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| Which components knocked you out on first listen? First McIntosh tubes...why am I frozen in place?Heil AMT 1...the music sparkles!Apogee Stages setup almost nearfild...where are they?Hyperion 938 speakers...came back to their room five times. | |
| A month of tweaks Thanks, WW. Your writeup is impressive. | |
| A month of tweaks Willie, oh oh :-)The power switch on my Avatar is getting flaky, so it's soon off to VAC where they promise to look under the hood for any available improvements, so that will be my next "tweak."Thanks for the map ahead. You're right, I'm really f... | |
| I s Benchmark the "Benchmark" I like my DAC1. It sounds better now that I use USB from JRiver instead of sourcing from a CD player, but there could be many reasons for that. I haven't tried much else, but I feel confident that Benchmark gets it right and is a great neutral uni... | |
| Why does most new music suck? Lowrider57, One of the interesting aspects of the formula is a hook played every seven seconds or less to keep the brain from turning away, which means the product is formulated more for the sensibilities of Skinner Pigeons, rather than tunefulnes... | |
| A month of tweaks I'll do the tube pins, and see if I can reach any appliance plugs-- might try the Clear Day silver speaker cables. The power switch on the Avatar is getting flaky, so maybe VAC has some tweaks to it if I send it in. Thanks! | |
| Why does most new music suck? Whoops- meant Sweden. The book is, The Song Machine, about the industrialization of songwriting and music production. Good book. | |
| Why does most new music suck? It's literally formulistic. A guy named Max Martin in Stockholm has had 21 number one billboard hits in America because he has a formula. His net worth is around 250 million. He does the instrumentation with the hooks, lays down the vocal track, t... | |
| Songs that trigger you to switch the station or... "Nights in a White Satin" does it for me. It's like a zombie that just keeps coming slowly towards your ears as putrefied schmaltz. Put a silver stake in it, please. | |
| 4K for new Sony phone.. Samsung just announced a 4K DVD player,($500) but I've heard the video compression on 4K is so good that they will be able to stream it pretty efficiently, which sounds like the win. Also, 4K DVD discs need enough seats to make content production ... | |
| classe ca 200 running too hot? I tried the CA200 with some ML Quests, and it had the odd behavior of dimming the lights on loud passages, so it seemed a little different than just underpowered. When I went to the CA300 I never saw the problem again. | |
| Watched the MTV awards that night Will this generation be singing the songs on this year's VMAs two, five, or ten years from now? No one knows for sure, but there is such a thing as disposable music, and a lot of what I heard sounds like a formulistic, disposable anthems. But then... | |
| Whats the weirdest concert you ever attended? Bo Diddley when he couldn't quite remember how to plug into the amp, and lectured us on taking care of our backs. Diddley Downer | |
| Album which you have listened to most? Neil Young - Sleeps With AngelsJethro Tull - Benefit (or Stand Up)And oddly, Best of Enya | |
| Best Female Vocalists Ballads +1 for Kate Wolf and the GYTL album. |