loomisjohnson
Responses from loomisjohnson
| Newbie Advice - New Amp Setup i doubt there'd be a huge difference in s.q. you could also look for an hk 3485 (older model; will be a lot cheaper), which was a good unit. enjoy. | |
| Newbie Advice - New Amp Setup i'm sure the hk 3390 sounds fine, but the hk 3490 has more power and a lot more connectivity options (subwoofer out and preouts so you can use it as a power amp or preamp in the future) + a pretty good inboard dac in case you want to connect a com... | |
| Newbie Advice - New Amp Setup the cheapest route for you is to keep your nikko amp, which you like, and get a phono premap--you can find a serviceable pro-ject, cambridge, etc. for $60-100. on the other hand, if you want to stretch to $200-250 or so i'd look at a used harman k... | |
| Best rock cover songs, list your favorites Maybe I'm growing too cantakerous, but I find these Old, Musically Barren Rock Star Makes Covers Album exercises to be really dreary. Rod Stewart, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, even Glen freakin' Frey. Last really good one I hear was PinUps by David B... | |
| Are there any albums you consider perfect? donbagley, if you like califone (great band) check out their predecessor band red red meat---jimmywine majestic is a masterpeiece | |
| Should I add a stereo preamp? generally speaking a good standalone preamp will sound better than using your mainstream avr as a preamp. similarly (and perhaps to expand on rar1's point), you'll likely get better sound with good standalone dac than using the digital ins on your... | |
| Disappointing Albums of 2012 good list notec. i no longer expect much from springsteen or neil young, but kathleen edwards really missed. i'd add the terrible lou reed metallica thing (sounded like spinal tap) and port of morrow by the once-great shins. | |
| What’s hot in monitors from $2K to $3K in 2012? guru qm10 legitimately get close to 30hz--very cool looking little speaker | |
| why do we argue? i have a mixed mind on the subject of forum censorship. on the one hand i loath the idea of online hall monitors/moderators and like charzo et. al. generally endorse the idea of letting boys be boys. on the other hand, some of us still harbor vagu... | |
| Best rock cover songs, list your favorites marty, that's damn funny. my wedding processional was "chains", the carole king/little eva song, later covered badly by the beatles. agree with you on "patches" too--definitely the greatest bad song ever, with "billy, don't be a hero" a close cont... | |
| What makes music so congested? if other recordings sound good on your system, it's gotta be the recording. fragile has been re-released literally dozens of times since it came out and i'd assume that some of the releases are better than others--alot of early 90s cds very poorly... | |
| Wireless Outdoor Speakers there's lots of wireless outdoor speakers around--acoustic research, bose, etc. many are designed to look like rocks, lanterns, etc. look at outdoorspeaker.com or outdoorspeakerdepot.com for your options; i've also seen 'em at lowes. | |
| Can my amp drive the Paradigm Studio 100s I have two Denon AVRs (rated at 140w and 110w) and find neither very stasfying for two channel music--as suggested above they may have enough power, but just don't sound good, esp. at the low end. Adding an external amp (in my case 120w Parasound ... | |
| The most haunting music you ever heard? to get slightly off track, my issue with daniel lanois is that he makes everyone sound exactly the same--whether it's dylan, emmylou harris, peter gabriel (hell, he even produced raffi), their records all have that hazy, gauzey sound that's sorta ... | |
| Outdoor opinions? the big issue for me with oyutdoor speakers is they typically don't have much low end--maybe a function of cabinet design. the polk atrium series do pretty well with bass; the psbs also have good specs and would be worth hearing. |