learsfool
Responses from learsfool
| Turntable advice? I agree with Jfrech - step up to a P2 or higher if you like the sound of your Rega already. | |
| Music Hall MMF-5.1 or Project RM-5SE Definitely save the money! The RM-5 will not significantly better your MH - in fact, I would argue that your MH betters it, at least in two different systems I have heard them both in. I would also agree with the poster who said that Regas will be... | |
| Phono preamp suggestions The Project one is fine, but for a much lower price you can get a Bellari VP129 that will better it (particularly in resolution of instrumental and vocal timbres), but it is MM only. It is almost always listed here for under $200, sometimes for mu... | |
| Help with CD Player Hi jazzpiano - my brother actually has a CEC CD player and likes it, though he prefers a brighter sound than I do - for me, the CEC stuff is too bright. I prefer the warmer sound of the Rega. Many digital recordings are more than bright enough (es... | |
| Oscar Peterson Second the We Take Requests recommendation - outstanding album. You might also want to check out Peterson 6 at Montreux from 1975 on Pablo records. Superb recording job. | |
| Speaker recommendations Have you considered something from the Klipsch Heritage series - many options, all of them much more inexpensive used than just about all of the above suggestions. I have the Cornwall's myself, but there are smaller sizes if you prefer or need tha... | |
| Help with CD Player The best player in that price range, IMO, is the Rega Apollo. Designed to sound as analog-like as possible, it has a much warmer sound, and greater soundstage, and better imaging than any other CD player I have ever heard costing a few times it's ... | |
| Best sounding Beethoven symphony LPs The Klieber perfomances are excellent. Some of the better performances on LP, however, do not offer the best sonics. One case in point would be Szell's. I have the ones on the Epic label - I am told the original releases sound better. There are al... | |
| PS Audio Equipment??? I directly compared my Monster strip to a PS Audio Quintet in my system, and I did not like what the Quintet did to the sound, either. Greatly reduced dynamics and soundstage, and instrumental timbres were not resolved nearly as well. The Monster ... | |
| Two questions about....? I second that opinion - definitely the gear is far more important. | |
| top ten things you learned about HiFi on Agon I was going to make a list, but then I read Newbee's and Elizabeth's and decided they said what I was going to say better. Great lists! | |
| CSO Resound - Mahler 1 SACD Perhaps the most widely admired living Mahler conductor among professional musicians right now is Claudio Abbado. Though some of his recordings do not have the best sonics, they are all well worth listening to. | |
| A question of bass... Several actually. The answer to the OP's question, IMO, is no, you don't have to spend anywhere near $1000 per speaker to get great bass. I second Jax2's suggestion of used Klipsch Cornwall's with a good tube amp. I have them myself, and the bass is great. I bought... | |
| Looking to get a turntable. IMO, you won't do better than the Rega tables in that price range. If you can stretch for the P2, that would be even better, but the P1 is a very nice start. The other very nice thing about the Rega tables is that they can be pretty much set-it-an... | |
| Coltrane's A Love Supreme and Davis's Kind of Blue Coltrane - Blue TrainMiles Davis - Birth of the CoolBill Evans - Waltz for DebbyElla Fitzgerald and Count Basie - On the Sunny Side of the StreetElla Fitzgerald - The 40th Birthday ConcertWynton Marsalis - Standard TimeOscar Peterson Trio - We Tak... |