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| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs I really like "At Seventeen," and consider its good sound as a bonus. Her "Breaking Silence" album is even better in recording quality, but I still prefer "At Seventeen." More pop/rock albums with good sound: Warren Zevon (self titled) Chris I... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs The Eva Cassidy album is one of the greatest live albums ever recorded—beautiful sound and great performance. I have the Toneff album and I agree about it being a great sounding album. The My Funny Valentine and the Moon’s a Harsh Mistress track... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs While folk music is far from my favorite genre and the several truly great sounding albums I am about to list are not musically my favorites, they are nonetheless enjoyable and the recordings are stunning; it must be the Carnegie Hall venue: "Bel... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs itsjim, We agree on Sheffield D-to-D recordings, although I find some of the music to be so-so. The same goes with other D-to-D recording companies, such as M & K Realtime. I like the other non- D-to-D records you recommend, particularly t... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs If you want to immerse yourself in great controversy, google "hot stamper" or the company selling these records--Better Records The claim is that, even within a particular issue of an album, there are certain stampers that are better than others... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs Great sound AND good music do not often go together in a single record. This is an example of one record having both: Richard and Linda Thompson: "Shoot Out the Lights" Hannibal Records. | |
| surprising comparison of tube preamps It is very much a matter voicing of the equipment designer and the buyer's personal taste and matching of components. To me, Audio Research gear has a somewhat lean and analytical sound. Their sound has consistently been that way, so it is a hou... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs Two more spectacular recordings that I have heard, and own, only in reissued versions: 1) "Satchmo Plays King Oliver"--1960, Audio Fidelity (original issue), Classic Records reissue. 2) "Alternate Blues" (Gillespie, Terry, Hubbard, Peterson)-1... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs For classical music, consistently very good sounding records were produced by the label Lyrita (exclusively British composers); I have never heard even a so-so Lyrita. For 1950-60’s, RCA and Mercury recordings are also mostly good. Some of the b... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs I also find many direct to disc records to deliver superb sound (the master lacquer is cut live and direct from the mixing board without an intervening tape recording). Sheffield Records and M & K Realtime made many good sounding examples. I... | |
| can subwoofers make things worse? The quality of sound with or without a subwoofer is a matter of both execution and personal preference. Even in very rooms, with unlimited budget and no placement limitations, some people prefer not having subwoofers. I usually prefer not having... | |
| Good measuring DACs vs. By an insanely wide margin, the worst testing DACs would be those from Audio Note. The images of waveforms are totally unrecognizable as sine waves. Find one to audition. That audition will convince you of the utter meaninglessness of measureme... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs At the last Capital Audiofest, I spent a lot of time hanging out with and helping Phillip O'Hanlon, who was exhibiting Graham speakers. He is known for his vast and eclectic collection of LPs. I brought for him to hear a record from my collectio... | |
| Efficient speakers -- What was your journey from A to B to ? This is an interesting thread about higher efficiency speakers. It is indeed the case that most horn systems do not have great time alignment of drivers. However, if the speaker is designed properly, this in not really much of a problem. The tr... | |
| Is toeing speakers a bad idea? There are no generally applicable rules on any aspect of speaker placement, including toe-in; speaker design, room acoustics, listening preferences matter. Toe-in results in less sound first bouncing off the side wall before reaching the listener... |