harrylavo
Responses from harrylavo
| Jazz vocalists which may not be as real as we think/imagine If you want clean vocals, get some of the Sheffield Direct-to-Disk recordings ...... Amanda McBroom. Or Confederation. Or an Opus disk ... Bert Deivert. Or even the original Columbia Bob Dylan recording, where they just stuck him in front of a ... | |
| What are we listening to tonight? Double4 you've got my vote. Superb list. | |
| Camp designations MonotheistsThe Spo(u)toffsDirect-to-ListernersMetallurgistsAnglophiliacsThe Dewey Selfer Tribe | |
| WHat did Audiophiles hear during Tape deck era? Reel-to-reel tapes really took hold in audiophile-land in the mid-late '50's, when stereo was introduced and it took an R2R recorder to buy and play stereo. R2R decks stayed in many audiophile decks right up into the mid-to-late '70's, when stere... | |
| Loudness - Why has the industry stopped producing amplifiers with this feature any longer? So long as you have a variable loudness and variable volume control, this is a very useful control to have. I'm afraid it was sacrificed to the "less is more" philosophy, along with (in come occassions) balance controls. Purist, perhaps, but con... | |
| The very best sound: Direct to Disc Keltner is playing "jazz" on his solo .... multiple, multiple rythmic and sonic variations on a simple (in this case) rythmic underlay ... both stated and danced around. Tutt is simply doing what drummers usually do while trying to show off .... ... | |
| CD Transports I'm going to throw a curve ball. Back in the SACD days, Pioneer put out a universal player (in this country designated 578A.) John Atkinson mentioned it in an article or review as having the most accurate instrumental timbres of even the most exp... | |
| Some speaker suggestions My rec would be a used pair of Thiel 2.2's. Similar to the Vandy's but with clearer midrange and tremendous see-through transparency if the electronics are up to it. You'll get full 40hz - 22khz out of these. Tremendous especially on jazz, cham... | |
| Differences between Magnepan 1.6qr and 1.7i Thanks secretguy. Apparently that is what minimizes the crossover issue. | |
| Differences between Magnepan 1.6qr and 1.7i Thank you, Direwolf336. My room is 12 x 16 ft. Clearly the MG 1c's were too large, although the room has good acoustics and the bass was okay. But the imaging clearly suffered. The room has large-ish openings into a front hallway and my dining... | |
| Differences between Magnepan 1.6qr and 1.7i Thanks BDP24, but I intend to stick with Maggies. | |
| Differences between Magnepan 1.6qr and 1.7i Thanks, Robergerman2 and Edgewear. I'm hoping some of those folks who've had both will weigh in. | |
| Who's Gone Topless? It's clear to me that the tubes just enjoy the fresh air, and have joined in the singing and the playing with great joy. Congratulations on treating your tubes so well!! {-) | |
| Equipment Rack - How important in the grand scheme of things? I would say not at all important, with two big caveats: You need to use sorbathane isolation feet under your electronics, especially tube gear and more than especially for your turntable. And if you have floor vibration, you must use a wall moun... | |
| The bass is the place... Regarding multi-source bass reproduction, until I recently had to downsize my music-oriented multi-channel system featured five Thiel 3.5's with equalized bass down to 22hz. No sign of room nodes, and with that many Thiel speakers, no power/sound... |