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| Analog invites you to turn up the volume I don't know why people are so resistant to accepting that vinyl has always been much more emotionally involving. Digital sounds very nice, and then you walk out of the room. You might not even be consciously aware of it. People make all kinds of... | |
| Can you recommend Jazz for some one that doesn't like Jazz? I'm surprised that no one has complimented stuartk for his thoughtful and detailed response! The first albums that really drew me into jazz were Kind Of Blue (Miles Davis, already mentioned) and Giant Steps (John Coltrane). Louis Armstrong (Satc... | |
| Top 10 Live Albums Bruce Springsteen Piece De Resistance bootleg (Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ 9/19/78) Bill Evans Sunday at the Village Vanguard | |
| Kirmuss 'In the Groove' Ultrasonic Record Restorer - Upscale Audio Edition Can't the Kirmuss be used without all the steps as a well designed ultrasonic cleaner? It's less than 1/3 of the price of the expensive ones, and I have been thinking about getting one. | |
| Has a Power Conditioner Improved Your Sound? Is the audioquest powerquest 707 an updated version of the niagra1200? | |
| Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ? No one remembers Ivor Tiefenbrun, founder of Linn, "Garbage in, garbage out"? You can't improve what you don't get/can't get rid of any added distortions from what comes off the record, cd etc. I've found that as I've upgraded my source, I get m... | |
| Phono Stage, Tonearm, Cartridge Question - Which is the most important? The record is the most important! | |
| What do you all think of ADS/Braun speakers? I had a pair of mint condition L420s that I gave to a very good friend of my son's. I always had a love/hate relationship with them, finding them to be hard sounding in the upper midrange/treble. He was very happy to have a pair of vintage speak... | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? I think the best way to decide how you like any new component is to live with it for a while. If you don't like it, it will become obvious quickly. If it's close, you can go back and forth and compare. Play lots of different music- see if you e... | |
| upgrade path from my current speakers? (Dynaudio Special Forty) Multiple Youtube reviewers, including Steve Guttenberg, tout the Buchardt S400 MK II as a world beating stand mount speaker in the same class as Dynaudio, but here it is rarely mentioned. Any ideas? | |
| Why would someone feel the need to comment unpleasant things on sale posts I think it's because now many people think they know everything about things they know very little about, and feel a need to broadcast their poorly informed opinions. The relative lack of legitimate information, and preponderance of poor informat... | |
| Share the songs that move you (from musicals). Oops, I forgot Sunday (Sunday In The Park With George) by Sondheim! | |
| Share the songs that move you (from musicals). For starters, how about the Kern/Hammerstein and Rogers/Hammerstein songs, many of them prospective love songs: Make Believe (Show Boat) Some Enchanted Evening (South Pacific) If I Loved You (Carousel) Something Wonderful, I Have Dreamed (The ... | |
| Old CD player back from the dead—prompting many questions! @patrickdowns Sorry, I know this is off topic, but I am interested in the difference between the Sig IIIs and Treos. What is causing you to consider upgrading? Thanks very much, KB | |
| Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords? jasonbourne71 appears to be a hideous, miserable deaf person in his late 90s, whose only role in life is ruining things for others. It makes me angry every time I read one of his posts, and I sincerely wish he would just go away. |