edcyn
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| A real "wake up call" available to most....High End Audio vs. Mainstream...... Yeah, russashe, you pegged me pretty closely. I do pretty much push music to the top of my discretionary shopping list. Let the finger-waggers (have I used this term before?) continue to wag their fingers. I'm going to continue to listen to my ... | |
| If you could, what live performances would you enjoy re-living? I salute all you guys. And yeah, you do bring up artists and acts that I failed to mention in my original post. | |
| Lyra owners! I have a Lyra Delos chewing-gummed (just kidding!) to an Alphason arm attached to an older but several-times-updated SOTA Sapphire turntable. I have the Delos as level as possible, tracking at the recommended 1.75 grams. Unfortunately, I had to s... | |
| During this isolation, I would be interested in suggestions of great movies you like. You guys are really coming up with the stuff. Wings of Desire! Ran! Treasure of the Sierra Madre! Anything by the Coen Brothers. | |
| Guilty pleasures? A new version of an old question...Dark Side... I'd run out of fingers and toes. 101 Strings Play the Blues. 101 Strings play the Warsaw Concerto. The Hanky Panky single by Tommy James and the Shondells. A Soupy Sales RCA single that features "Hippy's Cha-Cha Hips" and "White Fang You're a Mean... | |
| This is subjective, but what has been the best sounding SACD you have had? Not that the sound is world-beating on any of them, but my SACD of Ziggy Stardust does sound slightly better than either my 1980 RCA British reissue vinyl or my 1970's well-used early edition domestic vinyl. | |
| This is subjective, but what has been the best sounding SACD you have had? Down Home Chrome by Junior Brown on Telarc.Brahms Symphony #2 on Pentatone.Anna Moffo Operatic Arias on RCA.I have to say, though, that when I play my dual-layer CD/SACDs through my Sony SACD player for the SACD layer and my Mytek Brooklyn for the... | |
| If you could, what live performances would you enjoy re-living? Laura Nyro at the Troubadour. Sweeney Todd on Broadway. A sub-Saharan band I never learned the name of I saw in Marrakesh. Television at the Whiskey. Pianist Andre Watts at the Dorothy Chandler. | |
| Johnny Nash has passed away I liked "I Can See Clearly Now" enough to buy the Johnny Nash LP and see him when he came to L.A. | |
| Who are your three favorite female singers? Off the top of my head...Janis JoplinElly AmelingElla FitzgeraldEdited to deal with this website's damnably clumsy posting regimen. | |
| RIP Eddie Van Halen. What was your first stereo you rocked to VH on? Speak memory! Kenwood receiver, either KW40 or KW70. Dual 1019 turntable with a who-the-hell-remembers mid-level Shure cartridge. Zipwire speaker cables. Nobody-gave-a-damn-back-then interconnects. Mismatched speakers, both given to me by my audi... | |
| I need to pick between A and B but I can't hear a difference is the worst type of thread. To me, I get kind of a kick out of it when a person that can't hear a difference between a couple of components asks this august body which of the two to buy. I mean, the answer is easy. Buy the cheaper one! | |
| What was your most fun and rewarding upgrade? My Mytek Brooklyn Bridge. A universe of music at my fingertips. In the best fidelity I've encountered in my sixty-plus years of listening, whether the source is vinyl, CD or the internet. Could I do better than the BB? Probably. But at the moment ... | |
| During this isolation, I would be interested in suggestions of great movies you like. This now-retired movie industry guy gives hearty thumbs ups to practically every film mentioned above. Dive in! I'll add "Smiles of a Summer Night," "La Dolce Vita" and "La Strada." | |
| Try to train them...again, or simply shoot them? Give the CD’s a try. Chances are decent the vast majority of them will track just fine. I have several hundred of the silver discs. Some of them have swirly surfaces gotten from who-knows-where. Maybe a couple at best have ever failed to play, eit... |