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| Amy Winehouse I am a huuuge Sharon and Amy fan. In the same vane on the Daptone label, Charles "The Screaming Eagle of Soul" Bradley is worth checking out as well as the jazz-funk-rock Budos Band. | |
| Tube Phono Stage with balls, and slam!! Oregonpapa+1The hardest and most important thing to learn in this hobby and always seemed to be overlooked by many: vibration control, power/grounding issues, room acoustics and proper source/speaker setup. Component upgrade last! | |
| Recommend remasterd SACD albums? classical, jazz Suggest you try using the search function and maybe restrict it to the Music forum. A quick search returned 425 results such as this one. | |
| Why a digital media player instead of a dedicated computer? A ready-made media player makes sense if you aren’t computer savvy. Setting up a cutting-edge computer solution can be quite challenging for the casual computer user even with assistance from a competent tech. Such a setup is highly tweaky and may... | |
| Why am I just now discovering Gregory Porter? Gregory definitely is something special. I love Liquid Spirit. Another artist that you should check out is Leon Bridges. Leon has more of a retro-soul/gospel vibe going on. Even though he is only 27 his debut album, Coming Home, sounds like he gre... | |
| What piece(s) of equipment would you most like to try? Not that I am unsatisfied with my current dac, but I'd love to upgrade my Lampy L4 to a Golden Gate. Lukasz Fikus is a genius! | |
| Why do you give bad advice? If I am budgeting 10k it'd make sense to allocate 5 - 10% for travel/hotel or re-shipping costs. Anyway, I think 95% of forum advice is bs unless I'm careful to finely filter the real nuggets. Even then, I mostly miss the nuggets anyway since nugg... | |
| Is my room going to suck Suck is a bad word!! What??? Off the bat, I can think of a 1000 good connotations for the word. | |
| Is there a way to improve the sound? There is nothing about ripping and streaming that is simple. Ripping to a lossless format is a small part of the quality equation but there is a host of other factors to consider. Just to prove it to yourself, rip one of your reference cds on a la... | |
| Rare and non-heavy advertised Ribbon \ Foil cables? Electraglide is still competitive. I have a SOTU pc that rotates into the system from time-to-time - great on front-end components. | |
| No mention of Audio Research in Absolute Sound I didn't realize audiophiles still read that magazine. | |
| Audio Forums, On-line Store Fronts, and the Art-of-Deception Pick your poison. Audio Forums are started for various reasons and not just to share views. Some are manufacturer spin-offs, some objective, some subjective, some for whales, some for sharks and others are for minnows. | |
| Audio Forums, On-line Store Fronts, and the Art-of-Deception I think Audio Circle is pretty clean too, with specific Circles for industry brands. Wrt to sharks, brings to mind an axiom of poker playing - if you don’t know which player at the table is the fish, then you are the fish. | |
| Best Rock Album of 2016 Santana IV keeps getting better and better on repeat. I think this is his best since the 70’s.BTW, any word on the new Radiohead? | |
| Best Rock Album of 2016 Santigold's new album 99c is strong enough to be on many AOY lists. It reflects quite a few influences and as usual her music is hard to classify (Wiki says its art pop, alternative dance, new wave). 99c is close to being the perfect album with no... |