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| Favourite ECM Titles A few gems not mentioned yet:Anoar Brahem - BarzakhAnoar Brahem - Conte de l'incroyable amourEgberto Gismonti - Danco dos EscravosEgberto Gismonti - Sanfona"Barzakh" is up there with ECM best selling record ever (Keith Jarrett's - The Koln concert... | |
| Modern day female jazz recommendations Rachelle Ferrell went the R&B route, but her second album "First Instrument" is pure Jazz and remains my favorite Female Jazz vocal album to this day. It has only two stars on allmusic.com and no one seems to know about it, but I think it is b... | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? Living in the deep South I am more concerned about local politicians banning music on Sunday altogether, than any Obama regulation, but thenagain we probably have different political affiliations. | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? Even if you had a string quartet playing in a small room, you would not put one musician in each corner of the room. The "stage" approach emulates "being in the band", not a small ensemble performing in a small room.Just for kicks I played my "one... | |
| Go for sub or larger speakers? Marty,You could pick up a used Theta Casablance III with 1 Xtreme card for about $4,000, and use it in a 2.1 application. I own a CBIII with XTreme card so I can give you some advice here. From what I gather you want to consolidate boxes, and need... | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? The Los Angelos Guitar Quartet has a very well recorded SACD out ("Latin"), with one of the guitar players mixed to each of the four corner channels. They have a few more SACDs out that probably does the same.If you want to experience instruments ... | |
| Go for sub or larger speakers? Martykl, I'm sure in some systems your approach will work better than running the mains at full range. Its a trade of between smoother integration and the degradation of running the mains signal through an additional active filter. If I had gone d... | |
| Go for sub or larger speakers? Ckoffend - you are dead on. I had 15" Revel B15s and the 13.5" JL 113 in the same room, and although the Revels go somewhat deeper, the JL's are faster and easier to integrate. | |
| Go for sub or larger speakers? In most cases, adding subs will cost substantially less than going a model up with main speakers, and get you better bass. Also, since the subs are typically active, you are giving you amp a break with the subs. What I did with absolutely stellar ... | |
| $20k top, full range speakers? There is a pair of Verity Audio Sarastro listed for 20K used. I own the Parsifal Encores and they are phenomenal. (they replaced my Revel Studio). If the Sarastros are more of the same I believe they would be in a different leaugue than most of th... | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? When you're in a concert hall (reflected) music is coming to you from all angles as well. A MCH system is better capable of recreating this acoustic environment than 2 channel. Of course, this is not the same as some old quad mix with guitars blar... | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? The notion that 2 channel is inherently better for music reproduction is ludicrous. A well recorded discrete 5.1 mix of the same content sound far better than the same material mixed in stereo. This is true even when you do the comparison on simil... | |
| SSP as 2-Channel Preamp With Sub??? Hooper,The Casablanca's top of the line Xtreme cards are very good, but in my experience not competitive with the Perfect Wave DAC (I have both) for 2 channel. In fact, even the Marantz ud9004 sounds better analog over the Theta six shooter MCH pr... | |
| SHM SACD's need to be burned in This claim is taking voodoo high-end to a whole new level. Thenagain, my CD demagnetizer worked so why wouldn't SACD burn in! | |
| SSP as 2-Channel Preamp With Sub??? At least one SSP has a crossover in the analog domain (in addition to digital), which will do what you want - the ADA Mach IV. There may be others. |