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| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz If everyone on this site gushed repeatedly every time their stereo sounded fabulous Audiogon would become pretty unbearable. Much like this thread has become.One or two gushes per positive tweak/enhancement is plenty. Just my own personal opinion. | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... Careful Rebbi, that's the signpost up ahead, you could soon be entering the "Tweak-light" Zone, where ordinary things don't happen very often. | |
| Good sounding Deutsche Grammophon recordings "Galliano | Bach (2010)" is one of the best. | |
| Best integrated amp for Avalon Indra? Any good quality SS integrated will "do the job". Bel Canto c5i integrated is the first one I would look at for good sound and value for those. | |
| How architecture helped music evolve - Ted talk Live music is the best and only truly relevant reference, but one has to take acoustics associated with the "architecture" of the venue into account and realize that each venue, including ones room at home is unique and hence not all kinds of musi... | |
| Room Size - Front Port vs Rear Port Speakers BTW rear ports will likely work just as well as anything closer to the front wall, but will probably work even better with some distance. All speakers work best when early reflections from walls are under control. But early reflections in the bass... | |
| Room Size - Front Port vs Rear Port Speakers Port type is not the thing to base the decision. All kinds might work well in a small room like that.With that amp in a room that size, I'd look no further than a pair of OHM 1000s or MicroWalsh speakers. They are bottom ported and fitted to a roo... | |
| U-Discover Mag Lists The 50 Greatest Jazz Albums I find it's much harder to find bad jazz recordings than good ones. Picking the best ones is nearly impossible. The most influential or best known, not so hard. Most will have been around for awhile. But I could make an argument for so many jazz r... | |
| ARC Quality Issues Ref75 Ref5SE Ref10 "To my ears, current ARCs are SOTA regardless of price."Agree. | |
| Jazz for aficionados I prefer early Sinatra as groggy describes as well. And yes dean Martin is the one of that bunch that most often makes me smile. | |
| What is the answer? 🙏 | |
| Preamp w/ Single Line Input. But I have DAC and CDP Ps I'll be interested in how the Schitt sys works out. 🎶 | |
| Can you recommend a simple Tube pre amp? Yes price and what makes it so "different" from other atmosphere products please. Thanks. ✌️ | |
| Jazz for aficionados Frank was cooler than poor Mel. Just received my best of torme on concord CDs. Less than $5 with shipping from Seattle goodwill via Amazon and arrived in less than a week. Nice. Looking forward to it. | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Soon dd will be listening to his wires solo. Since that's all we hear about should we assume the rest does not matter? 😴 |