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| What am I missing using a 20 year old CD player?? I would take your old CD player into a (several) store(s) and AB it with newer models, or if possible, ask to demo new models in your home with your own system. There have been a lot of improvements in DAC and filtering technology over the last tw... | |
| Speaker recommendations for NAD OK, birds have nothing to do with it. I meant "fouling". | |
| Speaker recommendations for NAD First, whatever speakers you choose, isolate them from the wooden cabinet with Bluetack or some other material/method. I would also isolate your amp and especially your source from the cabinet to keep vibrations from the speakers from fowling the ... | |
| Best driving music. Billy Cobham - Spectrum | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? "1: What do you drive (daily & weekends)?"daily - Metro Busweekends - 1991 BMW 318i with lots of dents - if I can get it away from my teenage daughter..."2: What might you be driving in the future?"Flexcar"3: What would you drive if $$$ was no... | |
| Returning to HiFi with twin toddlers need help I would check out Wharfedale Diamond 9.1 for fronts. They are great sounding speakers for the money (about $350), and then use their Diamond 9.0's for surrounds (about $250). You could get a Wharfedale center channel later on, plus a good sub (sav... | |
| Replacing Thiel 2.2's, Need Monitor Suggestions Given your taste in music, I would strongly suggest the new B&W 685 or any Dynaudio monitor you can afford new or used. I don't think you will be satisfied with one of the small floor standers mentioned except perhaps the Quad 22L (~$1300 new)... | |
| Your 5 Fav Rock Concerts Return To Forever - 1974, Evergreen State College library (OK, its half-jazz, but it was LOUD and FAST and CLOSE)Fleetwood Mac - 1976, Seattle Center Coliseum (Buckingham and Nicks rock much harder in person than you would have thought)Rolling Sto... | |
| Freak Me Out I am starting to sound like a broken record but - check out "Floratone", 2007 release on Blue Note. Even old people like it! | |
| Replacing Thiel 2.2's, Need Monitor Suggestions Era Design 5, B&W 685 or CM1, Dynaudio Audience 42 or Focus 110 (used), Quad 11L, Epos M12.2, Totem Rainmaker or Arro (very small, very good sounding tower speaker with very high WAF, or in your case GFAF). | |
| christmas music Various Artists - Hawaiian Slack Key Christmas (recording level a bit hot but wonderful twist on the holiday. If you like John Fahey's work, check this out)Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song (noisy recording, but oh that voice)The Morman Tabernacl... | |
| Beating the RVG Horse Thanks. I guess I am trying to say that Rudy had a great ear once, and perhaps his approach to digital re-masters is not as successful as his original approach was with vinyl. There may be a lot of other factors or actors at work here since there ... | |
| Beating the RVG Horse My two cents. I agree that the RVG remastered CDs, while many are creative master pieces, sound noticeably thin. And I think the ones from the early sixties sound more so than the ones from the late fifties as a rule.Theory one: RVG's original rec... | |
| What's your profession? Age? Marine Scientist and Program Manager for environmental nonprofit, 49, married 24 years, 2 almost grown kids who smile at Dad's "hobby". | |
| Best sounding LP nobody else has ever heard of... Not sure if this is available in LP yet/ever, but check out new "Floratone" recording from Blue Note. One of the most creative projects Bill Frisell has been involved in ever.Read record company propaganda here: http://www.bluenote.com/artistpage.... |