loomisjohnson
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| record stores in Chicago the way i see it, you can have a romantic weekend anytime, but you can't always go record shopping in a great music city. buy the wife a couple of cds so she feels special and have a great trip. | |
| Do you ever wonder? entire books should be (and probably have been) written about the whole grateful dead cult phenomenom. i've been subjected to their interminable live shows and bootleg tapes, which is my idea of hell. now, i don't think their whole ouevre is entir... | |
| Speakers help for a newb... the vs vr1s and paradigm recommendations above are certainly good ones, but you'll need stands. i'd also look at monitor audio rs6/rs8 or vs vr2 floorstanders, which are fuller range and won't take up any more real estate. | |
| record stores in Chicago reckless records (on milwaukee ave. in wicker park and in new town) is probably your best bet--it has a mindnumbing collection of used and new stuff, esp. rock; jazz record mart on east illinois downtown is vg source for jazz and blues, albeit on ... | |
| looking for speakers under 3K new or used,,,help revel f30 or f32, vonschweikert vr2 or vr4se, joseph audio, vmps rm30 or rm40 | |
| Do you ever wonder? actually, not that he's a titan of the biz, but ian hunter's epononymous lp and "you're never alone..." were really good 70s pop records. wrt clapton, for some reason i can't abide any of his solo stuff after "eric clapton" (which was really a del... | |
| Do you ever wonder? i do think that certain guys can only make worthwhile music in the context of a band--when they step out solo, they flail around miserably. look at the solo records from mick jagger, roger waters, clapton, pete townsend, roger mcguinn et. al.--ver... | |
| Do you ever wonder? marty, you've turned me around on this subject. i retract my earlier post and now concur that he's a drug addled ass clown. his solo work does suck. there's less talented people in the biz, but fate is a fickle mistress. | |
| Do you ever wonder? on a certain level, martykl has david crosby pegged. he was, however, one of the great harmony singers (go back and listen to the early byrds stuff) and has his name on a fair number of classic songs--8 miles high, wooden ships, triad, etc.--and w... | |
| 1K used monitor with wide/uniform dispersion ablang--by all means audition the kefs--your opinion is ultimately the one that matters. it does seem like kef has lost some brand cachet in recent years--you rarely see their stuff touted with the same enthusiasm as the quad, harbeth, proac and o... | |
| 1K used monitor with wide/uniform dispersion i actually just auditioned the kefs along with some psb synchcrony and imagine monitors. the kefs look good and have a nice, liquid midrange but a slightly tinny treble, not much bottom end and a quite narrow soundstage--compared to the psbs they ... | |
| Double Albums/CDs, curse or blessing? truth be told, most good double lps would be great edited down to a single. my short list of genuinely great double lps would include (in no particular order):exile on main st.blonde on blondelaylawhite albumbitches brewwarehouse songs and stories... | |
| 1K used monitor with wide/uniform dispersion you might find paradigm signature s1 or psb synchrony b used within your budget; both are great (and canadian) and meet your critieria. the psb imagine are almost as good. i'd also second the vs vr-1s. | |
| Bob Dylan as much as i love dylan, i'm forced to admit that essentially all his great work was pre-1976 (circa blood on the tracks). he regained some artistic momentum with time out of mind in the late 90s, and his recent records are well produced, very few... | |
| Cheap receiver + amp vs Expensive receiver obviously, your question is not suceptible to pithy absolutes and its answer is dependent on the details. a top flight avr like b&k or sunfire will undoubtedly sound better than a garden variety mass-market avr augmented with a garden variety ... |