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| Magnepans the_nature_boy, I strongly disagree that you have to have high powered ss to drive Maggies well; personal opinion based on many years of owning MG3A's with a variety of ss and tube amps. I would suggest that you first try your VAC before changin... | |
| Best Cheap Amps for Magneplanar Speakers Dave, I'm glad you were able to achieve great sound with your gear. My comments were in reference to affordable (<$1000) ss amplification and I have not heard everything that's out there in that price range. Still..... Nice system page, btw. ... | |
| Best Cheap Amps for Magneplanar Speakers Randy, I am no expert on ss amps I can’t possibly claim to have heard every ss amp in this price range in order to give you a specific recommendation. What I can tell you is that the most recent good quality ss amp that I tried on my Maggies was a... | |
| Best Cheap Amps for Magneplanar Speakers The Bryston 4 series has been mentioned a few times. It should be noted that this was the "de facto" recommendation for Maggies back in the day; from Magneplanar themselves and from Lyric Hi Fi, the biggest Magneplanar dealer at the time (80-90's... | |
| Best Cheap Amps for Magneplanar Speakers randy-11, you have some good suggestions above, and I particularly like the Classe suggestions. However, i would like to offer some thoughts for a different approach which is the route that I took over the many years that I lived with MG3A’s; some... | |
| Treble panel for Quad 57 electostatic loudspeaker That you consider that act of kindness and generosity a pleasure speaks volumes about your character. The world would be an infinitely better place if all of us would pledge to do something similar in the coming year. Happy New Year and thank you! | |
| Jazz for aficionados https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uc9yodZ29UE😊 | |
| Jazz for aficionados Beautiful song and heartfelt singing, Acman3. Thanks for that. | |
| Jazz for aficionados I wanted to make you all aware of what I think is one of the most interesting jazz compositions and jazz statements in recent years. Ted Nash, longtime member of Wynton Marsalis’ "Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra" is one of the most creative music... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Merry Christmas to you and everyone here, O-10. While I'm not sure that I'm prepared to say that that great clip of "Night In Tunisia" is the ultimate jazz, it sure is a great clip. I would, however, be willing to say that an argument could be m... | |
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| Jazz for aficionados Buddy Bolden is considered by many to be the first musician to play what would be considered jazz; the first jazz musician.https://youtu.be/r0viBvfQczI | |
| Jazz for aficionados Beautiful! One of my favorite Piazzola pieces and some of the most passionate music ever. Thanks for that. Here's the original from the must have Piazzola record "Zero Hour". Even more relaxed tempo and this time violin instead of cello:https:... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10, I have never mentioned unwritten rules in jazz. Please enlighten me; inquiring minds want to know and this would shed important light on things. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Ghosthouse, I certainly did not mean to offend with my comments about Eldar’s playing. As always, I commend you for your inquisitiveness and open-mindedness about this music and I believe that, at the core, our musical sensibilities are similar an... |