jameswei
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| What Is The Best 2 Channel CD Vivaldi Recording? My personal favorite for recording quality is "Vivaldi for Diverse Instruments" by Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. It was put out by Reference Recordings, RR-77CD, and can be played back in HDCD, which is how I listen to i... | |
| Acoustics of Non-Box Shape Rooms Lots of variables and details. Gross room dimensions, ceiling shapes, adjacent spaces -- size and shape and dimensions of doorways, wall construction material (concrete or wallboard), etc. For complex spaces, calculations get complicated.The size ... | |
| Does "Non Compensated" Reviewing Still Exist? The messages I get from your three excerpts are "good, but very expensive" for the turntable, "OK for the money, but not really good" for the CD player, and "looks good and sounds OK" for the preamp.Manufacturers are obliged to praise their own pr... | |
| Speakers and Stands. What do you use between them? If the whole speaker enclosure vibrates back and forth relative to the floor (perhaps in response to the push pull of the woofer), the mid and high frequency information will be smeared, adversely impacting your imaging. In the spirit of reducing ... | |
| Jazz Again Here's five classic jazz titles:Time Out -- Dave Brubeck QuartetKind of Blue -- Miles DavisBlue Train -- John ColtraneSunday at the Village Vanguard -- Bill Evans TrioLive at the It Club -- Thelonious Monk(Brubeck, Evans, and Monk play the piano, ... | |
| Faroujda DV1000 vs. Denon 1600 vs. Arcam DV88 I bought my Faroudja DV1000 new, and it has performed without malfunction all this time. The thick face plate, solid feeling control buttons, and clean styling really position this as a high end product, despite the fact that the transport started... | |
| IS CAL DEAD AND GONE??? Yeah. CAL was bought by Sensory Science. Sensory Science was bought by S3 Inc. S3 Inc. changed its name to SonicBlue and discontinued CAL products. Service was farmed out to a few regional service centers. SonicBlue went bankrupt. I don't know if ... | |
| Perhaps a dumb question... We cannot assume that your receiver has a built in phono stage. Some amps just label their inputs for convenience. As Sugarbrie said, the best thing to do is to check the owner's manual. If you can't find the owner's manual, just plug your turntab... | |
| Perhaps a dumb question... Phono preamps do primarily two things.First, the signal generated by the phono cartridge is quite small. It is limited by what the needle can do when it vibrates in the record groove and moves a tiny coil in a tiny magnet (or a magnet insided a co... | |
| Best Downgrades you've done I replaced Red Rose R3 speakers with ProAc 1SCs, which cost less. I had originally had the ProAcs in this system and upgraded to the R3s. While the R3s had deeper bass and a more delicate treble, the ProAcs really were better in the midrange. This... | |
| What music do you want to play really loud? Honky Tonk Women by the Stones. First I play the original studio cut, then I follow with the live concert version from Get Yer Ya Ya's Out. That first guitar chord on the concert version is really killer, especially cranked way up like a concert p... | |
| Interconnect to tame bright sounding CDP Assuming there's nothing wrong with your CDP and you really just want a cable recommendation, I would urge you to consider Cardas Golden Cross. It has a soft, warm sound with deep black backgrounds. It could fit your requirements. It is available ... | |
| Line-level selector switch? Probably not what you're looking for, but Manley Labs is developing a very neat source A-B switcher. It sounds like it's quite overbuilt and will probably cost more than you want to spend for your application. It's not yet available for sale. Here... | |
| cartridge loading ? Bombaywalla, thanks for the correction. I'll try to remember that a coil of wire moving in a magnetic field can't, sorry I mean "CANNOT put out any current whatsoever." Presumably, you learned your electronics from a better school than I. By the w... | |
| cartridge loading ? Let me get this straight. When you decrease the resistance at the phono preamp, the volume should go up? That's what I observe with my setup. This is called "loading" the cartridge. When the resistance is lowered, the cartridge is required to put ... |