islandear
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| Eerie, Ethereal, Moody, Involving Soundtracks I think you'll find the following fit your bill:The Mission (Morricone)La Otra Conquista/The Other Conquest (Zyman & Reyes)Todo Sobre Mi Madre (Iglesias who scores for Almodovar)Thin Red Line (Zimmer) | |
| Wadia 861 Owners... Four sheets of nylon window screen stitched together, which also helps to damp a very live end room... All right, a fellow literalist! Actually the system resides in an adjacent family room but the Vandys fire directly into the kitchen. We love to... | |
| Wadia 861 Owners... Thanks, Audiobugged, for your comments re the VK3i. If it's not used in my main system it'll go into my 'kitchen' rig. Yes, I've got NOS tubes in it and for the money it's a great performer. I'll be doing my critical research over the next couple ... | |
| Wadia 861 Owners... Mopar, was the overall sound of the Wadia compromised by the insertion of the 2200 into the chain? I infer, from your enthusiasm, that any loss of PRaT was worth it for the adjustment to the soundstage...or was PRaT enhanced as well? I'm wondering... | |
| 5 CD's on your current "permanent " rotation. It's not reasonable to limit 'permanent' rotation to five, or even ten titles, but here are five of my favorites (though if I think about it another minute I will come up with a dozen other titles I enjoy as much):King Curtis - Night TrainStan Get... | |
| Wadia 861 Owners... Chrysler, may I call you Mopar?, I've employed a tubed preamp/SS amp combo for five years (with Meridian front ends) and this has been a very good combo. And it may be that I end up upgrading along that route. My feeling is, after dropping $7 or 8... | |
| Wadia 861 Owners... Gents, thanks so much for the thoughtful input. Obviously, system synergy is the bottom line and the variety of responses underscore the need for me to do some serious personal auditioning (oh, damn). It's encouraging to see that the 861 is succes... | |
| Wadia 861 Owners... Thanks for your input, guys. Jfrech, I've had the venerable VK200/VK3i combo for five years. In a smaller space (12x14x8) the amp has never been underpowered and married well with Meridian sources and the Parsifals. I've heard the 75se in other sy... | |
| Memories........What made you catch the Audio Bug? Some of you might be grizzled enough to remember what it was like to be in the service in the 60s, stuck in the sticks, where AFVN or AFKN provided brief relief from the green tedium and holyshitijust mightdie blues. A lot of us purchased our firs... | |
| a great blues album An enjoyable reminder how good Riley still is. I would also recommend a recent reissue of Blues in my Heart, an album he cut for Crown in 1961 with saxman Plas Johnson (who's - unfortunately - best known for the Pink Panther theme) and Maxwell Dav... | |
| Memories........What made you catch the Audio Bug? My dad had a Telefunken hi-fi set and a fairly decent collection of LPs...we listened to Brubeck, Miles, Pete Fountain, Chet Baker, Satchmo, Ellington, and even lesser names like Acker Bilk and Bert Kaempfert. My sisters got portable record player... | |
| Cars R OK, but what kind of motorcycle do you have I'm with Marco... Favorite roads were Highway 49 in northeast CA thru the Mother Lode country from Plymouth all the way down to Twainharte; Highway 89 over to Nevada, 32 out thru Whiskeytown and into the Trinity wilderness. Used to enjoy 84 in SoC... | |
| Cars R OK, but what kind of motorcycle do you have Started with a Honda trailbike in mid-60's, to Scrambler, to Bultaco Pursang, BSA Victor (for TT - loved that bike), BSA Lightning (simultaneously w/Yamaha 360 factory Enduro), heavily-tweaked Super Sport in late 70's. Now thinking about picking u... | |
| Where R U????? Davewav1, lived in South Laguna for a decade before heading north to Puget Sound region a few years back. | |
| Where does your user name come from? I'm a pilot whose wife accompanies me on many flights, and she always wins the argument when we begin final approach... |