jswarncke
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| Totem Owners.... A conflict of interest does not necessarily render information wrong, but disclosure of the conflict is always preferable. Anyway, the thread is getting derailed by the debate and mostly useless to the OP.I owned a pair of Forests for about nine m... | |
| Which is better longer xlr or speaker cable Bettercables.com is also a great resource for reasonably priced longer balanced cables. | |
| Guilty Pleasure recording? I love both the producers albums. There. I said it. Another is the knack get the knack. I get in weird moods where I listen to 70's soft rock a la hall and oates, seals and crofts etc. Queen the game *- especially dragon attack. Oh boy. Now that I... | |
| Saw My Morning Jacket a few nights ago Go ahead and get the Okonokos concert DVD. Of the 30 or so concert DVD's I own, the sound and visuals on this disc are top notch. The video for run through captures the live chaos of the last half of that song. I have seen MMJ probably 5 times in ... | |
| Upgrade to Totem Forest or Monitor Audio GS60? Strangely enough, Mimberman and I had the exact same upgrade path. I had the Forests for about 6 months and upgraded to Dali Euphonia MS-4's.I, like you, listen mostly to indie rock and heavily produced rock recordings. I truly enjoyed the forests... | |
| AC/DC Black ice Not sure what happened with Springsteen, but then again I don't really listen to him. The other O'Brien discs are not diminished by one aberrant result. | |
| AC/DC Black ice The main reason the AC/DC album sounds so good, and uncompressed, is Brendan O'Brien. He is the best hard rock producer and engineer of the last decade - in the sense of having great ears. No one else as consistently makes rock CD's that sound lik... | |
| AC/DC Black ice Sweet. I have good tickets for the ATL show on Dec 16th. I'll buy it this weekend. | |
| "D" amps, general discussion who's 1 and why? Dev, recall that I spoke to the dealer who was using the current model Spectron to drive MBL's in his personal system. I just looked up his name - Perrotta Consulting. According to his website, he reps, among others, the following amplifier manufa... | |
| "D" amps, general discussion who's 1 and why? Muralman what do you mean about "cable talk" on your system. I note that you are using cheap solutions - care to elaborate on the thought behind it all?You can see what I am running on my system link. I will tell you this, if there is any noise or... | |
| "D" amps, general discussion who's 1 and why? As a relative latecomer to these conversations, it appears that this discussion of oversampling has some history to it. I run a Cary 303/200 into the Spectron. The Cary has an oversampling button, and after playing around with it for a while, I ca... | |
| "D" amps, general discussion who's 1 and why? I first became intrigued about Class D after hearing that Von Schweikert and Gallo were using the Spectron Musican II to demo their products at trade shows, with generally better sonic results than many rooms showcasing costlier gear. After readin... | |
| Which is the most tubelike solid state amp around Many former toob-o-philes have landed with the Spectron Musician II SE MK2. Another frequent mention for tube-like warmth is the Plinius line, like the SA-102. | |
| Audio Physic Scorpio vs Scorpio II I have spoken to the US distributor and a NY dealer, and they both claim this latest version is a major advancement. I think I am about to pull the trigger on some Scorpio 2's sight unseen, but it might be a few weeks before I can report anything ... | |
| Help narrow my speaker search. $2500-$3500 used. TVAD - thanks, but I am certain that is not the problem. I actually took the CDP and amp to the dealer to audition the Sonus. I also hooked it up to some Ushers. The sibiliance I hear with the Totems was not there. I have also tried a BAT preamp i... |