jhills
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| If cost was no factor, what system would you build as your main audio system? @1extreme I don’t know if my head and ears could handle the shear volume of a live rock band anymore, but wouldn’t mind trying for a while. light Pop, Classic Chamber and Jazz, I think I could handle.@schubert Live String Quartets, I could handle ... | |
| This is juvenile... WOW! ebm - still biting our nails for your answer. | |
| This is juvenile... Kathrine Jenkins!Allison Krause, Sade | |
| For those of us over 60.. So many other great bands and artists, that you all mentioned and in such a diversity of genres. Our generation truly did produce some great stuff, that, in a way, describes us as a generation...Jim | |
| For those of us over 60.. Now, in my mid to late 60s, the one band (artist) that best describes my life, at least at this point, is John Lennon - "Imagine". I'm pretty much tired of religion and politics.For musical enjoyment, I find myself falling back on my old 60s - 80s... | |
| Pieces of music that digital can't get right Even though I enjoy the convenience of digital, I most love my analogue.Analog, wither tape or LP, for better or worse, is the product of - Tit for Tat (for every action an equal and opposite reaction - from the performance to the master recording... | |
| What improvements did you hear in going from entry level to high end Audio? My first venture into home audio was back in the mid 70s. Quite a basic Lo-Fi system consisting of a Fisher receiver with a pr. of BIC Venturi speakers and a Pioneer TT. A few years later, while on a road trip, I happened by a Stereo shop and deci... | |
| In search for speakers of "natural" sound Another very nice, open baffle speaker is the Spatial, Hologram M3 Turbo S. Incredibly smooth open and very musical, with a large and convincing stage. At just under $3K, a real bargain in today's market.....Jim | |
| What were your humble beginnings on the path to high end audio? Although I had the usual foray of auto players (a varety of 8 track and cassetts players) aside from adopting my sisters old Magnavox LP counsel, I didn't develop a real interest in home audio until the mid 70s. My first, rather humble system, con... | |
| Stillpoints - snake oil? @elizabeth Aside from drilling and installing 1/4-20 T nuts, or threaded inserts, to accommodate threaded spikes - my first inclination would be to try a set of leather, shot bags. Make ea. bag long enough to go across the width of the base and ma... | |
| Stillpoints - snake oil? @ethiessen1 Depending on how well the system, at the audio shop, was set up in the first place, I would say you would hear a difference between, without and with the Stillpoints. Most likely, with the Stillpoints, the stage would seem slightly l... | |
| Stillpoints - snake oil? Regarding Stillpoints: WOW - very fancy! At $695.00 pr. footer, so about $2,100. per component - it seems like a real expensive way to handle the problems of vibration and resonance in an audio system, when there are other (as, or more effective) ... | |
| Stillpoints - snake oil? Re. Mapleshade: I just had a look at their site and their products seem sound and well thought. I'm a fan of solid butcher block bases and iso pads, as a platform for components, particularly TTs and CDPs. Also the design of the three point tips o... | |
| Stillpoints - snake oil? As a machinist and field tech. I spent a great deal of time analyzing, identifying and eliminating vibration in complex, rotating industrial machines - everything from high speed turbines and planner heads to large, low speed scrubber fans and eve... | |
| Morrow Audio re-design announcement: No more Ag coated Cu; Increased numbers of runs. It's amazing how someone's new best thing, was someone else's new best thing a decade ago, only now instead of $300.00 it's $3,000.00...Jim |