lenny_zwik
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| Loudness War T Bone Burnett is another strong proponent and advocate of quality and bemoans the loudness wars too. | |
| dCS Puccini vs EMM labs XSD1 By far the best sub $20K digital source I've experienced and I've owned ML 390S and dCS P8i. Read the review in this month's S'phile. First time I agree completely. Although JA says the U clock enhances performances, I didn't hear anything suffici... | |
| The most hilarious ad ever on Audiogon? It should look like a radiator. 0% efficiency, that means all the power drawn from the wall is dissipated as heat and none transferred to the "load". What a bunch of..... | |
| Why can't all/most recordings be this good? Larry Carlton - Greatest Hits RerecordedGordon Goodwin - Big Phat Band (any of them)Jimmy Buffet - JVC XRCD Songs you should know by heartAllison Krause - New Favorite (SACD)Neil Young - Prairie Wind; Live at Massey HallJames Taylor - LiveJohn Mel... | |
| acoustic absorbers vs diffusers absorbers go in the corners where the excess bass energy is. diffusers along the front and side walls. | |
| acoustic absorbers vs diffusers Diffusive elements along the front wall, behind the speakers and along the side walls as I described. Absorptive elements along the side walls. Go to Acoustic Sciences Corp (ASC) web site for some good info. You can also Rives Audio for excellent ... | |
| acoustic absorbers vs diffusers Room corners and placing speakers close to room boundaries; floors, walls, cause / result in the reinforcement of low frequencies that can smear detail in the midrange and low treble. It is necessary to remove this excess energy or absorb it throu... | |
| CDs with heavy, fast bass and/or long drum solos Toad from the Cream Live at Royal Albert Hall. An amazing solo from Ginger Baker. | |
| Use of Power Conditioners vs. Direct into the Wall One Hydra 2 for a pair of monos and one HydraX (however many outlets you need up to eight) for the front end. | |
| Review: Cardas Reference Series Golden & Neutral Ref, Golden Pres. Interconnect For those of you Golden Reference owners: Cardas has a new termination for their speaker cables based on die forging. I recently had my cables reterminated and the improvement was not subtle, especially given the $450 cost. | |
| Harmonix- Finite elemente ..? I would add Grand Prix Audio to your list. | |
| Zu Essence vs. any Emerald Physics CS series Checkout the current issue of Stereophile for a review of the Zus. | |
| levinson 380 pre-amp help, help, help Have you tried turning it off via the switch on the back panel? That's the only "reset" I know of. | |
| Is the Levinson 320s/326s sound better than 380s I don't know, but I'm about to put my 380S up for sale and if you don't mind telling me, what did you pay for yours? | |
| CD Player with the best Built-in Volume Control... I don't know what your budget is, but I use a dCS P8i into Watt/Puppy 7s. |