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| Laid Back Speakers amps, players etc "Laid back is essential if you actually listen to your system."Love it, Atmasphere. Wish I'd said that. You and me and Shadorne could probably enjoy a pleasant listening session on the same system. What are some examples of equipment you view as r... | |
| Japanese Vinyl? As to classical vinyl, of which I have a fair stack of the Japanese pressings, it's pretty much as described above...the pressings themselves are generally about as good as pressings get, but there is inconsistency in the sound apparently because ... | |
| Laid Back Speakers amps, players etc Indeed, to your first point, generally, hi fi shops tend not to feature "laid-back" sounding equipment (at least not in my experience), nor, in fact, is that much of it made (if what you're talking about is really about an easy going mid-hall kind... | |
| Hissing from Speakers/Amp? I got a Joule pre-amp some time ago and noticed a very slight hiss and hum in one channel of my system after I installed it. I couldn't hear it unless I put my ear right up next to the speaker. I called Judd Barber and asked him what to do. He sai... | |
| Vinyl vs. top-notch digital The "digital vs. analog" controversy seems unresolvable, from a talking standpoint. As an semi-active musician, I've recorded in both formats and had good, and bad results in each. I've been disappointed with transfers of analog material to digita... | |
| Using older cable in new system? Need advice... Rebbi - Islandmandan is exactly right. I was in somewhat similar shoes as you some time back, and tried buying cables based upon recommendations on Audiogon and elsewhere. Even buying the stuff second hand on Audiogon, I blew a lot of money on hig... | |
| Vinyl vs. top-notch digital Jeff - Glad you started this thread...very thoughtful responses. In a sense, I'm mainly saying "me too." I worked hard for several years to get the best out of CD's, including picking up a demo Linn CD12 and having Great Northern Sound modify my W... | |
| what are"fun" speakers? I have a pair of Avalon Ascendants. A buddy and I were sitting around one evening listening to Crosby Stills Nash & Young, not having heard it in a while (we're both leftover 70's types) and he said, "Man, I think I must be having a flashback ... | |
| Buying Bookshelves, I love B&W but.... BBC monitor-sized speakers are among the best of the smaller speakers that I've auditioned. I have a pair of Harbeth Monitor 30's and Compact 7's. There are a number of good and reasonably accurate reviews floating around, including, as I recall, ... | |
| Ringo Starr or Charlie Watts??? Shadhorne - Dave Garibaldi w/ Tower of Power - yeah, that is some serious pushing of the beat. Funk/blues and swing are where you have some serious rubber-meeting-the-road, just in terms of pure technique for drummers...a fabulous pinnacle being M... | |
| Wadia 830 or Cambridge 840C I had a Wadia 830, which I traded up to an 860. I think the 830 had a transport which called for loading CD's "upside down" (compared to the usual). You might double-check on availability of spare parts for that transport (which you should be able... | |
| Ringo Starr or Charlie Watts??? Ringo seems like a really nice guy who was scrambling to keep up with his peers, and never really succeeded. As most people have noted, Watts was/is noticeably more rock solid. That Watts is far more serious about the art of drumming is reflected ... | |
| Jump in now or wait? I came very close to going for a PC-type source a few months ago, in part b/c I kept hearing that you could get better sound than out of a CD player. But the thought of having to learn a bunch of new technology, load up a bunch of my CDs, etc., et... | |
| popping sound with new 6922 tube I'm not a technical person, so I don't understand all the ins and outs, but I've been through this NOS tube "popping" thing, and if the transients from the popping are hard enough, they can damage something downstream. I've blown resistors in my a... | |
| Experience bringing older gear up to date ARC, CJ Hi_hifi - That's an absolutely fair comment--there is certainly a risk to "upgrading" older equipment. I wouldn't do it myself. To the extent I've done it, I've looked for people who seem to know the products involved really well, and put the job ... |