emrofsemanon
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| The smoothest amp you've heard? a tie between a class-A tube amp whose name escapes me [this was back in 2000], and a rega brio 3 which was the most mellow-sounding transistor amp i've ever heard. if i had a big enough space, i'd enjoy listening to music with that amp and a pair... | |
| Are Pre-Amps necessary? in the real world of rat race fatigue, pre-amps with their sound adjustments are just what the doctor ordered, the spectral tilt control in old quad pre-amps a case in point, some days you just need more mellow. some noisy old recordings could ben... | |
| HiFi vs MidFi simply put, mid-fi is canned music, obvious from a distance. hifi is being in the intimate [virtual] presence of real live musicians as through through the sheerest of veils. the former is grainy and generic and tiring, the latter has the utmost o... | |
| Top 3 songs to evaluate a system not songs so much as musical pieces- *Fritz Reiner/CSO- Scheherazade - this 1960 recording, on the right systems in the right rooms, is like being there, you can hear every little bit of musicians' breathing, music stands creaking, sheet music and... | |
| What do audiophiles do in their cars? i think if i were one of the elect that could easily afford a luxury car with hushed interior and magic carpet ride quality, i'd just enjoy the hushed sonics as music of its own kind, i wouldn't wanna sully such a library quiet luxe with music or ... | |
| What do audiophiles do in their cars? only when the engine is not running, can i abide serious music listening in the car. when i am driving, i am a danger to other drivers if i am boppin' along to the tunes, so only news/talking head programs/audiobooks qualify for safe listening. i ... | |
| Anyone dislike Ohm Walsh speakers? if you can get them in a huge room well away from walls, they image like nobody’s business, with instrumental locations [imaging] independent of listener position. they were reasonably transparent with a clear but mellow treble. bass even on the ... | |
| The Most Philosophical Song You Ever Heard CD, that is a superb avid editing job on that one, wasn't it? :) | |
| The Most Philosophical Song You Ever Heard "highly illogical" [charles r. grean, fred hertz]From far beyond the galaxies I've journeyed to this placeTo study the behavior patterns of the human raceAnd I find them highly illogicalGirl meets boy they fall in loveShe says he's everything she'... | |
| The two stages of audiophilia i am somewhere between a family friend [ace musician] who hears all she needs from an ancient table radio] and your typical megabuck wealthy audiophile. | |
| How long do good speakers last? have a pair of realistic nova 6 speakers dating from 1971. they still work as designed. a pair of magnapans from 1982, they still work as designed. a pair of thiel cs.5 speakers from the late 90s that still work as designed. newest ones are a pair... | |
| Jazz Fans-- Name some of your favorite, less well known recordings a CD entitled "shut yo mouth!" which featured bassists slam stewart and major "mule" holley, the latter who was a natural basso profundo and could sing down to the low E of his string bass in accompaniment with himself. | |
| cassettes CAN sound better than vinyl. even on a nakamichi deck, i could tell that there was a mild haze over the music compared to the original LP, esp. if it was DD or digital master. but i have heard elcasets which my ears could not distinguish from the original. the elcaset sounded... | |
| What speaker do you passionately want to demo? i want to audition in my own modest place, a pair of direct acoustics silent speakers. i like the philosophy of their sound dispersion, which makes for a large but somewhat amorphous stereo sound field where instruments would largely stay put in t... | |
| List your breakthrough products that you’ve discovered on this audiophile Journey. the earliest automated declickers made by KLH/Burwen. same for dynamic noise reducers by the same firms. then CEDAR. Thiel loudspeakers which one-up the Maggies i also have by dint of their superior bass. |