fightingwords
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| Bourbon and rock n roll Eagle Rare | |
| Best drink while listening to your rig? bourbon or some cheap red wine. no beer for me, the tummy gets disagreeable. | |
| Best bourbon? when you say 'wheated' are you referring to rye content? i dont care much for knob creek. i notice that when i drink a bourbon like Bulliet, it has a much more raw or spicy flavor. i've been told thats because of the high rye content (relative to ... | |
| What`s your fave Audiophile Chill Out recording? Do Make Say Think -- &Yet &Yet | |
| Best bourbon? checking back in a year later: Eagle Rare 10 year single barrel is about all I drink, bourbon-wise. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? The last 24 hoursAndrew Hill -- Grass RootsHeartless Bastards -- All This TimeOld Canes -- Feral HarmonicBudos Band -- IIICharles Mingus -- The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady | |
| What about 7"45's anybody still listen to them? I have hundreds of them that I play pretty frequently. Some are 7" EP releases or singles, others are just radio/juke singles. I like the format. I keep them in the IKEA dvd storage boxes...fit about 50-75 in each box. I can carry a box of them do... | |
| Need some Jazz recommendations..some pop and swing I'm still new to jazz, but I've been amassing a lot of it this past year. I like these if I can suggest something other than "Kind of Blue" for intro to jazz.Oliver Nelson -- Blues and The Abstract TruthDonald Byrd -- MustangLou Donaldson -- Fried... | |
| Need help with Jazz I dont go much for female vocal jazz, but Sarah Vaughn is very cool. Her music is normally more upbeat. Also, I picked up Mabel Mercer Sings Cole Porter. I think its more "cabaret" than the typical female jazz stuff suggested here regularly. | |
| Twilight Singers "Dynamite Steps" This is already my album of the year. I bought tickets for the show at Southgate House in Newport, KY the minute they went on sale. What a great record. I'm so thankful there are others on this site that dig the Afghan Whigs and Dulli stuff. | |
| Mid-Fi Integrated Amps? I have a Cambridge 550a. I've loved it. You're springing for the top of their integrated line. Not sure how much of a difference that creates in sound. It's definately goin to be resolving a reliable of it's anything like thier other products. | |
| How good is Emotiva 2 channel gear?? No experience, but sure wish I'd known about them when I was buying my cambridge stuff. I think they look too spacey with all the lighting BUT I couldn't care less if they'd blown my head off.I'm not helping. Sorry. | |
| Solid State watts to power Zu Defintions? What is being said here? That SS isn't as sweet as SET? No flame, just asking, honest. | |
| Mapletree 4SE w/PS2 Users describe strong/weak pt There is another thread here comparing this peice of kit to some other pre's. I've not heard any of the ones you mentioned, but do any of the others have phono stages? I think that's a bug selling point with the Mapletree. | |
| Mapletree 4SE w/PS2 Users describe strong/weak pt What do you mean by helpful? make suggestions? I always thought that tube rolling was more of a personal adventure. |