edcyn
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| what are your top "audio bargins" in your system history? My Primaluna Integrated. Lovely tone. Fine imaging & 3D. As much slam as this classical music guy will ever require. Just spritz the volume and selector knobs with some Deoxit to quiet them down when they get glitchy. When a tube blows (which ... | |
| WHEN DID YOU FINALLY STOP... @curtdr Ya know, I truly miss Pasadena. The ethnic restaurants. The high-zoot musical instrument and stereo shops. @rvpiano I often go to Idagio and just randomly click on something that might intrigue me. Maybe an orchestra I've never heard of p... | |
| Apple Classical Music launching If I were an Apple user I’d probably give it a try. I gotta say, though, that this Microsoft guy has one heck of a good time streaming classical via Qobuz and Idagio. As a matter of fact, Idagio’s selection is vast & addictive enough for this ... | |
| Help me to build my first stereo system @augjonas Give the stuff a try! And of course -- remember that speaker position is what’ll make the magic happen. Away from the back wall. Up on stands. The two speakers and you in a triangle. | |
| One of the great things about Vinyl Yeah, I've mentioned this ad infinitum but I enjoy the occasional click & pop. When it's old rock and roll I often get a kick out of the wow that occurs when the center hole ain't exactly in the center. Spitty sibilants and buzzy pianos, thoug... | |
| WHEN DID YOU FINALLY STOP... I'm pretty much satisfied with my system. Most importantly, it is capable of taking me on the emotional journeys that are so much a part of listening to music. I've also come to accept the fact that my piano will never be entirely in tune, and tha... | |
| Were you an audiophile in the 1980s and 1990s? Anybody know anything about Kevin Conklin, one time writer for TAS? In the early 1980's, the recession found me out of the film business and biding my time as a poverty-stricken Classical Records clerk at the Tower Records in Panorama City CA. K... | |
| LOUDEST Concert and Tinnitus Jam sessions at my buddy's home studio in the mid 1970's. Ear sufferin' succotash! | |
| One of the great things about Vinyl I'm certain I've mentioned this a dozen times, but I'm retired. I now live in a small town that doesn't have a lot of places to hang out in so I have plenty of time to indulge in stereo listening. The views out my stereo room windows are fabulous,... | |
| Were you an audiophile in the 1980s and 1990s? The Absolute Sound was an absolute revelation to me when I came across its tiny Readers Digest size corpus at a magazine stand somewhere in the San Fernando Valley. Up until then I'd been reading High Fi News/Stereo Review and Audio, and the subje... | |
| WHEN DID YOU FINALLY STOP... My room got better after I got rid of the room treatments. What can I say? Spouse now has her own private lair. She also essentially owns the living room. I now enjoy my stereo enough to get off the upgrade wagon. If something breaks, of course,... | |
| Is Imaging Worth Chasing? I totally love the exaggerated, totally fabricated, trickster imaging of more than a few pop releases. I love the out-of-phase stuff. I love listening to an instrument zoom around the room. It’s just plain entertaining. By the same token, if I’m ... | |
| Is Imaging Worth Chasing? Back when I lived in L.A., I'd grab my fiddle and go to two or three jam sessions a week at various bars and pizza joints. We'd sit in a circle, or at least a semblance of a circle. Sometimes there'd only be three or four of us. Sometimes there'd ... | |
| Is Imaging Worth Chasing? I've gotten to the point in my audiophile madness where I'm satisfied with what I've got. To be sure, I've had better imaging from systems I once had than what I get now, but I've never had the level of tone quality I now enjoy. The imaging that m... | |
| LOUDEST Concert and Tinnitus Memories fade, but I tend to remember the loudness of concerts by the amount of days afterwards where my ears continued to ring. I also have to say that volume level varied a lot as to where I was sitting...or standing. Anyway -- Led Zeppelin at... |