lucynbarney
Responses from lucynbarney
| Garbage in - Garbage out? Maybe it was because of Ivor but in UK the emphasis was always on the front-end. When I lived there I used to read about the US penchant for big amps and wonderous speakers.Now I'm in the US I've got the amps and speakers (albeit B&Ws !).But I... | |
| Pass X-250 or Sim Audio Moon W-5 to Drive B&W N802 I went Pass X-5 with my N803s (and HTM2 and surrounds). While I didn't compare too many combinations I have to say I'm happy. My selection process was to look for the most subtle combination 'cause I think, like wine tasting, if you do comparisons... | |
| How important is aesthetics to you in purchasing I hate to admit it but looks came before sound 'cause of the WAF. I was going to get Nautilus 802's but she said that she was likely to start having conversations with them. I ended up with 803s which she's more than happy with (so am I now that I... | |
| Best All In One Learning Remote $500 I've gone the route of Home Theater Master too. But I don't mind the touch screen. I have the MX-1000. It can control 12 devices. The nice thing is that it has both a touch screen to control device specific functions and hard keys to perform more ... | |
| Biamping B&W Nautilus 803's Welcome. It looks like that from your profile you've just arrived. A word of warning. While this isn't like Yahooligans you may get flamed over your premise that biwiring doesn't do anything. I guess I'll be the first. Sorry. B&W make it prett... | |
| top 5 operas? Well, the Levine Ring Cycle is released on DVD this month. Change my fav from the Boulez to the Levine cycle please (although the Boulez cycle is interesting because it is presented at Bayreuth, the home of the Ring, and has some interesting, some... | |
| top 5 operas? Got to agree with a lot of the selections above. You did ask specifically about DVDs, opera being an audio/visual medium after all. So ...1. Wagner's Gotterdammerung as part of the Pierre Boulez's full Ring Cycle on Phillips (Deutshe Grammophon al... | |
| What music is not derivative? I agree with the premise that others have posed that music builds upon its predecessors and so can be deamed 'derivative'. Furthermore I'd suggest musicians from the 20th century onwards are at a disadvantage because they, generally, have released... | |
| Audio and Wine? Please don't cryo a good red wine ;-) | |
| Audio and Wine? Life is too short for a cheap wine. Or a nasty hi-fi system. I'm a red guy. My current favs. are Italians 'cause they're so reasonable. So three wines ...Centine (sometimes called a 'Super Tuscan' which is a rather flash title for a cheap wine), $... | |
| What pets hang out with Audiophiles? Jla, you don't live just down the street do you ? There's a tri-colored basset called Baxter and a random-breed called Basil. They mix it with our two Bernese Mountain Dogs if they manage to escape the musical experience being offered to them. The... | |
| Stereo or Home Theater? From my perspective multi-channel material sounds best reproduced in a multi-channel system and Stereo sounds best in a stereo system. But a stereo system can be designed as a subset of a multi-channel system, 'cause conceptually a stereo system i... | |
| Am I the only one who thinks B&W is mid-fi? The original premise of this discussion was that the instigator (that sounds harsh doesn't it !) proposed that s/he thinks B&W is mid-fi. Through violent agreement I think we can summize that some of their products may be mid-fi while others c... | |
| Am I the only one who thinks B&W is mid-fi? The premise that B&W speakers are mid-fi misrepresents the entire range that B&W present to the market. The 800 series speakers are NOT, IMHO, mid-fi. When one works down the ranges then there's a fuzzy line between hi-fi and mid-fi depend... | |
| WBT binding posts on 803's w/bananas? I even had a problem using the provided jumpers (temporarily) along with substantial spades. Pretty picture in the documentation, but it didn't look so pretty when I was finished. It's nice that the EC are so protective of their younger population... |