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| Has hi fi become too specialized An analogy to cars could be useful here-i've owned a pontiac (poorly engineered but easy/cheap to maintain 2.volvo- precise but underpowered, VERY EXPENSIVE to maintain 3.ford mustang 5.0- overpowered, imprecise, cheap to maintain 4.honda accord- ... | |
| Anybody else get a Rowland Concerto? hi, i have a row.consonance. what preamp did you have before? does the concerto compare favorably w/the synergy? | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music another song popped into my head- the smother's brothers tv show, where they ended it with "day is done" by peter, paul and mary, and the entire audience joins in... the good ol' sixties y'know... get out the kleenex, quick!! | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music albinoni- you'd think he'd have written a lot more music as incredibly beautiful as the adagio. i have a vote for Spirit's haunting alblum- CLEAR, with the song by that name. is anyone here a randy california fan (guitarist in Spirit)?4 of the bes... | |
| What concert or music DVD's are worth having? i saw the dianne krall- live in paris DVD playing at a store- it was pretty good - better than i expected. sounded great. | |
| Question to Levinson DAC Owners fwiw, i have a ml-360s and a #37- the combo is quite a bit better sounding than a friend's ml#39 cdp. i would think the #39's transport is the same as a #37, so all i can say is you should get excellent results from a #37/36s pair. but at the same... | |
| It's 2050. I'm 84 years old... "deep purple" is somewhat of a paradigm for me. | |
| Amplifier for Sonus Faber Guarneri Homage what about the sonus faber musica integrated amp? - 50w/ch into 8 ohms & 100w/ch into 4 ohms. no remote, no balance control, no phase switch. is it just nice looking, or is sonus faber up to something here? | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? the best "where's the system? moment" i can recall- music- jennifer warnes- the hunter.speakers- magnaplanar 3.6another time- rickie lee jones singing thru' maggies.or was she actually standing there ? | |
| best rock voices no contest here- TWISTED SISTER!!!ok, Robert Plant of led zeppelin.female- janis of course. | |
| Looking for an acoustic guitar recording.. hot tuna- jorma kakounen (guitarist from jefferson airplane) from rags to riches- leo wynjkamp jr.(folk/traditional)blind blake- everything (ragtime/blues)richard gilewitz- similar to leo kotke, but very lyrical | |
| Best bargain find ever ? a fisher am/fm receiver (30w/ch), a pair of fisher 10in-3way speakers in REAL walnut veneer, and a garrard turntable w/cartridge and dust cover, & all the wire i needed. all brand new- $350. | |
| Jazz Piano? jazz is a wonderful/terrible word to describe an enormous range of musical expression. at 24, you're "not supposed to like it"? otoh, i have a good friend who similarly perhaps, finds that a lot of jazz starts out with an (annoying) eclectic &... | |
| B&W 801 s 3 or???? re- upstream electronics, i heard a pair of m-801-s-3's w/s.anchors driven by pass aleph 1.2 amps, pass aleph p, levinson #39 cdp, maughan box filter, & straightwire cables.the "hashy" tweeter sound was gone, & very little digititis if any... | |
| B&W 801 s 3 or???? once upon a time l.lipnick of stereophile concluded that in so far as the b&w 801's, the limitations are set by what electronics you feed them. the ab.sound raved over the 802's. there are better speakers out there, but 20-20, unlimited dynami... |