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| Kanye West - Grammy comment, re Beck I find the antics of an immature young man understandable on many levels, but the obvious bias and closed mindedness of a bunch of old farts is simply unforgivable. | |
| Help with System Musicality I'd take a bet that if you got rid of the Edge amp and replace it with a tube amp or maybe even something from the Pass XA line much of the magic would return. Also, definitely consider going back to the PAD cables. | |
| Any other Cecile McLorin Salvant fans out there? She was mentioned on another thread here some time ago as well. Reference quality production and performance all around. A definite must have. | |
| year end best of list...the "Bones" The ones that have made an impression and are in regular rotation include:St. Vincent - St. VincenttUnE-yArDs - Nikki NackSomi - The Lagos Music SalonShabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty | |
| Recommendations for Arab and Mid-Eastern fusion. If you like Tinariwen then you should also check out Bombino. | |
| Opinions on Pioneer CS series speakers +1 on Loomis especially the Tekton/Zu recommendation. A used one would be a better sounding option and within your budget. | |
| Quality system, make poor recordings sound better? There really is a choice to be made when assembling a system. It's an age old argument in audio. Do you want to see the tree or the details on the leaves? It's an individual choice. If your goal is towards components that are accurate and precise ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Love Aster Aweke. Here are three of my current favorites and worthy of some serious attention:Buika - El Ultimo Trago (with Chucho Valdes on piano), La Noche Mas LargaCecile Mclorin Salvant - WomanchildLila Downs - Una Sangre, Border | |
| help with my sub and settings Many ways you can do this. I'd suggest that you temporarily place sub where you will sit and while it's playing some suitable bass material crawl around in some of the likely final positions and listen to the quality of the bass you are getting as... | |
| Best of current 12ax7? TJ Full Music was better than the Psvane in my Thor preamp. | |
| Room treatments behind or between speakers? Use mirror method along the wall to locate position of the treatments. | |
| Audiophile music What Mulveling said 1000%. I have quite a few audiophile friends and recently made the rounds listening to their systems using a variety of recordings and came to the conclusion that they had built their system to only sound good with audiophile s... | |
| What is the best transport? Alex, how do you get data from your server to the dac? Do you use usb? | |
| What is the best transport? Alex,I am very please that you are enjoying it. Phil has done amazing work with the Optimizer. There may be a few more things you could do as well that brings further improvements. If you are interested let me know. | |
| What is the best transport? Alex, if you really want to hear whats possible from your computer upgrade to Windows Server 2012 and implement the Audiophile Optimizer. The Fidelizer just gives you a hint of what's possible. |