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| Cowboy Junkies 'Open' on SACD Thanks JD;>). I find myself in heavy disagreement with Thedautch re the Cowboy Junkies music. IMHO, the Cowboy Junkies have many excellent CDs, and the abberation was the "Open" CD-- it was just "ungood" music. I love "The Caution Horses", "Wal... | |
| Best looking / worst looking amps & preamps I see in Audio Advisor that Perreaux has redesigned and dramatically (improved) the appearance of their amps and pre-amps. They now look more "industrial" and more conventional (and pretty good!). It was a previous series that was so gross-- don't... | |
| Best looking / worst looking amps & preamps Best looking pre-amps: Sonic Frontiers Line series w/ black faceplate & ARC LS25/MKII/Ref 2 in silver-- ML 38/380S series also looks good. In amps, I was always partial to the sexy looking Classe's-- before the Omega series. There are many rea... | |
| beware of buying "used" CDR players-recorders Hi Ramstl; could you provide that site (more specifically) on where to purchase TY blank CD-Rs? I assume TY is Taio Yuden (sp?). I've read that they are supposed to be good blanks. I tried American Digital and could not find a reference to CD-Rs a... | |
| Bananas over ARC VT-100 Glen; I guess you like those cables-- what are they? Cheers. Craig | |
| Cowboy Junkies 'Open' on SACD Hi John; if The Trinity Session were to come out in SACD, I would either buy an SACD player, OR buy the disc for a friend who does have a 777ES. Intriquing prospect. About the "Open" album-- you're right-- it pretty well sucks. The CJs worst effor... | |
| What are your thoughts of the Tower design of amps I think you guys nailed it Brian. I've never seen a tower type amp that wasn't a mono-bloc-- and I do like the looks of the Levinson H amps and also Classe's new 200 and 350 monos. Cheers. Craig | |
| what will make the greatest differance in sound. Going from a ARC to a ML 380S pre-amp should certainly make your system sound different, but whether it's better or not would be strictly a matter of (your) personal preference, and of course only you can decide that. Finding ways to audition such... | |
| Coolest looking speaker ever ? I'd add the Thiel series of speakers from about the 2.3 up through the 7.2. And also the new Proac speakers that have the slanted front. Cheers. Craig | |
| Headphones, or Speakers??? Many audiophiles (for whatever reason) simply do not like listening w/ headphones-- but I'm not one of them. I use Senn. 600s plugged into my SF L2SE preamp (w/headroom circuitry) as "backups" to my speaker system and at times when I can't listen ... | |
| Ugliest speaker ever? Hi Scott; I've got to agree with your nomination of the Avante Garde jobs-- gotta' be the ugliest I've ever seen (pictures only of course). After a night of heavy drinking, I've woke up with better looking speakers than those. The Spica Angelus (s... | |
| Coolest looking speaker ever ? I like Ken's 3A sigs too, but I've got to go with my own Vandersteen 5s-- but in matched rosewood (mine are in oiled walnut and are nice too, but not a "premium" finish). Cheers. Craig | |
| Trigger Happy Negative Feedback I agree with the above comments too, but let's not give up on a system that mostly works pretty darn well. I'd for sure want to work something out with Audiogon, and also know something about the guy that left the negative feedback-- maybe he got ... | |
| Follow up to 10 x 10 room speaker dilemma.... Hi Esox; Well, amps certainly do come in all sorts of "flavors" and I'm glad to hear you found one that really improved your system. But as to component flavor, that's true of just about anything in audio-- including all sorts of wires and even ou... | |
| How grills affect? Yep, I agree with Sugar-- tried the V5 w/o grills last night and noticed some excess brightness in especially low treble. The 5s looked better "dressed" too;>) Cheers. Craig |