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| Name a few albums which helped determine your musical tastes Oops how did I forget the first real rock music album I ever bought which of course is “Machine Head” by Deep Purple (quad version) followed by “Demons and Wizards” by Uriah Heep. | |
| Name the most recent album that has shaped your musical world Various Putumayo World Music CDs. | |
| Name a few albums which helped determine your musical tastes ...then as a young man in high school DSOTM WYWH and Animals by Pink Floyd. Also “The Yes Album” and “Genesis Live” and “This is the Moody Blues”. Not to mention “The White Album”. Also DSMIOTPP by Elton John. In college lots of new influences. “T... | |
| Name a few albums which helped determine your musical tastes Had to be The Chipmunks Song Book back as a wee lad.Peter and the Wolf (Bernstein version on Columbia Masterworks) probably influenced me as well as in scaring the bejeebers out of me along with the cool music. Yes, we are talking childhood night... | |
| The Right Stuff That was one tough hombre! Won’t be forgotten in the history books. | |
| Questioning Tannoy, Tekton or other possible change. Review I read of Turnberry recommended putting them on stands to get tweeter to ear level. | |
| KEF R3s or Dynaudio special 40? I’ve heard teh R3s and thought them to be absolutely superb, hard to fault. I would own them in a heartbeat. I have ls50s currently (with sub) and will be upgrading to ls50 meta soon which brings those closer to R3 sound. Other KEFs might get the ... | |
| Ohm Speakers Model B THe parts and service for that very early (probably rare) model is here: Ohm B | Legacy Products | Ohm Speakers | Custom Audiophile Speakers for Music & Home Theater Shows tweeters as available. Did you talk to Ohm? John Strohbeen?Says they ar... | |
| What is Floyd Toole saying about extra amplifier power and headroom? Be careful at 100db plus. That’s a pretty hefty spl. Mid eighties is typically the highest considered safe for extended listening. Not too shabby! | |
| What is Floyd Toole saying about extra amplifier power and headroom? That’s good, but there is still not much to bank on with the MF amp regarding how it handles even 6 ohms nominal even with dips below that. So that still leaves things open perhaps to a significant extent. 6 ohms nominal may be a harder load than ... | |
| What is Floyd Toole saying about extra amplifier power and headroom? Well its 45 amps per monoblock X 2 = 90 amps total.....nothing to sneeze at especially with a most efficient Class D design.Musical Fidelity is a stereo amp so most likely the peak is 140A total.Again, specs never tell all the story, but in lieu o... | |
| Questioning Tannoy, Tekton or other possible change. I’ve read in reviews the newer Turnberrys take some liberties with some components used like tweeter design for cost reasons and do not use the best in the Tannoy arsenal either past or present as do some of the higher models. Cheviot may be one o... | |
| Questioning Tannoy, Tekton or other possible change. I predict both will perform similarly well with your amp but the difference in sound will be nearly as profound as the difference in aesthetics and which is better will come down largely to a matter of personal preference. If its as simple as want... | |
| What is Floyd Toole saying about extra amplifier power and headroom? Sounds like a plan. I am very interested to hear how much different or not the BCs sound from your current amps and how that pans out for you.I'll go out on a limb based on my prior MF->BC Class D change which is similar but different and say... | |
| Preamp SS to match class D amp TEchnically, most any SS pre-amp should match well with most any SS amp including Class D. So that is not a factor to be concerned about when choosing a SS pre-amp to use with Class D.Where it becomes an issue is with tube pre-amps that typically ... |