macdadtexas
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| Fleetwood Mac Gawdbless, where does that number for ABBA come from?Searching the net I only come up with a Wikipedia article that looks relavant, and among the biggest selling acts, they by far have the smallest verified sales (49 mil), with a "reputed" sales n... | |
| Fleetwood Mac Neilspeed, Did you live in North America in the 70's or early 80's? I'm guessing you did not, because ABBA was everywhere, and I do belive that they actually sold quite a few albums. The reason they did not do as well in North America as the rest ... | |
| good DAC under $1000 MHDT Labs Havana. | |
| Cary SLp05 Preamp noise prob just a bad socket, Gerald is the man, and will replace it and get it back to youOn second thought, the preamp is ruined and no good. To help you out, I'll give you $1000 for it.Don't thank me, just helping out a fellow 'Goner. | |
| New Pre-amp for Dipole system No tubes??? | |
| Help Selecting a Good Tube Phono Stage? I was looking for another tube phono stage, at some fairly pricey ones too, and I bought a PS Audio GCPH as a stop gap while I looked, and you know what? I kept the PS Audio, it's a modded one from Parts Connexion, but the standard one sounds grea... | |
| Why terminations on speaker cable? That's a great question. I am guessing because you can't mark up bare wire 1000%. | |
| SACD's to avoid due to poor remastering. You do realize my last post we with my tongue placed firmly in my cheek? | |
| SACD's to avoid due to poor remastering. Gandme,I love SACD, it just didn't make it. I have hundreds of discs that as the technology continues to move forward I am sure I will be able to place easily onto my music server and play the files through my DAC (or one to come). So I'm invested... | |
| SACD's to avoid due to poor remastering. Gandme, I think the Norah Jones SACD sucks, and I am not alone. I didn't know anything about the remastering/recording controversy. I just know on every disc player I have ever had the CD version sounded better. I no longer have a reference level ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? shhhhh, don't tell anyone, but I've spun a bunch of guilty '80's favs tonight:Talk Talk - It's My LifePsychodelic Furs - Mirror MovesThe Producers - You Make the Heat (several times)INXS - The SwingIt's 1984 all over again!! | |
| why use a dac? oh, that was a good one USblues! Well played! | |
| why use a dac? Unless your CD player is very high end, a seperate DAC will usually produce better sound. Bryston makes a very well reviewed and regarded CD player, which is, in relative terms, a very reasonably priced player. But they also have a seperate DAC yo... | |
| Album Sides Side 2 of Abbey Road is sublime, side 1 is sublime too. I love the song arc on side 1 of Come Together, Something, Maxwell's Silver Hammer. Pretty cool, not as good as Side 2, agreed, but wow, what a set of diverse and interesting songs.I'm adding... | |
| New audiophile looking for first speakers. HELP I think that Chayro has it right, try some pro-type gear. I recently saw some Klipsch La Scala's on here that were the pro set up, with a Rogue integrated, that would rock your sox off!! |