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| Best Male Singers of the 20th Century I wandered into the C&W room after everyone had already left. In terms of white popular music (apologies to Charlie Pride, etc., for the generalization), that's where real vocal talent is cultivated, IMO. Some male singers with amazing chops w... | |
| Sand bags under a cdp - didn't work well Gawd, Kiwi, you are doing some heavy breathing re Neuance ;-) ... but of course with your exhaustive testing you are pretty persuasive. With my little mostly Linn system, I have decided that heavy brass cones are quite useful. But their price gets... | |
| C/W music Audiogon members C&W deserves documentary treatment, like jazz got (though maybe not 10 sessions worth --- sooooiiieee!). Great characters with hardscrabble backgrounds, lots of regional variety, etc. One fascinating period that I was able to observe a bit was... | |
| C/W music Audiogon members Better late than never -- count me in. This is real roots music. Funny -- bad C&W is known for its wretched, perfumy excess. But one thing I love about good C&W is the discipline and good decision-making (when to play, when not to) of its ... | |
| Guilty Pleasures Much of what you guys have listed I consider to be music of rather good taste. Captain and Tenille, though, that is a good one! My confession would include the album Risque, by Chic. I also have a record by Kool and the Gang that's really groovy. | |
| Chuck Berry Shub, you OK? Should we call 911? | |
| Krell HTS and static electricity? The unwanted jolt is scrambling your component's digital brains. In Eric's case, a protective procedure is activated, but in your case it seems the current overload is too much, and the component can't even execute this "program". Turning your com... | |
| Isolation vs. Absorbtion Then, you might try the poor-man's triplepoints! (There might be a better substitute than double-sided tape, but the tape's not bad. Gives a pleasant golden sheen to the sound -- just BS-ing of course.) It's easy to see, intellectually at least, w... | |
| Isolation vs. Absorbtion Try the cones under a speaker, Dekay? Heck, why not. When my new order comes in from Mapleshade, I'll try it. I was really only looking for a cone that would sound a little faster in my turntable setup (and will try the Ultimate triplepoints there... | |
| Isolation vs. Absorbtion Dekay, or anyone, can you offer any comparison between the Mapleshade and BDRacing cones that you used? I'm looking for a cone... for a different application -- between a Rega Planar 3 and a sandbox... but any comparative info still would be inter... | |
| Soundstage - Too much? Can't argue with the quotation from the acoustics book, but it's a giant step to say that those reflections are what create coherent sonic images outside the speakers. Another way to look at or experiment with the issue is to consider if you dimin... | |
| Freak Me Out There's some weird, beautiful stuff on Rickie Lee Jones's Ghostyhead. Trippy electronica, strange lyrics, haunting fragments of melody, not to mention thought. | |
| Vibrapods and Speakers My single experience was kind of like Redkiwi's. I use Linn Sekrits, which are monitors but not a normal kind of box. They have a dedicated steel stand that bolts onto the back of the speaker. I tried V'Pods under the stands (suspended hardwood fl... | |
| Soundstage - Too much? As to Ben's question, how can you get a sonic image outside the speakers, I guess I'm more surprised by soundstage height and depth. There, you also get sounds that are not right on the line segment between the speakers, but your system doesn't ev... | |
| Hum from Florescent light Thanks, Cornfed, I thought I might have heard that halogen lamps created problems, but I couldn't really remember. Some of them are so darn cute, I might have wasted some time trying one. |