larsman
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| Headphones to keep you honest I use both headphones and speakers; as I live in an apartment and cannot listen at concert levels, I get a much more visceral experience with headphones than with speakers - goes right down from the skull through the bones. And no, I don't use 'Be... | |
| DAC Reviews - Headphones v Speakers I bought a Holo May DAC for my headphones, but then changed it so that it will work with either my headphones or my 2-channel speaker setup, depending on how I set the switch that I bought for that purpose. I liked the Holo May better than DAVE + ... | |
| Adding a Herron VTSP 3A/360 Preamplifier to the system. @vinylvalet - thanks for letting me know about that recent interview with Keith - I MUST check that out!!!! Love my 360/Ref! | |
| So where do you fall in the spectrum.? Gear or Music? I'd guess for most of us, good music came into our lives long before good gear.... | |
| Bully pulpits Being a rock and roll guy, I prefer the Wooly Bully pulpit..... | |
| High Fidelity Sound Speaker After glancing through this thread, I wouldn't touch anything by David Louis with the proverbial 10-foot pole. 😁 | |
| Bully pulpits I dunno - I see a little of that, to be sure, but not a whole lot. I guess I'm not looking at the right threads! I think it's all really important, but just on more appropriate websites. | |
| Band Member Changes Over Time Genesis was my favorite band for a long time, since I saw them in my college gym in Rochester, NY in early 1973 on the 'Foxtrot' tour. I loved most of what they did both with and without Peter - after all, the great Tony Banks was responsible for ... | |
| In the beginning Started with rhythm.... | |
| hearing loss and speaker selection I've worn hearing aids for about 15 years; they cannot restore frequencies that have been lost. Lost is lost. What they can do is effectively EQ a curve to give the impression of better high frequencies in relation to the others. You can work wit... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other I've got a Technics 1200G and it is an excellent turntable in my system... | |
| New Herron VTPH 2A versus used Audio Research Reference 2 Phono I've got a Herron VTSP-360 line preamp and VTPH-2 phono preamp and they are both superb, and yes, Keith is great to talk to about this stuff... | |
| Pet Sounds: Most Overrated Album of All Time? I'm 70 and grew up in the pre-Beatles era, so I've seen and heard a lot of stuff come down the pike. I don't know what is a 'classic' and what is not. I do not know what is overrated and what is not. All I can tell is whether I enjoy listening to ... | |
| Something Millercarbon has preached Be A Better Listener. Do not get mired in data. @nonoise + 1, as usual.... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? Unlike 'smooth jazz', which for me isn't good for much besides background music at a dinner party, realistic art doesn't put me to sleep.... |