fleschler
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| Your favourite music movie? Some of my favorite jazz infused soundtracks include The Sweet Smell of Success and the Man with the Golden Arm. The most memorable opening soundtrack is for The Killers (dum de dum dum). | |
| Theoretical question about how CD's work Maybe the high speed and narrower laser beam is at the heart of why a cheap Sony Blu-ray player sounds so great compared to 80's and 90's CD players. I had huge and very heavy Sony CD players that sound thin compared to a one pound Blu-ray player... | |
| Your favourite music movie? Unfortunately, Singin in the Rain was written for a The Hollywood Music Box Revue and recorded several times prior to the movie where Cliff Edwards made it super famous (so not written for a soundtrack/movie). The Pinocchio song was a film origina... | |
| Your favourite music movie? I absolutely agree with Cabin in the Sky and Wizard of Oz. I do like many Morricone film scores as well. The music of Braveheart just don't seem as memorable but is a good film scores as well. Eraserhead and Good Night and Good Luck used alread... | |
| Your favourite music movie? Alexander Nevsky is one of the best, absolutely entrancing without the film at all, provides complete accompaniment to the story. West Side Story doesn’t count as it began as a broadway musical, just like Porgy and Bess, another fantastic score bu... | |
| Theoretical question about how CD's work I just moved and set-up one of my video rooms. Yes, the IC to the receiver was high end as is the speaker wire (left overs from prior audio systems). Using an HDMI cable from an $85 blu-ray player, my CDs sound fantastic (in terms of tonality, dyn... | |
| Theoretical question about how CD's work That is why a few CD manufacturers have created clamping/isolation devices for the CD wherein the vibrations from an out of round CD are greatly or completely diminished. Even my EAR Acute has a flimsy CD tray and internal puck to hold it while i... | |
| Most useful tweaks that are sensible and really make a noticeable improvement I have two pairs of two way box speakers (ADS 620) for my video setups. I don't know if the Mnpctech pads would have the same sonic benefit that my use of original Stillpoints have in isolating and removing speaker vibration have. Anyone know? | |
| Perfect Path Tecnologies ‘The Gate’ My experience with the Bryston BIT 20 isolation transformer (no Gate) is that it smeared the sound and was slow sounding until I replaced the stock power cord with a high end cord. Bryston engineers informed me that their cord was specially desig... | |
| Persona 9h vs S3 mk 2 Hi Audiotroy, based on your selling the Paradigm 9H and having heard the Vimberg Tonda, about the same price, how are they different and similar? I would never own a Magico or Wilson, just because of the power consumption as well as I don't want ... | |
| Let's roll: what pre-amp tubes should I consider next? For an EAR 864 pre-amp, Mullard 4004 (not the sweet and syrupy 12AX7). Also, large D getter Sylvania. For 12AU7, I prefer the clear top RCA. As to 6SN7, I'm using late 40s Raytheon, although Ken-Rad and RCA sounded excellent as well (including ... | |
| Theoretical question about how CD's work Yes, I experimented with 40 or 50 CD players prior to 2006, trying to find one that approximated LP playback. I hated CD reproduction until the 2000s. The players got better as did the DACs. | |
| Theoretical question about how CD's work Geoffkait generic, thin, bass shy, brittle, honky, synthetic, congealed sound. That maybe your definition of CD reproduction, but it isn't mine or half a dozen close friends of mine. While we all appreciate the sound of a good LP, the average... | |
| Buy a pair of ten year old $40,000 speakers for $4,000 or new ones at that price point? I had a local speaker repairman restore my bottom foam surround woofers of my Legacy Signature IIIs with rubber surrounds. Strange that the other two woofers and my Focuses all used rubber surrounds in great shape after 30 years. | |
| What are the advantages to a Class A amp & what are the trade offs? The Jazz Bakery isn't an ideal sounding venue. I've frequented it half a dozen times. Bob Wilber played there a decade ago and his sax and clarinet sounded peaky and bright, actually aggressive sounding, so unlike his playing style. Locally, ma... |