lousyreeds1
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| Vinyl Lovers: 78's? One of my professors has about 5,000 78s. I enjoy listening to them greatly, but that's because of the music/performance and its historic significance, not the sound quality. Don't forget that recording technology, if not pressing technology, has ... | |
| Quad vs. Martin Logan? Macdadtexas, you read my mind. That's exactly how I'd rank these if I were forced to objectively rank speakers (the other parts of the system are soooo important). Also, don't forget that Maggies aren't electrostats! It's a magnetic planar technol... | |
| Sound Progression Maybe sean could chime in with a quick lesson regarding MM v MC and the technical bits of it all. I for one would love a lesson... | |
| Sound Progression Gunbei: bazzziiiing! | |
| Anyone else heard the Quicksilver Triode Amps? Hey Audiogon, aren't you supposed to monitor the forums? | |
| Sound Progression Yeah, I'm pretty sure that the Denon is a very low output moving coil cartridge. I'm going to let other people advise you about phono preamps and cartridges though, because it's not my area of expertise (yet!). | |
| Sound Progression Try turning it to 5am instead of 5pm.:)Is your cartridge moving magnet or moving coil? Therein might lie the answer. | |
| cdp digital volume control or preamp? Sorry, jerky of me to shoot something down without answering the question! It doesn't necessarily need to be a preamp- I believe you can simply add an outboard analog volume control. That said, I don't know if there are any quality ones made. And ... | |
| cdp digital volume control or preamp? Blkadr, there are not lots of opinions here. You're confusing this with the argument of analog volume controls on CDP's vs the use of preamps. We're talking digital volume controls here, which -always- lose information at lower volumes. Period. | |
| Verity Pars.Encore vs Kharma Ce 1.0 Why did he get rid of the Avalons? That would be helpful to know. | |
| Colorizing The Sound This is interesting: we don't usually consider the fact that 'hifi' may still means something if we intentionally change the sound that's coming from the source. When you do that, is there any point in having nice equipment at all? I think the ans... | |
| Best Budget system? $500-$750 tops I would look at NAD before Pioneer elite. | |
| Norah Jones? Another thing: Jazz it ain't. | |
| Sound Insulation- how much can it help? The decibel figures are irrelevant. The music is keeping a small child awake. As Jeff_Jones so eloquently said, "headphones".You can get an absolutely killer headphone setup for a few hundred. You can get reference quality and -good- 5.1 emulation... | |
| Morgen Don't know Isokoski. Lott and Schwarzkopf are both fantastic, but very much in the 'old diva' style. I haven't heard those particular recordings, but Bonney's version is simple and lush. I would guess that the other two are not, but I could be wro... |