jkaway
Responses from jkaway
| What music would you like at your funeral? Benny Goodman doing "Goodbye" with Helen Forrest singing it. | |
| Advice on Cary CD Players or other options. Kid, I was seriously thinking of moving on from my Cary 308 ,then I tried a VenHaus flavor 4 PC with it and it came into it's own.All problems with an "in you face presentation " evaporated.It replaced a van den Hul Mainstream. | |
| Tube amp upgrade/repair in San Jose Bay Area Eric, I can highly recommend Scott Frankland who has a rpair shop in the area down off Alum Rock Road.Don't have his phone # in front of me but he has done great work for me on 3 amps. John | |
| A "Unique" Voice... In the jazz realm, Bob Dorough and Blossom Dearie.And yes, it IS time that Slappy should be awardrd the title of A'gon Poet Laureate ( a big responibility). | |
| Review: VH Audio PC Burn adapter & Flavor 4 pc Power cord I am now on day 5 of burn-in of a VH Flavor 4 as my main cable from the wall outlet (Porter-port ) to the PS ultimate outlet and from there to my 2 Wireworld powerstrips.I am already using a flavor 4 on my Cary 308 cdp and a flavor 3 on my Rotel 1... | |
| hilary hahn..violinist I beleive like others above that it's too early to tell about Hahn. She has been benefitted by great modern recording ( at least in Redbook ).Both her Barber/Mayer cd and her Elgar cd are good though not stunning.Speaking of the Brahms, I was reco... | |
| How good is phono stage in Musical Fidelity A300? I owned this amp back when I beleived reviews by sam Tellig in S'file.That should tell you something right there.The amp has a lot of nice features, great build quality,lotta power... and sounds dead , lifeless and about as involving as reading th... | |
| I need a female jazz vocalist. No Krall, No Norah Just heard the 2 cds by Madeleine Peyroux.She's phenominal and very soukful.Like the fact that she's greatly influenced by Billie Holiday, yet does all different material. | |
| About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone Your insight into things audio is well known around here.My prayers go with you this day on the tough part of the journey. John | |
| Cables for Vandersteen2C w/ Creek 5350SE B., I have a pair of Vandersteen 2ce Sigs that are great speakers.At present I'm using Alpha-Core Goertz MI2 bi wire ( all copper ) which I like. Earlier though, I had a set of Sonic Horizon Daybreak bi-wires that I had custom made for the Vandy b... | |
| 6550 to KT88 Jaq , Your concern over JJ is realistic but a maddening tradeoff because they do have the best tonal qualities of any current KT88.Both JJs I bought from a well known Canadian tube dealer went bad frying 2 different ASL amps--- expensive repairs b... | |
| Blue Circle CS vs Unison Research Unico For around $200. you can add a Creek OBH-10 remote volume control with no harm to the sound and keep your CS .With my VR2s I went with a vintage EICO st-70 all tube integrated and the VR2s really took off. | |
| Naxos CDs with Great Sound Don't forget the naxos historic series including Bach's Well Tempered clavier 1 & 2 by Edwin Fischer from 1936. Beautifully remastered from 78s. | |
| Where R U????? Originally from RI but have brrn here in San Francisco for 16 years.Great town for music of every kind. | |
| HE 2004 West Cancelled due the worker lockout Wow,1st I'd heard of this and I've lived here in SF 16 years.Well i won't have to take off a day from work,oh well guess I'll have to buy right here on A'gon.Some years ago I actually worked at one of the big hotels downtown and it was a toss up w... |