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| Eastern Electric's new tube DAC using ESS Sabre?? Hi - I have the same question (and the same gear)as an earlier poster - anybody listen to a pioneer blu-ray with the EE? I'd be interested in how this would sound with redbook cd as the primary source.Thanks all. | |
| Eastern Electric's new tube DAC using ESS Sabre?? Hi - I'm wondering if anyone has used the EE dac with a blu-ray player as a transport - I have a pioneer bd-05fd that plays cd and bluray and wanted to know if the EE dac would improve the sound of my pioneer - especialy playing redbook cd thanks,... | |
| bc acoustique a3 speakers Hi - I've had a pair of the bookshelf speakers, the B1 for about 6 months and I couldn't be happier. Great resolution without being bright or fatiguing, handle dynamics well (I use them in a home theater set-up) and can play loutd w/o distortion. ... | |
| Acoustic Zen Double Barrel vs Grover Huffman I've had Grover's speaker cables in my system for about 6 monyhs and am very happy with them - especially considering the price! Grovers cables replaced audience au24 speaker cables in my system. I found Grovers to be fuller sounding and more deta... | |
| Where do I go from Eva Cassidy? Well I have some suggestions - in many genres. In the pop/folk field (which is what Eva was stylisticly) try Sandy Denny; a British folk singer from the 60's and 70's, who like Eva died at an early age, there are several compilations of her work o... | |
| Jazz Recommendations Maybe I missed it in all the postings, but Bud Powell is an essential and seminal piano player, one of the fathers of hard bop and a tremendous influence on Monk, Miles and every piano player that followed him. His later work on Verve can be uneve... | |
| Best acoustical guitar - any type music Hey everybody! One of the best living finger-picking style guitarists is Duck Baker of Richmond California! Never heard of him, well thats a darn shame. Duck tours in the U.S. and Europe and among professional guitarists he is recognized as one of... | |
| John Hartford How sad. I am a great fan of John Hartford and have been for many years. His bluegrass and old timey records are some of the best contemporary music around - I urge all of you who might read this post to sample his work. I did'nt even know he was ... | |
| Best female vocals on CD Just to add to some of the above and agree with many but I like the following Jazz - Billie Holiday (both verve and columbia recordings, probably the most important singer of the 20th century after Sinatra), Dinah Washington (particularly the earl... | |
| Best Male Singers of the 20th Century I think Sinatra probably, but other greats are Nat King Cole, Johnny Hartman, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and Jimmy Rushing. Some of these other postings are preposterous; they're so wrong as to be unintentionally funny - Chris Isak, Van Morrison, Davi... | |
| Eva Cassidy I agree with all the posted comments. I think she was gifted with one of the better voices of modern times - clear, with a good range and very, very expressive (perhaps her greatest atribute). Some of the "later" albums are overproduced but listen... | |
| VTL MB 125 These are great amps - detailed and very, very musical. I used them running magnepan 1.6's and found them to have plenty of power with exceptional detail and soundstageing. I would think they would be more than adequate for most home audio situati... |