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| Into 2009; What rules?? Tubes or Solid State Music rules...always! If you had to start from scratch the potential would be vast. I've always come back to tubes myself, but sure have enjoyed SS along the way. As others have already pointed out, you can get great sound either way if you do it ... | |
| Music Server Setup: Airport Express or Extreme? the AE hookup is not different than what you get with the transporter. all the AE does is to accept a signal wired or wireless from a central computer. that is exactly what the transporter does. so if you think that the AE device is inferior to th... | |
| Music Server Setup: Airport Express or Extreme? jax2- the only reason i said what i said is because your initial reply indicated that the poster "needed" to do certain things. IMO, there are much better alternatives to what you stated. let me clarify: etc...I believe I've already responded by e... | |
| Music Server Setup: Airport Express or Extreme? jax2- let me correct some of your statements. 1) you don't need a squeezebox or transporter to get remote control capabilities from the mac. actually you are wasting your $$$ if you get the squeezebox and you could do better by getting different e... | |
| Tom Waits, Rain Dogs... Try "mule." Even better than "rain."I love all Waits stuff, but I would say that Mule Variations, Bone Machine, and his more recent stuff are perhaps less "accessible" to your average listener than Rain Dogs, and even more so than his earlier stuf... | |
| Tom Waits, Rain Dogs... Hey Walter - thanks for that. Nebraska was one of three Springsteen albums I used to have, and it was the one I liked the best of the three. The other two were, "Born in the USA" and "The Wild and the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle". I lost the... | |
| Tom Waits, Rain Dogs... The similarities between the two artist mentioned is quite obvious, too me anyway. Haven't you guys heard Springsteen's rendition of Tom Wait's "Jersey Girl"? Beside the strong vocal comparison theres alot to be said for a shared mutual respect th... | |
| Tom Waits, Rain Dogs... The problem I have with Tom is he keeps making the same album over and over.WHAT?!?! Compare "The Heart of Saturday Night" with "Small Change" with "Swordfishtrombone" with "Mule Variations" or "Bone Machine" or more recently, "Blood Money". There... | |
| Which is the most tubelike solid state amp around Why not stick with tubes? My friend drove his Maggie 20.1's with two pairs of VTL 450's and it sounded better than integrating various SS amps he tried in combination (Parasound, Bryston, Bel Canto). I thought it was an excellent combination and o... | |
| Will you check this out Thank you for that link. What a great project. Here's their main website in case anyone's interested. I'll echo Shadorne's recommendation of Moyer's interviews with Campbell - great stuff and very memorable - his stories resonate so strongly that ... | |
| Compare: Modwright LS 36.5 & Audio Research LS26 ...Good detective work on your part,...I honestly was not intending to be Columbo or anything like that. If I don't know where someone is coming from when they make claims or recommendations here I routinely take a quick peak at things they've sai... | |
| resolution and imaging OK, found it. Here is a very pointed and brief post on the futility of using live music as your goal that really nails it, IMO. Some of you are probably familiar with the author, Romy the Cat. In this case, I could not agree more with him. English... | |
| resolution and imaging I ask, should live music really be the holy grail of audio experience? Based on my live concert experiences, I would more often choose to hear my audio system over live music. I point to poor sound reinforcement, less than favorable venue acousti... | |
| resolution and imaging Food for though - inflated dimensionality is not always better - it just means the system has phase issues.Amused to Death deliberately takes advantage of some very distinctive technology called Qsound to create spatial effects via processing. The... | |
| New Prima Luna Amp In Distress / Me Too In summary blue gaseous glow in power tubes is good, and pretty. Lack of it is neither unusual nor indicative of anthing bad to come.OTOH I recently had a blue gaseous glow on start-up in the lower part of a new NOS 5AR4 rectifier tube. I should h... |