keegiam
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| Jazz for aficionados While an extra day would be wonderful, there would be unintended consequences such as longer waits between social security checks, existing pill containers becoming useless, political squabbling over what to name the day, and Seventh Day Adventist... | |
| Classe Six Preamp MC Output not Working Thanks all, good points. We may have inadvertently changed some toggle switches on the front panel in handling the preamp. I have always kept the bypass switch off and the bypass mode on balanced.The "tech" is a friend of mine who did this kind ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Nice interview with Larry Coryell, even though the interviewer is awful.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71NYkqyqc6A | |
| Audio Lessons Learned - post your best advice for the newer members! I thought I was getting pretty basic with the sweet spot chair and ear angle.The more posts I see, the more I need to urge would-be audiophiles to GO LISTEN TO LIVE MUSIC. To have a satisfying home reproduction system, you to understand what you... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Performances by Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Count Basie. Nice chats between Oscar and Joe, and Oscar and Duke. Forgive me if this has been posted recently.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HAZP7nWo6A&t=65s | |
| Audio Lessons Learned - post your best advice for the newer members! Two cheap, overlooked factors:1. Portable sweet spot chair.Get a small chair and move it around to find the sweet spot for each recording. The idea of setting up a system with a single, large, fixed sweet spot (and comfortable chair to match) is... | |
| Speaker cable length I can't agree with the "length makes no difference" crowd.I'll give you that using one 6-ft. cable and one 12-ft. cable wouldn't be problematic.But what if the cable length is 1,000 ft.? Extreme example, but to maintain it still doesn't matter wo... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Pops in Copenhagen, 1933: "Dinah"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhVdLd43bDI | |
| Jazz for aficionados Fun piece: Dizz & Pops "Umbrella Man"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO1uMjz3n3w | |
| Jazz for aficionados Great insight from Frogman as always. I'll add one non-musical attribute I would want to see: reliability. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Nice Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, Barney Kessellhttps://youtu.be/_4jMQNJFPO4 | |
| Speaker cable length If you have a basement, consider doing what I did. I put my amp in the basement to reduce hum in the listening room. My preamp and its power supply are also in a room adjacent to the speakers, in an equipment cabinet, with balanced IC's running ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Some sweet tracks from my YT mix today.Oscar Pettiford - "Bohemia After Dark" Vol. 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5EwGijmqKc&list=RDGMEMTmC-2iNKH_l8gQ1LHo9FeQVMETDSOugNrqU&i...Coleman Hawkins - "Time on My Hands (You in my Arms)"https:... | |
| New Audio Technica ART9XA Up and Running..... @pindac Oh yes, I remember that post now. That was on a thread I started way back when I was trying to decide whether to go with the older ART9 or the new ART9XI. In fact, that was one of the posts that began pushing me toward the XA and getti... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Thank you all for your thoughts.Frogman, the guitar in the intro to Lucinda Williams made me think of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game." Maybe your wife will hear the similarity. (Or maybe I'm off my rocker?)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vKsSGyQf-M... |