loomisjohnson
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| Streaming services. i would say spotify for your genres--tidal sounds better but costs twice as much and doesn't have quite the depth of catalog | |
| No Remote for AR LS-16. according to logitech, all harmony remotes will control your preamp--you can find something like the harmony 650 for really cheap | |
| Marshall Kilburn 2 or JBL Xtreme 2? the marshall sounds great--i think you can get one for $149 on a cybermonday deal today | |
| Worst Rock Band Ever !!!! steve miller was a natural, which is both a blessing and a curse--on the one hand he could effortlessly knock off a great, simplistic AM tune like take the money and run or the joker, while on the other hand much of his stuff is remarkably underba... | |
| ... POORLY RECORDED SONGS THAT ... i never thought blind faith was badly recorded--jimmy miller, andy johns and other such luminaries did the engineering. now, of course, i'm gonna have to go back and listen to it critically. what i will say is that winwood never sang better + i al... | |
| Movies with... patrick's apartment in american psycho had some beautiful gear--duntech speakers maybe? | |
| White Album Deluxe Anniversary edition i don't generally get into these multi-disc reissues, which usually seem like unnecessary cash-ins, but this one is worthwhile--you get a very candid look at their creative process + you learn how much george martin added to the mix. john and paul... | |
| CD Player /Built in Headphone Amp i use an integra dvd 8.3 universal player in an office system and it has a surprisingly good headphone out with a good inboard dac--you can easily find one for <$100 on ebay | |
| Amp/Preamps vs. High end AV Receivers you might try moving in stages by adding a separate power amp and using your avr as a pre--almost all mass market avrs benefit from external amping. you can always get a separate pre later. | |
| Opinion of Acurus 2 and 3 channel amplifiers is ... what? agree (as usual) with willand--i owned the a150 and was very pleased--very neutral and less colored than comparably priced b&k, parasound, adcom, etc. | |
| Thoughts on Big Star it's a pretty big leap from big star to captain beefheart (who i never got into; never was a zappa fan either despite earnest effort). what i suspect may be offputting to some about big star is how they pushed the boundaries of traditional melodic... | |
| Thoughts on Big Star i'm a little surprised at the polarized reactions--to my ears big star (unlike most "cult" artists) is all about melody and should have very broad appeal, like the beatles or the hollies. at the end of the day, though, either you dig it or you do... | |
| If I plug my phone into an external DAC, does it bypass the internal DAC in the phone? the lg v30 (which they're blowing out for cheap now) is as good-sounding a phone as you'll find--it outperforms a number of daps and headphone amps i've heard. only quirk is you either have to use higher impedance headphones (>50o) or trick the... | |
| Thoughts on Big Star i forgot about the "keep an eye" set--it's got excellent versions of most of their best songs + its live tracks cut the sorta sloppy "live at missouri university" and "big star live" discs, altho the latter has a killer version of the loudon wainw... | |
| Bands with great second albums i think "translate slowly" was the debut, but it's a great record--curiously unavailable on spotify, so i found the disc and it really does hold up well. their later records aren't as good.i'll also throw out dwight twilley "twilley don't mind"--n... |