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| Speaker cabinet made of real wood Congrats on the new speakers, Al! Mind giving us a rough idea on room dimensions, placement, and associated gear?John | |
| Should I upgrade DAC, speaker cables, ICs, or PCs? I second the nomination of source. I gather your CDP is a Rotel? (You list it as a pre.) I've not listened to the Rotel seriously, but I'm betting it could be bested by 1500, especially with a used unit. A lot of well-regarded DACs could be had fo... | |
| fritz loudspeakers "BY FAR THE BEST MONITOR SPEAKERS UNDER $5K."What have you made close comparisons with, Kiza?Thx,J | |
| Recommended acoustic recordings Po'Girl, "Home to You"Crooked Still, "Shaken By a Low Sound"Clarke, Van Zandt and others, "Heartworn Highways"Cowboy Junkies, "Acoustic Junk"For the first two, recordings better than adequate, for the second two, recordings very nice. All performa... | |
| The Sound or Music 300 is a lot of recordings. I have a small collection of CDs, 550 or so, now on a server, so access is easy. Taking a wild guess, 100 or so of these are in pretty "heavy rotation," while there must be 200 or so that I would hardly miss. Like many ... | |
| New reissue of Exile on Main Street From the Stones to the Dillards. Perfect! Jaybo, can you recommend on the Dillards for an entry disc with good sonics?Thx,J | |
| New reissue of Exile on Main Street That's interesting Loomisjohnson, although I suspect that if one is inclined to argue genre's they're also not much inclined to treat allmusic as definitive.I fear Neil may be classified as "classic rock."John | |
| wilson sophias to monitors It doesn't seem unreasonable for partners to compromise on the decor in a shared living space, if both parties are contributing to decoration and upkeep of that space. "Suggestions" about changing conspicuous gear might be a red flag, but needn't ... | |
| New reissue of Exile on Main Street I guess I always thought of alt.country as basement guitars plugged into white boy roots music. Plus something a little harder to peg, about rest stops, interstates, and "three hour away" towns.I don't think the Stones really tapped into this; tou... | |
| Best budget speakers for near-field/small space If you are considering DIY, you might consider North Creek. George Short designs for small rooms and near wall placement. With George's associate Lee Taylor making the boxes, it's a pretty simple DIY, and you could get something well-suited to you... | |
| If you wanted to impress someone, which track? How about Valerie Joyce covering "Little Wing" on her album "New York Blue"? Chesky sure makes a good recording (I have the redbook CD). If you want a demo track to replace the omnipresent Diana Krall cover of "A Case of You," this could be it. John | |
| New reissue of Exile on Main Street This is a surprising statement, Richard:"One of my favorite Stones albums and roughly the birth of Alt country/ Americana."And not just because the Stones are pretty darn English, or so I thought. "Alt country/Americana" covers a multitude of sins... | |
| room setup question According to some, having gear or other artifacts b/w speakers can be detrimental if there is not a direct "line of sight" between the tweeters. This seemed to be true when I experimented with my system. Not sure of the explanation, if there is on... | |
| General PC Audio Set-Up Question You're on the right track, I'd say. If you go USB, cables seem to matter (many people get good results wireless, apparently). I would consider a RAID array for safer storage. Pure Music a worthwhile and inexpensive (if somewhat twitchy) augment to... | |
| Any suggestions for amp for Legacy Whisper XD I demoed the Whisper at Legacy with my Odyssey Dual Mono, and liked it just fine (though perhaps not as fine as the huge MacIntosh Bill D. had them set up with). Good chance of you enjoying them too, and even a set of monoblocks (used) should come... |