has been known for years that there are tons of fake Gibson Les Paul's out there. So much so, that the well known brick and mortar stores here in the US have sold these as real for years!! ... | |
| The best speaker for a small room...at any price point. I have listened to Audio Note speakers on many occasions, not interested at all... to my ears they are veiled and fail to image realistically due to their almost total lack of depth portrayal ( is this surprising since they are designed to be list... | |
| Bi-Wire Jumpers Having run a bi-wire set up for many years, I do not agree that running bi-wire is 'useless' as itzhak1969 claims. Many speakers have their x-overs optimized for a bi-wire set up, including many of the SF models. If you have the option of running ... | |
| The best speaker for a small room...at any price point. Have you considered bass trapping in the room? That might alleviate some of the excess bass that you are hearing.I run two (2) subs and with bass trapping there are no issues. | |
| Reasonable high end interconnects: without breaking the bank Easy, what teajay said in his post...Coppertone by Black Cat cables...a no brainer recommendation. | |
| Black Cat Cable's/Coppertone wires are amazing good! @yping Just noticed your question about the Nordost comparison. I own several Nordost cables....and consider them as my reference. When I compared the Nordost Frey cables to the Coppertones, what I was surprised at was how extremely close the tw... | |
| Black Cat Cable's/Coppertone wires are amazing good! @dep14 Funny you should state that, as that was my feeling as well, when I viewed Chris's new web page. Whoever his web designer was, seemed to miss the point of what the web page is about....or maybe not??Anyhow, the Black Cat cables should be ... | |
| The best speaker for a small room...at any price point. @keithr I think the little Gamut Rs3's are interesting, although i suspect they would NOT be a good match with my tube amps. A friend used to own the larger floorstanding model, it was a bear to drive and required a hefty ss amp. The Stenheim's s... | |
| Nordost fans Big fan here! I use the Tyr Phono and interconnect and the Frey speaker cables. Large upgrade over my prior cable looms. I recently added a pair of the Black Cat Coppertone ic's into the mix...from my digital front end. While the Black Cat's are N... | |
| The best speaker for a small room...at any price point. One other thought, and that is to acquire a pair of stacked Quads...the original versions. To my ears, these speakers are some of the purest transducers in the critical midrange of anything that I have ever heard...not sure if they would work in a... | |
| The best speaker for a small room...at any price point. @perazzi28. I have always liked the Wilson Benesch speakers I have heard in the past. I will try and hear a smaller stand mount in their Geometry series, although they too seem to have few dealers here in Calif. | |
| The best speaker for a small room...at any price point. @keithr I will put the Stenheim’s onto my audition list. I thought the larger model 3’s were ok at Long Beach, but not in any way ground breaking or “lust worthy”. Nonetheless, their room was a factor ( as was everyone else’s that day) and the spe... |