jnorris2005
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| Shopping at Goodwill anyone? Love Goodwill! Shop there often for CDs and the occasional surprise. Best finds: NAD 3020, DCM TimeFrame TF600s, Acoustic Energy 24" cast iron speaker stands, Sony component Minidisc recorder, and a Sherwood vintage receiver. Lately though they... | |
| Speakers costing range of 2500-3500 per pair Martin Logan ESL. None finer in the price range for imaging, tonality, transparency and detail. All the rest are drivers in a box, IMHO | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers There is a myth that states that when asked if Ringo was the best drummer in the world, John Lennon laughed and said he's not even the best drummer in the Beatles.Portnoy is amazing - so much so that he's had a hard time landing a gig with other p... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers There are plenty of great rock drummers out there. But not Neil Peart or Carl Palmer. Neil is the best Rush drummer ever, but as soon as he steps out of that context he's like a fish out of water. Carl Palmer is unimaginative, boring and lacks ... | |
| Vinyl from Barnes & Noble @bdp24Sorry if you misunderstood, but I did not mean that B&N has only LPs from digital sources. I meant that they only sell mainstream records that are most likely from digital sources. The truly analog, less well-known records will most li... | |
| DAC break-in... I have always felt that acclimation plays a very large role. I think that manufacturers sometimes specify long burn in times in order to entice a purchaser to continue acclimating past the return period. | |
| Vinyl from Barnes & Noble @winoguy17 "This has nothing to do with analog vs digital for gods sake"Correct, and I have no desire to step into that fray. My point is that people are buying vinyl at ridiculous prices, putting up with its idiosyncrasies, and are not getting ... | |
| Move your sub I tried one subwoofer, but I always had the impression, real or not, that I wasn't getting true stereo. So I added another. Both were positioned below or next to the main speakers because I wanted the wave front to be as coherent as possible - w... | |
| Who makes budget speaker cables which are truly “good” or “exceptional” in quality? Any quality cable of consistent construction and sufficient thickness will do. The companies foisting 1K+ speaker cables are simply scammers. On Audio Asylum someone was seriously recommending the purchase a machine that burns in speaker wire an... | |
| Vinyl from Barnes & Noble I hope you all realize that the "new" records you buy from Barnes and Noble are, for the most part, from digital sources. New recordings are all done digitally, and old ones are from masters that have have been digitally stored due to deteriorati... | |
| New system has fatiguing, harsh high frequency sounds. How to fix? Ridiculously expensive power cords are of questionable value in a very high end system. On a Sony they are an absolute waste of money. On a similar note, while expensive interconnects and speaker cables may have more validity, their effects woul... | |
| New system has fatiguing, harsh high frequency sounds. How to fix? To address the elephant in the room, you're using Polk, Sony, LG and Klipsch equipment. Mid-fi at best, and all known for over-emphasizing upper frequencies in a bid to sound "detailed" and "airy". Your best bet is to turn the treble down on the... | |
| Musician vs. audiophile Having purchased the Martin Logan ESL from BestBuy, and having listened to all of the other box speakers there from B & W, Definitive Technology and Martin Logan themselves, and also having been listening to box speakers for 40 years by the li... | |
| Best way to route signal from laptop to integrated amplifier Many integrateds allow you to separate the pre-amp from the power amp either by way of a switch or jumpers. You'll get the best sound by far by bypassing the preamp and going directly to the power amp. The amount of clarity and openness lost by ... |