karelfd
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| Your favorite classical/flamengo guitar CDs Flamenco: Pepe Romero, "Flamenco", on First Impression Music LIMK2HD022; yes you read that correct one of the first K2HD CDs.Classical: Duo Favori, "The Well-Tempered Guitars", Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco 24 Preludes and Fugues for 2 Guitars op. 199... | |
| Size matters...need smaller speakers Tidal Amea! Does everything you mention, supreme musicality on top of that. Don't know whether the Amea Diacera (diamond tweeters) is already on the market, judging by the website not yet. Surely the latter will be beyond 10K, but if they hold wha... | |
| Your First Concert was..... Ten Years After, late 70s | |
| Listening for tube degradation great thread that I don't want to lose track of, hence my posting, thanks all! | |
| Personal amp evolution 1) Sansui (integrated, can't remember the model designation)2) Luxman L410 (integrated)3) Audio Exclusiv P2 (pre) + Luxman M363 (power)4) The P2, an award collector in the early 80s, was the first used gear I bought; impressively as its musical pe... | |
| first tube rolling: expert advice needed - take 2 Hi Mechans, good to hear from you again. With regard to the hiss I hear, it's not the phenomenon you describe I'm afraid. I can actually hear it from a few meters away, definitely too much if you ask me. Interestingly, you mention Jadis. I first h... | |
| My thoughts on Synergistic Research Tesla Much obliged, Leica man, your description of the cable opening up the soundscape makes my mouth water, as this is exactly where my Transfiguration Spirit III cartridge could do with a little help Thanks a lot. | |
| My thoughts on Synergistic Research Tesla Hi again. I did what I should have thought of to start with and contacted Ted Denney. I'm sur Ted will not mind if I just quote his words for the benefit of everyone interested:...I developed the Tricon Analog phono cable for the unique demands cr... | |
| My thoughts on Synergistic Research Tesla Hi, does anybody know whether there are dedicated phono cables in the Tesla series? From what I see on SR's webpage it would seem there aren't. Then again, the Cable Company offers "Tesla Tricon Analogue" cable, which is quite a bit cheaper than e... | |
| How international is your system? 3 systemsGermany: amps, speakers, TV, cabling, stands, platforms, record cleaning machineUSA: turntable, arm, power generator, cabling, cd-player, standUK: cd-player (with one or the other Chinese finger contributing), cabling, tweaksFrance: cd-pl... | |
| Assymetric speaker cable lengths? As Shadorne pointed out, impedance is the big issue here. Check out Townshend Audio's website; their Isolda Matched Impedance cable is supposed to tackle the issue (have never tried this myself though)http://www.townshendaudio.net/index.php?option... | |
| Abbingdon Music Research CD-77 impressions? Lazy by nature, please bear with me if I just quote what I wrote in my system thread last week.I have the CD-77 in my system for 4 months now and am extremely satisfied. I love its effortless, melodious and deeply saturated tonal character. It is ... | |
| Personal speaker evolution LSA (Laboratoires des Sciences Acoustiques), don't remember the model anymore, but they served me well as a studentJBL something (VX, I think), anyway they were really bad and left within a few monthsArcus TL200 (the longest serving)Infinity Kappa... | |
| Freak Me Out sooo many...The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & FrippGong, Camembert Electrique (and indeed any other Gong with Kevin Ayers)Fripp & Eno, No PussyfootingRobert Wyatt, Rock BottomCaptain Beefheart, Lick My Decals Off BabyMost stuff by Fr... | |
| Amazing Solo Piano Recordings ...hm, I apologize especially to Newbee for not reading the entire thread before. I have now seen, the Telarc Rachmaninoff was already recommended last August, and quite more detailed. Sorry. |