fleschler
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| Advice on CD transport I have a related question. I am using my EAR Acute as a transport for my COS Engineering DV2 DAC. Does replacing the EAR with a standalone transport improve my sound? If so, what transport would significantly make an improvement? A Luxman, M... | |
| Who are your three favorite female singers? @tyray Yes, Elizete Cardoso sang beautifully and I have many albums from the 50's/60's Brazilian song and jazz. An earlier Brazilian favorite of mine is Elsie Houston. who had a very wide vocal range (she trained with 2 tremendous sopranos) and ... | |
| Who are your three favorite female singers? @ sondeknz Julie London had a small voice and occasional pitch problems. She still sounded very sexy. As to a female performance which always gives me goose bumps/makes me cry is Beverly Sills in The Ballad of Baby Doe. There are five fabulo... | |
| Who are your three favorite female singers? @ sondeknz My mistake, you didn't mention Garland. I heard Stacey Kent. A small, thin sounding voice. I prefer fuller sounding voices with a wider frequency range. Judith Durham was okay, had pitch problems when she sang. I might as well ... | |
| Who are your three favorite female singers? davidm238 Only my sister would agree with you (collects all Streisand since she was a child). | |
| Poor Fritz Fritz never said that his speakers were perfect and flawless. Only a few manufacturers have told me that at shows and their speakers generally were very imperfect. Fritz builds really nice smaller speakers for a reasonable price. | |
| Speakers which always sound good Maggies do not always sound good. They require proper amplification (ample), otherwise they sound anemic. Placement is also critical. Hence, not universally good sounding unlike a Harbeth. Great speaker potential though when set up and power are ... | |
| Speakers which always sound good Extensive auditioning of Harbeths-always sounded good with all types of music, equipment and easy to set up and pair up to equipment. Von Schweikert for not making a less than musical speaker but requires more effort than a Harbeth to get them s... | |
| What's your favorite boutique speaker maker Von Schweikert, Lumen White, Volti. Would Harbeth be considered a boutique speaker manufacturer? Never heard a less than musically interesting speaker from these manufacturers. | |
| Who are your three favorite female singers? Opera - Claudia Muzio Rosa Ponselle Roberta PetersPop - Ruth Etting Ella Fitzgerald Judy Garland@ sondeknz The question was top 3, not a list of 90. I have 42,000 LPs/78s/CDs. I chose my top three from recordings dating back ... | |
| Poor Fritz I've met Fritz at several audio shows. He is a very nice man. I enjoyed listening to his speakers. I would compare them to Harbeths (smaller ones). I am not in the market for mini-monitor type speakers but I can recommend them based on what I... | |
| Am I too big of a jerk,even for audiogon? I propose Kenjit as the poster who best exemplifies your description. | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC I have a very analog, warm sounding EAR Acute CD player. I purchased a COS Engineering D2v after 15 years. It is probably a delta-sigma type. It has superior resolution. It was compared to the less expense H1 unit. The difference was the H1 had a ... | |
| Your most indispensable "tweak"? Oh, and Stillpoints under my equipment, especially my pre-amp which is custom made but had a dark, slow and mushy sound on it’s hard rubber cone feet. Townsend seismic sink under my VPI TNT turntable-essential due to VPI’s poor vibration control. ... | |
| Your most indispensable "tweak"? @testpilot 100% agree. Unless cabling is considered equipment and not tweaks. In that case, Hallographs and SR HFTs are most cost effective and necessary acoustical room treatments. |