john_l
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| Who is Most Beautiful female singer ever Kurtisjeffers: I haven't seen Bartoli in person, but you have to admit on the album cover's. Maybe it's just me, I always give Italian women an extra ten points (on a scale of 1 to 10). I wonder if that Star Trek Counselor chick sings.... It is i... | |
| You got to show me something more! Now where's that doggon B-52's album.... I had an older 'cooler' friend in college who used to tell me I should stop listening to Led Zeppelin and the Stones, and listen to some real music - the Doors & Dylan. I though I was 'missing' somethin... | |
| Help in Interconnect cables I have used rca nordost red dawn, xlr nordost spm, XLR Kimber 1120, and XLR harmonic tech truthlink in my system. In direct comparisons, the spm is definitely the best, followed by the harmonic tech truthlink, then red dawn. Note that I rate harm ... | |
| speakers for symphony at minimum budget? If you can get by with their ergonomics, the magnepan 1.6QR is an awesome symphonic and classical music speaker. It costs 1700 new and IMHO outperforms speakers costing 4-5 times as much for communicating orchestral soundscapes. Bass is not that d... | |
| Has anyone heard Billy Holiday on SACD? I just discovered this album a month back. I have the Columbia re-issue on LP and it's a great recording. Has that great 'golden age' tube sound. Amazing album. Her voice is older, a little cracked, but still beautiful in most places. I think that... | |
| Which BAT preamp? On of my friends was shopping for a phono stage. In his system we tried the $600 black cube, a $900 quicksilver tube, and my $1700 audio research ph-3. He has spectral pre, amp, ap tempo III speakers and the gazillion dollar MIT cables. This syste... | |
| Who 'won' the show at CES Albert, I have the van 5's and a vt100. I am searching for cables. Do you recall what cables they were using ? Thanks, John. | |
| Which BAT preamp? I don't know about their solid state models, but in their tubed line, you can get a phono stage in the 3 series or the 30 series. The 5 and 50 series will require that you buy an external phono stage. The 30SE and 50SE's are is a supertube version... | |
| BAT Equipment vs Audio Research I haven't heard the ref 1 or 2 yet, but I did hear the vk30SE's (jtinn's in fact!) put into my system with my ARC vt100m2. It replaced my solid state preamp. I never heard such a dramatic improvement. Lost a tiny, tiny bit of detail, but the instr... | |
| Good looking and sounding amp? Jeff Rowland equipment is very good looking. Smaller, well finished. Also, the EAR stuff is beautiful, if not a little high fashion. | |
| MIT Term 2 speaker cables...Am I nuts??? I experienced the EXACT same thing. I borrowed a friends $2000 mit 750 reference cables to hook up my new vandersteen 5's and my arc vt100m2. (He just got the $6000 ones!) Anyway, I didn't think they sounded that great. I was really disappointed. ... | |
| Who is Most Beautiful female singer ever Anne Lennox from the Eurythmics. Cecilia Bartoli as well. Can't decide. | |
| CD Player w Volume control-Suggestions? "Why is Ride of the Valkyries always coming from that house?" "Lousy stereo ..... Bass isn't too bad..." | |
| Best Zip Code for Perfect Life Shhhhh Axomoxa ! Nobody is supposed to know! It does rain like a faucet out here. The traffic is reaching epic proportion too of late. Also, I got a really bad cup of coffee downtown yesterday (at Powells!). Portland is BAD BAD BAD! Ha ha. | |
| CD Player w Volume control-Suggestions? carl_uber ! |