dodgealum
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| Listening Room Art Work For my 50th my wife and friends had three of the Francis Wolff photo prints offered by Acoustic Sounds (Miles, Coltrane and Blakey) nicely framed for our listening room. Probably bad for sonics but they create a nice vibe. | |
| Magico VS Daedalus VS Marten VS Spendor As you probably know, choosing speakers is the most important of all in putting together a satisfying system. It is also a highly personal one since we all hear differently and have unique preferences when it comes to great sound. You also have a ... | |
| Anyone try Triode wire labs or Empirical Design Can't comment on the others but I'm using Empirical Design PC's and IC's throughout my system. I've compared them to several others along the way and found them to be hands down the best value for money. Karl is a joy to deal with as well. | |
| Is Nagra BPS The Best Small Phono Pre? Somewhat small and awesome sounding is the Herron VTPH-2. | |
| Best Audio Store in Washington D C ? Anyone remember Excaliber? | |
| Modwright LS100 VS Modwright LS36.5 I've owned both and prefer the LS100 which in my system produced deeper bass and more body. The LS36.5 is a tad quieter but leaner throughout. Both are excellent (outperforming my ARC LS26 easily)and your decision is really one of system matching.... | |
| 12' x 14' room; $10k budget for speakers; help I think you should take a very close look at the Daedalus Athena. It meets all your performance parameters and can be placed fairly close to the rear wall due to an aperiodic venting system. These are hand made speakers built from solid hardwood--... | |
| Folkies, do you know Lori McKenna? She's great. Very dark lyrically but an interesting voice and singing style. I saw her at Mexicali Blues in Teaneck NJ with Mary Gautier (sp?). About 50 people in the room with a good sound system. Just the two gals with their guitars trading song... | |
| Turntable Upgrade Suggestions Mordante makes a good point--the phono preamp is vital. As is synergy between the arm and cartridge and proper cartridge alignment. I believe that a sound investment of time and money in getting these right is the proper starting point for good an... | |
| Turntable Upgrade Suggestions Firstcut: I've been in the same boat for several years now. I've got a Scout (with the 300rpm motor upgrade) and have been enjoying it for at least a half dozen years at this point but always with an eye toward replacing it with something markedly... | |
| DAC for my Esoteric X-O3 SE?? Why would you want to use an external DAC with a player of this caliber? I would either move up the line and/or into one of their new "K" series players or look into separates (i.e. DAC paired with an Esoteric transport). However, I doubt either o... | |
| Why do my rolling stones albums sound bad? I think the only Stones album with even halfway decent sound is "Some Girls" and that one is tipped up hot on top among other issues. Another rocker I love who also records crappy is Bruce Springsteen. Love his music but sonically his collection s... | |
| Warm, lush and smooth interconnect help OK, I'll ask: Why do you want cables that are "warm, lush and smooth"? What are you trying to achieve? I'm always very skeptical when I see a post like this because I think people put way too much faith in wire to solve problems that are better ad... | |
| Mint LP Best Tractor---HELP OK, I wasn't going to chime in but Downunder is right. I had a MINT and found it to be a royal pain to use. Finally got the alignment of my AT OC9MLII just right on my Scout (according to the MINT) and didn't like the sound. Then I realigned using... | |
| Need speaker recommendation - after harbeth c7es3? I had C7's and wanted to move to another speaker for some of the same reasons you cite. I went with Daedalus DA-1.1's. You may want to look into the Athena which is slightly smaller but equally handsome. If you do a search here you will see some o... |