loomisjohnson
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| Is Spotify as good of quality as the HD-Tracks? to your original question, hdtracks offers much higher resolution that spotify premium, which streams at up to 320kb and, i expect, would sound much better. however, i'm finding that even at the lower resolution spotify's sound quality is more tha... | |
| Lowend Preamp on a budget. b&k has been my my go-to for inexpensive preamps--i've owned at various times the cs117, pt5, ref30 and pro10. i find 'em less colored and more transparent that adcom/rotel/nad and better built as well. can be had really cheap. per georgelofi,... | |
| Sell quality turntable to buy top CD player? sunnyjim, i found myself in complete accord with metralla above--you have a (comparatively) tiny cd collection, and i wonder if you wouldn't get more pleasure using some of your budget to get more tuneage, rather than spending it all on hardware. ... | |
| In Santana we trust i'm with raytheprinter--the spacier, more exploratory stuff like caravanserai and borboleta holds up a lot better than the poppier stuff that came before it or the increasingly forgettable stuff that came after. "welcome" is antoher goddun. | |
| MOG to shut down, replaced by Beats Music i'm using spotify, having tried beats already. spotify has the library, and the sq is comparable to mog (some say better because they use ogg instead of mp3), though i find the interface less intuitive and more confusing--it's harder to simply set... | |
| NAD 7600 Turns on briefly, then shuts off nad=not again, damnit | |
| Denon AVR-4802R i have the 4800 and my recollection is that you can only use analog inputs (not digital) with the second zone--try connecting analog rca to your v.aux and see if that does the trick. | |
| Want Nice table radio cd player to replace bose i bought my classical-loving dad a SANGEAN WR-11 ($85 on amazon). really nice sound and sensitive tuner; has input for ipod or whatever. | |
| Best Rock Drummers just saw the "beware of mr. baker" documentary on netflix (ginger's quite a lovely fellow) and watched with interest his "drum battles" with the likes of elvin jones, max roach and art blakey. great a "rock" drummer as baker is/was, he's really no... | |
| Hot Tuna their first, self-titled (live) album is a classic--it's probably inspired a million guys to pick up an acoustic guitar. jorma's one of the great non-singers of all time. their subsequent electric albums like phosphorescent rat have their moments,... | |
| Apple to Acquire Beats Audio many of you (as well as the business pundits) have opined that apple's real target was the streaming business, but i'm not sure--beats audio has supposedly done a good job of converting trial listeners to paid subscribers, but they're still a spec... | |
| If you have ever bought anything from HSU research i've had good experience with hsu as well, which doesn't mean definitively that they acted correctly in this particular case. however, i'm generally skeptical of people using these forums to air private grievances, esp. those who haven't posted be... | |
| Aimee Mann 'Charmer' just got her new cd with ted leo "the both" (apparently she won't release her music on pandora/mog). weird effort--there's very good songs buried in here, but the sound is sub-demo quality--they seem to be going for a raw feel, but it mostly sound... | |
| Not asking the best.... the intro to "sweet jane" on rock and roll animal and the coda to "layla" are obvious choices, but i alwys liked the long, swelling break in "ramble tamble" on cosmo's factory | |
| Fleetwood Mac A rap and punk-loving friend, who generally disdains melodic pop) uncharacteristically idolizes "tusk" on the basis that "the songs sound like nursery rhymes." it's a good observation--the bulk of it is fundamentally simple, three-chord tunes inde... |