mapman
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| Are there any albums you consider perfect? Time Passages - Al Stewart ... is solid from start to finish, pretty perfect for it's genre. | |
| Help: Speakers to fill Exceptionallly Large Room? "they were based on table radio speakers equalized so that their midrange was suppressed to the level of their treble and bass. "Didn't realize that. That is an innovative design! No wonder their sound was so unique and sought after by many! | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? This Thanksgiving morning, Beethoven Symphony # 6 in F major (Pastorale), Bruno Walter, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Colombia Masterworks lp, playing full tilt in all its majesty. Simply glorious recording and performance!Happy Thanksgiving 2009 t... | |
| Help: Speakers to fill Exceptionallly Large Room? Look for a pair of of used OHM Walsh 4s or 5s if you can find a pair local to pick up. They are big and heavy and tricky to ship safely. You probably want an amp that puts out at lest 80-100 watts or so though to really get them going.Smaller and ... | |
| What floats your boat, sound wise that it? Large full range images do float my boat also! | |
| Linn Abandons CD Players BTW, if you want a spare copy of downloaded audio files, you can always burn them to recordable CDs on most any computer so you have that as a spare (also convenient for playing in the car). | |
| What floats your boat, sound wise that it? Oh, and also I should be able to play most anything from old 78s transferred to digital, to 33 1/3 records or decently recorded old cassette tapes, to the latest and greatest digital recordings and be entertained by whatever that recording has to ... | |
| What floats your boat, sound wise that it? I'm alot like Tvad in this regard.I'll toss out that I want to enjoy listening and not want to stop or lose interest, mainly not be fatigued by listening. There are many systems with various strengths and weaknesses that I have heard that all soun... | |
| Linn Abandons CD Players "None of this is ideal. Buying a physical disc is a lot more convenient."I agree. There is a lot of data to move around even with redbook CD format if you have a large collection, as many here do. Higher res sources are even worse. Storage is chea... | |
| Linn Abandons CD Players "I just wonder if this is the start of a huge shift."More immediate and of impact to the high end player market than players in general I would think.Sales of players as a whole have been in decline for a while already I believe. Most buy DVD or B... | |
| Is Kind of Blue the Best Jazz Album Ever "but seriously, why put KOB over Louis' greatest work"You wouldn't find me doing that!Or Ellington's, or even various others. | |
| Linn Abandons CD Players I pretty much always rip a CD to hard disk for playback now rather than pop it into the CD player.It is still beneficial to have CD hardcopies of material even if ripped to disk. A disk restore from backup is faster in event of a disaster, but res... | |
| Linn Abandons CD Players CD packaging was a disaster for the consumer from the beginning and has only gotten slightly better over the years. Too small, hard to remove seals when new, jewel boxes crack and break, etc. I will not miss CD packaging for the most part. 33 1/3 ... | |
| Linn Abandons CD Players Makes sense. The market for high priced CD players is very small these days. Music servers and controllers and DACs are a much better investment. | |
| Peachtree Decco speaker decision help ...or Triangle Titus 202. I use those with a tube DAC and a low power vintage Yamaha receiver to very good effect. |