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| buy upsample processor or new CD player? Or ... ? I've heard the Bel Canto DAC 1 and the 1.1 in my system, and I agree, the 1.1 to my ears was only a minor improvement in certain areas. However, either one with a nice power cord and interconnects was a MAJOR improvement over the low dollar digita... | |
| Anybody willing to admit? I don't know the numbers but I have what seems to me like a lot of CDs and records (and DATs, and even some cassettes!). Just about everytime I've gotten rid of something I've regretted it, although I do come up with schemes to "simplify" fairly o... | |
| sssibilancccce... Hey thanks for all the responses, you guys rock. As it turns out I did recently lighten up on the tracking force, maybe I'll take it back to the max recommended on the Grado which is 1.5g. As far as anti-skate goes, it's at zero. I don't know abou... | |
| Bookshelf/Monitor suggestions. I recommend Triangle monitors, they are cheap, outrageously detailed but not fatiguing (unless you feed them a fatiguing front end). My Cometes are great at all levels from mellow "nighty-night" sessions to neighbor-deafening DSOTM side 2 freakout... | |
| What's Your Favorite Party Music? CFB, you forgot to mention "Metal Machine Music" which always gets things going...another good choice to break the ice and help everyone feel relaxed is anything from Einsturzende Neubauten, I like "Halber Mensch" myself. Then you can throw some v... | |
| HT Pro Silway II vs. HT Truthlink I have owned both cables and in my system the Pro Silways did the upper end fantastically well, very very detailed yet smooth and nonfatiguing in a way that was not exactly like, but analogous to, switching from digital to vinyl, my ears and whole... | |
| portishead, goldfrapp, looking for more ...... I love that stuff too. My recommendations are Olive (about as poppy as I'll go but I love it), the last two EBTG albums Walking Wounded and Temperamental, Lamb (harder, weirder), Morcheeba (dyn-o-mite!), Hooverphonic, and the first record from Bab... | |
| One Song Before You Go... Yep, "Ripple"...off the MFSL wax, on a Nottingham hyperspace, through Meadowlark Nightingales, driven by YBA Passion monoblocks...or on a Walkman :) | |
| My first Jazz cd Lots of great suggestions here. Mine is Cannonball Adderley's "Somethin' Else." It's my understanding that this is basically a Miles LP that was released under Cannonball's name for contractual reasons (longtime jazz gurus correct me if I'm wrong.... | |
| Techno Anyone? Retail stores and even a lot of online merchants lump this one under "Techno," along with a lot of my favorite stuff...Boards of Canada "Music Has the Right to Children." Techno in the sense of dance music, it ain't--this is moody, introspective a... |