mapman
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| Mystical Performances Mahalia Jackson singing "Sunday Morning" on Ellington's "Black, Brown and Beige"."Don't Let It Show" from "I Robot" - Alan Parsons Project"Land Of Make Believe" - Moody Blues from "Seventh Sojourn" and "Never Blame the Rainbows for the Rain" - Moo... | |
| the most underrated 33 1/3 in history? "anus of uranus"I think the actual name of the song was "Hanus of Uranus"."Anus" is funnier though and seemed to stick! | |
| Vocalist Height system dependent? I have not noticed changes in SS height changing components with Either OHMs or Dynaudio monitors. My hypothesis would be that this is due to close vertical proximity of drivers in these specific designs, which closely approximate a point source o... | |
| Vocalist Height system dependent? Most likely an artifact of your room acoustics and your specific vertical speaker driver configuration within the room.Different wires and even electronics might change the timbre and change the perspective accordingly as SPL levels of the differe... | |
| the most underrated 33 1/3 in history? I like Klaatu a lot and yes they had a very Beatlesque sound and approach. The production on their first two albums perhaps even set a new bar at the time in terms of musical ambition and even results for their genre of music. They also had a knac... | |
| Shahinian and Ohm BTW Shahinian and OHM are both omnidirectional but the drivers and design approach are very different. I think I recall Shahinian uses multiple drivers with variying orientation for a particular frequency range while OHM uses a single omnidirectio... | |
| best WOOFER ??? How do the latest field coil woofers, like those used in some Shindo speakers, compare? | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Shumann Dichterliebe (1960 RCA shaded dog)I Robot and Pyramid - Alan Parsons ProjectBreathless - CamelBing Sings (Readers Digest Box Set) | |
| Bass, more or less? It can be the hardest thing to get right, but you do need to match, tweak and tune a system until the bass is just right otherwise nothing will sound good in my experience. | |
| Some irrefutable truths about rock and roll There is lots of good music always out there.Irrefutable truths require factual data to back them up though, otherwise they are just opinions, to which all are entitled. There can only be one "best" of anything.Best song? I won't even attempt to g... | |
| Shahinian and Ohm 100 watts/ch should work well.Go for high current, doubling as much as possible from 8 to 4 and 2 ohms for better results and a low end with more weight and balance at lower to moderate listening volumes though. | |
| How is your power bill? I think that the balanced interconnect between liberals and conservatives needs some repair "Yes, sad isn't it?My preferred strategy is to stay a moderate and try to stay well informed. If/when the pendulum swings to far one way, then I usually vo... | |
| CD drive improves HD rip quality? I suspect the problem has something to do with how the ripping software is configured to handle errors when they occur.Different optical drives will have different error rates for sure, some better than others requiring less re-scan. Software has ... | |
| CD drive improves HD rip quality? Can you read non-music CDs OK without problem using your computer cd drive? If so, your music CDs should be fine as well. All it has to do to rip to disk is extract data correctly. There is no sound production involved at this point (that comes la... | |
| CD drive improves HD rip quality? Horseface,I believe the software used to rip makes a big difference in rip time and efective error handling as well. At first I used Exact Audio copy and FLAC. IT was complicated, problematic and fairly slow. I quickly dropped it and now use Windo... |