loomisjohnson
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| Some more modern jazz piano trios @czarivey great call on the necks. don’t think anyone mentioned the bad plus or vijay iyer. | |
| Your suggestions: Headphone + DAC/Amp combo? i've compared the chord mojo to the smsl su-9/sh-9 combo and i like the smsl better--much better UI + digital tuning options + more dynamics and slam, while the mojo sounded a little more transparent/truer to source. both are hard to beat without ... | |
| Spotify HiFi spotify's continuing tease of a hifi tier is massively annoying and verges on securities manipulation. there are plenty of subscribers who would pay more for hifi even if competitors bundle it for free and/or have higher rez--spotify still has the... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? the verlaines, live at windsor castle--more ramshackle and punkier than their studio records would suggest. great nz band. off broadway, on--sort of a cheap trick manque, with a charismatic singer and a really hot guitar player. not a ton of lyri... | |
| Better story teller than Edmund Fitzgerald? The band played waltzing matilda. Brilliant and spot on historically. | |
| Did the Old Receivers Sound Good? i generally agree with @jsalerno277 above regarding as the sonic character of vintage vs. modern receivers, although "good sounding" is of course a subjective quality and many find the older stuff to be musically pleasing notwithstanding the hig... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @curiousjim glad you're enjoying artful dodger--they have a third major label record, babes on broadway, which is terrible, but the first two and the aforesaid "rave on" are the bomb. further picks today: rage to live, s/t--very intelligent 80s ... | |
| Fantasy or reality? Inexpensive solid state preamps that get you 80% there? if you're ok with hybrids, the vincent sa31 or rogue rp! can be found for a grand or so and are at least 83% of the way there | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? artful dodger, "rave on"-- swansong from a great, underappreciated guitar pop band somewhere between badfinger and the small faces (the singer sounds a lot like steve marriott). never on cd, afaik, but you can find it on youtube. grant lee buffal... | |
| Help with Yamaha 801 pairing i've owned the 801 and still have the polk model 10--the 801 is a good sounding amp but tends towards sounding a little bright, so you might pair it with something a little warmer--in your price range maybe focal aria, wharfedale or kef | |
| what cd player ? personally, i'd buy a really good universal player used, but if you want new the yamaha s100 is $799 at accessories4less and is built like a tank | |
| Is R.E.M. underrated by new music nerds? @roxy54 @bdp24 i fully concur that the byrds had great material through notorious byrd brothers (i like clarence white, too, but i don't think they were writing many memorable songs by that time). for my money, tho, their vocal sound was fully fo... | |
| Is R.E.M. underrated by new music nerds? rem was fantastic, but (like the byrds, the cars and the ramones) they hit their artistic peak right out of the gate w/chronic town and murmur--for me everything that came after marked a gradual, but noticeable decline--i rarely listen to anything... | |
| Looking for suggestions i mostly agree with mesch--your b& w speakers are pretty good, while changing to tidal or qobuz would be a huge upgrade. as for your receiver (which looks like it does have 2-zone capability), i'm not sure changing to another avr would make a ... | |
| Arcam A65 with EMI driving me nuts… could be all sorts of things--cable routing, inadequate cable shielding, improperly grounding and ground loops from antennas or wall outlets, as well as bad caps or relays. since i understand you still get noise when you remove all the sources a... |