karl123

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Name 3 songs where audio quality and song quality completely align
@ronboco The Bonfire and River Plate live versions of Shoot to Thrill sound just as good or maybe better than the studio version to me, somehow. I pretty much always prefer studio albums, but not with AC/DC.  
My opinion;
A lot of hip hop is about that, but lots of it also warns against those things. I listen to pretty much every genre, but very little jazz and pop and hardly any hip hop since college.  That said, What They Do by The Roots is one of the best sound... 
Name 3 songs where audio quality and song quality completely align
Agapi Mou from the album Modeste Hugues - Modeste Hardly anyone has heard of this album or musician. I discovered Modeste on a blog like Awesome Tapes From Africa when I was 23... the album was unlike any thing I’d ever heard, (usually, I listen ... 
Fantasy or reality? Inexpensive solid state preamps that get you 80% there?
Audio Research SP-5 is the best solid state preamp I’ve heard, and they’re about a thousand now because of all the bad reviews, haha. I do run it through a tube power amp though, most people were probably running it in a full solid state system.  
Opinions on Audio Research SP5
The SP-5 is a beast. I have an Audio Research SP-5 and SP-8. I found the SP-5 at a charity auction and decided to keep the best of my 3 preamps (the other one is a Conrad Johnson PV-2), fully expecting it be the SP-8 because it’s tube based and h...