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| DEADHEADS...TOP 5 SHOWS..... Englishtown, New Jersey 1977. Special to me because my first show. But I recently obtained a very good sound quality (HDCD) bootleg of it and was surprised how well it confirmed my memory of the show. | |
| active professional monitors for HT I auditioned a bunch of small, powered, studio monitors about a year ago. The Mackies are quite good but the Dynaudio impressed me the most. These really sound like audiophile speakers. The ones I checked out are for nearfield use, though. Not sur... | |
| Looking for a warm budget monitors??? I've been thinking of upgrading my 10-year-old B&W 805s (pre-nautilus). I paid over $2K but would sell for $1k or so. I think they're quite musical and warm, and the imaging is great. They don't suffer from the brightness that some people attr... | |
| Best CD sound: Marantz SA8001 or Rega Apollo? And not to beat a dead horse, but the Benchmark people claim to have proved that their DAC can correct for any timing problems coming from the source. In other words, they claim it makes no difference whether you feed it from a CD transport or fro... | |
| Best CD sound: Marantz SA8001 or Rega Apollo? I'm responding to 4est. I think you're being a bit extreme. I used a borrowed Benchmark DAC with my computer audio files and was quite pleased with the sound. But I'm not sure that it bettered the SA 8001, which costs slightly less. (The Benchmark... | |
| Best CD sound: Marantz SA8001 or Rega Apollo? I'm very interested in this question too. So far, there doesn't appear to be any published review of the SA 8001. I recently e-mailed John Atkinson and he confirmed that Stereophile has obtained a unit and that the review is provisionally schedule... | |
| Oak equipment stand/cabinet Thanks for the tip.--Dz | |
| Are in-wall speakers worth considering? Well, this generated an interesting dialog! As they say: "I used to be a great parent until I had kids." As the father of twin 6-year-olds, my view is that it's unreasonable to expect kids to live like adults. Yeah, I suppose you could discipline ... | |
| Are in-wall speakers worth considering? Nice system, Cytocycle!So can these Niles speakers produce a decent stereo soundstage? I wouldn't be using 5 of them like you are.Thanks.--DZ | |
| Best pressings of classic rock/pop recordings Thanks for these helpful suggestions. It's encouraging that there are some currently-available pressings that sound good. OUt-of-print audiophile pressings can be too pricey for my budget. I'm glad to hear that the 25th Anniversary version of Aqua... | |
| Denon 2910 and 3910 upsample redbook?? I'm not sure this answers your question, but I've never seen a decent explanation for what upsampling is. All CD players since the 1980s interpolate data, that is, they create virtual samples in between the ones at 44.1 khz. This helps with the D/... | |
| How to hook up subwoofer to Creek 5350SE? Thanks for the ideas. I'm trying the B speaker output right now. It's certainly a cheap option b/c there doesn't seem to be any need for fancy cables when you're just going into a subwoofer. Seems like I can also "A/B" any sonic problems this way ... |