hdm
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| Best Blues Rock recommendations? Check out either of Melvin Taylor's releases on Evidence Records, Melvin Taylor & the Slack Band (straight power trio) or his most recent, "Bang that Bell". Possibly the best guitarist around today, with unbelievable technique but not just for... | |
| Salsa and high energy latin jazz album suggestions Try "Jam Miami-A Celebration of Latin Jazz" on Concord (CD 4899-2). Recorded live in Miami in 2000 with a huge band featuring, among others, Arturo Sandoval, Chick Corea, Poncho Sanchez, & Pete Escovedo. | |
| Will this FIM 880 open up & let some detail in? Here's my take on things. I should state that I have no experience with the FIM or the Acme, but in the past year and a half I have experimented with about 5 or 6 sub $20 receptacles, with it being pretty apparent to me that there are some pretty ... | |
| Whats the deal with CD players? With respect to Audioslug and Dopogue's posts above, I've also taken their postion (controversial as it may be) in previous threads here going back about a year and a half or so. In that time period, I've been using an RCA 5223P DVD player (a full... | |
| DVD player better than MSB? If you're interested in DAC's you might want to investigate the ART DIO (sic?) or the Channel Islands DAC. They seem to be the budget dacs du jour. | |
| Van Den Hul power cords Haven't heard them, but Mainstream BS? I think the marketing department fell down a bit on this one. | |
| Experiences with your "Better Halves" Like Craig above, my wife has pretty much zero interest in the stereo, but has made a few comments over the past couple of years indicating she knows that it is not run of the mill stuff. After seeing Diana Krall live in a local venue with less th... | |
| What do you do when the kids come along? I'll agree with what Artemus said above and add one more thing. When the kids go to bed at night, play your music just like you do now (that means loud if you play it loud). Do this right from the beginning and (hopefully) you won't have problems.... | |
| AC power cord termintation Hubbell 5266 is a nice plug for about $10 Cnd. | |
| Plasma vs. CRT based HDTV I don't have loads of experience in this area, but from what I've seen, the plasmas blow away the CRT based sets. I looked at both recently showing a high definition feed of the Olympics and it wasn't even close. | |
| Acoustic Research AR18 .. anyone know of them ? I used to own a pair in the early to mid 80's and they were a decent speaker-I upgraded to Linn Indexes and then to Elipson floor standers. I would think they would be bettered by today's smaller Missions, B&W's or similar budget speakers. See... | |
| LP 12 the Extreme Phono Way-First Impressions My post above should read that I experimented with marble and granite under the turntable (on the Target shelf) and that the table sounded better going straight onto the MDF spiked Target shelf. The half inch glass has been a clear winner with the... | |
| LP 12 the Extreme Phono Way-First Impressions Just a quick question. I have had what I consider to be very good results (considering a relatively low cost) with 1/2" glass, which is actually 12mm as opposed to 11 mm as a support. I use it within a Target rack with vibrapods between both Targe... | |
| phono stage volume Just turn it up. Unless you're past 1 o'clock on the volume, I wouldn't even begin to worry about it. On CD, I typically run at about 9-10 o'clock; with vinyl it's always between 11 & 12, sometimes more. | |
| Glass??? I have had excellent results with 1/2" glass (I use it on a Target rack for extra isolation) with vibrapods between the glass and the normal Target shelf as well as between the glass and component as Sdcampbell says. In this configuration (a vibra... |