jonwolfpell
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| Looking for good recordings of female vocals I have not yet tried... Many great suggestions!! Eva Cassidy was mentioned previously. Check out her Songbird/ Live at Blues Alley. Great combo of power & grace w/ a great band behind & excellent live recording. Some harder blues / rock & some beautiful sol... | |
| Questionable Tweak I swear my system sounds quicker & more agile w/ my cats in the room, my full bodied w/better lower midrange w/my dogs, more fluid w/ my fish & downright scary w/ my snakes.......... | |
| What is your take on high efficient speakers vs. low efficient speakers? I've had many fine speakers over the years & while there are no hard & fast rules regarding music reproduction, I think that generally high efficiency speakers sound more like live music than lower ones. Its not just a simple matter of mor... | |
| NEWS FLASH!! Listening to Music is NOT a "Distraction." Lots of great comments. I’ve always found it interesting that the words fun or entertainment in Spanish is divercion or in English diversion. Music can be different things to different people it certainly can divert our attention away from our t... | |
| Rogers High Fidelity EHF 200 MK2 I'm sure Roger can help you out. I don't use a sub when listening to music, my speakers w/ the amp don't need it. Its so great to be able to talk directly w/ the designer & builder of a quality American made product!! It was one of the major ... | |
| Rogers High Fidelity EHF 200 MK2 I use the amp with the clear Lexan cover as I have two very curious cats. Roger claims the amp dissipates better with it but I don’t know about that. Seems like most of the heat is of course on top but also substantial heat going forward from the... | |
| Rogers High Fidelity EHF 200 MK2 I've owned one for about 8 months & love it! I bought it directly from Roger Gibboni who is the real deal - very smart & experienced guy. Rock solid construction, sounds excellent & quite powerful. It does run hot & needs room to ... | |
| The greatest tweak ever? Great comments! All I can is that the best sound I ever heard at a rock concert was the Dead @ SUNY Binghamton , NY in 1977 & even though I had already gone beyond my pot smoking days, the auditorium was full of a combo of I’ll guess 75% pot s... | |
| Has this happened to you? How can it be stopped? That Harmon Kardon 730 receiver was an excellent piece of equipment! Assuming it’s functioning as originally intended, I’ll bet within its power ratings, it sounds better than any receiver today & can hold its own vs many amps that don’t cost ... | |
| Live versus Recorded & Reproduced Music I agree that large venues with giant speaker systems set up in an array generally sound terrible, too loud, hard & annoying. I don’t go to large venues any longer for this reason. I saw the Grateful Dead twice in the 70’s & it was still th... | |
| Folk/Rock choices that are well recorded Eva Cassidy’s Songbird is a live recording in a small nightclub & sounds excellent on Qobuz. Some of the most beautiful female vocals you’ll ever hear from a super talented musician. Sad one folk, done blues, some older classics. Very realisti... | |
| Setup Speakers Along Long Wall? With the potential cost of good cables, I might first look into what’s going on w/ your turntable & why there’s a problem ? I use that cartridge but not familiar w/ the Technics. My Basis table / Vector arm is likely substantially better than ... | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? Assuming the definition of dynamic “range “is the difference between the softest sounds & the loudest ones a speaker is capable of without minimal distortion, then high efficiency speakers don’t necessarily have a greater range. How dynamic th... | |
| Which pair of speakers changed your Hifi life? Snell A -II’s in the early 80’s for their deep, tight bass & full sound like few others back then. My brother’s Proac EBS’s around the same time for their great midrange & 3 dimensional imaging w/ Conrad Johnson tubes. Finally, my Volti A... | |
| The new dynamic in speaker pricing Work hard, save your money & spend it on what you like. Despite what Robert Harley says, there is clearly a law of diminishing returns in hi fi like everything else. You can get 80% of the "way" there for "reasonable" $ in cars, bicycles, hi... |