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| Best Sound Track Ever Vote for One Overall my vote for best is VERTIGO (Bernard Herrman). I listen to it once a month or so year round. Runner up would be the terrific Johnny Mandel composed soundtrack to I WANT TO LIVE, with Jerry Mulligan, Art Farmer, and others. Wonderful music... | |
| Getting good sound quality below 200Hz It’s the fact that you have these bass drivers in open baffles. That turns their radiation pattern into dipole (radiating to the front and back more or less equally), and that tends to rob the bass of impact unless compensated for in various ways.... | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? Yes to Jimi’s "All Along the Watchtower." Two of my favorite covers are below. "A House Is Not a Home" -- this Bacharach/David tune was debuted by Dionne Warwick, and maybe the most popular cover was by Luther Vandross. Dusty Springfield never re... | |
| Turn down the Volume! Even in my twenties I didn't like to have a stereo be so loud you couldn't hear someone else speak. All those decades later, I can't handle loud volume, period. Re this: "To me, one of the most important subjective measure of a system is how it ... | |
| What is the best 2 channel listening chair? RE: " I’ve found the Steel Case Leap V2 (version 2. The V1 is no good)" @dreas, that’s your opinion. I have found the Leap V1 to be very good, indeed. I’ve owned three of them; just gave my first to my twin; sitting in second; have a leather v1 a... | |
| Why do hipsters prefer analog? What the hell is a "hipster"? I went through the exact tech sequence you mention and I’m anything but a hipster. In audio, I go where my ears take me...right now it’s R2R, specifically NOS digital. | |
| DAC diminishing returns DACs do make a difference. I find the differences aren't all that subtle, but more subtle than different speakers or headphones. I read nothing but good things about the Pontus. | |
| What cable companies make the best cables and sell them directly? +1 for Signal Cable. I also have several 2M Transparent Audio MusicLink cables. Those are the best-sounding cables I have... | |
| Interesting ASR review of small GR Research speaker kit These days when I google reviews for an audio product and links come back for ASR, I just ignore them. I’ve read enough ASR reviews to know how little they correlate to the actual sound of audio gear....and music itself. Reviewers like that spew ... | |
| Volume Control Too Sensitive I recently purchased a well-reviewed & very powerful headphone amplifier that I have running off my DAC, which outputs 3.0 volts single-ended (50% higher than the nominal 2.0 volts output standard that gave me no gain issues). Well, between t... | |
| A first Back in the mid- to late-1980s I lived across the street from a well-known jazz musician. I also had a big/serious 2 channel system that pleased me to no end (Vandersteen 4s + big Music Reference tube amp for mains & SS for integrated subs + V... | |
| Your sub experience: Easy or hard? I’ve run a single sub + 2 desktop main speakers for ~15 years. Until ~5 years ago the mains were powered; then I switched over to a series of passives. For me, the hard part of subs wasn’t placement--I only had one placement option, and luckily a... | |
| Turntable noobie...what advice do you have? Congratulations on having a wise audio plan. The system you outline will be more than fine to figure out what vinyl is all about. Once you hear vinyl played well, there may be no doing back... | |
| Favorite religious song I saw THE GOSPEL AT COLONUS on PBS, then on Broadway. I've never recovered from it. Always loved gospel music, and this is the top of the mountain of Gospel: | |
| "Too much gain"? (Cary SLP05 question) I don’t own any Cary gear so can’t comment on that aspect of this thread. But I surely do know about gain problems in my main desktop system. I’ve wrestled with excessive gain in this system for years, always with the same symptoms: the main pream... |