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| Favorite Guitar Solo As a guitarist myself I find it difficult to name just one 'guitar solo' anymore, but there are a few performances on solo guitar that I would consider almost transcendental, such as this one:https://youtu.be/OwmljH41B1Q | |
| Ar ethe current LP's available for $25 or so as goos as the old ones. In my opinion the Zappa vinyl reissues have been very well done (mastered by Bernie Grundman and Chris Bellman, pressed at Pallas), and for sane prices. And if a particular title could not be cut from an analog source, at least they're honest abou... | |
| Your favorite 'concept' album The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out! The Who - Lifehouse | |
| Turntable for life Townsend Rock. I believe I could stay there. | |
| Warm sounding power cord for for CD player to suppress digital glare on vocals. Listening to the White Album now...good luck trying to tame bad recordings like that. Some Mullard tube saturation in the preamp was the only thing that made things like that more tolerable for me. The Beatles seemed to have wanted their recording... | |
| how can I make the back wall transparent? I have no experience with them, but....AudioKinesis Space Generators? | |
| Need Tube Preamp Warmth Sorry about the confusion I caused earlier...I should have said "Ultraviolet" to be more clear. I haven't heard the Dehavilland UV, but I heard a CJ pre not that long ago (I don't recall the model but it was a little pricey), and I thought it was ... | |
| DAC connection preferred? I'm still using the virtually defunct firewire via Metric Halo. I'm not sure how much 'better' it is than anything else, because the cables, OS, hardware, software, etc., all makes a difference anyway.If my DAC came with an optional SD card reader... | |
| Need Tube Preamp Warmth It's a very personal thing...but there's an Atma-Sphere pre up for sale right now well within your price range.I haven't heard the UV-1, but I do own an MP-3. It doesn't do the glassy, sibilance-exaggerating thing other tube preamps do, and yeah, ... | |
| Best value in pre-owned preamps right now? A few that come to mind....SAS Audio preamps. Owned a 10A linestage...very good product if you can find one. I haven't seen one up for sale in years, and I'm not sure if Steve Sammet is still in business. Can't go wrong if you want to hear what a ... | |
| what do members day dream of to Pink Floyd? I dream of a band that hasn't sounded like THIS in about 40 years:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6blNgo9bFwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoaS3JoNn38https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TTtfYDv9Rchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnD7Peszi7QToo bad..... | |
| Recommendations for a Analog to Digital Converter Occasionally I've seen a 'Legacy' Metric Halo ULN-2 for sale at a decent price. It's a very good DAC as well. | |
| What is the best OTL out there? I had to laugh, but "super-sonic spurious crap" is a dead-on description of what might be a deal breaker for some people. But the wide-open bandwidth spoken of is literally like the door thrown open wide on your speakers. Quite a realization. | |
| USB veresus FIREWIRE? Both my Metric Halo DACs utilize Firewire ports, but it seems MH is now offering an 'upgrade' path to USB integration with 1ms latency drivers to support both Windoze AND Linux.For my purposes, I'm fine using Firewire, and I don't have to worry ab... | |
| Amarra 3.0 vs. Audirvana Is there a consensus as to which version of A+ is the best sounding? |