karelfd
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| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? 2006 Volkswagen Passat with Dynaudio speakers in'em (conveniently cruising accompanied by the groove of Marc Moulin) | |
| First song to "Blow You Away"... Another one falling prey to Led Zep, in my case "Immigrant Song". I vividly recall being in the garden on a freezing cold night (interested in astronomy, nothing else) when it burst out from somewhere in the neigbourhood. I didn't know who or what... | |
| Donald Fagen's Nightfly - Love it or Hate it? Absolutely love it. In addition of everything that's been said so far, it's one of those albums that, played at low level, creates a superb mood of well-being (by which I'm not, repeat, not for a moment suggesting it were just "easy listening"). | |
| DaVinci Tonearm Just for additional information (sure wish I could say I had listened to this myself); in the latest issue (6/06) of the German magazine LP, the combination TWA Raven AC / Da Vinci Grandezza / Clearaudio Goldfinger is described as "sonic nirvana",... | |
| Equipment that has made you 'stop' looking? 1) Well Tempered Reference TT and arm;2) Tidal Contriva speakers (unless Joern Janczak has another - affordable - ace up the sleeve) | |
| Personal turntable/cartridge evolution Around 1974 on a student's budget: belt driven Pioneer with Shure MM , I can't possibly recall the model designations anymore.Around 1981 on some of my first earned wages: Technics SL-QL1 linear tracking direct drive with T4P plug-in Ortofon TMC 2... | |
| a little dinner music Here are the ones, I usually have stacked next to the cd player, when friends come to visit us (more or less in alphabetical order)- Ambersunshower: "Walter T. Smith"- Jacques Brel: "J'arrive"- Dave Brubeck Quartet: "Time Out"- Ron Carter & Ro... | |
| Anyone ever heard or read about JM Labs Cobalt 806 I don't know whether there has been a "Jubilee" model of the Cobalt 806; if not, you're talking about one and the same speaker. Let's see if I recall the JMLab (Jaques Mahul Laboratory) story. The Focal brand initially stood for drivers sold to ot... | |
| Recommended HDMI DVD players for music and movies. I've got the Arcam DV 137 on my own wish list, which is officially priced at EUR 2000,- in Germany. If that is not way in excess of what you want to spend, make sure to take a very close look at this multi-talent (also sacd + dvd A). | |
| Speakers to hang on to for LIFE Tidal Contriva (and if I won big in the lottery, the only speaker I could think of for replacement would be Tidal Contriva Diacera)With the actual ambition to find myself speakers for life, I had spent over three years listening to a range of spea... | |
| Which components knocked you out on first listen? Without a single trace of doubt: Tidal Contriva loudspeakers (the 2005 model with ceramic mid drivers) last May. I had been looking for "definitive" speakers for over 3 years and auditioned a number of B&W 8 series, Wilson Audio Sophia, Audiod... |