hifijones
Responses from hifijones
| How much do large Vinyl collections go for these days? As a point of reference, I have about 900 LPs’ in my collection; all but 150 were purchased new by me. The album jackets were covered with a 3 mil plastic resealable sleeve as soon as they came out of the shrinkwrap. 95% of the vinyl is in NM cond... | |
| Best female vocal recording on CD? I’ll agree that Diana Krall has become somewhat boring and passe’. But she wasn’t when she released "All For You" in ’96, imho her best album by a wide margin.Get the XRCD-24 version of that CD and you’ll be a happy camper. | |
| Turn table for my kid??? https://uturnaudio.com/Or find her a nice vintage DD Technics... | |
| Tune of the Day Fugazi ~ Waiting Room | |
| Your Go to CD to Impress Kiko ~ Los LobosTraffic From Paradise ~ Rickie Lee JonesNight Ride Home ~ Joni MitchellUltimate Mancini ~ Henry ManciniWrecking Ball ~ Emmylou HarrisOut Of The Cradle ~ Lindsey BuckinghamI Know Who Holds Tomorrow ~ Alison Krauss and The Cox Family... | |
| Has anyone NOT listened to their system for a long time? Pretty sure I have everyone here beat by a country mile. Haven’t listened to my main system in.....4 years. In 2012 I moved in with my ailing mother to take care of her as she had numerous health problems. I brought a modest audio system with me t... | |
| Standmount speakers 4k-8k A Big +1 on the JM Reynaud Offrandes. Reynaud has very limited distribution here in NA and it's baffling. The Offrandes V2 are some of the finest standmounts I have heard at ANY price.I would also recommend any Raidho speaker, however they would... | |
| Your first component that was "special" Like vicweast and inna mentioned, my choice would be my Nakamichi 581Z cassette deck. It wasn't the most reliable deck that Nakamichi ever designed and it spent quite a bit of time at the factory service facility in California in the '80s and '90... | |
| You can only take 5 albums to a deserted Island... The Band ~ Music From Big PinkLos Lobos ~ KikoThe Velvet Underground ~ LoadedSteely Dan ~ Katy LiedCharles Mingus ~ Mingus Ah Um | |
| CD players that make for a great transport If you want to spend even less I'd recommend the Sony DVP-S7700. It's actually a DVD/CD player/transport. It's been a budget audiophile favorite for many years and they can be had on the cheap. But with your budget you might be embarrassed to s... | |
| Redbook Keeps Surprising +1 to oregonpapa. I haunt the local thrift stores and have added about 60 CDs’ to the collection in the past year at prices ranging from 50-cents to $2.00 per disc. Many of those CDs’ feature artists and titles that I’m not familiar with and my cu... | |
| Negotiating when buying demo and used speakers from a dealer Some good advice here. Tomorrow I'm going to look at a pair of Linn AV5140s' at a non-Linn dealer that received them on a trade-in. They're asking $1400.00 and their ad says the original MSRP was $7000.00! Methinks that price is a tad inflated.... | |
| Albums you can listen too all the way through and it's all good bdp24 can’t believe you mentioned Carlene Carter’s ’Musical Shapes’, one of the greatest albums that most people have never heard. CC backed by Rockpile. Just doesn’t get any better than that.Los Lobos ~ KikoThe Velvet Underground ~ LoadedJoni Mit... | |
| Obscure bands Mercury Rev. They shoulda been a contender. | |
| Obscure bands A few of my favorite obscure artists & albums:Dixie Dregs ~ What IfPylon ~ GyrateRank and File ~ SundownTrip Shakespeare ~ LuluSeldom Scene ~ Old TrainBrand X ~ Moroccan RollRomeo Void ~ It's A ConditionTexas ~ Mother's HeavenDrivin' N' Cryin'... |