loomisjohnson
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| Jeff Beck, Blues De Luxe Bdp24, I'm surprised to hear you say that about rs...granted he's a sellout and, by most accounts, a true douche, but he was a great singer back in the day.... | |
| 2nd system for office, all-in-one integrated suggestions i've heard the cambridge evo and it's good....nad c368 is another option for an all-in-one unit--it has a phono stage and a streaming module. | |
| As A Youngster, What Unit Puqued Your Interest In All This? when i was young and stupid(er) i ran nice speakers with crappy mass market receivers. at some point i started wising up and got a nad 3155 integrated--not a great piece by today's standards, but much better than the junk i'd used previously. it w... | |
| Does it make sense to "ignore low ball offers"? the way i sees it, audiogon is (or at least used to be) a bastion of higher-minded gentlemen/gentlewomen who are supposed to follow a certain unwritten code. making stupid offers (or listing gear at outrageous prices) is a breach of the code which... | |
| Best 2 channel music quality on a 5.1 home theater AVR @tksteingraber i had a similar experience--for two channel music, my 15-year old pioneer elite avr is an overacheiver which trumped the denon, integra, etc. i’ve cycled through. its only downside is that it doesn’t have hdmi arc function, so my wi... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? jacobites, robespierre's velvet basement--hadn't listened to this in a long while, but it's something of a classic, with that shambolic loose feel you can't fake graham parker, another gray area--he's a surly guy who screwed himself commercially ... | |
| Need advice on what to purchase to hold 1TB of music and connect to my new Innuos Pulsar. i learned the hard way not to cheap out on a hard drive when i lost almost 2tb of hi-quality files stored on a generic ssd. my tech guy said to use only samsung and that even the better known wd and sandisk drives are prone to failure. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? love tractor, this ain't no outer space ship--i remember them mostly as a sort of ambient guitar instrumental band, but this one is more songful than you'd expect swimming pool q's, s/t--another athens band; glossier and more new-wavy than my usu... | |
| Best 2 channel music quality on a 5.1 home theater AVR i agree with carlsbad--i'd keep your onkyo (which is just fine for movies) and add a two-channel amp for your fronts--i like parasound or acurus, but there's lots of choices. buy used and you can spend the savings on upgrading your speakers. | |
| Time to upgrade AV Receiver +1 soix. i've owned both anthem and arcam, as well as numerous mass market avrs and anthem sounds the most hi-fi of the bunch (although tbh some of the current denon and yamaha stuff sounds pretty good to my ears) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw good call on the eyelids--in a parallel universe they’d be bigger than the beatles) @bslon ever notice how good the only ones’ guitarist is? today’s picks: corey hanson, pale horse rider--a bit more restrained than my usual, but he’s a v... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? here's a record so obscure that even @bslon has (probably) never heard of it--the sponsors, "sponsors". angsty sorta power pop, with terse, fantastic songs. from the tiny bit i've found on the web, they were from nyc and made only this one album; ... | |
| Anyone familiar with Onix amplifier? i'm using an onix a150 in my office system and i like it just fine--very powerful, reliable and free from glare. soundwise, i'd liken it to nad or marantz--sorta tubey and analogue sounding, but also detailed--i prefer it to the rotel and arcam wh... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @bslon i'm not a big joe jackson guy (he's a vg musician but a lousy singer), but "big world" is one of the best-sounding recordings you'll hear. also the rare live album which has only new songs (jackson browne's is the only other one to come to ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @willkimbrough, coincidentally i was listening to sandanista the other day--it’s a lot to wade through but i think it’s unfairly maligned, with fully 75% of it being close-to-genius, albeit in a drugged out way. you also prompted me to revisit "fu... |