mapman
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| Can you point me to CDs with awesome stage? "God Bless America"-Mormon Tabernacle Choir"Strange Times" - The Moody Blues"Blue Moon Swamp" - John Fogerty"Pyramid" - Alan Parsons Project"Possibilities" - Herbie Hancock"Sophie Millman" - Sophie Millman"Still Life" - Van Der Graaf GEnerator"Smo... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? 100's/Walsh 2s are not too bulky and relatively easy to handle and move as needed.You should see the big F-5s on the other hand. These are heavy and came in 6 separate boxes with serious re-enforcement for the big cabinet boxes. Thank God they sit... | |
| Sibilance in recordings: your experience the same? And yes, I agree, sibilance, particularly the artificially created kind, is extremely annoying. When it occurs, I can no longer listen until the cause is corrected. | |
| Sibilance in recordings: your experience the same? "While I'm at it, are there other recordings, say, in the female singer/songwriter genre with inherently excessive sibilance?"The short answer is "yes" I believe.Sibilence can be a natural phenomenon that gets captured in the recording.It can also... | |
| Linn LP-12 still competitive with the very best? I suspect the answer to the poster's question simply depends on ones point of view more than anything else. | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? " I'm concerned that the 100's are not as good for nearfield."They should be as good or better for Nearfield as well at higher volumes.The difference may be a wash at lower volumes nearfield.They just go louder with more meat on the bones which ma... | |
| Speakers for the ears, eyes, and for the decade My natural bias would be towards the Avalon from the list provided. | |
| What interconnects work best with Audio Research? I like Harmonic TEchnology and MIT with my ARC piece. | |
| What to do with bad recorded CDs " I find some of the pop music recordings with syntheciser sound un-refined, as were the husky voices"NEed to know what "un-refined" means to you?Many pop synth recording suffer from compressed dynamics in teh recording process, which might be con... | |
| Radio Programs that appeal to Audiophiles? BTW, I am specifically looking for educational or informative, hosted radio programs where one can actually learn something about the topic at hand from listening to the host and the music played, not just programs or stations that have a good pla... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Marcus/Parasound:Take a look at my system listing. The Walsh 2's in my system are OHM refurbished Walsh 2s with 100 series 3 drivers.IF you are handy with a glue gun, you can also pick up old Walsh 2s and trade in the drivers and do the upgrade yo... | |
| Floorstanders designed to be against the wall? Linns or Khorns if you have suitable corners.Various front-ported Triangle models would be a solid choice.Also Shindo maybe? | |
| Opinions wanted For home theater, I'd stick with another NAD. | |
| Speakers for the ears, eyes, and for the decade Those are all pretty much fantastic speakers in general.Obviously, the ones to go with are the ones that appeal to you the most for whatever reason, as long as they fit the room they are going into for good sound and your amp is capable of driving... | |
| Beatles 1 sound quality? Everything on the 1's CD sound the best I have heard and I have all the standard issue Beatles CDs and have heard most of these tunes off vinyl on countless systems including my own over the years as well.If I could only own 1 pop/rock CD, "1's" w... |