hifiman5
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| Diana Krall @rpeluso Thoughts? Yep. Tearing down well known, beloved artists in favor of the more obscure, at least in the modern sense, makes the naysayers feel like they have a superior musical understanding. Inferiority breeds contempt. 😬 | |
| Diana Krall @mattmiller Thanks for mentioning Kandace Springs. I just sampled "Soul Eyes" on amazon and am sold. Like you said very fresh sound beautifully recorded as is Bluenote's practice. Just ordered the CD! | |
| Diana Krall @rpeluso I've read several such positive critiques of her on stage performances. Perhaps I should see her live as her studio albums somehow leave me cold at times. I've had the same issue with Norah Jones. However, just this past week I pulle... | |
| Quincy Jones Interview +1! @geoffkait The greatness of the Beatles is in the subtleties of their performance and even more obviously in the brilliance of their compositions. Hendrix played a helluva hot axe, but Quincy was more of a producer than performer. I thought ... | |
| Quincy Jones Interview @gareneau I read this on my phone a few hours ago. Could a break down in his mental faculties be at play here?🤪 | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic @perfectpathtech Hey I have no dog in this hunt. Would a decent compromise with Ozzy be to send him a very small amount of your current production TC so he can try it on a few fuses or whatever in his system? I know you don't want to be giving p... | |
| Best Speakers with a DNA-1? Geez, another big +1 for gdnrbob. I agree with everything he said as long as you buy a recent iteration of whatever Vandy speaker you decide upon. RV does too many upgrades to his designs over time to go with an old version of any of his models.... | |
| How expensive are best NOS tubes ? And how difficult to find ? If you are interested in reasonably priced cryogenically treated tubes, contact Ron Sheldon at Cryoset. His cryo'd new production Gold Lion tubes sound great and seem to last forever. http://www.cryoset.com/catalog/index.php | |
| Best Speakers with a DNA-1? @cheeg "I’m sure it’s true that Vandersteen keeps improving their line, but have they changed them enough to make them better than the Vandys in the used market?" The answer to your question above depends upon when the used speaker was manufacture... | |
| Publish the age of your component when selling (let's discuss) A good reason to know the manufacture date is the updating that manufacturers do over time to their gear without changing model designations. Vandersteen Audio is famous for this as RV's designs are never final. As he does R&D for potential ... | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic @geoffkait If you don't respond, well... it was nice knowing' ya 😮 | |
| Profile Picture Thanks for posting this George! I thought maybe it was a problem on my end. When I checked my profile, my avatar still shows up there but it doesn't show up on the posts. All I see is a very thin rectangle in place of it. | |
| Why do many discussions about sonic performance disintegrate into technical discusions? Remember what teo_audio stated earlier in this thread, "Facts are an agreed upon reality. An agreed upon projection. They posses no reality of their own - whatsoever."Facts are not stubborn things as a noted politician once said, they are irreleva... | |
| Bi Wiring for speakers question @will62 Never run different brands or cable topologies when biwiring. You want the same cables for both biwire runs. If not you risk defeating one of the primary objectives of a biwire designed speaker...that of optimizing the function the spea... | |
| Slovakia JJ ECC 802 and 803 tubes. I have had great luck with Gold Lion 12AU7s from Ron Sheldon at Cryoset. Very even sound, good dynamic swing and very quiet. They seem to last forever... |