drubin
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| Song With Best Beginning Reelin' in the Years | |
| Eichman RCA's - what makes them so good? AES Standard rates copper as Standard for Signal transfer ability (=100%), Silver for example is 106, gold is around 90 and everything else is much worse. When the unit has very cheap RCA input plugs (brass with gold plating for example), they are... | |
| Goertz or Grover? I believe both companies offer return privileges, so you could buy both and see which you prefer. | |
| Best Sound at the California Audio Show, thoughts? The super-tweeter has a high-pass filter that you can set at 8K, 10K or 12K. It feeds off the terminals of your speakers, which continue to run full range. This may be different in the Mythology M1's, which were built specifically to take advantag... | |
| What speakers should I consider around $5000? Eventually with threads like this, every product on the market gets recommended. So I will add my suggestions. :-) The KEF R series (R700 or R900) are at or below $5K and will be absolute imaging champs.That UniQ driver is exceptional. Different s... | |
| KEF Q800ds heads up check yours Great story. | |
| Best Sound at the California Audio Show, thoughts? That super-tweeter, also shown across the hall with a pair of Magico speakers, produced absolutely gorgeous high frequencies. But as seductive as that was, I think there was too much of it. It's not like the Magicos roll off at 10K. Can you add th... | |
| Does it bother you? I'll take the bait. It would be great if the studios followed more audiophile-approved practices. But because they don't, or may not, doesn't negate the value of doing all you can to make the playback as good and true as possible. Otherwise you're... | |
| Yet another Quad 57 Experience Thirty seconds in, we began to talk about what we were hearing.This is the interesting point, the epiphany if you will.Neither of us would have dreamed of speaking during the first 'performance'. Not only was the music compelling (as good music in... | |
| How do you organize your LPs? Autobiographically, of course.Rob Gordon | |
| Your best ''outstanding'' products in last 5 yrs? Music First Baby Reference preamp. | |
| Best Live Album Ever... Spyboy (Emmylou Harris, Buddy Miller, Brady Blade, Daryl Johnson)The live portions of Wheels of Fire, Cheap Thrills, and Undead (Ten Years After)Bless Its Pointed Little Head (Airplane) | |
| Placette & LSA passive Is that the Placette RVC? The Placette "Active", which is in an entirely different price category, can also be in an entirely different performance category, depending on your system. And if you can, try to hear the Music First Baby Reference. | |
| Attention Thiel CS3.7 owners Vhiner -- he runs direct to the Parasounds from a Metric Halo DAC, which has analog volume control. | |
| Does this speaker exist? Bombaywalla -- thank you for giving this so much thought and for providing some technical foundation to my request. I have always appreciated your comments on Audiogon but rarely see you posting these days.I will give more thought to what i mean b... |