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| Those singers you enjoy,....that don't really have a great voice? major "mule" holley, his contrabass grunt of a voice is a perfect complement to his string bass. | |
| Subwoofer boom is too much for me... less likely your port is the problem and more likely you have incorrect slope and x-over frequency relative to your main speakers. fixable to a certain extent. | |
| What are your top 3 favorite female singers? kathleen battle [classical] - sheer aural beauty and agility over gravity. tie between karen carpenter and patsy cline [pops - both had rich alto singing voices of complexity and emotional power] julie london [jazz/pops], a contralto powerhouse... | |
| Classical music newbie needs your suggestions remember there is always the contrast between recording quality and performance quality. this said, these are my go-to-performances [i value performance quality over recording quality] but there is some overlap described below- Fritz Reiner/CSO r... | |
| Heist/ crime songs me and my uncle [from the grateful dead's "what a long strange trip its been" album] | |
| When CDs first came onto the market in 1982 ....... the phillips and sony machines were the first i'd heard late '82/early '83 at Pacific Stereo. i liked the sound of the phillips better [warmer] but the sony had real alphanumeric display while the phillips just had red LED lights. | |
| Is a highly discerning system enjoyable? there is much to be said for taking problem recordings, digitizing them, removing the problems, then burning them onto a CDR for future listening. then there is "tone control courage." case in point is the 1999 columbia rerelease of the famous 193... | |
| What's the oddest thing in your music collection? *"the portsmith sinfonia" "plays" the classics" [more like slays 'em, as on this record each player picked up the next player's instrument and tried their best with it, with predictable results. *"shut yo mouth" - major holley and slam stewart pa... | |
| Vinyl record cleaning how do the record company pros clean their master disks? | |
| Where does "MidFi" differ from "HiFi" or "LOFI"? seems to me that much of the "high end" world of audio products tries to impart a "luxury" feel and sound. the feel part is attention paid to aesthetics [the way a knob turns, switches flip/sound, heft etc. the audio part seems to be extra attenti... | |
| Vintage worth the time to explore? the klipsch and elac speakers both sounded bright to my ears. mebbe if you got yourself an older yamaha amp with the variable loudness control? that would allow you to dial in a select amount of "warmth" without overdoing it. if you have money, to... | |
| Has anyone been able to define well or measure differences between vinyl and digital? to those who say that phonograph recordings [whatever format] have better treble response [overall] than digital, you would not like what engineer tom dowd said about that assertion. he said there were very few LPs played on very few turntables th... | |
| How Did Your First Audiophile Experience Impact Your Audio Journey? 1982 - definitive audio, north seattle. forgot what brand of refrigerator-sized class A monoblock amps [doubled as room heaters] powering [barely] a giant pair of magnepan tympani III speakers that dominated one wall of the [acoustically perfect] ... | |
| Only two tracks to test your system, forever! LEDR test and swept tone 0-20k frequency response test. | |
| Digital enhancement the biggest digital enhancement i've ever heard [aside from dsp room correction] was CEDAR. elimination of impulsive disturbances and broadband noise goes a long way towards enhancing intelligibility and enjoyment of phonograph-based music recordi... |